Chapter 017: Giving Up

While talking to Du Fan, the Ghost God was already quickly fighting against Moses, Basha, and Six Wings.
Six Wings could only hover in the air, waiting for an opportunity to strike the Ghost God suddenly—attacks that barely caused any harm.
Moses, relying on the strong physiques of the elf warriors, could barely hold his own against the Ghost God! But it seemed he was always at a disadvantage.
Basha, using his innate strength and the secret techniques of the dwarves to expand his body slightly, also tried to fight against the Ghost God, but it was clearly a struggle.
“Du Fan, you human brat! You chased me and tried to kill me just now. Now, let me chase you and kill you too!” the Ghost God shouted.
Abandoning Six Wings, the Ghost God launched a full-scale attack on Moses and Basha!
Moses and Basha, each having to face two guns, were quickly forced back!
Originally, they only had to deal with two arms and one gun, which was already extremely difficult. Now, facing four arms and two guns, they were in even greater peril and were forced to retreat!
The Ghost God not only had four faces and eight arms but also grew four feet!
Using those four feet to push hard against the ground, the Ghost God rushed forward like a gust of wind, waving his four long guns at Du Fan!
Seeing the Ghost God’s fierce appearance, Du Fan quickly flew into the air!
“Du Fan, you still want to run? Haha!” The Ghost God laughed heartily upon seeing Du Fan try to escape.
As soon as Du Fan flew a little way, the Ghost God caught up.
“Du Fan, with your ordinary speed, how can you possibly outrun the speed of a god?” the Ghost God laughed loudly from behind Du Fan.
Although the Ghost God’s strength had weakened, he was still a god!
After all, if a god’s speed wasn’t faster than that of a saint, then he couldn’t be called a god!
The Ghost God accelerated suddenly and flew above Du Fan, extending one of his four feet to step on Du Fan’s back.
With a “bang,” Du Fan was crushed straight down from the air!
Before he could change his position, one of the Ghost God’s long guns lifted him upward!
Before he could fly even a little, another gun swept across, sending him flying sideways. Then yet another gun swept by, forcing him to change direction and fly sideways!
“Ghost God! How dare you do this to me!” Du Fan shouted angrily.
Du Fan was furious!

This demon knew its attacks couldn’t harm Du Fan. So it just hovered in the air, treating Du Fan like a toy, attacking and playing with him at will. It kept attacking without letting Du Fan land or catch his breath!
“Haha! What a thrill! This feeling of revenge! It’s so great!” the demon shouted joyfully.
It could be said that for the first time in all these years, the demon had acted so boldly! This feeling brought it immense satisfaction—no longer suppression, but rather the exhilaration of releasing pent-up anger. Experiencing this for the first time, the demon screamed in excitement!
But Du Fan was extremely annoyed! The demon wouldn’t give him a chance to rest, firing attack after attack relentlessly!
Moses and Basha weren’t good at attacking from the air and could only stand on the ground, helpless. Moreover, the place where the demon was teasing Du Fan was over a hundred meters in the air! At such a height, although warriors like Moses and Basha were above the Saint rank and could fly, reaching that height was doable, but fighting there was still challenging.
Six Wings could fly up there, but he didn’t dare! Six Wings also realized the huge gap between himself and the demon! Facing the demon was practically suicide!
Naixiu and the others on the ground began to attack! Six archers from the elf race shot six Dragon Serpents simultaneously! From the ground, six creatures that resembled dragons yet weren’t dragons, and snakes yet weren’t snakes, rushed toward the demon with a howl!
The demon, which had just been attacking Du Fan, was startled by this onslaught! Dragon Serpents! An archery technique used only by ninth-level archers among the elf race—a taboo-level technique with astonishing power!
While the demon was momentarily stunned, the six Dragon Serpents collided with it one after another! The demon let out a painful cry and was flung far away. Du Fan finally got a chance to breathe and descended from the air. Without resting, he rushed straight at the demon!
Having been attacked relentlessly just moments ago, Du Fan was furious. Seeing the demon sent flying, he hurried over to see if he could take advantage of the situation. Not only Du Fan rushed over—seeing such a good opportunity, Moses, Basha, and Six Wings also rushed over.

The Level 106 Ghost God, with its dragon and snake forms, was stunned and staggered to its feet, only to see four fierce enemies standing in front of it! Especially Du Fan, whose eyes blazed with rage when facing the Ghost God! All along, Du Fan had always spoken down to the Ghost God without giving it any respect, and now being treated like a toy by the Ghost God filled him with extreme anger! It was as if someone who had always dismissed another as worthless suddenly turned around and humiliated that person severely. Now, Du Fan felt just like that humiliated person. Seeing Du Fan in such a state, the Ghost God quickly shot a spear at him. Strangely, it didn’t hit Du Fan. Only then did the Ghost God realize that three of its eight arms had been shot off! Its entire body was covered in dark golden blood! “Ah!” The Ghost God, which had just gotten up from the ground, now felt intense pain—almost every part of its body was injured! The Level 6 dragon and snake forms had wounded the Ghost God, disrupting its possessed state. The dark golden blood flowing from its body suddenly turned into waves of black smoke and disappeared. Soon, what stood on the ground was the Ghost God in its normal state, panting heavily. “You… you broke my possessed state!” the Ghost God said, barely believing it. “Hmph, we gave you a way out. You refused and chose to fight us. Now see how you handle fighting us,” Du Fan said coldly. “I… I’ll give you what I protect,” the Ghost God suddenly said. “Alright, bring it here first!” Du Fan ordered, extending his palm. The Ghost God carefully took out a divine essence and then, after squeezing it in its hand, produced a long spear as well. “This divine essence and this divine weapon are both things I protect. Take them,” the Ghost God said cautiously. Du Fan snatched the divine essence and the spear. The spear was white, glowing with a bright light, exuding an aura that made people feel compelled to worship it—as if the spear itself was a supreme being, standing quietly there, accepting worship from all. “This spear is quite good. What’s its origin?” Du Fan asked. Generally speaking, a divine essence is more precious than a divine weapon, as a divine essence can enable someone to become a god, while a divine weapon is merely a powerful weapon.

The first two levels only involved divine essences, but here, the Ghost God possessed a long spear. This spear surely wasn’t an ordinary divine artifact. Thinking of this, Du Fan asked the Ghost God.

“I don’t know the origin of this spear either. When I was guarding this place, instructions were given to me to take care of these two items. If anyone came, I was to hand them over,” said the Ghost God.

Touching the spear, Du Fan suddenly sensed a force of light flowing within it. This spear must have been left behind by some deity of the light faction.

But what did it mean that there was suddenly an additional spear among the items to be guarded here?

“Since you’re being so cooperative, we won’t make things difficult for you. We’ll move on to the next level. Be careful from now on,” said Du Fan.

Here, Du Fan didn’t dare really harm the Ghost God. First, the Ghost God was also a deity, and even if he wanted to eliminate him completely, his own side would suffer heavy losses!

Moreover, they were still in the Gods’ Cemetery, meaning there were likely more guardians from other divine realms as well. If he harmed the Ghost God and the other gods found out, would they just stand by?

Considering these two points, Du Fan decided to reconcile with the Ghost God.

Suddenly remembering something, Du Fan asked, “The items you’re guarding must not be just a divine essence or a weapon, right? If so, after giving them to us, what if someone else comes later?”

“Haha, actually, once you enter my realm and I hand over the guarded items to you, our task is complete. We can return to the divine realm,” said the Ghost God with a laugh.

“No wonder, no wonder,” Du Fan repeated.

“No wonder what?” the Ghost God asked curiously.

“No wonder it felt like you were holding back when fighting against you gods,” said Du Fan.

“How can that be holding back? We just admire you! We think you’re capable!” said the Ghost God. “Haha, actually, what you say makes sense. It’s been tens of thousands of years since we’ve seen anyone break in. If we didn’t let you in, would we have to wait another tens of thousands of years?”

At this, Du Fan finally understood why his group had encountered no dangers along the way after entering Green Mountain.

It turned out that these gods had been stuck here for so long that they all wanted to leave. Seeing someone like him break in, they couldn’t wait to hold back!

“Are we the first to enter here in tens of thousands of years?” Du Fan asked, somewhat skeptical.
“That’s right, you indeed are the first to come here,” the Ghost God said with a smile. “Those with cultivation above the divine level simply can’t enter, and those with weaker strength were killed long ago! In fact, you’re very lucky. Along the way, there were many powerful beings, but many of them were already eliminated before you arrived!”
“Speaking of which, we’re really lucky,” Du Fan said.
“It can’t be said that way. In fact, among your group, you’re by far the strongest I’ve seen to enter the Tomb of Gods. Reaching the saintly realm is already extremely difficult, yet all of you are above that level! Moreover, there are three experts in different domains! With such strength, it’s only natural you could make it this far!” the Ghost God affirmed.