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Chapter 1129 - 902: What Does It Mean to Be Overpowered?

The long-awaited long-cherished wish was now within reach of being fulfilled.

Qu Luming took a deep breath to suppress the excitement in his heart, bowed solemnly, and asked, "Sir, may I be so fortunate as to become your guard? From today on, I will obey your every command without the slightest complaint!"

[Request received: Ghost Cultivator Qu Luming requests to establish an attached relationship, can be accepted as a contracted guard. Process this request?]

Only when the system pop-up appeared did Jiang Yuan react—there was still a Guest Upgrade Card he hadn’t used! To be safe, he had to use it on him first; otherwise, if he bound him as a contracted guard and that card went to waste, wouldn’t that be a pity?

"Mm, I can feel your sincerity." He fished out the card specifically belonging to Qu Luming from his Storage Bag and immediately clicked use.

"Th-this is..." Qu Luming’s voice even trembled slightly.

He could feel a mysterious power descending from the heavens and pouring into his body. His aura then uncontrollably climbed higher and higher, until he easily broke through to the Ghost Cultivator Body Refining Realm Fourth Layer!

It came too suddenly and unexpectedly, and there was no Thunder Tribulation.

Qu Luming was dazed for quite a while. When he realized he wasn’t dreaming and then recalled Bai Yunqi’s resurrection and skyrocketing Realm... he suddenly understood. He immediately lifted his green robe and dropped to his knees with a "thud," saying, "Qu Luming kneels to thank Sir for his great kindness!"

Only then did Jiang Yuan click to process the pop-up.

The progress bar advanced very quickly. A golden halo flew out from his body and wrapped around Qu Luming, successfully establishing their bond!

"Hiss! So this is the power of the Heavenly Dao Laws?" Qu Luming, who was kneeling in thanks, couldn’t help but suck in a cold breath.

He could clearly feel that, compared to the last time when he formed a contract as a Guest, this imprint of the Law was even deeper, and his heart suddenly filled with a solid sense of security—From now on, I’m one of Mr. Jiang’s core members!

"Get up, there’s no need for such formality between us." Jiang Yuan glanced out the window; the tipsy Du Li was sitting beside Yan Xuan, quiet as a chicken, listening to him brag about his glorious past when he was unmatched under the heavens.

"The commotion from granting Life Origin will be rather big, so I’ll take you somewhere secluded." He placed his right hand on the other’s shoulder and clicked to enter the Hollow House.

This was Jiang Yuan’s secret base in the Void, where there was absolutely no need to worry about interruptions.

The setting sun hung low and the bamboo grove swayed; the fresh air carried a faint floral fragrance, and the murmuring stream made this place all the more tranquil and serene.

"Tsk, what is this place now?" Qu Luming looked around curiously. It felt like a courtyard yet not quite, and even the Profound Light Instrument couldn’t locate it.

Having already experienced granting Bai Yunqi Life Origin, he knew that, for a clone, it took 200 points of Life Origin to become an independent existence with a soul.

Wanting to complete the quest faster, Jiang Yuan didn’t waste words. He directly clicked the grant button, input 200 points, then selected the avatar of contracted guard Qu Luming in the popped-up list and clicked grant.

"Buzz!"

A whirlwind suddenly rose beneath the feet of the two who were facing each other deep in the bamboo grove!

Carrying shimmering light particles and a dense vitality, it instantly enveloped the two of them completely.

Granting two hundred points in one go, the spectacle was indeed massive! The howling gale roared, bending the bamboo almost in half, making them let out a low, wailing sound.

"Whoo! Whoo!"

Qu Luming found it hard to describe what this feeling was. Before he could react, he was suddenly in the center of the vortex, countless light particles madly pouring into his body. He could only instinctively take deep breaths to ease the surging, unventable heat roiling in his chest.

Within the whirlwind, a thick aura of Life and soul rushed into his body, pouring in through his seven orifices, flowing through his Dantian and all his meridians before finally arriving at his heart. For the first time in his life, he truly felt his own body—every vein, every inch of skin, every piece of flesh and blood.

The newly born soul hummed as it gradually merged with the Ghost Cultivator Spiritual Body, and in the end, the two became one!

"Plop!"

Whether from agitation or excitement, tears burst from his eyes.

Qu Luming could no longer suppress the complex emotions in his heart. The heat lingering in his chest burst forth, and a heartfelt long howl emerged from his lungs, dissolving into the whirlwind.

[Side Quest: Clone]

[Quest 6: Take Qu Luming as a contracted guard and grant him 200 points of Life Origin to help him become an independent Life form, completed. Reward: Life Origin +300 has been issued]

[Current Life Origin balance: 1300 points]

The side quests related to the clone were now completely concluded, for from this moment on, Qu Luming was no longer a clone-type existence but an independent Ghost Cultivator.

As the whirlwind slowly dissipated, Du Li in the small courtyard suddenly felt something hard to describe, as if some kind of bond had broken, and he had lost something very important. But he’d had a bit too much to drink and felt dizzy, only dazed with a momentary sense of loss and didn’t think much of it.

Meanwhile, in the Netherworld’s Fengdu, Judge Lu Huai was carefully examining the Book of Life and Death when he suddenly felt something. The pages of the Book of Life and Death flipped "swish, swish" without wind, faster and faster, until a few breaths later they stopped, and three familiar big characters were clearly listed there!

"He obtained Life Origin this quickly?" He couldn’t help but greatly admire Qu Luming’s efficiency, then his brows furrowed slightly. "If only he worked this hard when helping me inquire about Pill Formula news, that would be perfect."

The Judge muttered under his breath, but it made the corner of Qu Luming’s eye twitch in the midst of his extreme excitement and double joy.

"My thanks again for Sir’s great kindness. From this day forth, Qu Luming will go through fire and water for you without hesitation!" He bowed deeply once more, then remembered that in the midst of watching the Transformed Flood Dragon, feasting, and reveling in Sir’s favor, he had forgotten something important.

He had to hurry back to Fengdu and give the Pill Formula to the Judge; this time the Judge would owe him a huge favor.