Netherworld Retrograde

Chapter 157: 72nd Chapter: Mountain Lord

As the Netherworld Train derailed, the last elite forces of the sub-branch were completely annihilated.

They would never know why that simple Second Awakening Spiritual Ability User’s statement, ”All of you sitting here are trash,” had such tremendous power.

They were indeed discarded like trash, scattered everywhere, killed indiscriminately by jubilant Processors with chaotic slashes.

In fact, the same words could produce different effects when spoken by different people.

For example, ”Failed the college entrance exam, will retake it next year!”

The same phrase, when uttered by liberal arts students and art students, could lead to entirely different outcomes.

When vehicle killer Li Yelai boarded the train, their last choice was to jump off immediately. Unfortunately, they lost their last chance.

In the end, the Divine Chosen who fought to the death were pierced through the brain by a throwing spear from Yang Chen and nailed to the train.

The operation against the Church Branch of the Ember Church had been a complete success.

But the task of the team was not yet finished.

They still had to tally the battle loot within the Church Branch, especially the forbidden items deep inside.

This group of Ember Church members, before escaping on the Netherworld Train, had attempted to release all the forbidden items.

But they were stopped by the Processors.

Now, the duty of suppressing these taboo items fell upon the government’s shoulders.

In this situation, Li Yelai and the likes of Ben Lei went to the Underground Branch.

Looking at the scene before him, Li Yelai was somewhat astonished.

He had thought that the main body of the sub-branch would be some houses hidden underground.

But unexpectedly, the Church had excavated a massive, even majestic, altar hundreds of meters below the surface.

When Li Yelai walked from the passageway to a certain platform, he couldn’t help but inhale sharply.

The ceiling was tens of meters above the platform where Li Yelai and others stood, and the platform itself was nearly twenty meters above the ground below.

When Li Yelai looked downward, he saw a series of altars that stretched for hundreds of meters.

Thick stone columns supported this space, each carved with grotesque patterns.

Now, strewn across the steps of these altars were the bodies of some Red Robed Congregation and peculiar corpses, their blood flowing down the steps. Like a painting from Hell.

It was said that in their final moments, they intended to sacrifice themselves and summon a creature from the Void Realm.

But with the interference of the official Night Patrol and a certain extraordinary creature, the Void Realm Creatures they summoned were severely weakened.

They were absolutely incapable of confronting so many captains and elite Night Patrol.

Dragged out of the altar and killed on the spot, banished there and then.

Not even their bodies were left behind.

”The Church really goes big, huh? How did they manage to create this kind of terrain?” Li Yelai asked.

”This was originally a nascent form of the Underground City. They just remodeled it,” Ben Lei shook his head, and pointing toward a distant massive shadow he said, ”I brought you here to show you this.”

Following his pointing finger, Li Yelai saw an enormous black gold tiger.

Its fur was black with golden patterns, its body over ten meters long, with a tail that bore a vague, ghostly darkness, and its face adorned with four crimson tiger eyes.

Appearing very intimidating and domineering.

However, at this moment, it was bound by chains, which even penetrated its skin and spinal bones to such an extent that it could only lie on a massive transport vehicle.

Several Processors stood beside it, gesturing at something, and occasionally communicating with the Black Tiger.

The Black Tiger did not exhibit the domineering presence one might imagine but instead emitted low growls.

It seemed to be negotiating with the Processors, and Li Yelai faintly heard a hint of obsequiousness.

”What a huge tiger! If we made Tiger Whip Wine, wouldn’t we make a fortune?”

Li Yelai exclaimed in surprise.

Such a large extraordinary creature would indeed be a tremendous fortune for a Spiritual Ability User!

You must know that extraordinary creatures are important sources for Magic Potions and materials for Spiritual Ability Equipment. It’s unclear how many pieces of Spiritual Ability Equipment or bottles could be made from it.

Of course, its flesh mustn’t be wasted. Making Tiger Whip Wine would be even more cost-effective.

The rich in the Giant City love sending Scavengers into the wilderness to hunt wild beasts and then soak them in alcohol.

Since the outbreak of Calamity, the numbers of wild animals have exploded; there’s no need to worry about overhunting.

Wouldn’t it be normal for official outlets to sell extraordinary Tiger Whip Wine to subsidize Giant City?

The rich merchants and those Spiritual Ability Users’ Great Families that have been around since the Calamity period are indeed loaded with money.

Why not milk them for all they’re worth?

Li Yelai felt like a genius.

”Cough cough...” Ben Lei coughed a few times and said, ”I did not call you here to decide how to handle it. It is a rather special extraordinary creature, the Nightfall Mountain Lord. Its most special ability is the projection of doppelgangers. Its real body resides in a safe location while it sends out its doppelgangers to consume prey. Therefore, it’s very difficult to capture.”

”The Ember Church captured its real body and found a way to format its doppelgangers, turning them into unintelligent projections. Then, it’s controlled by the Awakened Spirit Users of the Church who know the Virtual Realm Beast Language, greatly enhancing their combat abilities.”

”But it can only create up to five doppelgangers at any one time, although it has some control over their strength.”

”It was an extraordinary creature used by the Ember Church to enhance the power of its believers. In desperation, the believers intended to sacrifice it too. Just then, several of them were killed, and it immediately summoned its doppelgangers to rebel. It could be considered a collaboration with us that disrupted the sacrifice ritual.”

”Nowadays, it plans to cooperate with us. It will continue to split off doppelgangers to aid the Processors.”

”We wouldn’t waste such an opportunity; there are only five chances in total. Naturally, we had to bring you along first.”

Li Yelai was stunned. Virtual Realm Beast Language? Wasn’t his Second Awakening Ability just that?

If he could get help from its doppelgangers, wouldn’t his combat capabilities increase as well?

”Is this... within the rules?” Li Yelai tried to ask, ”Shouldn’t this decision be made by a sub-branch?”

”You’re the main contributor to this operation. Without you, the others would have been long gone, sitting on the Netherworld Train and eating hot pot,” said Ben Lei, with a plain smile. ”The captains have agreed; there is nothing wrong with it. Can’t we, the Processing Department, reward someone based on their merits?”

This was the official’s blatant favoritism towards heroes.

But Li Yelai still had some doubts: ”But I... can’t just wander around with its doppelganger projections, can I?”

Although it was a good thing, Li Yelai still expressed his hesitancy. Such a large extraordinary creature, even if it was a doppelganger, probably wasn’t much smaller in size.

How would safety issues be resolved?

”That’s simple; the doppelganger will be housed within Spiritual Ability Equipment. Only when you use the Virtual Realm Beast Language can it separate and fight for you,” Ben Lei said with a smile.

”But you have to be careful; this Mountain Lord is quite sly and clever,” Ben Lei cautioned. ”Be vigilant when using it.”

”Okay!”

(Sorry, I have to be the best man tomorrow, and I was driving for a long time today, only got two thousand words...)ಥ_ಥ