I'm not just human!

"Could it be... that you two triggered each other's bloodline healing during the semi-finals? No wonder you were able to recover so quickly."

As a transcendent ruler, He had experienced countless battles, hardships, and tribulations throughout His life, making Him extremely experienced and shrewd. Naturally, He guessed it immediately.

The clown grinned, his eyes surprisingly innocent.

"That's right. If it weren't for my cousin, I would have been dead back then. Oh no, great-grandfather, since you were already secretly lurking outside the golden barrier, you shouldn't have just watched me die."

Emperor Shalatu chuckled slightly:

"Yes, but that's good. Now that you two brothers have known each other for a long time and even gone through life and death together, I'm relieved. Alright, you can go back now. I'll talk to Xia Fa alone."

Although they were both great-grandsons, Emperor Shalatu made no attempt to hide his favoritism towards Xiafa, which immediately made the Clown of Surprise and Laughter somewhat envious, and he couldn't help but glance at Xiafa a few more times.

However, despite the envy, there wasn't a trace of jealousy in the clown's innocent eyes.

"Okay, great-grandfather."

After obediently agreeing, the clown with the startled laugh immediately flew back towards the pirate ship.

Seeing that He was summoned and dismissed at will by Holy Emperor Sharat, the group of young overlords did not find anything strange at all; some of them were even quite envious.

After all, this is the Holy Emperor of the Church of Paradox, a transcendent monarch, and the head of the Gilgamesh family!

Even just talking to such an important person would be an honor for these young people!

"It seems they are unaware that Hermes' cousin is the great-grandson of Emperor Sharatul..."

Xia Fa, sensing the situation through the envious glances of some of the younger overlords, nodded slightly.

Now that he has become the great-grandson of Emperor Shalatu, he will use this identity when the time is right. Shalatu will neither deliberately keep a low profile nor deliberately be high-profile; it will depend on the situation.

At this moment, Emperor Shalatu waved his hand again, directly blocking the perception of the young overlords in the distance.

Immediately, He turned around and looked at Xia Fa with a smile.

"Great-grandson, when will you return to the family planet with your great-grandfather? When you do, your great-grandfather will personally host a grand family banquet to welcome you back and officially announce your return to our Gilgamesh family!"

As he spoke, Emperor Sharatul sighed to himself:

"When the time comes, if the family members find out that our family has produced a future secret emperor, they will probably be many times happier and more out of control than your great-grandfather was."

Xia Fa hadn't expected that Emperor Shalatu would start with this.

It seems that He is quite fixated on recognizing His ancestors and returning to His ancestral home.

"Hmm... Great-Grandpa, we probably can't leave Caligari Star now, right?"

Emperor Shalatu laughed:

"That's true, but the Eternal Certificate will be revealed in about half a month at most. It won't be too late to go back then. What do you think?"

Xia Fa, of course, wouldn't refuse. He still wanted to go to Gilgamesh to confirm his parents' identities, so he smiled slightly.

"Okay, I'll go back with you, Great-Grandpa, then."

Emperor Shalatu nodded with satisfaction, then suddenly remembered something and said:

"Oh, by the way, about your parents..."

Xia Fa said quite calmly:

“My cousin Hermes has already explained it to me, great-grandfather, you don’t need to worry.”

Emperor Sharatul was slightly startled, and couldn't help but glance at his other great-grandson standing on the deck in the distance, and sighed softly:

"This child is quite sensible at crucial moments. Since that's the case..."

After pondering for a moment, he suddenly flipped his hand and took out a money bag.

To be precise, this is a black bag, but it is clear at a glance that it is of very high quality. The leather used is actually taken from an angel-level supernatural creature, which even caused the surrounding space to distort slightly, but then immediately calmed down.

"Since it's our first meeting, I don't have much to give you. The whale watching festival in the Baron Ocean is about to start, right? Here, take these 20 million gold pounds as pocket money. Go and have fun, don't worry about losing money. I'll give you more when you've spent it all."

For a moment, Xia Fa even doubted whether he had misheard.

Twenty million pounds?

Wow... was my great-grandfather really that generous?

You should know that when I won those ten million acres of potato fields for the Kingdom of Augu, the reward the Kingdom of Augu gave me, a bank draft worth one million gold pounds, would not be cashed for another three months!

Unexpectedly, my great-grandfather's first move was a whopping twenty million gold pounds...

However, Xia Fa thought about it again and understood.

The Kingdom of Augu is located on the continent of Starcoin, and there are three such kingdoms on the continent.

The Star Coin Continent is located on the planet Caligi, which has a total of twenty-two continents.

The Wright Star System, where Caligi is located, is home to countless inhabited planets.

As for the entire universe, there are tens of thousands of star systems.

However, the Wright Starfield has always been one of the most prosperous starfields, as evidenced by the fact that several righteous gods have chosen to establish their earthly divine kingdoms on certain inhabited planets within the Wright Starfield.

In this situation, it seems quite normal for my great-grandfather, as the Holy Emperor of the Church of Paradox, whose sphere of influence spans the entire universe, to casually give me 20 million gold pounds as pocket money...

Xia Fa immediately felt at ease. With such a generous great-grandfather, it was only right to take the money.

The main reason is that both the mysterious Levimir and the young miner who calls himself "Absolute Defense" made him absorb as many of the three sacred metals as possible—pure white light-seeking crystal silver, star whisper secret titanium, and dreamlike deep-diving shadow gold—before becoming the ruler.

These three sacred metals are very difficult to obtain by purchasing.

Even if someone were to sell it, it's highly unlikely he would get a chance.

Extraordinary monarchs, great lords, and even secret emperors of all kinds with extremely prominent status and position would not hesitate to spend a lot of money to bid for it.

In this situation, the only option left was to try and cut it out of the traveling whale's belly.

And the most important thing to buy a traveling whale is... naturally, money!

To put it dramatically, if there were enough high-quality whales at this whale watching event, 20 million pounds might not be enough.

With this in mind, Xia Fa accepted the money bag from his great-grandfather, a genuine smile spreading across his face:

“谢谢祖爷爷！”

Emperor Sharatul stroked his beard and smiled:

"We're all family, why be so polite? Oh, right, there's one more thing."

His face, which had been full of kind smiles, suddenly turned serious:

"Have you already joined the Augustus family?"

Xia Fa's heart skipped a beat, thinking to himself that what was bound to happen had indeed come.

He was about to speak, saying that he had joined voluntarily and that it had nothing to do with the Augustus family.

But at that moment, Emperor Sharatul smiled merrily:

“That’s perfect. Our Gilgamesh family has always lacked a proxy family on Kaligi. After all, as you know, Kaligi has the earthly divine kingdoms of two true gods, the Silver Universe and the Nature Monarch. No force dares to enter it easily, but your situation is different.”

He paused, then continued:

"But don't rush. In the next half month or so, you can train hard on the Baron Ocean. Of course, you can also go to the Earth God Kingdom in the Silver Universe if you want. Once the ownership of the Eternal Certificate is completely determined and everything has calmed down, you can go and represent our Gilgamesh family to recruit the Augustus family as our agents."

Xia Fa never expected things to develop this way.

However, this is actually quite good.

Not only do I not have to worry about implicating the Augustus family, but I can also help the Augustus family rise to a higher level.

Shafa understood perfectly well how unattainable it was for the Augustus family to be able to associate with the Gilgamesh family, one of the most powerful extraordinary families in the entire universe...

This is equivalent to a family from a small town suddenly climbing up to the royal family of the Kingdom of Augustus. No, it's even more than that. Just imagine how surprised the entire Augustus family would be.

More than half a month later, when he returned to the Kingdom of Augu, he brought the good news to Glenn, Axo, and Marshal Gaius.

Oh, right, we can also invite Cardan over to witness it together.

After all, in a sense, he was already Kaldan's godfather, so he had to let his godson benefit from it.

“Okay, I’ll tell them then,” Xia Fa replied with a smile.

"Well, a small family like the Augustus family shouldn't have any reason to refuse our Gilgamesh family. By the way,"

Suddenly, Emperor Sharatu seemed to realize something, his expression turning serious in an instant, and he continued:

"Regarding the fact that you signed two overlord-level secret contracts at the same time, you'd better not publicize it for the next two weeks, especially not let that mysterious emperor of the Silver White Church know about it."

Xia Fa had long been aware of this problem, and said quite seriously:

"Grandpa, don't worry, I will be as careful as possible."

Emperor Shalatu's tone relaxed again:

"However, you don't need to worry too much. Especially when you encounter danger, use the secret power of the Gate of Stars when necessary. Preserving your life is the most important thing."

"That mysterious emperor...it is said that he has already signed thirty secret contracts, so he shouldn't see you as a threat."

"After all, that would be a bit too beneath Him, unless you're a future Holy Spirit of Destiny."

Upon hearing the words "Heavenly Mandate Holy Spirit," Xia Fa's heart skipped a beat, but he feigned ignorance and asked in return:

"Heaven... Heavenly Mandate Holy Spirit? Great-Grandpa, what is that?"

Emperor Sharatul sighed softly, a doting smile appearing on his face:

"Silly child, you've really suffered these past years. You don't even know about the Heavenly Mandate Holy Spirit. Let me put it this way: among those who are at the Sovereign level, those who have signed one Hegemon-level secret contract are Extraordinary Monarchs, those who have signed two Hegemon-level secret contracts are Secret Emperors, and those who have signed three Hegemon-level secret contracts are naturally Heavenly Mandate Holy Spirits."

Xia Fa feigned a look of sudden realization:

"I see..."

Sharatul nodded slightly, his tone becoming even gentler:

"If, in the more than 30,000 years of history of the entire universe, at least a few dozen Mysterious Emperors have appeared, but some have disappeared, some have perished, and some have gone mad, leaving only a handful of survivors, then the probability of the Heavenly Destiny Holy Spirit appearing is extremely small."

He took a deep breath, and said with a mixture of emotion and regret:

"For over 30,000 years, from the time when the nine great gods joined forces to destroy the ancient rulers of the entire universe until now, only two Heavenly Holy Spirits have ever appeared."

Xia Fa was quite surprised and said:

"Only two?"

This time he wasn't faking it. Xia Fa originally thought that with so many life-bearing planets in the universe, billions of living beings, and such a long period of time, if we calculate that a generation is twenty years, there should be at least a few more Heavenly Holy Spirits.