Inside a small wooden cabin at the center of the swamp.
The information Zhang Chen had requested was delivered to Xing Shi by a member of the Second Prince's Dark Department at night.
"You want me to join this bunch of trash and investigate Azathoth's fundamental problem? Still, Zhang Chen has quite some nerve. He actually took the initiative to have Kou Jia send this information to me. Does he think that now that Azathoth is invading Lingjian, I've become an ally on the same front as him?"
Xing Shi sat within an extremely deep layer of spatial turbulence, his body utterly unaffected by the impact of the currents. He was as calm and at ease as though he were sitting inside a comfortable home. Moreover, the current Xing Shi was completely different from before. Perhaps no one in Lingjian could now assess the true extent of his strength.
Many unprecedented changes had occurred to Xing Shi. First, his physical body had fused with the divine artifact, the Ring of Devouring Kings. Such a fusion was unique; only Xing Shi had merged a divine artifact compatible with his own abilities into his body during the special circumstances when his bottleneck had opened while fighting Zhang Chen.
Second, the fusion of Xing Shi's own treasure with Kou Ran's treasure—two treasures of the same attribute—was also something that had almost never happened before. The current Black Tongue Sword had divided into six long black tongues wrapped around Xing Shi's right arm. When the two treasures had first fused during his battle with Zhang Chen, Xing Shi had not yet been accustomed to using it. Furthermore, part of the Black Tongue Sword belonged to Kou Ran, and it had still held a certain degree of rejection toward Xing Shi.
Now, the fusion of