55: go home

The reason there was no Crow's Mouth was entirely due to that guy's revenge.

Blood Skyhawk's lips curled into a confident smile.

He gazed forward, seemingly lost in thought: "I entered the Transcendent Realm five years ago."

"From entering the Transcendent Realm to reaching Haoyue Class, it only took me two years."

"If it weren't for the relentless pursuit by Great Xia these past three years, how could I have stagnated at the Haoyue Class?"

"Otherwise, even if I'm not among the world's top, I would at least be in the second tier now."

"What's more, I'm about to join the Calamity Court now—do you think I would be afraid of someone who entered the Transcendent Realm a few years before me, yet hasn't even broken through to Lower Stage of Candlelight?"

Blood Skyhawk's tone was disdainful: "What right does such a good-for-nothing have to make me fear him?"

"As for before, it was because if I didn't do that, I wouldn't even have the strength to take you guys with me."

"Killing them allowed me to recover some strength, so wouldn't I be able to carry you then?"

Hearing this, Su Yun stared at Blood Skyhawk with wide eyes.

Could this really be something this guy would say?

"What benefits does our Calamity Court offer?" Blood Skyhawk suddenly changed the subject and asked.

Ever since he learned that the Star Constellation Society had an artifact for infinite resurrection, he thought that the Calamity Court should also have a similar treasure or benefit, otherwise how could it maintain balance or even contend?

Su Yun was stunned for a moment: "You don't know?"

Blood Skyhawk retorted: "Has anyone told me?"

Su Yun was silent for a moment, and after communicating with his other clones, he found that no one had indeed explained it in detail.

They only told Blood Skyhawk that evolution could grant two abilities, but no other content was mentioned.

So, Su Yun began to explain.

After listening, Blood Skyhawk's eyes lit up. "Infinite evolution! This is fantastic!"

As long as he killed a hundred monsters, he could trigger an evolution, and each evolution would randomly grant two abilities.

With his strength, finding and defeating a hundred monsters was as easy as turning his hand over.

For him, the biggest difficulty was actually how to find enough monsters.

But Blood Skyhawk then thought that besides evolution, there was also sublimation and the blessings mentioned by the Scarlet Lord.

Blood Skyhawk directly asked Su Yun: "What's the difference between evolution, sublimation, and blessing?"

Su Yun thought for a moment and replied: "If you treat this as a game, then the abilities gained through evolution are roughly equivalent to ordinary abilities."

"Sublimation, however, will bring excellent-grade abilities and greatly increase basic attributes for Haoyue Class and below."

"And receiving a blessing is equivalent to an epic-grade ability, while simultaneously boosting all basic attributes for Radiant Star and below."

"Of course, no matter which one you choose, your appearance will undergo significant changes."

Blood Skyhawk's eyes immediately lit up upon hearing this.

Although he wasn't entirely clear about the specific effects of epic-grade, the subsequent mention of "significantly increasing attributes even for Radiant Star level" excited him immensely.

For him, who currently only possessed Haoyue Class strength, this could mean a direct breakthrough to Dawn Class, with even more room for further improvement.

However, Blood Skyhawk's brows immediately furrowed.

The prerequisite for all of this was that he had to first find and open three Critical Points.

But the problem now was that he hadn't even found a single Critical Point yet.

Blood Skyhawk's gaze involuntarily fell on Su Yun, but he quickly averted his eyes.

This was absolutely not an option.

At worst, he would search slowly, but this one absolutely could not be used.

As Blood Skyhawk was thinking, an unnoticed mist quietly enveloped the four of them.

When Blood Skyhawk decided to forcibly demand the Critical Point map by attacking the Japanese government, he suddenly became alert.

He looked up and around, finding that a thick white mist had already covered everything, reducing visibility to less than three meters.

This situation immediately put Blood Skyhawk on high alert.

With his Hao Yue Upper-rank strength, even if his current state wasn't fully recovered, a place that could compress his vision to such an extent must be extraordinary.

Wait!

Blood Skyhawk suddenly realized: white mist, limited visibility... these characteristics sounded very much like the methods of Evil Spirits.

As soon as he thought that Evil Spirits might be lurking nearby, Blood Skyhawk didn't feel afraid; instead, he became excited.

For others, Evil Spirits might be something to avoid, but for him, it was an excellent opportunity.

One must know that the presence of Evil Spirits usually indicated the existence of a Critical Point nearby.

Judging from the fact that this Evil Spirit only narrowed its perception range to three meters, it could be inferred that its strength had only reached B-class.

Even if the rules were chaotic, its ultimate strength was unlikely to exceed A-class.

However, this meant that there was likely an S-class Critical Point nearby.

Thinking of this, Blood Skyhawk couldn't help but tear up: "This is great, is the life of being on the run finally coming to an end?"

...

"Cough, cough—"

Yang Kaishan coughed twice and woke up from his coma.

He struggled to crawl out of the rubble, blood constantly oozing from the corners of his mouth.

He looked up and around, but didn't see that hateful figure.

When his gaze shifted slightly, he discovered two headless, shriveled corpses.

Instantly, Yang Kaishan's body trembled slightly.

Stumbling closer, he recognized the remnants of clothing on the two corpses—they were Ye Long and Huang Yu's clothes.

However, their flesh and blood had long been drained by some power, leaving only shrunken skin wrapped around skeletons.

With a thud, Yang Kaishan fell to his knees, trembling all over.

"Why? Why?" he murmured.

Ten years ago, he was the weakest in the team, and precisely because he was weak, he became the only one who survived;

Ten years later, he was the strongest in the team, but he was still the only one who survived.

Yang Kaishan clearly knew the rules of the Star Constellation Society.

When he joined the organization, someone explained its greatest benefit to him—infinite resurrection.

The principle was to purchase a "Resurrection Coin" and then, through the Star Constellation Society's artifact, the Star River Diagram, inject a special resurrection energy into the body.

As long as a Resurrection Coin existed in the body before death, one could be resurrected through it.

However, if there was no Resurrection Coin in the body after death, the soul would dissipate within one hour.

But if someone injected a Resurrection Coin into the deceased in time, they could still be resurrected;

But if more than an hour passed and the soul dissipated, even the artifact "Star River Diagram" could not save them.

Yang Kaishan's transcendent ability, Star Mark, could use the power of starlight to deduce time.

After calculation, he found that two hours had already passed since Ye Long and Huang Yu's deaths.

In other words, he had been unconscious for a full two hours.

He quietly gazed at the bodies of his two friends, not knowing how long passed until his body gradually became numb. Only then did he manage to get up, walk over to them, and carefully pick up their heads.

After comparison and confirmation, these were indeed someone's heads.

Yang Kaishan then used the power of the Five Elements, borrowing the power of Metal, to condense a fine needle and thread.

Next, he gently tore off some threads from his own clothes and carefully sewed the two heads back on.

After doing all this, he used the power of Wood to quickly transform some wood into a simple coffin.

After placing the two men in the coffins, Yang Kaishan grunted and hoisted the two coffins onto his back.

He looked up into the distance—that was the way they had come.

Although the Twelve Zodiacs adult was nowhere to be found, Yang Kaishan only wanted to head towards the rendezvous point.

Before leaving, he softly said to the coffins behind him:

"I'm taking you home."

"Cough, cough—"

After taking just a few steps, Yang Kaishan couldn't help but cough violently, even spitting out a few mouthfuls of blood.

He looked at the bloodstains on his hand, knowing that he probably wouldn't last much longer.

But he knew in his heart that no matter what, he had to get to the rendezvous point first.

Thinking of this, Yang Kaishan immediately mobilized the Star Mark within his body, drawing on the starlight to suppress his injuries, then quickened his pace and rushed forward.