Otherworldly Affairs Office

Chapter 1133: Surging Undercurrents

"Don’t you want revenge anymore?" Nero looked at Ivan’s disheartened expression and frowned as he questioned."Revenge? Of course, I want it! I think about peeling Pei Yan’s skin, pulling his bones, and eating his flesh day and night, but what good does it do! Revenge! Ha ha ha, how? How do I avenge him?" Ivan raised his still intact arm in excitement, pointed up and down at the two wounds on his body that still occasionally oozed blood, and said self-deprecatingly, "Rely on this? Or rely on that! We both know I’m ruined, even the teacher abandoned me, didn’t he? Ever since we returned from the Daoist Realm, he only looked at me once and never came again."

"The teacher did not abandon you; he merely realized that your injuries, even for him, could not be healed and went to find another way. But you ended up like this because you didn’t trust the teacher and privately sought out too many healers, which resulted in negative effects of forced treatments. You fool, did you ever consider that if even a Master of Origin couldn’t heal your injuries, those healers could?"

In response to Nero’s mockery, Ivan said in anger and despair, "Then what can I do! No one comes to see me; it’s like I’ve been abandoned as trash. Do you want me to lie on this hospital bed enduring pain and waiting to die?"

"I said the teacher won’t abandon us! Even without the feelings between teacher and student, he wouldn’t waste the resources he’s invested in us in vain."

Nero’s words made Ivan’s eyes light up with excitement as he asked, "You’re saying the teacher found a way to heal these damned injuries?"

"No, although I don’t want to admit it, what Pei Yan said on the stage that day was not just empty words. Bodies destroyed by that strange power cannot regenerate regardless of the method."

"Then..."

"The body can’t grow, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other ways to replace it." As Nero spoke, he gently touched a ring, causing a wooden box to appear in his hand, which he then threw in front of Ivan.

Filled with excitement, Ivan couldn’t wait to open the box before him, and upon seeing its contents, he was first stunned and then understood Nero’s intention. He reached inside to take out a delicately crafted mechanical puppet arm, waved it in front of Nero, and asked, "You’re saying to use Mechanical Technique to attach it to our limbs?"

"Isn’t Pei Yan doing the same? If he can do it, there’s no reason we can’t." Nero nodded in response.

Ivan bowed his head, meticulously stroking the smooth mechanical arm, and murmured, "This is indeed a solution, but is it feasible?"

"It is! I’ve tried it. The attached mechanical puppet arm won’t be affected by that damned power. Once it’s connected to the body, after a brief period of adaptation and training, it can move freely. Custom mechanical prosthetics tailored for you and me are currently being manufactured. Although it can’t match Pei Yan’s advanced mechanical body, it’s considered top-tier across various planes."

"That’s good!" These days, Ivan heard a piece of good news from Nero. He placed the mechanical arm back inside the box, leaned against the headboard, and looked at Nero with a bitter smile. "This is good news for me, but it doesn’t change the reality we face." He raised his hand, pointed at the box on the bed, and continued, "No matter how exquisite the mechanical puppet is, it’s not our real body. Compared to Pei Yan’s ability to seamlessly integrate mechanical parts with his body, dragging our bodies like this against him is undoubtedly seeking death."

"Ah, you’re right!" Nero sighed, acknowledging Ivan’s words, then raised his head and looked at him with burning eyes and a determined voice, "But we cannot give up just like that. Pei Yan’s strength is indeed stronger than we anticipated, and he’s still growing. He will soon reach his limit, and without the infusion of Blood Slaughter Origin Power, he will never achieve Great Perfection. We still have a chance to catch up! Even if we can’t defeat him, the teacher will find a way to eliminate him. Pei Yan has now become the biggest obstacle to our plans; the teacher won’t let him continue to grow stronger."

"Alright, although I don’t believe you, I trust the teacher’s ability. The teacher’s plan is currently being presided over by that牧 fellow and shouldn’t involve us, so you must have come for something else, something you can’t do alone. Tell me! What do you need me to do?" Ivan asked, persuaded by Nero’s words.

"To achieve the plan of revenge, we must become stronger. The teacher will help us with this, and we must also strive for strength ourselves. That’s why I came to you, to prepare to go to the Spirit Monster Plane together."

"We’re going to the Spirit Monster Plane too? To deal with Pei Yan?" Ivan frowned upon hearing this.

"No, but the enemies we need to deal with there aren’t much weaker than him. So, besides you, we need to take Shitang Longsi and the prize from the Sword Discussion Conference, the newly nurtured two Children of Origin. A total of five of us will carry out the mission." As Nero spoke, he looked down at his still intact arm, his eyes filled with greedy desire.

"Do we need five Children of Origin to fight?" Ivan showed a shocked expression and asked in confusion, "Besides Pei Yan, who else requires such a lineup?"

"A Destruction Lord, and the current Dragon King!"

Unaware of the two defeated generals hiding somewhere in dark corners plotting against him, Pei Yan, after handling investigation team affairs, was in a fairly good mood. Once Lin Junzhao returned to his body, he embarked on a journey to the Spirit Monster Plane with the trash.

After passing through the space tunnel and arriving at the Spirit Monster Plane, he was immediately startled by the scene before him. Originally thinking it was just a private meeting with the Ancestral God to negotiate obtaining the Power of Origin, he didn’t expect the other party to welcome him with such a grand display.

A total of twenty-four giant dragons! Among them, twelve were Western mythological dragons Pei Yan had seen many times, currently circling in the sky and letting out continuous dragon roars. What excited Pei Yan even more were the figures of the other twelve dragons, which were the forms of Divine Dragons from Huaxia legends, now appearing amidst the clouds scattering auspicious rays.

Although Pei Yan had often used dragon-form techniques and had been struck by a Divine Dragon formed by lightning tribulation, this was the first time he saw a living, breathing Divine Dragon. The cultural gene ingrained in his bones made Pei Yan extremely excited, and in his emotional state, he danced towards the Divine Dragons in the sky.

"Wow, when you came, Ancestral God said you might be very pleased seeing this scene, but I didn’t expect you to be this thrilled!"