Chapter 2091: Return
"Ah, it’s finally over."
Xiao Zheng looked down at the lifeless Ghost King lying on the ground and couldn’t help but let out a sigh.
This sigh was naturally due to the tough battle they had just fought, merely a reflection on the conclusion of an event. After more than a month, the trouble from the Ghost Raising Family had finally completely ended with the death of the Ghost King.
"I wonder if the Ghost King had the Golden Bone hidden on him."
Xiao Zheng then flicked his finger, and a cluster of golden flames landed on the Ghost King’s corpse.
His body was quickly reduced to ashes, but Xiao Zheng did not find the Golden Bone within the ashes this time.
"This shouldn’t be."
"Long Qie mentioned before that the Wolf King’s Golden Bones were stolen by members of the Ghost Raising Family. Among them, only the Ghost King had the power to steal from the Wolf King, so why doesn’t he have the Golden Bones on him?"
"Could they be in that hut?"
Xiao Zheng’s gaze quickly fell on the straw hut not far away.
He then walked straight into the hut.
The interior was simple yet tidy.
Standing at the door and looking inside, one could see everything at a glance.
There were no chairs or even a bed, just a single meditation mat.
However, Xiao Zheng eventually discovered something curious. Upon using his x-ray vision, he saw a hollow space beneath the meditation mat. Inside the hole, there was a wooden box!
Upon opening the box, Xiao Zheng finally found three pieces of the Golden Bone inside!
If he included the ones already fused within him, he had now found a total of 41 Golden Bones!
"Just as I expected!"
"So the Ghost King did have the Golden Bones hidden away!"
"It truly was a case of searching high and low only to discover it effortlessly!"
Xiao Zheng caressed the three Golden Bones in the wooden box, his eyes blazing with excitement. Though there was no one else in the valley, he quickly closed the box, as if fearing someone might snatch it away.
Only after tucking the box into his clothes did he let out a genuine sigh of relief.
"This journey has finally come to a perfect end."
"Once I return and fuse these three Golden Bones, I might be able to break through from the current Extraordinary Realm Middle Stage to the higher Creation Realm!"
The thought filled Xiao Zheng with extreme excitement.
When he previously went into seclusion to fuse the four Golden Bones snatched from the Wu Clan, it helped him break through from the Extraordinary Realm Early Stage to the Extraordinary Realm Middle Stage, within a hair’s breadth of the Extraordinary Realm Peak.
Even without fusing more Golden Bones, Xiao Zheng was confident he could reach the Extraordinary Realm Peak in the shortest amount of time.
Now with three more Golden Bones in hand, he was confident he could push himself to an even higher realm.
Beyond the Extraordinary Soul Seizing Realm, lies the Creation Avatar Realm.
Xiao Zheng and Hades had read the records about this realm long ago in the Bright Church’s texts.
The so-called Creation Avatar Realm allows one to use Gang Qi to create objects, producing avatars with half the strength of the original body. The Bright Church’s Doppelgänger Art originates from this. However, there is a significant difference between the two.
Although the Bright Church’s Doppelgänger Art can replicate 100% of the original’s strength, there is a time limit. Whereas after breaking into the Creation Avatar Realm, the created avatar has no time restriction, merely being weaker than the original.
Both have their advantages and disadvantages, but all things considered, the Creation Realm is stronger. After all, there’s no time limit, and as one’s realm deepens, reaching the Creation Realm Peak, they can produce a total of ten avatars.
At that point, ten avatars coordinating with the original in battle would unleash unimaginable power!
Xiao Zheng could barely believe it, wondering how formidable he would be upon reaching the Creation Realm!
Not wanting to waste time, he quickly left the Soul-breaking Valley with the wooden box containing the three Golden Bones. The return journey went smoothly, taking only a minute or two for him to reach the base of the division.
Long Qie and the others obviously didn’t expect Xiao Zheng to return so quickly.
From the time he departed to the moment he returned, it hadn’t even been fifteen minutes!
Though everyone was surprised, they quickly collected themselves and surrounded Xiao Zheng.
"Mr. Xiao, how did it go? Is the Ghost King dead?"
"Mr. Xiao, you weren’t injured, were you..."
The crowd bombarded Xiao Zheng with questions.
Even though the scene was chaotic and noisy, Xiao Zheng felt happy inside. After all, it showed that everyone was concerned about him, and his gains today were substantial.
"Rest assured, I personally killed the Ghost King."
"From today, the Ghost Raising Family has been completely erased from this world!"
Xiao Zheng said with a smile.
Upon hearing his words, everyone cheered.
Especially Zhang Xin, the leader of the Yunchuan Branch, who was so excited he almost cried. After all, his Yunchuan Branch was established on the territory of the Ghost Raising Family. Had the Ghost King survived, once Xiao Zheng and his team left, and if the Ghost King launched an attack, the Yunchuan Branch would have been the first to suffer.
Zhang Xin wasn’t afraid of dying himself, he just didn’t want to see more comrades die in front of him.
After all, over the past month, many familiar faces had permanently left him, and the pain of such partings was something he never wished to experience again in his lifetime.
"Finally, it’s all over. It wasn’t easy."
Long Qie said with some emotion.
Hearing this, Xiao Zheng nodded, "You’re right, the whole process took nearly a month and a half. Actually, it’s because the Ghost Raising Family members were so well hidden. If they were easier to find, we could have ended this battle in just half a month."
At this, everyone nodded in agreement.
Especially Long Qie, who was in charge of the preliminary work alone, wholeheartedly agreed.
If it hadn’t been for Yao Da taking the paper he had left under the stone at the Yama Temple, they might still be unable to find the Ghost Raising Family by now.
These people were like moles underground, only an earthquake could make them surface!
"Mr. Xiao, can we go home now?" Titan asked, "Evil Eyes has called several times over the past few days urging us, saying they’re short-handed at the base and he’s overwhelmed."
Hearing this, Xiao Zheng couldn’t help but laugh, "Don’t listen to his nonsense, there’s nothing busy at the base. But we’ve been out for quite a while, so we should indeed head back soon."
"How about this, let’s have lunch here, and head home this afternoon!"