Chapter 1562: 1562

Chapter 1562: The Gilded Fiend

Painted Face was the first target that Lin Huang focused his attention on .

He had never seen this monster in the monster guide before . However, at first glance, the creature reminded him of ancient Chinese opera characters on Earth .

Apart from resembling a Chinese opera character with a painted face, the second impression Lin Huang had of this monster was that of a paper doll .

Although this monster appeared human, it looked more like the paper dolls on Earth which Chinese people customarily burned as offerings at the graves of their ancestors .

It had a pair of legs, just like a human . However, its feet never touched the ground; it perpetually hovered in the air .

Based on the information Lin Huang managed to dig up, Painted Face was one of three underlings who had followed the four-faced individual the longest . If one were to go by qualifications, It was definitely considered very senior in terms of experience .

However, due to its combat strength staying stagnant at beginner-level, it had slowly been removed from the four-faced individual’s core power circle and become an unimportant character .

It had previously wanted to work hard to strengthen its cultivation . However, due to its limited talent, it was unable to break through to fourth-rank heavenly god-level at all . As time went by, it gradually abandoned the struggle .

Lin Huang had chosen Painted Face as his target because, for one, it knew more about the four-faced individual’s past . It had witnessed the entire process of the four-faced individual’s emergence . For another, compared to the others in the core power circle, it was the easiest to target .

On that day, as per its usual custom, Painted Face arrived on the rooftop of a building .

All along, it had had a unique way of passing time, which was to hum songs while walking on the edge of all sorts of buildings, its arms thrown wide, and imagining it was walking on a tightrope .

From up close, however, one could see its feet were actually one to two centimeters off the ground, never actually touching the ground at all .

However, on this day, right when it had climbed to the rooftop and taken a few steps on the edge, it suddenly noticed a black silhouette blocking its path .

It was a man in a black robe, and the face under his black hood was covered by a black mask .

Painted Face had only just caught sight of the figure; before it could even take a good look at this person, two black gleams of light lit up under the hood .

Painted Face’s body froze on the spot immediately .

The man in the black robe was, of course, Lin Huang . He had waited a night and a day just to get the chance to make his move; at least he had managed to wait until Painted Face was completely alone .

Painted Face’s combat strength was merely that of a low-level Heavenly God . Among Heavenly Gods of the same combat strength, it was even considered one of the weaker ones . In the face of Lin Huang’s sequence power, it had absolutely no ability to resist at all .

The memory retrieval Lin Huang carried out went extraordinarily smoothly with no interference at all .

Within a short two minutes, Lin Huang had completely copied Painted Face’s memory .

“That went more smoothly than I anticipated…” Lin Huang shot a glance at Painted Face, who still had not entirely detached itself from the memory retrieval process . He extended a finger and tapped it between Painted Face’s brows .

Painted Face’s body immediately went limp, and Lin Huang’s telekinetic threads tossed it into the God Territory within Lin Huang’s body .

After scanning his surroundings with Divine Telekinesis and making sure he had left no traces behind, Lin Huang did not linger . Instead, he departed in a flash .

“The second target is… the Gilded Fiend…”

The Gilded Fiend was an Abyssal creature found in the monster guide .

Monsters of this kind were usually powerful combat cultivators who had been contaminated with Abyssal energy . After they had become Abyssal creatures and been baptized in the Abyssal blood spring, they would transform into such monsters .

They possessed a powerful physical body, with strength that could be compared to Star Titan in the ancient era .

This target that Lin Huang chose had the combat strength of an eighth-rank Heavenly God, but the strength of its physical body might even be at least that of a half-step Lord . Very few individuals below lord-level would be able to break through its defenses .

It was not that Lin Huang wanted to challenge himself by choosing a target like this . Instead, he had done so because although the Gilded Fiend had a near-invincible physical body, its spirit strength was generally low .

Legend said that the Abyssal blood spring was a tributary of the death spring, which also had the effect of eroding one’s God’s soul .

Practically anyone who transformed into a Gilded Fiend would have a damaged God’s soul .

Most Gilded Fiends were either unintelligent and stupid, or insane… Regardless, none of them were normal in their heads . Some would even lose their minds completely during the process of transformation and become perfect material for puppet refinement .

From Lin Huang’s point of view, it was no big issue if these monsters were mentally abnormal . As long as they stored information about what they had seen or heard in their minds, that was sufficient .

Furthermore, because of its low intelligence, the Gilded Fiend had always been the four-faced individual’s most trusted subordinate—the only one, in fact .

It had even been the four-faced individual’s bodyguard at a much earlier point in time . Of course, calling it a bodyguard was just sugar-coating things; in reality, it was merely a shield in human form .

It was only almost one thousand years ago when the four-faced individual’s overlord status had been fully secured and stabilized, that the Gilded Fiend’s status had been upgraded . The Gilded Fiend was always being given tasks that required violence .

One of the reasons why Lin Huang chose the Gilded Fiend as his target was that it had been in close proximity with the four-faced individual for a long time, and had heard and seen many of this individual’s secrets . Another reason was that it was always being given missions that required it to go into the outside world . This made it easier to catch it on its own .

In the black market, the Gilded Fiend’s whereabouts were also never a secret .

In reality, the fairly famous warlords under the command of the six overlords had always been the ones that all the major and minor organizations in the inner world paid attention to .

This was because their activities might lead to a change of circumstances in the entire inner world .

By closely observing these people, the organizations would be alerted ahead of time regarding even the slightest stir .

Lin Huang managed to purchase a log of the Gilded Fiend’s recent whereabouts without needing to put in much effort at all .

“It seems I’m pretty lucky…” Lin Huang raised his brows slightly after glancing through the information in the log .

According to the black market’s records, the Gilded Fiend just happened to leave the headquarters guarded by the four-faced person a day ago . It appeared to be out on some mission .

He glanced at the information provided by the black market, and realized that someone had discovered the Gilded Fiend’s coordinates over an hour ago, even taking a photo secretly…

Within less than an hour, Lin Huang arrived at the coordinates mentioned in the black market’s log .

This place was a crowded market with people of various sizes and forms coming and going .

On both sides of the streets were all sorts of stalls .

Lin Huang glanced around and noticed they were selling items that were above the level of god relics .

However, he did not have much of a heart look for bargains . Instead, he glanced around and began to search for traces of the Gilded Fiend .

There were cultivators above virtual god-level everywhere in this market . It was a bad idea for him to use his Divine Telekinesis, so he could only release Leech Pods along the way to help with the search .

Under Lin Huang’s control, the Leech Pods were not drifting around at random . Instead, they were attaching themselves to various items along the way .

After releasing thousands of Leech Pods, Lin Huang was wondering whether or not the Gilded Fiend might have already left when a Leech Pod suddenly sent an image through .

The image showed a dark-gold monster of tall stature . It stood within the crowd, head and shoulders above everyone else, and was looking around…

“Found you!” Lin Huang’s eyes lit up .

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