Chapter 316

Novice Task (Part 7)

Forge 30 Miraculous Items (34/30) (√)

Forge 5 One-star Artifact (7/5) (√)

Forge 1 Two-star Artifact (0/1)

Completed 20 Miracle Check-ins (17/20)

Job level increased to lv6 (5/6)

Good news: The Novice Task (seven) no longer has a reputation level requirement.

Bad news: Most tasks are stuck.

When Chen Li saw the requirements for the Novice Task, he was dumbfounded.

Forging Two-star Artifact...

Is this still Novice Task?

Of the five tasks, three were quite difficult to complete.

There are five tasks, and three of them are obstacles! Reputation—you're not one of them!

[Alright, Master, don't be so optimistic. Although you don't have a reputation level requirement now, you'll definitely have one in the next Novice Task. Then you'll be stuck on four levels.]

"... Do you think I'm not pessimistic enough?"

Even worse news: the next Novice Task also has a reputation level requirement.

Damn it!

Therefore, Chen Li should now think of ways to improve his professional level, and thus Chen Li needs to forge more Miraculous Items.

"That's wonderful! I want to slay magical creatures, and it would be best if you could forge a one-star magical artifact for me!" Fairy Tale stood up excitedly.

What was that saying again? I want to see rivers of blood!

"Once I have the artifact to slay the evil gods, I'll go back to my world and kill all the evil gods who bullied me before! I'll even kill those who didn't bully me! After all, what good people can evil gods be?" Fairy Tale waved her hands excitedly.

"Aren't you an evil god too?" Chen Li retorted.

"Don't disrupt my train of thought. Aren't I helping you earn Karma Coins and Starstones? Besides, how evil can a Tonghua Evil God like me be?"

"It's basically just modifying Tonghua a bit, scaring kids, keeping them up all night, making them feel like something's moving under their bed, in their closet, or in the bathroom, and making them dream about vampires, Snow White, werewolves, and Little Red Riding Hood, leaving them with some psychological trauma related to Tonghua," Tonghua waved his hand.

"That's terrible. Wait, you wouldn't do the same thing in this world, would you?"

"Yes, is there a problem?"

"... That's really despicable," Chen Li said from the bottom of his heart.

Why do you have to make something as beautiful as Tonghua so sinister?

What? You're an evil god? Never mind then.

[By the way, some Tonghua are actually horror stories.]

"What could I do? When I was first born, I couldn't bully adults, so I could only bully children. Besides, evil gods feed on fear." The Tonghua appeared very innocent.

"And then what happened? Didn't you become stronger?"

"Later it just became an addiction."

"You... never mind. None of the evil gods are any good!"

That's terrible!

"So when can you help me create a monster to slay monsters?"

"I'll do it as soon as possible."

"Wait, I just remembered something. You haven't helped me forge the Miraculous Item that anchors my humanity yet. You used the materials I gave you last time to forge Miraculous Item for your parents!" Tonghua suddenly remembered something.

When one evil god kills all the other evil gods, that evil god will become the world evil god!

This is a special setting of that world!

"But I remember you still have a shipwreck anchor. It should have Anchor Attribute entry on it. Just send that item over later."

"Okay. Oh, right, there's one more thing."

"Who's the father here, you or me?!" Chen Li shouted angrily.

Coach, this guy stole my line!

"One last thing... Do you need me to leave their bodies behind when I'm God Slayer, so you can Extract Attribute?"

Although Tonghua have never swallowed up other evil gods, haven't we all seen pigs run even if we haven't eaten pork?

When an evil god devours another evil god, it only absorbs the godhood; the physical body is unimportant.

"Hiss, that's acceptable. It would be even better if some of its divinity were retained."

If nothing unexpected happens, the divinity of the evil god will be absorbed by other evil gods, affecting only the original entry; the brightness of the subordinate entries will not decrease.

"Alright, then when I devour other evil gods later, I'll leave you half."

"Just leave a little bit."

"Hey, we're like family, I've watched you grow up... Give me a thousand or eight hundred Starstones later so I can increase the brightness of my Exclusive Profession's stats, and that'll make up for what I lost, right?"

"Okay." Chen Li nodded.

The difficulty of increasing the brightness of an entry increases exponentially.

The brighter the entry, the harder it is to increase its brightness; conversely, decreasing its brightness is equally difficult. (Except for violent destruction.)

If those evil gods still possess half of their divinity, the entry's brightness should be around 80% of its peak level, which would be usable.

Problems that can be solved with Starstones are not problems.

Anyway, the Interastral Peace Corporation will keep giving Chen Li gold coins.

"Chen Li, I saw a text message from Asta yesterday. It said that the Stellaron of the Herta Space Station has turned into Stellaron Baby?" The Little Herta, who had just sat down, suddenly asked Chen Li a question.

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"That sounds interesting..." Little Herta showed an interested expression.

"Speaking of which, the Simulated Universe project is basically complete. It's a good time to have that Stellaron Baby test the Simulated Universe," the Great Herta casually mentioned.

"Have you finished analyzing the data about the world? I thought the Simulated Universe project would be delayed again," Chen Li asked.

"No, we can't delay any longer. If we keep dragging it out, I might lose interest in the Simulated Universe project. Projects are all about trial and error, and continuous improvement." The Great Herta shook its head.

The Great Herta was afraid that he would lose control and have Chen Li forge a Miraculous Item that could turn him into Aeon. That would be so boring.

For Herta, the most important thing is not encountering problems, but not having problems.

The biggest problem is that there are no problems!

Even when there is no problem, they will create one!

What If life is a game, you can naturally activate the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow (cheating) when you are tormented and bruised by the game. But if you start cheating from the beginning, what is the point of playing this game?

"Chen Li, you can't take away my interest in solving problems," the Great Herta suddenly said.

"You mean unraveling the mystery of how to become Aeon?"

"That's right."

"What if I take it away?"

"Then I'll have to change my mind." The Great Herta looked directly into Chen Li's eyes, then his gaze gradually moved downwards.

"I promise I won't take away your interest in solving problems!" Chen Li surrendered with both hands raised.

"Hmph." Although the Great Herta was trying to remind Chen Li, it was still unhappy that Chen Li surrendered so quickly.

"Alright everyone, I'm going to have breakfast now," Chen Li said, standing up.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Didn't you just finish breakfast?"

"No, I'm going to freeload breakfast on the Astral Express."

"Oh, is there something wrong with the breakfast I made?" Cecilia asked with some concern.

"No, it's too good. Your cooking is too normal. I'm going to go eat something abnormal!" Chen Li shook his head.

"The train's breakfast should be pretty normal, right? Pom-Pom does have some abilities," said the Great Herta, who was quite familiar with the Astral Express.

"What if we add another cup of Himeko's coffee?"

"That would be quite bizarre."

Great Herta has always believed that his brewed coffee is a perfect match for high-intensity scientific research.

But to compare with Himeko would be like a small witch seeing a great wizard – Himeko's imagination in this matter is something even the Great Herta would admire!

Science has no boundaries, and neither does Himeko's coffee-making process.

The Great Herta always believed that Chen Li's aesthetic sense was normal, because the Great Herta itself was the limit of normal aesthetic sense. Chen Li was able to accept being used by him, which must be because he was also obsessed with his own beauty.

Chen Li must have some other reason for wanting to drink Himeko's coffee.

The Great Herta initially didn't care; after all, what Chen Li wanted to drink or eat was his own business. But...

"Oh, by the way, if you could, could you make me breakfast? I think your breakfast would go well with Great Herta 'Himeko coffee."

Upon hearing this, the Great Herta slowly raised his Magic Wand.

You mean my breakfast is only good enough to sit at the same table as Himeko's coffee?

Man, you've provoked my anger!

"Indeed, Great Herta is right, Himeko. Your imagination when it comes to brewing coffee is truly boundless, even geniuses would be ashamed of themselves." Looking at the coffee in front of him that seemed to devour everything and emitted a faint blue light, Chen Li did not hold back his praise after taking a sip.

Bizarre Recipe progress +1

Collect 5 progress points to synthesize a novel recipe and create a unique and delicious dish!

However, since the final product of the Bizarre Recipe is related to the strength of the exotic food at each of the five progress levels, Chen Li needs to carefully select the remaining two exotic foods...

"Thank you for the compliment, but Chen Li, your hair..."

"Oh, it was the Great Herta's doing, don't worry about it." Chen Li waved his hand.

"It's hard not to care..." Himeko hesitated, wanting to say something but stopping herself.

The train doors opened, and Xing walked from the passenger car to the Parlor Car.

But when Xing walked over and saw Chen Li, she couldn't help but rub her eyes.

Open your eyes wide and take another look.

That's weird.

Rub your eyes.

Take one more look.

It still feels so strange.

"What's wrong? Did you sleep uncomfortable?"

"No, the cardboard boxes on the Astral Express are actually quite comfortable to sleep in." Xing shook her head.

"..." Chen Li looked at Himeko.

"She insisted on sleeping in the cardboard box, and March 7th even offered to squeeze in with her. But she refused," Himeko explained.

"Where I live isn't the point, the point is Chen Li, what's up with your hair? It's so cool. Can you get me one too?" Xing looked at Chen Li's hair, which was shimmering and constantly changing, like countless tiny mirror fragments pieced together.

So cool!

Xing felt that Chen Li's hair was very similar to the "colorful hair" described in a novel she had found yesterday while "Trailblaze" her room on March 7th.

"This is the Herta's punishment," Chen Li sighed.

"I'm curious, what did you do to Ms. Herta?" Himeko, somewhat puzzled.

"I just told her I wanted Herta to make me breakfast so I could eat it with your coffee, and then she got angry." Chen Li shrugged.

"Why?"