The Warm-Up Battle
Gu Ding was visibly taken aback when he heard Elizabeth's words. He looked up at Elizabeth with surprise, not expecting to be recognized like this.
He slightly turned his gaze away, but the four bodyguards sitting at the next table did not react at all, seemingly unaware of Elizabeth's question.
"She's using telepathy, so no one else can hear her," the Sea Emperor whispered to Gu Ding. "I'll teach you a kind of telepathic communication now; it should be easy for you to learn."
As the Sea Emperor spoke, he directly transmitted his voice into Gu Ding's mind.
Gu Ding only glanced at it before roughly understanding the working principle of this telepathic communication: it involves directly inputting one's thoughts into one's mental energy as information, and then transmitting that mental energy. He tried it once and succeeded immediately. "How did you guess that?"
"It's very simple. I'm also a pharmacist. Outsiders might not pay much attention to the videos of you concocting potions in Medicine King Valley, but I watched them in their entirety. Although your concoction technique today is much more refined than before, there are three techniques you used in the videos that I've never seen anyone else use. Most importantly, your potion-making style is very distinct; you prefer to use the simplest and most direct methods. There isn't a single unnecessary movement during the entire process, and even the amplitude of each movement is precisely calculated. This is something that no other pharmacist can imitate. Even I occasionally make some unconscious little movements when concocting potions. These bad habits developed early on are not so easy to correct." Elizabeth was clearly very familiar with Gu Ding's potion-making style.
Elizabeth paused, then asked, "You've clearly come for me this time. As Interstellar Pirate, you couldn't have come to the Royal Capital Star Region just for sightseeing. Tell me, what is your purpose?"
"We encountered some trouble recently, which resulted in Bigge seriously injured, leaving behind divine essence with a divine mark within his body." Gu Ding had no choice but to tell the truth.
Elizabeth then understood why Gu Ding had risked coming to find her. She also found it strange, "You were attacked by a god? There aren't many gods in the Fei Me Universe Country right now, so why would someone attack you?"
"It's Boti. In her Exclusive Domain, there's a god-level corpse puppet. Bigge was injured by it." Gu Ding reluctantly revealed this little-known fact.
"A god-level corpse puppet?!" This news surprised Elizabeth as well. "You guys are really capable. You managed to escape in this situation and even killed Boti."
Elizabeth had already noticed that Boti's name had disappeared from the Demigod Prodigy Ranking in the Universe Sea. Elizabeth also knew that Boti was incredibly powerful; her original seventh-place Ranking List was likely due to the absence of the god-level corpse puppet's influence. If that puppet were included, her ranking would certainly rise, at least to fourth. Yet, even such a powerful figure was killed by Gu Ding Team, leading Elizabeth to wonder if she had consistently underestimated Gu Ding Team Combat Strength.
"We were lucky." Gu Ding wasn't being modest. According to the Sea Emperor and the others, if it weren't for the mutation in his body, the entire team might have perished on Red Shield Star.
"You shouldn't have come to Forget-Worry Star, and you certainly shouldn't have contacted me." After saying this, Elizabeth paused for a moment, and then continued, "Few people know that the most dangerous planet in the entire Fei Me Universe Country is not Dragon Dock Star, but Forget-Worry Star."
"Why do you say that?" Gu Ding looked at Elizabeth with some confusion, not quite understanding what Elizabeth meant.
"Everyone thought that before I became a god, the Fei Me Universe Country only had one god guarding it. But in reality, besides me, the Fei Me Universe Country has three other gods. The strongest of them is already Five-Star Low-rank God, guarding Dragon Dock Star alone, while the other two gods reside permanently on Forget-Worry Star." Upon hearing Elizabeth's words, Gu Ding frowned deeply. He truly hadn't expected that the Fei Me Universe Country had hidden information about two gods from the outside world, a fact that even the Sea Emperor hadn't discovered. This time, their estimation of their opponent's Combat Strength was utterly wrong.
"And no matter how well you conceal it, your true identity will soon be known," Elizabeth continued. "On Forget-Worry Star, there is a deity with a special supernatural power called the Eye of Truth. This power has a wide range, encompassing the entire planet. Anyone whose eyes are fixed on by his Eye of Truth can read their thoughts. Although this ability has limitations on the intervals and uses, he hasn't used it on anyone for a long time. If I'm not mistaken, he probably noticed you the moment you got into my car, and there's a high probability he used that ability on you. However, his ability isn't instantaneous; instead, he first records the target's brainwaves, then slowly analyzes and reads them to obtain images and text. It will take some time to obtain useful information."
"I can't worry about any of that now. I really need your help. Bigge can't hold on much longer. He needs a god to expel the divine source from his body. And you are the only god I can trust. I really can't think of any other way. If there were any other way, I would never have chosen to come to the Royal Capital Star Region." Gu Ding looked intently at Elizabeth, waiting for her answer.
"I can help with this, but I can only heal Bigge. I can't do anything else. So, whether you can escape or not depends on you. Also, no matter where I go, these bodyguards will follow me... If I want to help you, they can't see me." Elizabeth said, looking in the direction where Qiao Di and the other three were.
"Aren't they your subordinates? You can let them do whatever they want, just don't follow you around for now."
"It's not that simple. These bodyguards are trained by Congress. Their orders from Congress are to protect me, and my orders are secondary. Before, even when I went to the bathroom, there were at least two people with me." In fact, Elizabeth was also tired of this feeling.
"In that case, I'll take care of these tails for you." Gu Ding said, standing up and walking towards Qiao Di and the other three. Only after dealing with the four could Elizabeth heal Bigge, and Gu Ding was indeed in a hurry. The longer it dragged on, the more likely his identity would be exposed, and the gods might even intervene.
"Don't kill them!" Elizabeth immediately shouted telepathically to Gu Ding, though she didn't know why she said it. She had watched Gu Ding's recent battle videos, and logically, Gu Ding's strength should be inferior to the four of them. But for some reason, she had a strange feeling that Gu Ding could win.
Seeing Gu Ding walking towards them, Qiao Di and his companions became slightly more wary. However, they didn't expect that in the next instant, they would find themselves in someone else's Exclusive Domain.
The four looked at the desolate area around them, wondering who had done it, when to their surprise, Gu Ding appeared not far in front of them.
"It's you?!" Qiao Di had never liked Gu Ding, and his intuition immediately told him that this young man's presence on this planet was related to Elizabeth, and that he definitely had designs on Elizabeth. "You're also a demigod, your concealment is quite impressive; so many of us didn't even notice. But you don't naively think that by pulling us into your domain first, you can take on four of us at once, do you?"
"I'm not a demigod, I just possessed my own domain ahead of time," Gu Ding said, activating all his Combat Strength- boosting abilities. His original base Combat Strength of 100 million was instantly increased to 5 billion with Combat Strength from his Golden Armament. Adding to this the tenfold boost from Level 1 Advanced Berserk, the double boost from Level 2 Advanced Attraction and Repulsion Force, the tenfold boost from One-Star Martial Dao Domain, and the tenfold boost from the First Level of the Myriad Manifestations Emperor Body, he was directly elevated to the Combat Strength One-Star Low-rank God. Meanwhile, his four opponents, within their Martial Dao Domain, had their Combat Strength reduced by 90%. Even without using damage-stacking abilities, this battle was a completely one-sided affair.
Qiao Di and the other three immediately sensed the immense power of Gu Ding's aura, which far surpassed their own. As guardians of the king, all four were peak demigods, but still lacked the Combat Strength of a one-star god. Moreover, they could clearly feel that their strength was being severely suppressed in this place.
"Who exactly are you? Attacking the King will bring you to the wrath of all the powerful figures in the entire Fei Me Universe Country!" Qiao Di said, his words threatening but ultimately weak. He knew his words would have no effect, because the other party, having already chosen to act, must know the consequences.
"I don't intend to lay a hand on her. I just want to ask her for a favor." Gu Ding stepped forward, his gaze cold and devoid of any emotion. "But you guys are in the way, so I'll have to trouble you to stay in my territory a little longer."
As soon as Gu Ding finished speaking, he made a sudden move, his figure appearing in front of Qiao Di in an instant like a ghost. He was two heads shorter Qiao Di, but Qiao Di looked as if he were facing a formidable enemy, throwing a punch with all his might, and the other three also surrounded him.
Gu Ding grinned, and his powerful Steel Fist met Jody's attack head-on. Although the Steel Fist no longer had its amplification effect, it was still much more effective than ordinary moves. The fierce punch collided violently with Qiao Di's fist, and Qiao Di's body was instantly sent flying backward.
Gu Ding twisted his body, using both elbows and a kick to send the remaining three flying.
However, these four were all peak demigods, and their bodies had long since completed the full energy transformation. They climbed up from the broken soil layer, and the parts that had been damaged by Gu Ding's attack began to recover rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye... (To be continued).