GRMFBS CH158

Zhan Yan opened the Gossip System and started searching for what his brother had been doing during this time.

During the day, he went to the cake shop; at night, he went home to feed Xingxing; during the day, he went to the cake shop, at night, he didn’t go home and opened hotel rooms… the two alternated.

Former Ghost King Lord was very seriously living a mortal life to maintain his persona, opening hotel rooms every night before going to work via the yin road.

According to the proximity principle, his choice was still that hotel closest to him. The large bathtub in the hotel was great; they also provided different bathing fragrances. Humans were so ingenious—bathing even required adding rose flowers, jasmine flowers, and such, as well as bath bombs that floated on the water surface bubbling.

Zhan Jinli sometimes returned early and liked to soak in one before going home. Although the pool was relatively small and couldn’t swim freely, it was cleaner than other swimming pools. One cleaning spell and it was ready to use. Zhan Jinli was very satisfied with this.

He had almost tried all the fragrances the shop provided and was preparing to suggest they develop several more new ones.

Zhan Yan found complaints from love hotel staff about his brother in the gossip entries, saying that silent handsome guy came alone every time. At first, they thought he had special fetishes, but after cleaning the room every time, they found only the bathtub showed signs of use. Turned out he was using their place as a single-person bathhouse.

The mystery of why his brother liked staying alone at love hotels was solved!

So actually, he thought the bathtub at home wasn’t big enough?

Zhan Yan decided to find time to discuss with his parents about renovating the bathroom at home into a large bathing pool.

The group was still fighting, but Zhan Yan couldn’t help his brother prove he hadn’t gone night fishing. After all, finding evidence to prove his brother went to love hotels seemed even more explosive.

Ji Yueming: “Jinli, there’s nothing wrong with liking fishing, but we shouldn’t go fishing outside at night. You haven’t fished before; going to the wild to fish at night is dangerous. The outdoor environment may not be safe either. If you want to fish, wait until rest days and go to mature fishing grounds during the day. And staying up late at night isn’t good for your health either; let’s maintain a normal routine. Fishing during the day is also great.”

Zhan Yunkai: “Your mom is right.”

Zhan Jinli: …He really hadn’t night fished. He was a fish in his past life—why would he fish in this life?

Zhan Jinli started private messaging his sister.

Zhan Jinli: “You want that half piece of fish bait in my hands?”

“Gone.”

“I threw it in the water to feed fish.”

Zhan Suiru: “You used up that half piece of fish bait and didn’t catch a single fish?”

“[Sympathetic hug]”

Zhan Jinli: …

Zhan Suiru was somewhat relieved. Regardless of whether her brother used up or threw away that fish bait, anyway, it was consumed and no fish caught, so the suspicious item was resolved.

Seeing her brother hadn’t replied for a long time, he was probably upset. Zhan Suiru decided to send the fish bait she made to her brother. Already made it anyway. The fish bait she made was definitely more effective than ordinary fish bait.

Zhan Jinli had no way with his sister and decided to ignore this irritating sister for now.

He started tracing down the clues from the drunken fish grass and traced to a place called Zifeng Valley.

The more he traced, the more Zhan Jinli felt Infinite was deliberately targeting him.

Zhan Jinli was very puzzled. He felt he wasn’t that conspicuous twenty-six years ago. Among humans, the Tianshi, Ning Xi and other cultivators; among the demon race, several great demons known for combat power—which one didn’t cause more damage to Infinite than him?

Zhan Jinli believed his abilities weren’t inclined toward combat; he could only be considered support. It was strange that Infinite kept thinking about him even in a state of dying embers waiting to be rekindled.

Gu Jiancheng was tracing up from the clues of the Soul-Intoxicating Fragrance.

Yanyan returned to school. He was too lazy to continue clearing anomalies and planned to go straight to Zifeng Valley, the location Zhuo Xun interrogated, to investigate.

He used shadow clones to investigate in person while having the Magician use her various weird methods to investigate Infinite’s target for this experiment. The Magician used a hat that kept popping out rabbits to deduce the target.

The rabbits nibbled on vegetable leaves into the shape of a fish, along with other incomprehensible vegetable leaf scraps. The Magician read “Linyuan Ghost King” from those vegetable leaf scraps like a witch interpreting tea stems or coffee grounds.

Gu Jiancheng couldn’t understand her vegetable leaf scraps, but the Magician’s divination could be trusted.

But what relationship did Linyuan Ghost King have with fish?

Know-It-All said he knew—Linyuan Ghost King’s ghost body was a fish; before becoming a ghost, he was probably a fish.

After understanding the Magician’s divination results, Gu Jiancheng still had doubts. Why would Infinite target Linyuan Ghost King? Twenty-six years ago, he didn’t see Linyuan Ghost King have any outstanding performance.

Retired Alliance Leader Zhuo Xun had something to say: “Boss, you joined the battle later; you’re not very clear about the early situation.”

That was true. In the early stage of battle, Gu Jiancheng was trapped on Infinite’s Supreme Scale and had no energy to pay attention to these things.

He had seen Infinite capture small worlds many times and thought this was just another ordinary hunt. And he had seen enough of those struggles and resistances that always led to decline.

Until a great bird with double pupils and colorful feathers broke into Infinite instead. That earth-shattering cry scattered the signal between Infinite and players for issuing tasks and rewards.

Although after the cry disappeared, Infinite’s signal entangled back up, every sober player realized the difference.

In terrifying dungeons time and again, Infinite accumulated into heavy dark clouds. They looked at those clouds like walls. Unable to escape, unable to resist, could only struggle to survive in this nightmare world, waiting for terrifying death that would come at an unknown time.

The Chongming Bird’s cry was like sunlight tearing through dark clouds. Players already accustomed to despair suddenly discovered hope—turns out Infinite’s power wasn’t invincible.

Resist, struggle, escape this hell-like endless nightmare!

From that time on, Gu Jiancheng began to re-examine this world targeted by Infinite.

This world wasn’t the small worlds Infinite could easily capture in the past; it possessed rules Infinite craved.

Infinite wanted to devour this world to perfect itself. Gu Jiancheng sensed its greed.

He saw many impressive beings in the battle: the Candle Dragon coiled around the world, the Chongming Demon King who made that cry, the Tianshi who became thunder, Ning Xi who divined fate into the situation…

Gu Jiancheng saw them, so he pulled Infinite to the gambling table.

But he had no impression of Linyuan Ghost King. Did this guy do something that impressed Infinite?

Zhuo Xun introduced the early battle situation to him.

Infinite was a world deeply versed in human nature and conspiracies. Compared to strong attacks, it preferred using ingenious means. Worlds targeted by it often realized the enemy when it was too late. Before invading this world, Infinite did the same.

Infinite had a special task type called “Harvest” tasks. Task difficulty varied, acceptance requirements were relatively high, but task rewards were also rich.

Players who accepted harvest tasks needed to enter strange worlds and perform a series of tasks including disguise, intelligence gathering, setting traps, etc.

This time, Infinite conducted the same process.

“The harvesters who entered this world were discovered in less than a month.” Zhuo Xun got excited as he spoke, slapping his thigh at Deep Shadow. “Guess what happened?”

Gu Jiancheng looked at him coldly.

Zhuo Xun: …Right, Boss Deep Shadow won’t give him a response.

Continue talking himself.

“At the beginning, he filmed a short drama to earn some wages. That short drama got lucky and went viral; he suddenly became famous. After becoming famous, he started having fans. One fan learned some divination and such, so started divining her idol. The result said this person was already dead.

“This fan took the result to ask her master.

“Her master was Ning Xi.”

Gu Jiancheng: …What luck.

Zhuo Xun: “Ning Xi hadn’t been crippled yet then. Relying on the Great Evolution Numbers, she dug out all the harvesters Infinite scattered in at once. Infinite had no way then; could only directly confront this world. Otherwise, according to its habit, for this kind of great world on par with it, it would definitely play through all the underhanded tactics before fighting.”

Gu Jiancheng: “Being discovered doesn’t prevent it from playing underhanded.”

Zhuo Xun: “Exactly! After being discovered, it didn’t directly attack strongly either. The two worlds hadn’t connected their soil yet then. Infinite started provoking internal conflicts in this world; it was skilled at this.

“Once it instigated a cultivator to destroy demon eggs, wanting to provoke conflict between cultivators and demons. That cultivator almost miraculously completed the hardest step—sneaking into the demon egg-incubating nest without being discovered.

“But the demon watching the eggs felt bored and was watching silly videos on their phone. That cultivator couldn’t help but laugh out loud and was discovered.”

Gu Jiancheng: ???

Zhuo Xun: “There were way too many such incidents. Later when the fighting just started, it was the same—always going very smoothly at first, but when about to succeed, something bizarre would stick a pole across. Infinite had a belly full of conspiracies; in the end, it was forcibly dragged into a direct confrontation.

“Later discovered it was Linyuan Ghost King’s doing. This guy has a divine ability called ‘Fortune and Misfortune Interdependent.’

“Linyuan Ghost King lives in Chaofu Mountain at the yin-yang boundary of this world. His divine ability’s characteristics had already permeated this world’s barrier. Infinite suffered quite a bit at the beginning when it didn’t know.”

Gu Jiancheng: “But this degree isn’t enough to make Infinite obsessed.”

Fortune was a relatively rare ability, but Infinite didn’t lack it. Moreover, this kind of ability had very strong limitations. The two worlds had different rules; Linyuan Ghost King’s fortune divine ability couldn’t possibly affect Infinite. Those unlucky harvesters before, or the instigated cultivators—they would be affected by Linyuan Ghost King’s divine ability because they themselves existed within this world.

“Hai.” Zhuo Xun sighed. “Later, Ning Xi somehow performed some technique connecting the destinies of the two worlds together. The connection points weren’t many, but enough for Linyuan Ghost King to perform.

“After that, Infinite discovered Linyuan Ghost King had hidden something big.

“Fortune and misfortune interdependent—who said the interdependent ‘fortune’ and ‘misfortune’ must be on the same person?”

Gu Jiancheng understood.

Zhuo Xun was very excited: “Infinite had terrible luck during that period. Later felt something was wrong and investigated hard for a long time before discovering Linyuan Ghost King used that divine ability to let this world gain fortune, and all the misfortune that should follow transferred to Infinite.”

This ability… Gu Jiancheng gasped inwardly. No wonder Infinite was dead embers but still thinking about Linyuan Ghost King.

He wasn’t afraid of fighting with combat types, but luck—this invisible, intangible ability—was truly disgusting.

Better stay away from Linyuan Ghost King in the future.

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