Origin Paradise!

As time progresses, the three source power talents will continue to strengthen. When advancing to the Gold rank, the source power talents condense into source crystals, and some Gold rank members can use these crystals as the core to construct their domains.

One of Yumizuki's talents is called "Shadow Strike," but she prefers to call it Super Accuracy.

boom!

Amidst the boundless storm, an energy blast passed over someone's shoulder and struck Marquis Bart's membrane wing. The blast, composed of a massive amount of pure Dawn Source Power, had a significant damage amplification effect on dark creatures, shattering the membrane wing in one fell swoop.

Marquis Bart's expression changed drastically.

This injury is far from being a serious one, but at this crucial moment in the battle, it is enough to affect the outcome.

Just as the enemy lost their balance and were unable to adjust, Jiang He activated Flash Slash Elegy and flashed forward 100 meters.

Boom boom boom!

One after another, heavy punches, devoid of any fancy moves, were unleashed.

Marquis Bart's abdomen, chest, cheek, and neck burst open one after another. He couldn't believe the sudden change. The enemy's attack contained terrifying real damage, almost ignoring his golden demon body that was not on the verge of death.

A silver spear suddenly appeared in Jiang He's hand.

The evil of this world amplified the silver spear, causing its already astonishing weight to increase dramatically. Strands of black electricity flickered on the spearhead as it was wielded with incredible speed, slashing straight down.

The hatred of a lifetime is contained in its sharp edge.

Boom!

Marquis Bart crashed to the ground, and numerous abyss-like cracks spread outwards. Si Chuan and He Xiaoqi fled desperately.

Click!

Domain Core Shattered

Marquis Bart lost his golden state. He looked up at the sky in resentment, then stomped on the ground and charged forward. All the blood in his body flowed out and transformed into thousands of swords, spears, and halberds.

Jiang He canceled the Divine Follows Heaven Movement and threw down the silver spear.

Fate is Immortal, the Spear of the Oath of Victory.

The light of judgment descended from the sky, knocking Marquis Bart back to the ground. The spearhead pierced his skull, obliterating his life and soul, and a fierce flash of light swept out.

Jiang He landed and retrieved his spear. As Beelzebub, he possessed a special attack against demons with 50% true damage and total damage immunity.

Objectively speaking, the relative improvement of the Demon Special Attack is even better than the Golden state. This time, he killed Marquis Bart with more ease than when hunting normal elites. The opponent's attacks hit like lightning, and he was completely unaffected.

Tear it apart!

Jiang He severed the prey's head and stuffed the Golden Peak body back into his personal imperial city, thus increasing the kill requirement for the joint promotion mission by 1.

"You're going to die now?"

"So fast."

In the distance, Si Chuan and He Xiaoqi looked at each other. At the peak of the Golden Realm, one could become the head of a mid-grade aristocratic family, a major general in the military, or even a prefectural governor.

Yu Jianyue whistled, her bright red hair flying in the wind. As the only assister on the field, she believed she had made a significant contribution.

Chapter 448 Entering the Palace for the Second Time

The dark red moonlight illuminated the earth.

He Xiaoqi paced back and forth for a few moments, rubbing his rough cheeks before stepping forward to carefully examine Marquis Bart's bloody severed head.

Even in death, the tiger's might remains. Marquis Bart's stiff face was filled with rage. The peak of the Golden Realm was undeniably powerful; just now, a single long-range attack had severely injured an elite expert, an Imperial Colonel. But at this moment, Marquis Bart was undoubtedly dead.

He Xiaoqi secretly glanced at the person and felt that the other party was mysterious and unpredictable. Even though the Wujian Fortress could not find out the exact strength of this person, it was impossible for them to be wrong about the basic information.

The extreme case of someone being able to hunt down a Golden Peak before even reaching adulthood is, even if it were possible, only for a renowned gun wielder.

Once you possess a famous gun, unless you advance to the hero level, you will not be able to treat the gun as an equal. Not only will the cost of firing the gun be extremely high, but it will also be difficult to focus your cultivation on yourself.

The ten most famous guns are all sentient and will choose their own wielders.

"The car is gone, what do we do?" Yu Jianyue asked indistinctly as she poured wine into her mouth, her voice filled with genuine bubbly sounds.

Jiang He was somewhat puzzled: "Can't we enter Cangwu Fortress on foot?"

A Gold-level expert running at a speed naturally cannot be slower than an ordinary alchemical vehicle, so the damage to the military jeep should not be something that needs to be dealt with.

Yu Jianyue turned around, raised her hand to her brow and looked into the distance, saying solemnly, "I estimate it to be two hundred li. I rarely travel this far."

Beside him, Si Chuan reminded her helplessly, "Miss Yu, this is not Cangwu Province."

He Xiaoqi chuckled a few times. Even when he was in the Abyss, he arranged for a female major to serve him. In exchange, he would provide her with some protection and would usually turn a blind eye to her outrageous behavior.

Jiang He was too lazy to comment, after all, differences in living standards also affect habits and perceptions. However, he took a few steps and then stopped, remembering an ability he had almost forgotten.

Whoosh!

Under the watchful eyes of the three, a gray warhorse appeared with the surge of energy. The warhorse was extremely fierce, and its eight legs looked like tree trunks.

Because the training of the Grey Horse Breathing Technique was not compatible with its own system and the progress was stuck at the Silver level, the Grey Horse skill's rank is strictly speaking around "perfect".

"Cool!" Yu Jianyue whistled.

"Who will lead the horse?" He Xiaoqi's eyes darted around. He was reluctant, and Jiang Laoda probably felt the same way. In that case, Si Chuan would have to suffer. Strength equals status, naked but real.

"A bad habit he's always had."

Jiang He mounted the horse, squeezed his legs together, and the eight legs of the horse immediately crossed. His horsemanship was quite good.

Yu Jianyue secretly made a face, took a few steps, did a belly-hugging spin and jumped, and sat precisely on the horse's back.

"Boss, where are we?" He Xiaoqi shouted.

"Run forward."

……

Cangwu Fortress was built between the Dawn Valley.

This is where the Dawn Source Power is disordered. New recruits from the Empire's homeland need time to adapt after arriving here, but they can also use this opportunity to hone the quality of their Source Power to some extent.

The disordered Dawn Source Power means a natural resistance to dark magic, and coupled with the presence of large source mines underground, this canyon became the perfect choice for building a fortress.

As you approach the fortress, the majestic kilometer-long city wall comes into view. It is made entirely of huge black stones, and its surface is pitted and full of traces left by war.

At regular intervals along the city wall stands a watchtower, equipped with a heavy source energy cannon. At the center is a sturdy fortress, its outer walls reinforced with refined source stones. The enormous cannon muzzle is aimed at the plains beyond the Great Wall. The epic-level source energy cannon has a total construction cost and long-term maintenance cost of around ten million source gold.

The gray warhorse arrived at the fortress gate, which was not closed. Two silver-level majors were on guard duty.

"Stop anyone who comes."

Yu Jianyue put her finger down her throat, gagged a few times, and spat out a certificate. She was the eldest daughter of a superior noble family and a super genius of the empire. Such a status was incredibly noble.

"Don't stop me, I have a bad temper." Yu Jianyue joked with a smile. The Yu family is the head of a powerful family in Cangwu Province and one of the main investors in Cangwu Fortress. For her, coming to the fortress is like coming home.

"Please pass." The major guard handed back his identification, his gaze somewhat strange. He glanced at the other three people accompanying him, then shook his head slightly, gripping his Source Gun and remaining silent.

The gray warhorse crossed the city gate, and He Xiaoqi and Si Chuan continued to run forward. Inside the fortress, it was like a modern city, with the roar of source energy machinery rising and falling.

The streets are relatively crowded. The number of humans living in the Dawn of the Eternal Dark Continent is actually no less than that of the Empire itself, reaching a scale of hundreds of billions. This is necessary for the layers of competition to support a sufficient number of hero-level beings.

"Let's find a place to rest for a while," Jiang He said.

"Go straight to the end of the street, then turn left," Yu Jianyue pointed out.

The gray warhorse crossed the street, turned left, and a bar appeared in front of the four of them. He Xiaoqi couldn't help but slap his forehead a few times. He knew that his niece couldn't find a decent place.

Si Chuan glanced at someone with a hint of worry; that person was the one with the truly terrible temper.

"Tasteful." Jiang He sniffed lightly and smelled the aroma of rice emanating from the bar. This must not be a traditional bar.

Si Chuan was speechless; the two drunkards were really too much of a hindrance to the team.

“Truly a kindred spirit.” Yu Jianyue smiled and patted the other person on the back, then her eyes suddenly widened in surprise.

Ignoring the surging Dawn Source Energy within her, she casually stroked her chest and said with a wicked smile, "Nice figure, huh?"

Jiang He turned around expressionlessly.

Yu Jianyue calmly dismounted, shrugged, and said, "It's just a small advantage. My identity is a pass within the Empire. It's not like we'll break up over this. We're best friends who've been in jail together."

The gray warhorse disappeared, and Jiang He pushed open the door and walked into the bar.

He Xiaoqi secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If a fight really broke out, he didn't have the confidence to disobey someone's orders. The Imperial Military had already alienated him; orders from superiors were everything.

The four of them entered the bar one after another, which was very quiet.

It was obvious that Yuandao's brewed liquor was not very popular in the military fortress. Behind the bar, a refined old bartender with a full head of silver hair looked at the red-haired girl with some surprise in his eyes.

"So, you went to play in the Dark Regions this time?"

"What kind of fun is this? We almost didn't make it back." Yu Jianyue tapped the table. "Four cups of super rice wine."

"I'll gladly accept twenty taels of silver," the old bartender said.

He Xiaoqi's expression changed. He finally understood why this bar had so few customers. It wasn't that the style and taste were incompatible with the fortress, but that the prices were simply too high.

For an Imperial Colonel like myself, excluding illicit income and expenses, a normal monthly salary consists of a basic 500 taels and 500 taels of allowance for maintaining integrity. One tael of source gold can buy one shi (a unit of dry measure) of rice, and twenty taels of source gold is enough for a family of three to live on within the Empire for a year.

"Put it in the account," Yu Jianyue said, waving her hand.

Before long, four glasses of milky white liquor were placed on the table.

The wine was exceptionally fragrant and mellow. Jiang He picked up the glass and took a sip. A hint of sweetness bloomed on the tip of her tongue, and a strong aftertaste flowed back into her mouth from her throat. It was perfect in every aspect.

"Another cup, please," Jiang He said casually. "Put it on her tab."

He Xiaoqi also finished his drink, and a strong wave of dizziness washed over him, making him shake his head and say, "Brother Jiang... drink less."

"It's homemade, so it's not very strong," the old bartender said with a smile, as he poured out another glass.

Beside him, Si Chuan collapsed backward with a thud, unconscious.

Yu Jianyue hooked her arm around someone's shoulder and introduced, "This is Jiang Wuyang. He's still far from reaching adulthood, but he's a quasi-alchemy master. You can probably guess his drinking capacity from that."

The old bartender neither agreed nor disagreed, saying that alchemy is a rigorous profession and alchemists are usually logical beings, but some research and breakthroughs require wild and imaginative inspiration, so drinks that can temporarily confuse logic become the preferred supplement.

Their obsessive pursuit of truth made these guys completely disregard the so-called cost of alcoholism.

After seven cups in a row, a hint of drunkenness appeared on Jiang He's face.

Because it took twenty days to escape the Infernal Fortress, there are still ten days left until the deadline for the main quest ① Returning to Cangwu Province.

A scroll that enhances skills to the highest level is of inestimable value, and it would be extremely precious even today.

Jiang He already plans to use it on the supreme-level spell, "Radiant Heaven and Earth." With its six energy properties combined with its characteristics, once it is upgraded to the Undying level, its power will be close to that of an epic-level spell.

Of course, due to factors such as energy, rank, and density, the upgraded Radiant World is unlikely to cause damage to heroes, but it should be very effective against Gold Elites, as its skills contain a lot of true damage.

Most importantly, the Eternal Darkness World is not the Ash World, and the Golden Elite is not someone who breaks through the limits and becomes the strongest person in the world. The fundamental difference between the two will greatly reduce the difficulty of killing them.

Jiang He finished his drink. If he were from Dragon City or Knight King, his future in this world would be very bright.

Bang!

The bar door opened.

A group of imperial soldiers entered one after another, all of them fully armed.

For Source Energy Guns below the Supreme level, the Empire has already achieved mass production. This is because Source Energy Bullets and cultivators' Source Energy come from the same source, yet they are distinct. Therefore, when a hail of bullets hits a powerful individual, it can cause the target's Source Energy to become rigid, or rather, sealed.

This is one of the reasons why soldiers at the bottom of the Imperial Army exist.

Deng Deng Deng!

The sound of military boots stomping across the floor rang out.

A middle-aged junior general of the Empire walked into the bar. His black uniform was adorned with more than a dozen military medals, exuding an aura of peak military prowess. The long sword at his waist gleamed coldly.

He Xiaoqi was no longer drunk. As a general, he had already passed the threshold of the upper echelons in the empire. He was equivalent to the head of a mid-level aristocratic family and was qualified to lead a million-strong army to be stationed in Fenghuo City.

"Lieutenant Jiang Wuyang, Colonel He Xiaoqi, and Si Chuan from the Si family branch, come with me."

After the middle-aged major general finished speaking, he saluted the old bartender and said, "Sir, this matter has nothing to do with you. As long as they tell the truth, I guarantee they will be safe."

He Xiaoqi's heart sank; this was just an excuse.

The old bartender smiled and said, "I only care about the cost of the drinks. I don't like bad debts, especially those from acquaintances."

Yu Jianyue's expression turned serious. "At least give me a reason. Don't force me to come after you in the end."

"The reason is simply that there is no reason." The middle-aged major general waved his hand. "As for the bad debts, things often don't go as planned, do they?"

Imperial soldiers took the three away. Yu Jianyue and the old bartender exchanged a glance and both sensed that something was wrong. The major general wouldn't be so arrogant as to think that way.