Jiang Chen used the Immortal Jade Prototype to absorb all the Weird Objects' corpses. The immortal light upon it immediately grew incomparably brilliant and dense, and a strand of Immortal Qi slowly began to take shape.
But it was clear that it was still far from fully formed.
"The resources needed to condense a single strand of Immortal Qi are probably astronomical. Still, that's normal. I've heard there are almost no items that can improve a Great Power's strength. They can only rely on their own comprehension, while Immortal Qi is one of the few things guaranteed to increase power at that level..."
He murmured, a trace of longing appearing in his eyes. Then he looked toward the city ahead, gradually shrouded in night, and walked toward it.
Not long afterward, Jiang Chen's group met the Church of the Gods' contact at an underground strip lounge in the suburbs.
"Oh! My heavens, King Chen, you came in person! Wonderful! Gods above, someone has finally come to deal with you sons of bitches calling yourselves gods!" a bearded man said in broken Nine Provinces speech.
Jiang Chen waved a hand and spoke fluently in the language of the Polar Bear Empire. "Let's skip the pleasantries. Take me to the rest of your people and tell me everything that happened here."
The bearded man immediately led him through a scene of drunken debauchery. Beneath multicolored lights, strippers danced with wild, uninhibited boldness, occasionally reaching out to tease the two delicate-featured young twins.
At the sight, sweat poured from the bearded man's temples. His Adam's apple bobbed nonstop as he glared and loudly ordered them to get lost.
He truly dared not imagine what bloody horrors would unfold here if they angered this young man.
Jiang Chen, however, took it in stride.