Transcendent Dawn

In the tranquil forest.

A pack of wolves that had been slumbering or frolicking by the river, licking their own fur, suddenly underwent a strange mutation!

Some were frenziedly gnawing at their own limbs, utterly oblivious to the pain and the blood splattering around, almost as if they were ready to savagely kill themselves.

Others had their eyes bloodshot, ferociously attacking their own kind around them.

The weak ones simply fell to the ground, without any signs of life.

In an instant, over a hundred Wind Wolves in this pack slipped into a state of insanity.

“Howl!”

The rest of the pack scattered in panic and disorder.

At this critical moment, their Wind Wolf King jumped onto a higher ground and let out an angry howl.

Most of the pack calmed down, but those that had fallen into madness paid no heed to their leader’s commands and continued to indulge in their blood-lust.

“Howl!”

The Wind Wolf King roared again and plunged into the mad crowd.

Its claws and jaws were razor-sharp. Every swing created several wind blades. Any Wind Wolf in its way was slashed open and killed.

Before long, the king had suppressed this “chaos” with the might of a lone wolf.

Not just that, it sniffed the air and suspiciously gazed in the direction where Su Lu was hiding.

“What a formidable Wolf King!”

In the Mental Realm, Su Lu laughed deeply. The Spirit Chain shot out like a trap, ensnaring the opponent’s Mental Secret Realm. “Lift me… up!”

Immediately, he and the Wolf King were transported into the Dream Spirit World together.

In the Material Realm, seeing the Wolf King collapse after demonstrating such extraordinary might put the other Wind Wolves into an even more chaotic state.

“Howl!”

In front of Su Lu, a huge silver Secret Realm was unceasingly collapsing inward, ultimately taking the form of a wolf.

The Wolf King’s massive body was covered in a layer of silvery light. Bumps emerged on either side of its neck which grew larger until they burst open, forming two smaller wolf heads.

One by one, eerie eyes popped out from various parts of the Wolf King’s body. The pupils seemed to reflect the inverted image of a crescent moon.

A savage and insane aura constantly radiated outwards.

“Huh?”

Su Lu felt that something was not right. “This Wolf King, could it possibly have the bloodline of a creature from the Spirit World?”

But he didn’t have time to think further.

The very next moment, the three-headed Wolf King with eyes all over its body pounced at him, howling fiercely.

“Centaur, attack!”

As Su Lu rapidly retreated, a spear-wielding Centaur warrior leaped out from a Trick Card in his hand, engaging the Wolf King in battle.

“Growl!”

The Centaur warrior brandished his silver spear. Fierce Fighting Qi emerged on the spear tip, slashing across the waists of the three-headed wolf.

Splat! Splat!

Eyes were pierced, spewing out foul-smelling fluid, but the wounds wriggled with flesh and rapidly grew new eyes.

“Spirit oppression!”

While the Centaur warrior was fending off the three-headed Wolf King head-on, Su Lu was not idle.

He turned his Spirituality into an enormous force that rained down on the Wolf King. It was as if an imposing mountain was added, making the opponent’s movements sluggish.

Seeing this, a Trick Card emerged, releasing a giant fireball from within.

“Big Fireball!”

Boom!

The orange flames exploded, covering the entire body of the Wolf King, which let out a scream of agony.

When the flames burned out, the state of the three-headed Wolf King was dreadful: its fur was charred, many eyeballs were shriveled or destroyed, one of its heads had been pierced by the Centaur’s spear.

But it stood up, sprouting more eyes, and under the illumination of the moon wheel, all its injuries healed rapidly.

“Spirit Chain!”

As Su Lu slammed his right hand down, chains of spirit erupted from the ground, binding the four limbs of the three-headed Wolf King tight.

“A mere third rank, yet such a tough nut to crack?”

He found it somewhat strenuous, even if he had battled it in the Material Realm, it wouldn’t be so tough.

“Perhaps… I chose the wrong battlefield. The Spirit World is my home field, but it is theirs too! It does indeed possess the bloodline of a creature from the Spirit World, and… it’s quite an advanced one!”

With gritted teeth, Su Lu stared at the Wolf King that was ceaselessly struggling, breaking the chains, and pulled out a blank Trick Card. With a wave of his hand, an array of multicolored dreams appeared, enveloping the Wolf King completely: “Seal!”

A massive vortex emerged, drawing the dreams and the Wolf King into its swirl.

The Material Realm.

Su Lu’s soul returned, watching as his Trick Card in hand began to burn from the bottom, turning into ashes.

“The seal failed, but at least the spirituality of the Wolf King has perished. That seemed to be a good method to destroy it…”

He gazed ahead.

The moment the Wolf King fell, all the Wind Wolves unconsciously howled in lament.

“Awooooo!”

“Awooooo! Awooo!”

“There’s something wrong with this Wolf King, I can’t leave it to them!”

Su Lu swiftly descended, spreading out an aura of spirit oppression.

Paired with the effect of his spirit oppression, his current mental level was like Dragon Might, wielding the deepest majesty and repelling the leaderless Wind Wolves.

“Hmm? Seems like the moment I used spirit oppression, the temporary mental enhancement disappeared? No… it should be said it didn’t work? The value of 10.0, that must be the limit in the legends?

”

Su Lu made a little discovery.

He arrived at the massive corpse of the Wolf King, scared off the guardian wolves, and manifested the demon hunting dagger in his hand, and began to dissect the corpse and extract its blood.

The bloodline of the Spirit World within this Wolf King was robust, and it was certainly valuable!

Even if he didn’t need it, it could be used for rituals, or trade, which were all great uses.

Especially the wizards of this world, they were good at bloodline transplantation, and always sought after peculiar and powerful bloodlines.

By the time he finished these tasks, it was already twilight.

Su Lu rested for a moment and stepped into the realm of the white building.

The architecture here was very strange, filled with a Gothic style, with pointed rooftops, and bizarre sculptures beside the paths.

Passing the peripherals, there was a gigantic wall standing right in front of the main building.

The stains of time on the wall had left deep traces, the original relief on it was somewhat blurred.

However, standing there, Su Lu seemed to hear a distant sigh.

“Wall of Sighs?”

The idea came to him, and identified the name of the wall: “It absorbs the regrets and all the emotions of the spirit, for spirits have no need of these.”

Su Lu looked somewhat solemn, did not look at the wall any longer, and veered away to stand in front of the main building.

This seemed to be a church, but its doctrines were starkly different from that of the Mother Earth Goddess.

“Ancestors’ spirit? Or some Evil God?”

Questions sprung up in his mind as he stood before the church door.

The church door was made of a certain kind of black wood, which even after such a long time hadn’t decomposed, you could clearly see the patterns on it.

A profusion of eerie symbols formed the image of a multi-headed hound, seemingly chasing a group of spirits.

“This is…”

Pressing his temples, Su Lu looked down and at the bottom of it all saw a line in Gulam language: “Death is everyone’s destiny!”

“Is this… a church of some Death God?”