Reborn as a Transcendent-Chapter 763Book 3: : Anomaly in Kun Ruins, A New Threat Emerges!

At this moment, the Linhnan Server Forum looked nothing like its usual self. Posts laced with frustration and anger sprang up like mushrooms after the rain. The atmosphere made people feel inexplicably irritated.

Every one of those posts shared a single theme: oppressive capitalism.

“Even if you scream yourselves hoarse here, no one can actually help you,” Yae-hime said flatly.

The ruthlessness and terror of capitalism were things one could only truly understand after experiencing them firsthand. Only then would you realize just how powerless you were in front of it.

“Trying to reason with capitalism using the law, filing lawsuits, even if you win, it’s no different from losing.”

After all, the legal teams raised by capitalists had a hundred ways to drag you to death. Yae-hime had once seen workers who tried to defend their rights through lawsuits end up with nothing at all.

Capitalists had time and money to stall, but the proletariat did not. Drag it out for a year or two. Your job would be gone. Your family would fall apart. What was the point of winning then?

Such an exorbitant cost of defending one’s rights was enough to make anyone back away.

“And besides… forget it. It has nothing to do with me anyway.” Yae-hime shook her head and casually closed the post. Her gaze shifted downward, landing on a freshly surfaced hot thread.

“Did the Death of Love Guild fall out with the Death of Flower Guild?”

After opening the thread and skimming through it, she could not help but frown in confusion. From the content, it seemed that Vanessa had already gone her separate way from Taurus. Yet as for why they split, the poster’s explanation was frustratingly vague.

“Together, they could be considered a force that can’t be ignored. Splitting up like this actually benefits me. At the very least, I won’t have to worry about being ambushed jointly anymore.” Although Yae-hime could easily deal with them, having one less problem for no reason at all was still a good thing.

As for whether the post was true or not, she could not be bothered to verify it.

Outside, the beast carriage continued racing toward Jade City at high speed.

***

At the same time. At Mount Heavenspine.

This foremost sacred mountain, revered as the ancestral dragon vein of Cathay, was undergoing subtle changes. Deep within the mountain range of the Emeraldreach, the surrounding space suddenly rippled, like a calm lake disturbed by a thrown stone, sending wave after wave of oscillations outward.

Immediately afterward, a surge of spatial power spread, and at the center of the ripples, a gap tore open. No, rather than a gap, it looked more like a door.

With a sharp swish, two black silhouettes shot out like streaks of lightning. The instant they touched the ground, the door snapped shut, and the ripples vanished at once.

Space gradually returned to normal. As if nothing unusual had ever happened. Yet the two men standing there, straight as spears, were like irrefutable evidence, silently testifying to the anomaly that had just occurred.

At the same moment, within the City of Chaos.

“Little Blue, a singularity just registered a high-energy reaction!” Vera 18 exclaimed excitedly as she stared at the floating panel.

“What kind of high-energy reaction?” Little Blue drifted over, asking curiously. Crumbs still clung to the corner of her mouth, making it painfully obvious that she had been sneaking snacks.

“Little Blue, how can you eat everything by yourself!” Vera 18 protested indignantly when she noticed what looked suspiciously like meat crumbs.

The other Vera clones followed the sound and, sure enough, caught sight of the evidence of Little Blue’s secret snacking. Without another word, they immediately surrounded her to demand an explanation.

“Slander! Y-you can’t just smear my innocence out of thin air!” Little Blue hurriedly retorted as she faced the five of them encircling her.

“This is the proof!” Vera 18 shot out her hand, pinching the crumbs at the corner of Little Blue’s mouth with lightning speed. She then pulled her hand back and stared straight at her, pressing relentlessly. “You still want to deny it?”

Seeing this, Little Blue’s eyes darted about, two rosy clouds blooming on her cute little face as she argued back stubbornly. “F-food connoisseurs’ matters don’t count as stealing! A true gourmand…”

What followed was a string of hard-to-understand rambling. Something about gourmands risking their lives to sample a hundred flavors and the like. The others listened with frosty expressions, irritation welling up in their hearts.

While everyone else was busy, she had actually sneaked off to the side to secretly snack. It was utterly outrageous!

Nominally, Little Blue was their superior. But in Yae-hime’s eyes, they were equals. There was no hierarchy between them. As a result, these little ones were not the least bit afraid of Little Blue.

“Tsk, fine, I’ll share some with you, okay!” Seeing the way they looked ready to devour her alive, Little Blue could only surrender helplessly.

“That’s more like it!” the five Vera sisters replied in unison. Right after that, the little group huddled together, happily enjoying the snacks Little Blue had secretly hoarded.

After a whirlwind of eating that left nothing behind, they returned to their respective posts, thoroughly satisfied.

“Number Eighteen, what was that high-energy reaction you mentioned earlier?” Only then did Little Blue finally remember what had happened before.

“Ah, I almost forgot.” Vera 18 patted her head, then lightly tapped the floating panel and pulled up the anomalous data for her to see.

“The data from that singularity spiked sharply for an instant, then quickly dropped back to normal levels. It just feels… strange.” Little Blue stared at the abnormal readings, her expression turning noticeably more serious.

“What’s strange about it?” Vera 18 asked.

“I don’t really know either,” Little Blue said, spreading her hands.

Vera 18 immediately rolled her eyes at her.

“Let’s wait until Master comes out later and study it together,” Little Blue said.

“All right.” Vera 18 nodded, lightly touching the screen again as she continued monitoring the changes at the singularity.

Off to the side, Little Blue drifted back to her workstation, putting on a show of working hard.

***

At the foot of Mount Heavenspine, two figures suddenly flashed into existence. Sunlight fell upon them, dissolving the peculiar aura of mystery around their bodies and revealing their true appearances.

They were two men.

The man on the left looked to be around fifty years old and stood roughly 180 centimeters tall. He wore a gray robe, his long hair hanging loose over his shoulders. His features were plain and slightly gaunt, with his temples noticeably bulging on both sides. His hands were rough, like the bark of an old pine tree.

The man on the right appeared to be seventeen or eighteen, standing about 185 centimeters tall and dressed in a high-quality white robe. He was handsome, with sharp, heroic brows and bright, spirited eyes, a piercing presence radiating from him.

“Just like the rumors said. The air of the outside world is so turbid it’s hard to breathe,” the handsome youth said with a deep frown, his expression clearly displeased.

“It’s acceptable,” the middle-aged man replied coldly.

“Senior Brother Lucen, why do you always wear that bitter, sour face? It looks awful,” the youth said with a grin as he glanced over.

“I was born this way. Enough idle talk. We didn’t enter the secular world this time for sightseeing.”

“Tch, of all people, Master had to pick someone as dull as you to accompany me. He’s really gone too far,” the youth said, spreading his hands with a helpless look.

“It’s precisely because I’m this dull that I can keep you in check. Junior Brother Axiom, the main purpose of our descent this time is to investigate the cause of the anomaly. Don’t stir up any trouble for me and waste time and energy for no reason,” the man called Lucen warned.

“Got it, got it,” the youth called Axiom replied impatiently.

“Axiom, this is your first time entering the secular world. You only have a shallow understanding of many mundane matters. As your senior brother—”

“That’s enough! You’ve said this eight hundred times already!” Axiom clutched his head and shouted in agony. Everything about this senior brother was fine, except for his habit of endlessly nagging. It was like a fly buzzing around his ears, making him want nothing more than to grab it, rip it open, pull out its guts, wrap them around its neck, and yank hard!

“Then the world would finally be peaceful!”

“Peaceful in what way?”

“Nothing!”

“Oh right, Senior Brother Lucen, where are we heading next?” Axiom hurriedly changed the subject.

“Yanjing.”

“By that thing called a train?” Axiom asked again.

“We’ll run there.”

The moment Lucen said that, Axiom nearly collapsed on the spot. Because from Emeraldreach to Yanjing, the distance was a full 1,700 kilometers.