Translator: Cucumber Strips Editor: Jacky

  Han was very surprised at how focused 9527 was towards the Military God Badge, so he asked in curiosity, “What does this thing really do?”

  9527 clearly went through a complex psychological struggle. He lightly sighed, returned it back to Han, then said in a deep voice, “With this, Military God Kabri will unconditionally help you once. Even the Military God sees you as someone important, you tell me if it’s awesome or not.”

  Han shrugged his shoulders, “It’s of course a good thing that someone can help. The dark net and All Gods Corporation is way too miraculous. I have been really confused, just what kind of existence is it exactly?”

  9527 slightly smiled and said, “It’s normal that you are confused. In simple terms, the dark net is divided into multiple layers. The first layer is dubbed the Virtual layer, and that’s the first level of dark net you came into contact before. Didn’t you do some small business on the first level dark net and meet some people?”

  “But those were all the functions offered at the first level of dark net, a hidden web over the internet. About only one of a hundred million people in the universe can be exposed to it.”

  “Now you are at the second layer of the dark network, where there’s no virtual reality anymore and everything’s real. The virtual pods used in the first layer of the dark net, are now particle modules here, which you can take to travel to every real dimension in the dark net, and trade, study, train, and etc.”

  “What about the third layer of the dark net?” Han hurriedly asked.

  “The third layer?” 9527 shrugged and said, “How would I know? Besides, right now you haven’t even officially joined the second layer yet, isn’t it a bit too early to dream about the third layer?”

  “We will talk again after you get the Star Lord title. By then, you will be able to freely navigate in the dark net and trade. All in all, the dark net gathers all the most talented and powerful individuals in the universe, and the higher the level, the stronger the people gathered at that level and the more abundant the resources available for that level.”

  “Anyways, now you got the qualification to enter the Destination Station, it’s basically a small world there. Why not go there but come to my place?”

  Han replied as if it’s natural, “Of course I will go there, but now it’s training time.”

  9527 frowned, “You just got off the border battlefield, no need to rest? You want to train again?”

  Han nodded, “It’s because I just got off the battlefield, I must enter training immediately. I noticed some deficiencies during the battle so I want to improve it as soon as possible. With these things in my mind, I won’t even be able to have a good sleep.”

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  9527 couldn’t help but marvel at Han’s character. At this moment, the vast majority probably already went back to eat and sleep, but Han didn’t mind the fatigue from battle and wants to immediately correct the flaws he noticed in battle.

  Such spirit might be the main driving force that supported Han to today.

  Three days later, Han finally walked out of the training room.

  Perhaps it’s in recognition of Han’s performance on the border battlefield, Han surprisingly found that there was one million extra points in his account.

  After 3 consecutive days of mad training, Han only spent 70,000 points. Plus, the remaining from before, Han now had as many as 983 thousand points.

  He found 9527, smiled and said, “I thought about it, and I feel that it’s time for me to change my battle suit, give me some advice please.”

  The combat suit currently in use by Han was called Oval Matrix, and it was a quasi-warlord level battle suit, equipped with a very special low friction defense ability.

  Under normal conditions, it was right that a quasi-warlord level soldiers should use a battle suit at their level.

  But that’s not what Han thought. He believes that, if one wants to do something, he must sharpen his tools. Now that Han’s primary weapon is already the magical triple-edged Star-Strangling Boa, he hopes that he could also have a set of battle suit that’s high enough in level. After all, the battle suit is responsible for defense, it’s used to protect life so it’s very important.

  9527 thought for a second, then laughed, “I actually think, you don’t really need to change battle suit. Do you know, what’s the best kind of equipment in the world?”

  Han replied, “High level ones?”

  9527 shook his head and said, “Wrong. Equipment is different from technology. If you want the blueprint of a transition jump engine, then you certainly should select the highest level one, but as for your personal equipment, I suggest you go to Destination Station and find an armorer to tailor-make one, let them specifically make one based on your characteristics, forging a set that most suits you. As for the public version equipment, here at my place, I think you should pass, anyway I didn’t think any set of combat suit here is particularly suitable for you.

  Han felt that 9527’s words make some sense, so he started carefully considering it.

  Han actually does know a few friends that are armorers and blacksmiths, and they are all on the Path of All Gods. But with their level, Han’s afraid that they may still be a little lacking to tailor-make equipment for him. Maybe he will need to need to go to the destination station to ask for more powerful black smiths to help.

  9527 took Han to a room that exchanges equipment, pointed at a belt composed of metal rings and said, “We will pass on the combat suit, but this thing will be pretty useful for you. This is called Energy Coating, which in simple terms, is the individual version of Energy Shield.”

  “This is the same principle behind the energy shield used by battleships, but it will create a personal protection field based on your body size. The energy shield has flexibility, and plus your Oval Matrix combat suit, you basically have double defense.”

  “But Energy Coating isn’t expensive, only 40,000 points.”

  Han nodded, listened to 9527’s advice.

  Tying the belt around his waist, the energy coating automatically adjusted to just the right size.

  If someday Han ate too many meat buns and gets a bulging stomach, the energy coating will automatically adjust to the size so it’s very user-friendly.

  By the way, Han finally got rid of the painful life of eating energy sticks and bars. The military base cafeteria on Earth especially made a large amount of meat buns and vacuum packed them. They can be stored up to 30 years without going bad, and they were all stored in Han’s Lunar Mark, just needing to be warmed up when Han wants to eat.

  In addition, there’s also jars of chocolate powder, and with a clean water collector collecting and boiling water, Han could get a fragrant hot chocolate drink whenever he wants.

  With meat buns and hot chocolate, Han felt that life was really satisfying.

  Han took off the Energy Coating belt and carefully studied it, and he noticed that this belt was really not simple. Micro-controllable nuclear fusion device, energy generating device, energy control unit, intelligent distribution chip, flexible metal. Such a small belt, it was completely a high tech product.

  “What’s the defense effect on this thing?” Han asked in curiosity.

  “Five stars.” 9527 answered.

  Han suddenly hesitated, such a small belt actually had a rating of five stars for its defense level? This was too miraculous!

  With the same level of defense, the Oval Matrix still felt a little tight, and this Energy Coating feels like air, with no hindrance and no weight!

  “Oh my god, that means, battle suits under five star level, people don’t actually have to buy it, you can just give everyone an energy coating belt each?” Han’s eyes became wide open and he asked, “Does this thing have a blueprint? How many points do I need for the exchange?”

  9527 laughed and said, “You are smart enough. In fact, Energy Coating is developed to replace the traditional battle suit. Although this one is a beginner level product, but for your army, it is a treasure. Does your Earth Army currently have armorers?”

  Han shook his head, “No, our equipment is all outsourced expensively.”

  9527 continued, “I thought so too, but with the blueprint for Energy Coating, you can mass produce this kind of formless battle suit, cutting out the need to hire or cultivate a forging division.”

  Han said proudly, “You only guessed right half of it. Besides Earth Army, I still have a Robot Legion which can use this too! Preparing battle suit for the robots of complex structure is something I didn’t dare to even dream of before!”

  “Hurry and tell me, the blueprint for Energy Coating, how many points does it cost?”


  Destination Station

  9527 gave Han a number. Good things were all not cheap, the price of the Energy Coating blueprint was 20 million points, probably one of the more expensive equipment type blueprints.

  Han helplessly shrugged his shoulder, it’s still a long way before he can afford this level of blueprint, and it looks like he still has to work harder to get more points.

  9527 tried to comfort Han, “You don’t have to be discouraged. In any profession, it’s always the hardest to make money during the initial stage. Right now, you are at best regarded as a disciple of the dark net, and when your level becomes an official dark net member and can accept some missions, you will be earning points a lot faster than now.”

  “How can I not be anxious? Doesn’t matter how strong the dark net is, it won’t care about what’s happening in the reality universe. The Milky Way will officially face powerful enemy invasions in 3 years, and judging by the strength comparison right now, we have no hope of winning.”

  9527 didn’t say anything but continued to encourage Han to go further on the Path of All Gods. When Sansheng brought Han and the others to the second layer of dark net, he also said the same thing. Those humans that had been dwelling in the dark net for a long time all hoped to be able to find a solution here.

  But now in Han’s eyes, no matter how strong he is in the dark net, it’s still being strong as an individual.

  Even if one day, Sansheng can reach an unprecedented height and become a peerless master, even then, when faced with the god race’s giant fleet, Sansheng probably wouldn’t be able to do anything.

  Now things have gotten to this step, Han has no choice but to proceed step by step, and see how things progress.

  Han bid farewell with 9527, then got into the particle module and headed towards the Terminal (Destination) Station for the first time.

  Since Han has never been here, he didn’t know what to expect, so when he got out of the particle module and stood up, he was immediately shocked by the scene in front of his eyes.

  Path of All Gods, 9 deaths 1 survive.

  One must pass all 9 communication stations in order to enter the Terminal Station.

  It’s way too different from the ghetto communication stations, the Terminal Station was a giant city built in the middle of a sea!

  The circular city’s diameter extended over 10,000 kilometers, countless roads, rivers, neatly separated the city into different sectors. Countless people lived here, and the businesses were highly prosperous.

  And what does the communication station looks like? That’s just a piece of desolate place with a black stone, and people on the Path of All Gods would accept missions from the stone.

  Han walked around in the Terminal Station in surprise. He noticed, the biggest feature of this mega city was that there are a lot of elderly and aliens, even blue-blooded people like Boya, Han saw several in a row, it’s just that they are some old people taking a slow leisure walk in the city.

  “Han Lang! Han Lang!”

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  Han just left the landing area and heard someone using a loud voice to call his name. After a closer look, it’s actually Hei Xiaolin.

  Hei Xiaolin was the Black Iron Tower from before. Before stepping into Path of All Gods, he and Lance were all following Han, and they became pretty close. Han didn’t know that he already passed all the tests and arrived at the Terminal Station too.

  It’s obviously a big black muscular man, but his name is Xiao Lin (TL: direct translation – Little Forest), so Han always thought that his name was pretty strange.

  Hei Xiaolin grabbed Han’s hand and began chatting right away. They found a coffee shop on the roadside run by an old couple. They all looked very kind, but the calluses on their hand and the protrusion on the temple that’s caused by perennial training proved that they were both very good soldiers when they were young.

  “What is really the situation here?” Han asked in curiosity

  Hei Xiaolin arrived a few days earlier than Han so he got more information. He explained, “The area that we and the god race resides in is called a small sector, but the Terminal Station is normal sector sized, so after soldiers from many small sectors pass the 9 stations, they all have to gather at this Terminal Station. That’s why there are a lot of people here.”

  “Because one needs to get the Star Lord title in order to leave here, and the majority of people cannot get the title in their entire life, that’s why they have no choice but to dwell here for the long term. That’s also why you can see so many old people here.“

  “You know too, the higher the level of espers, the longer they can live. For quasi-warlords like us, if there’s no accident, living a few thousand years is no problem. Warlord espers are even stronger, I heard that they can live eternally. More and more people stayed here, and people don’t die, so the Terminal Station’s scale became bigger and bigger.”

  Han nodded, there were many people every year entering the Terminal Station waiting to get the Star Lord’s little, and that way they can start the second part of the Path of All Gods journey.

  But many people come in every year, but only a few can leave, and that caused the scale of the city to get bigger and bigger, ultimately becoming such a big world now.

  Han asked Hei Xiaolin, “Besides you, who else is at the Terminal Station?”

  Hei Xiaolin began counting his fingers, “Many. Lance came earlier than me, and that little chick that had a crush on you, Hua Manxue, she was one of the people that helped Sansheng test us, she came here even later than me.”

  “How about Sansheng?”

  Hei Xiaolin shook his head and said, “He’s not here, I think he probably already made it to the third layer of dark net, it’s really not simple.”

  “Not simple?” Han asked in curiosity, “What do you mean by not simple?”

  “This damn Path of All Gods is completely unreasonable! I thought it’s the same here at the Terminal Station as before, you just need to complete the mission, and you can get the Star Lord’s title and enter the third level of dark net.”

  “Then guess what?”

  “What?” Han frowned as he suddenly had a bad feeling.

  Hei Xiaolin slammed the desk, “It turns out that there’s no rule at all as to how to get the Star Lord title and enter the third layer!”

  “No rule?” Han wondered, “It can’t be? Just a few days ago I was sent to a trial for breaking the dark net’s rules, and now there’s no rules here? Do they have personality disorders or something?”

  “I know right!” Hei Xiaolin and Han began complaining together.

  At this moment, the elder that runs this coffee shop came over to send the coffee and snacks, heard Han and Hei Xiaolin both complaining, so he smiled and said, “Young man, there’s something you don’t understand. Having rules and no rules actually aren’t mutually exclusive.”

  Hei Xiaolin just glanced at the old guy, but Han humbly invited him to sit down and asked, “Elder, we are young and don’t understand. Can you can explain to us a little?”

  The old man said peacefully, “In fact, this is how Path of All Gods works, there’s no rules to promotion, but everything else has rules.”

  “Simply put, you came to the Terminal Station, you can’t kill people here, that’s a rule. But you want to acquire the Star Lord title from the Terminal Station, that has no rules. Do you understand?”

  Hei Xiaolin desperately shook his head, Han’s mind is a bit sharper, he suddenly hesitated and said, “You are saying, there are actually rules, but about how to reach Star Lord Level, it all depends on the Gods’ mood?”

  The elder waved his hand and said, “That’s not it too. There is indeed no rules about how to get the title, but there are certain patterns. For instance, if you can do something to a high enough level, then it’s possible for you to be promoted to Star Lord. What profession are you?”

  “Beast Trainer.” Han replied.

  The elder said, “Beast trainer, if you can create the top tier genetic beast, or achieve some break through in some genetic beast technology, then it’s possible for you to acquire the Star Lord Title. I’m old now, can’t go onto the battlefield anymore, and now I just brew coffee. If I can brew the most fragrant coffee, I also have a chance to acquire the title.”

  “Also, in the mission hall, if you accidently receive a special mission from the lottery and complete it successfully, you will also have a chance to get the title.”

  “So, the promotion rule on Path of All Gods is not that the excellent candidates get promoted, but the best ones. As long as you perform your profession to the extreme, you will have the opportunity to see the legendary third level dark net.”

  “The dark net is indeed a magical place, even though I’m old like this, I still don’t want to give up. Even by relying on the skill of brewing coffee, I still want to take a look at the deeper layer of dark net.

  After hearing the words that came from the old man’s heart, Han and Hei Xiaolin benefited a lot.

  Han asked in curiosity, “Doing things to the extreme, does that work for everything?”

  “Yes, everything. Even if you lack talent, didn’t master martial art, but you are more brave than anyone, then you can possibly be promoted. Even if you use underhanded means in fights, if those means are astounding and peerless, you will also have the opportunity to continue your journey on Path of All Gods. Do you know what the city square at the centre of the Terminal Station is called?”

  “Extremity Square?” Lin Xiaohei quickly answered.

  “Yep!” The Old Man got up, carried his silver tea tray and began walking back to the counter, “The old saying goes, opposite effect may occur when things are carried to extremes, but here, extremity leads to success!”

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  Five Star Level Genetic Beast

  Han and Hei Xiaolin paid their bill separately with their points, and then got up and went to the Terminal Station to find a place to live.

  The Terminal Station was extremely big, but people couldn’t just casually use their particle modules. There were dozens of landing zones outside of the city, but people could only use particle modules in those areas.

  From the outskirts of the city’s landing zone to the Extremity Square at the city center, the distance was over thousands of kilometers, it was way too far. Even with the most rapid rail transit, it will take about half an hour of time, and that excluded the time spent on other miscellaneous things like waiting for transit and stuff.

  So, the people that came to the Terminal Station would all rent a room, and those that were lazy would just live in a hotel.

  “Mother of god, now even I’m a bit dizzy. Life in the real world and the dark net is confusing me, it’s really a pain in the ass to travel between two worlds.” When taking the highspeed rail transit, Hei Xiaolin complained to Han.

  Han nodded. He also had similar feelings. In the past, the real world was real world, and the dark net was the virtual world. But now, the real world was real, and the dark net world was also real. It was inevitable that people felt chaotic about this.

  Han very easily rented a one bedroom small room in a traffic-convenient area. The cost wasn’t much, about 600 points per month.

  At this time, Hei Xiaolin also bid farewell with Han. He obtained an explorer mission at the mission center, and would need to depart in a few hours.

  At the Terminal Station, everyone needed to find their way to get promoted to Star Lord, and the All Gods Corporation wouldn’t give anyone hints. Hei Xiaolin felt that if he tried his hardest to complete every mission, he will eventually be promoted to the third layer of dark net

  After Hei Xiaolin left, Han wandered around alone in the city. In the Terminal Station, people were using a transit tool called the Suspension Wheel. This thing was very small, just like a pair of magnetic skate boots. After wearing it, one will float about five centimeters above the ground, and rely on magnetic force to move back and forth. Its maximum speed could go up to 180 kilometers per hour.

  The Suspension wheels was a short distance transport method but for longer distances, people relied on unmanned Land Speeders and also the underground high-speed railway.

  Unmanned Land Speeders were also very interesting. Such suspension vehicle traveled nonstop on the street and stopped immediately when one waved. There were no drivers. The passengers just told the artificial intelligence system about the place they wanted to go, and it will activate, calculate the most efficient route and send the passenger to the destination in the shortest time and charge some points as compensation.

  “Is this reality or virtual reality?” Han thought about this serious question as he walked.

  Unknowingly Han came to the auction center that was located at the center of the city. It was a giant building that was shaped like flower pedals formed by many water drops.

  Han thought for a second, and then walked towards the auction center. In any case, Han would still need points to buy the energy coating blueprint, so he was going to see if there was anything he could sell.

  The auction center was very huge. Just counting entrances alone, there were 12. Han entered one of the entrances, with the help of the sign Han easily came to the room that accepted auction items.

  It was a young girl that greeted Han. She wore a pony tail, and welcomed Han with a very professional smile.

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  “Hello sir, my name is Du Yunli, what can I help you with?” Miss Du asked with a smile.

  Han was a bit surprised because he couldn’t feel any energy fluctuations in her body. How did she come to the Terminal Station?

  Du Yunli, as if knowing what Han was thinking about, explained, “My parents gave birth to me at the Terminal Station, but unfortunately, I don’t have source energy nor have any skills. But, in accordance with the dark net’s rule, since I was born in the Terminal Station, I’m one of the dark net’s community.”

  “There are many people like me, and we all work for the dark net.”

  Han smiled a little embarrassingly and said, “Miss Du, I don’t have any intention of discriminating you. It’s just that I just arrived at the Terminal Station, and I noticed that even the old people here have surprising levels, so I thought the people that lived here in the Terminal Station were either fighters or other professionals.”

  Miss Du said, “It’s alright, I’ve encountered this kind of situation many times now. Let me first tell you about the rules at the auction center. You can auction any item you think is valuable. The dark net corporation will take 10% of the revenue. As for whether your item will be auctioned at the important high-level auction or the general public auction, and how much the starting price is, these are up to us to decide.”

  Han heard the rules, and thought, the dark net auction was quite overbearing. In simple terms, their rule is, you just send over the things you want to auction, and everything else was up to them.

  But there’s no other way, there was only one auction center in the Terminal Station. Han pouted and let out the Fusion Beast #1 from his dimension storage.

  When this dumb thing appeared, Du Yuli was shocked immediately, but calmed down quickly and started registering it on the system.

  “You want to auction a genetic beast?”

  “Yes.” Han honestly replied, “If possible, I want to auction a few more because I really need points right now.”

  “No problem, we will do it one by one. The name of this genetic beast?”

  “#1”

  “#1 is just a number.” Du Yunli asked in surprise, “I’ve worked here for four years now, your genetic beast looks very mighty, does it really have such a simple name>”

  Han frowned, “It’s too troublesome to name it, just call him #1.”

  “Then what kind of level is #1 approximately at?”

  “Not clear, but should be not bad.”

  “Not bad? Could it be that you have never used your genetic beast #1?”

  “I did use it once, but not really useful.” Han said.

  As for the fusion genetic beasts’ disloyalty, Han always remembered it. It was Han’s most disliked character trait. Although now, the loyalty problem of fusion beasts had been solved through the puppet technique, Han still didn’t like it.

  Han liked those that were born loyal like the Demon Claw. As for those genetic beast puppets that were made loyal, it still made Han uneasy.

  So although Han knew that his fusion beasts were powerful, he still had no emotions towards them. That’s why when he realized that he needed money, he decided to sell them in exchange for points.

  After Du Yunli registered #1, she let Han send #1 into a special room with many probes installed.

  Du Yunli explained, “This is a machine we use to assess the level of the genetic beast. Our evaluation for genetic beasts is the same as for soldiers, also expressed in terms of stars.”

  Han nodded, didn’t say anything and just gestured #1 to quietly lie in the room.

  Shua~

  The probes activated, and scanning rays undetectable by the naked eye were projected out from the surrounding probes onto the body of #1, thoroughly analyzing every cell.

  It was just a few seconds and the assessment was completed. Some numbers and texts appeared on the screen.

  As for #1’s assessment, it was rated thus:

  Combat Strength Overall Index, 730 thousand.

  Compatibility Index, 95%.

  Evaluation, Pinnacle Five Star.

  Han didn’t feel that it was a big deal, but Du Yunli said excitingly, “Pinnacle Five Star genetic beast? Is this your work?”

  “I guess so.” Han said a bit reluctantly. He really didn’t want to admit that he created #1, because this fusion beast had to be forced to be loyal, and Han felt that it was an embarrassment to his skill.

  Du Yunli looked at Han with admiration, “So skilled, at such a young age you are already a genetic beast master. Our evaluation for genetic beasts is the same as for espers.”

  “Your #1 genetic beast has pinnacle 5 star level, and that means, he can go head on against a pinnacle 5 star esper, so it’s a very powerful genetic beast!”

  “And what’s more important is this #1’s compatibility index, it actually reached 95%! This is almost perfect compatibility!”

  “I can promise you, your #1 genetic beast will sell for a big price at our auction center!”

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