This assassin is upright

Chapter 437 Negotiations After the Pulling and Pulling
"Brother Yu Zhun, are we just leaving like this?"

On the way away, Rael spoke with a somewhat bewildered expression.

In her opinion, the conversation between Yu Zhun and Xue Jiajia just now was strangely odd, and Yu Zhun's decisiveness in turning around and leaving after Xue Jiajia refused was even more incomprehensible to her.

My sister is right. Brother Yu Zhun is indeed a very unfathomable person. I don't even know what he wants to do.

Thinking of this, Rael turned to look at Udyr and found that her sister had the same blank look on her face.

Okay, even my sister didn't notice.

"It's just a temporary departure."

Yu Zhun smiled and said, "I chose to meet Xue Jiajia now precisely to plant a seed of doubt in her heart."

"Before today, I carefully studied Xue Jiajia's entire process of conquering multiple dungeons in the Divine Revelation World." Yu Zhun paused slightly, "I put in a lot of effort to gather this information."

To rewind the process of completing the strategy, you need a level 3 powerhouse.

Xue Jiajia is the strongest divine child in the second divine region, and her every word and action is watched by countless people. Therefore, it is not an easy task to obtain her strategy and study her in advance.

Based on this information and Yu Zhun's past encounters with Xue Jiajia, he roughly determined what kind of person Xue Jiajia was.

Simply put, she's a goddess... lunatic.

This guy has an abstract mind; it's hard to imagine that the strongest god in the top three god zones would have such an abstract mind.

Of course, it's also possible that Xue Jiajia's unique talent gave her the right to be proud.

After all, that's a talent nullification that any talent should be wary of.

Even if Udyr, who is at the same level as Xue Jiajia, stood in front of her, it would be difficult to determine who was stronger. After all, no one knows whether Udyr will first acquire a talent that counters Xue Jiajia's talent, or whether Xue Jiajia's talent will first render Udyr's talent ineffective.

With such talent, you could say even a dog could take off.

"Xue Jiajia is someone who easily overthinks and has a wildly imaginative mind," Yu Zhun said with a smile. "Don't be fooled by the fact that I only exchanged a few casual words with her; believe it or not, she's still having some doubts about herself."

"Really?" Yu Zhu looked surprised. "I thought she had become much more aloof than before. I thought she had become smarter."

“No.” Helmod shook his head. “I should also have the right to speak on this point.”

“After all, before I met you, I had already had some dealings with the divine sons of the former three divine districts.” Helmod paused slightly, his expression somewhat complicated. “Yu Zhun is right.”

"Xue Jiajia is probably still wondering whether what Yu Zhun said is true, and whether he designed the dungeon."

"Therefore, Yu Zhun's approach was correct."

"If we leave her hanging for now, she will come to us on her own later, and we will be able to take the initiative in the negotiations."

The three women looked at Yu Zhun at the same time, and Yu Zhun nodded, confirming that Helmod was right. "Although the stage is here, behind the negotiations are several major divine districts. Our strength is too weak, so we need to strive for the advantage."

"Then what was the purpose of you asking us to find segment number 9?" Yu Zhu suddenly thought of another question. "During the whole process just now, you didn't show segment number 9 to the other party, did you?"

“Indeed not.” Yu Zhun smiled mysteriously. “Because segment number 9 was prepared for another group of people.”

"Another group of people?" Upon hearing this, the others were all taken aback, and even Helmod couldn't understand Yu Zhun's meaning.

“Don’t forget, the first three divine regions are three servers.” Yu Zhun said softly, “Ji Chen has been completely silent since that battle more than 20 years ago, but the divine sons of the second and third divine regions have not.”

“You mean…” Helmod started to speak uncertainly, “the twin gods Hel and Herri from the Third Divine District?”

“That’s right.” Yu Zhun nodded. “The Third Divine District is not someone I want to win over.”

“They have no basis for cooperation with us and are irrelevant to this stage, so I have to get rid of them as soon as possible.”

"As for how to send them away..." Yu Zhun smiled slightly, "naturally, we will give them the rarest fragment, number 9."

Now Helmod fully understood.

“Indeed, these twin divine children are a problem. Sending them to the Tower of Eternal Slumber is a good option.”

"But how do you know where they are?"

“A little trick for tracking.” Yu Zhun chuckled. “I designed a hidden detail in the [Elegy Wasteland], which is that the terrain will change after the [Elegy Land] is completed.”

"So far, there are two places in the [Land of Sorrow] where the terrain changes the fastest, one of which is where Xue Jiajia is located."

"As for the other one, it will most likely be the twin gods."

As he spoke, Yu Zhun quickened his pace, and the other four quickly followed.
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"It's still a little short."

At the other end of the [Elegy Wilderness], Herry looked at the accumulated [Elegy Fragments] before him, carefully sorted through them, and found nine fragments that were not exactly the same. After comparing them, he said, "If nothing unexpected happens, there should be ten such fragments, so we are still one short."

"Different fragments have different probabilities of appearing."

Hel, standing to the side, crossed his arms and spoke in a deep voice, "We tried at full speed, even mobilizing hundreds of servers that had submitted to us to work together, which is how we obtained so many [Elegy Fragments] in such a short time."

“But there are a lot of repetitive parts in these ‘Fragments of Elegy,’ especially this section.” Hel casually picked up a ‘Fragment of Elegy.’

"It accounts for almost a third of all of them."

“Yes.” Herry frowned. “Is this last section only obtainable in certain specific areas?”

"Or are there other conditions for obtaining it?"

"Regardless, let's keep trying," Hel said in a deep voice. "Besides the [Fragment of Elegy], there are those other fragments."

“Hmm.” Herry nodded, and hundreds of tiny fragments quickly appeared in his hand. “These fragments seem to come from the same source, and they should be able to be pieced together into something, but they are still far from complete, and we can’t see the shape yet.”

“The only thing we can be sure of is that it must be some kind of musical instrument.” With that, Herry picked up the only string among the fragments.

"Should we piece the instruments together before going to that tower?"

"No." Hel pondered for a moment and then shook his head. "Even if all the fragments were here, they would be in the hands of many teams right now."

"Unless you take down all 50,000 servers."

"Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to gather all the instruments here."

"Why not continue? After all, all the instrument fragments will eventually appear at the end of the dungeon."

Heri nodded slightly upon hearing this.

As the fighting and battles continue, instrument fragments will accumulate among the surviving teams, and subsequent dungeon runs will accelerate this process.

So instead of wasting time here, it's better to go wait in the back.

“Once we obtain the last part of the [Elegy Fragment], we will…” Herri’s expression suddenly changed slightly before he could finish speaking.

The nine fragments of the Elegy in his hand suddenly began to tremble inexplicably, the strange frequency of which seemed to be foreshadowing something.

"It's the last one!" Herry turned his head sharply and quickly saw a group of people brushing past them.

"They have the last fragments on them!" With a low shout, Herry flashed forward and instantly chased after the other party.

"Wait..." Hel was about to call out to Herry, but seeing that the other had already rushed far away, he could only sigh and quickly catch up. When they saw who the passerby was, both of them showed surprise at the same time.

"It's you?" Hel snorted, a hostile look in his eyes. "I heard you've been hiding in some remote corner for over twenty years to avoid retaliation from the First God District. I didn't expect you to actually dare to come out this time?"

"What version of the rumor is this now?" Yu Zhun touched his nose, a strange look on his face. "It sounds quite reasonable."

The other four looked at each other strangely and nodded silently.

Their departure did indeed occur after the announcement was made in the First God Zone.

From this perspective, it seems that the outsiders' belief that they hid for over twenty years to avoid retaliation from the First Divine District is not entirely without reason.

"Without further ado."

Herry quickly scanned the ranks of Yu Zhun and the others, a hint of contempt flashing in his eyes. "Hand over your [Fragments of Elegy]!"

"What if I don't pay?" Yu Zhun asked, feigning anger.

“Then I’m sorry.” Herry chuckled. “It’s not like twenty years ago anymore. You’re not the players who were once qualified to fight us. You’ve fallen far behind.”

"I heard that you set up the Fifth Divine District a month ago."

“But now there are only five of you, so I’m afraid you can’t use those methods anymore, right?” As he said this, a greedy glint flashed in Herry’s eyes. “Oh, speaking of which, I almost forgot.”

"Hand over the means by which you temporarily possess the strength of the third rank."

“Otherwise…” he slowly drew his longsword, “he will die here.”

"What a boastful tone." Yu Zhun was genuinely amused and exasperated.

To avoid arousing suspicion from the twin gods, he did not give the item directly, but instead pretended to happen to pass by, intending to let the other party take it.

After all, things you steal yourself are always more trustworthy.

But Yu Zhun really didn't expect that these twin divine sons were even more ruthless than he had anticipated, and that they actually dared to demand the Heavenly Demon Battle Formation.

"Since that's the case, then give it a try!" Without the slightest hesitation, Yu Zhun drew his dagger and charged at Herry, who had spoken.

"Ping—"

With a clang of metal clashing, the two sides clashed instantly. Yu Zhun and Herry fought each other, while the four lower-ranking Yu Zhu and his companions surrounded Herry, preventing him from interfering with the battle.

After a fierce battle, Herl suffered repeated defeats, but Herry seemed to have the upper hand when facing Yu Zhun.

"Hahaha!" Heri laughed wildly. "You think you're qualified to fight me just because we're both Lv90?"

"I have already found my path, but it is still being refined."

"I'm almost a third-tier rank cultivator, while you're only a second-tier rank cultivator!"

"boom--"

With a thunderous roar, Herry slashed Yu Zhun with his sword, sending him flying backward. Then, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he reached out to catch a wisp of light that Yu Zhun was falling from as he flew backward.

"let's go!"

Yu Zhun let out a low growl, steadied himself, and retreated without hesitation. The other four people who were holding Hel back also left without lingering for battle.

"Trying to leave?" Hel, who had been overpowered, was furious and was about to chase after him, but Herry grabbed her shoulder.

“Stop chasing.” Heri glanced at the ball of light in his hand. “We’ve already obtained the last [Fragment of Elegy].

“But they…” Hel hesitated, unable to finish her sentence.

“If we chase after them, we might fall into their ambush.” Herry scoffed. “Don’t forget that they only use a technique that can be displayed by ten people. How do you know there aren’t five other people in the direction they escaped?”

Upon hearing this, Hel instantly calmed down.

“You’re right,” Hel said in a deep voice. “Now that we’ve collected all the fragments of the Elegy, we can enter the tower directly.”

"A perfect first clear is the most important thing. There's no need for us to take that risk and hunt them down."

As he spoke, Hel turned to look at the giant tower that stood quietly not far away.

"Let's go, let's go to the Tower of Eternal Sleep."
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"Yu Zhun, your acting was really good just now!"

Yu Zhu couldn't help but chuckle, "I almost thought you'd really been defeated!"

“I wasn’t acting.” Yu Zhun shook his head helplessly. “He Rui is indeed stronger than me.”

"After all, they are quasi-third-turners who have already found their own path."

"The path represents a qualitative leap in a player's strength."

At this point, Yu Zhun fell silent.

The Crimson Demon Lord had warned him not to try to glimpse a corner of the future through the Realm of True Self, as this could have a huge impact on him.

Yu Zhun couldn't be sure if the other party was telling the truth, but he was indeed influenced by the Crimson Demon Lord and no longer thought about the Realm of True Self.

But how exactly should he find his path?
"Don't think too much about it." Seemingly seeing through Yu Zhun's thoughts, Helmod patted Yu Zhun's shoulder. "In the Netherworld, your strength once reached the ninth level of divine transformation. Finding a path won't be difficult for you."

"Perhaps it has always been there, but you just haven't noticed it."

“Always…” Yu Zhun murmured, then his expression shifted slightly as he looked at the flickering light of the Tower of Eternal Slumber not far away.

That was a sign that someone had entered.

Clearly, the twin gods who had just obtained fragment number 9 from him had now met the requirements to enter the Tower of Eternal Sleep and became the first people to enter the second unit.

This obvious anomaly also spurred other players who were trying to figure out how to play the game.

Yu Zhun could clearly feel that the atmosphere in the entire [Elegy Wilderness] seemed to have become more stagnant and tense.

"It's almost time," he said softly. "Quite a while has passed since everyone entered the instance."

"We've been leaving Xue Jiajia hanging there for quite a while now."

"Now, it's time to meet this future partner."

After saying that, Yu Zhun couldn't help but smile, and led the four of them back the way they came to look for Xue Jiajia.

Soon, they saw Xue Jiajia again.

The other party was leading a group of people to count the [Fragments of Elegy] they had obtained. When they saw Yu Zhun and the others again, Xue Jiajia's lips twitched. Amid the astonished gazes of the others, she rushed forward and grabbed Yu Zhun by the collar.

"Aren't you the designer of the dungeon?"

"Tell me quickly where the last scene is?!"

(End of this chapter)