Chapter 1040
Chapter 1040 - 1026: A Minor Accident
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"Is this Lu Ping’an?"
While Lu Ping’an was busy with child upbringing and cultivation, his information naturally spread wider and wider.
Thanks to the current large-scale situation and the fact that Lu Ping’an was backed by the greatest power of the Eastern Country (an official person), most powers, organizations, companies, and churches held a relatively friendly attitude toward him.
They viewed him more as a friend to make, a future resource, a VIP whose photo and information needed to be disseminated to various companies and branches to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Reality isn’t just a brainless, feel-good story where every day, everything is motivated by profit. If a conflict seems unreasonable and the party starting it seems to have gone mad, it often indicates there are substantial and inconvenient benefits hidden within.
The wisest thing about Lu Ping’an was his unwavering decision to firmly stand on the side of the officials... This way, anyone who wanted to target him had to consider the consequences. The more valuable Lu Ping’an appeared, the higher his future potential rose, and in fact, he became safer.
Because targeting him meant targeting the interests of the officials.
Of course, as a trade-off, he also became a thorn in the side of some "enemies of the officials"... But the Lu Ping’an of now wasn’t yet qualified to partake in such high-level conflicts.
The friendliness of most powers, organizations, and teams provided him with a certain space for development and time.
However, some had already become his sworn enemies...
"...This is a threat."
In a tall building in Aus, a middle-aged man sitting in the boss chair spoke thus.
"He has already become our company’s sworn enemy. And he’s too fast; once he grows up, he will become a big problem..."
A Great Priest of the Proper God Church, looking at the information "Suspected heir to the Balance Disaster Beast (Slayer of Gods?)," commented like this.
"...This is the person My Lord wants, dead or alive. Let’s bring him back first."
"...Blood feud must be repaid with double the blood. Two lords... no, everyone’s blood feud..."
On another front, the "Blood Feast," hidden in the shadows, became active again.
The escapees from the homeland have always been a small minority, even after facing countless encirclements... But some things are always a minority under the sunlight, and many infiltrators cannot be completely eradicated.
Even having been "abandoned," some of them still devoutly believed... Believed that one day the Blood Feast god and the Blood-crows would come back to kill their way through, believed they would come back to take them away, believed in the blessings of the Deity, and that the promised Utopia would eventually be realized.
Reality? If they could have accepted reality, they wouldn’t have joined the bizarre churches and then step by step become zealous disciples.
"...Kill him! Kill him! Use him as a sacrifice..."
𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮
When it comes to the resolution to kill, Blood Feast’s members probably have it the highest.
Especially after the news of Lu Ping’an "hunting down two Bishops" came back, another group of believers awakened and quietly escaped... The news shook their last foundation, and just for the need to survive, the "flag" that was Lu Ping’an had to die.
The experienced judgment of Big Cat was not wrong. After Lu Ping’an became well-known, when countless eyes were focused on him, when his past started to be inevitably dug up bit by bit, many would wish him dead...
"This Lu Ping’an, in just one year’s time, has grown to the fourth-tier?"
"No, his actual combat power has at least reached the fifth-sixth tier... He has a record of directly killing an Abyss Lord, although that lord seems to have fallen from Rule-level, but it’s definitely something that cannot be matched by an ordinary Law Peak."
"What is even harder to accept is that his growth trajectory is exceptionally clear. He is progressing rapidly."
"Yes, when he started school, he was Zero-order, first-tier, then within half a year second-tier, third-tier... Every battle he fights, he clearly improves, he is growing at an unprecedented pace, as if there are no obstacles."
"And from the current perspective, not only has this pace of growth not slowed down, but it has also accelerated..."
Lu Ping’an’s progress was too fast, and it wasn’t just about the elevation of his tier; his quality and breadth across professions were also extremely terrifying.
Naturally, he was seen as someone with a "growth talent."
Even though Lu Ping’an used a contract to limit the leak of his information from the Trading Land, there are no foolproof ways to keep a secret these days.
His private information was more valuable, but had still leaked out to varying extents, which made people value him even more...
"The heir of Kerdalais’ ’Divine’s Throne,’ huh..."
"Maybe another step further, Slayer of Gods,"
Even the disintegrated Mother Goddess cult had received this message.
In the end, it led to Eve’s awakening and her unexpected early arrival.
When Lu Ping’an was laid out on the table, too many powers and channels would attract more "attention" and "malice" towards him... And all of these things were bound to happen sooner or later, because of the Life Bank’s restrictions, he had to keep growing, without slowing down.
"Still, it came too fast..."
Even Big Cat felt that "two Rule-level" combat achievements were too shocking, and the troubles that this might bring could surpass expectations.
Leaving the Ancient City, accelerating his cultivation, was not only for his own sake but also spared the city a lot of trouble.
His parents? He had already persuaded the old couple to move into the Courtyard; now, Lu Ping’an had no obvious flaws.
"He’s so stupid to show up at the Domineering Three Faces’ celebration? He’s from the Life system, right?"
"Yes, he is, and in that Secret Realm, professionals not from the Fighting Series will be significantly weakened."
"... Contact our Fighter assassins."
Lu Ping’an probably didn’t expect that his notoriety... or rather his "heavyweight" status, already caused some people sleepless nights.
The very night he appeared in that Secret Realm, the news spread out... He could buy information from information traffickers, and those traffickers would not hesitate to sell him out.
Six hours, just six hours from dusk to midnight, that "message" had spread across the entire inner world.
At least, those who had been watching and looking for Lu Ping’an now knew.
"Damn, three Rule-level items plus equivalent funds and materials, this kid’s really valuable. A fourth-tier, heh, this bounty is easy money..."
A tall cowboy-dressed blond man said so, while his black-haired priest partner shook his head.
"...If it was really easy money, they wouldn’t have outsourced the job to us outsiders."
The mercenary duo from Aus stepped through the Great Gate; even this single use was astronomically expensive.
"...My Lord’s message? My Lord’s nemesis? My Lord’s successor... Impossible!"
The lion-faced man, furious, instantly tore the messenger before him to shreds.
He intended to send out his most prized assassins... but after thinking it through, he made up his mind.
"I’ll go myself, prepare a fast ship for me. Quick! Just thinking that My Lord’s enemy is still breathing makes me unbearable!"
Meanwhile, in a Proper God Church, a pair of young Twins just stepped out of the church.
One radiated a metallic luster, the other had a fleshy body but with a third eye in the center of the forehead, both eerie and divine.
They were the Church’s Saints, but at this moment, they undertook a mission of massacre, to completely eradicate a god’s nemesis.
As for the reason to attack their own faction? Does "our fellow Su Xi’s misfortune" count?
The "disappearance" of Lu Ping’an hadn’t made these mortal enemies give up. On the contrary, his reappearance, especially in the Domineering Three Faces’ Secret Realm, made these forces feel that they couldn’t miss the opportunity.
One after another, elite assassins, hunters, stepped out from the shadows, not missing the chance to catch Lu Ping’an "isolated and helpless" overseas...
Early in the morning, Lu Ping’an was woken up by a phone call.
As soon as he answered, it turned out to be Wang Hai... Lu Ping’an frowned; they had agreed to not contact each other directly unless it was something important.
"... What’s up?"
"The Black Market just listed a... uh, now there are six extremely large bounties, Lu Ping’an, you’re really worth a lot."
— End of Chapter 1040 —