Chapter 2016 June 12th

Because the Beast God Realm mission is currently the highest level of secret on Earth, Su Zhou's apparent destination is the Dragon King Relic in the deep-sea Tianchi, to comprehend the Dragon King's true form.

But in reality, he had already arrived at the Kunlun Secret Realm three days prior.

The Kunlun Secret Realm now, putting everything else aside, has completely lost that ancient, dilapidated feel. The vast majority of the palace ruins have been surrounded by the construction team's tarpaulins, and the moss covering the buildings has long been collected as a sample of the unique spiritual moss in the secret realm for research.

For the past three days, Su Zhou has been residing in the Immortal God Palace in the Kunlun Secret Realm, enjoying the treatment of an Immortal God in advance.

"The teams from the Ross Country, the Europa Union, and the American Federation have arrived and are currently preparing their teams. The teams from Fusang and Zhugu will be the second batch to enter, arriving in a few days... Hmm, so countries with even a little strength have sent teams, huh?"

At this moment, Su Zhou was reviewing the data of the multinational coalition forces.

This Beast God Realm operation is mainly for reconnaissance purposes; it's an infiltration operation. Therefore, the main personnel are valued for their quality over quantity. Each force's core team only has ten members. When the operation begins, they will infiltrate in batches along different routes.

This way, even if one route is discovered, the other route can take advantage of the Beast God Realm's forces being attracted, allowing them to infiltrate the very center of the Beast God Realm more smoothly.

The other official transcendents besides the operation team are responsible for building a permanent fortification in the Beast God Realm, serving as the first nail hammered down by the Earth's side in the Beast God Realm, and also the biggest point for attracting firepower.

As Earth's current first and only Overlord-tier, Su Zhou doesn't need to understand too many cultivators from other countries. Conversely, the cultivators he needs to understand are undoubtedly truly recognized powerhouses.

"'Cease' Raphael Gral, sixty-three years old, Europa Union, Transcendent Peak, specializing in sealing techniques. This old gentleman is only a little younger than Dao Saint."

"'Falling Star' Anjei Ilyich, forty-six years old, Ross Country, Transcendent Peak, specializing in spiritual martial arts. This gentleman's arms seem thicker than my waist."

"'Rock Tower' Estherna, forty-seven years old, American Federation, Transcendent Peak. Although it's called Rock Tower, it mainly refers to his physique, but he's essentially a Holy Light user, a spellcaster."

Of course, the information in the files can't be this concise, but what Su Zhou needs to know is their names and appearances. As for their abilities and combat styles, they're definitely concealed. For example, everyone thinks Su Zhou has the Thunder Dragon bloodline and is best at thunder techniques, but what's actually going on... who knows?

Anyway, blindly believing in books is worse than having no books at all, and the same goes for information. If one day, these transcendents, all belonging to humanity, really fight each other, no matter who it is, they will definitely be shocked.

In short, the members of the first batch to enter the Beast God Realm are just four teams, forty people in total, not even fifty combined.

But among these forty people, apart from a few special talents like Tang Yuan, their average realm is basically Transcendent High-Stage.

Even though the Beast God Realm's overall strength has surged recently due to the spiritual energy revival, not long ago, even a Transcendent High-Stage divine bird peacock could be a Beast King. So, as long as the other side doesn't have a monster on Su Zhou's level, the strongest is at most Transcendent Peak right now.

In other words, the conventional military force of the Beast God Realm basically has no chance of stopping this team, unless the various divine beast inheritances join forces and send their clan's strongest members to stop them.

It's obvious that's impossible—unless the connection between the various divine beast races is closer than they imagined.

"The overall strength of the Beast God Realm is definitely weaker than ours, but we can't be careless." This is what Number Saint, who is in charge of coordinating the operation, said to Su Zhou: "Unlike us humans, divine beasts are born with divine powers. As long as they don't seek to understand everything, and don't care about whether they can take the final step of becoming a Hegemon Earth Immortal, it's much easier for them to reach Overlord-tier than it is for us."

"Therefore, this operation also needs to consider the possibility of fighting against Overlord-tier Beast Kings—or even multiple ones. After all, although the Beast God Realm sounds primitive, it's still a primitive world with a large number of divine beasts."

And Su Zhou naturally understands. He himself is an example of someone with innate divine powers. As long as they are willing to pay the price, cultivate diligently, and accumulate spiritual energy, it is not difficult for divine beasts to break through to the Overlord Initial-Stage. Even so, he does not think that among the divine beasts of the Beast God Realm, there can be one that can stop him.

But, just as Su Zhou was looking at the information of others,

In the Kunlun Secret Realm, in a specially isolated, empty camp for foreign teams to station, someone was also looking at his information.

"Doesn't this analysis say nothing at all?"

In the temporary camp, a team with the flag of the Europa Union was busy making final preparations. Nearly ten Transcendent powerhouses were now adjusting their state, while others were checking the conditions of various magic circles, magic scrolls, and cutting-edge weapons.

In the center of the camp, an old man who was obviously the leader frowned and put down the report in his hand. His tone was solemn: "Dao Saint, Zhang Qingyun, is an old friend, we are all familiar with him. But regarding that Su Zhou, who is said to have already reached Overlord-tier, aside from knowing that he is a dragon blood descendant and good at thunder techniques, we have basically no information."

"Isn't that right?" A rather young female voice complained beside the old man. It was a woman with short brown hair and black eyes, her brow also slightly furrowed: "Zheng Nation has almost completely blocked any information about him. What we can see is only what Zheng Nation wants us to see."

"Let's pay a visit in person." After pondering for a while, the old man shook his head: "Some things, you can't believe until you see them for yourself—an Overlord-tier in their twenties, even with the explosive growth brought about by the spiritual energy revival, this data is too exaggerated."

"Let's go, Seros."

"Yes, Grandpa."

And how keen was Su Zhou's spiritual sense? As soon as the figures of the old man and the young woman approached, he had already learned their identities through their spiritual energy aura.

The visitors were 'Cease' Raphael Gral and his granddaughter, Seros Gral.

Raphael is the publicly acknowledged strongest member of the Europa's official transcedent organization, Concordance Bureau, and is also the strongest known sealing technique cultivator. He doesn't specialize in actual combat, but rather in designing targeted sealing rituals based on the collection and analysis of information. It is said that his sealing techniques are so powerful that he can directly seal a Transcendent-tier demon beast in a statue or a card, releasing it to control its combat when needed.

The photo in the file was of a kind-looking, white-haired Western old man wearing gold-rimmed glasses. He was dressed in a black leather jacket and black gloves. The old man's figure wasn't burly, and a slight smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, his gaze towards the camera being very kind.

But Su Zhou knew that the black clothes and gloves he was wearing were actually covered in densely packed sealing arrays and simple rituals targeting almost all transcedent races—anyone who really thought he still needed to collect information on the spot to draw sealing arrays had already been sealed on the spot.

Funnily enough, this Mr. Gral was a long-time opponent of the previous leader of the Holy Serpent Spiritual Communion Society before the revival of spiritual energy. Unfortunately, that old leader died miserably at the hands of Su Zhou two years ago, otherwise, it might have been another fateful showdown.

As for Seros, Su Zhou vaguely felt a little familiar. It seemed like he had heard this name many times before?

Soon, he remembered that it was the new judge from the judging committee who almost replaced him, whom Qi Ming had told him about! He didn't expect that she would also come this time. Her strength is currently only Transcendent Initial-Stage. He doesn't know if she's here to gain experience or if she really has some special abilities.

But Raphael and Seros sensed Su Zhou's remotely transmitted spiritual will and the pressure that gradually rose with the concentration of his attention at the first moment.

The spiritual pressure that gradually grew, and the changes in spiritual energy that it brought, were so obvious that it was like a gale blowing in their faces, making them feel a little breathless in an instant. It was as if the air was about to be subdued by this power, not supplying others with oxygen.

Although, in both Chinese and foreign novels, most real powerhouses hide themselves or pretend to be ordinary people, living among the crowd, practicing the philosophy of great seclusion in the city. But this statement is actually untenable in reality.

Because with the progress of power, a cultivator's influence on the surrounding spiritual energy will become greater and greater. These existences that have surpassed the ordinary, unless they take the initiative to hide themselves, otherwise, wherever they go, abnormal celestial phenomena will follow. Even the point of death will cause huge environmental changes, possibly breeding a small spiritual energy ecosystem like a whale fall, creating a blessed land, or possibly a grand fireworks display, annihilating thousands or even tens of thousands of people.

In summer, a fan can cool a person, an electric fan can make a group of people comfortable, and an air conditioner can adjust the temperature of a hall, making dozens of people feel like they are returning to paradise—but when real winter arrives, it can reverse people's thoughts, making them want to pursue warmth.

This is the influence of the strong. The stronger they are, the more things they can influence. And Su Zhou today is at least the central air conditioner of a department store, which can change the nature of spiritual energy within a large range, forming various phenomena around him—for example, walking with fire, surrounded by light groups, making the air stagnate, and so on.

Raphael and Seros clearly sensed at this moment the terrifying power of Su Zhou, enough to affect all the spiritual energy within a radius of nearly a thousand meters—he had not even appeared yet, and merely with a thought, the surrounding air began to surge with turbulence, and the magnetic field began to change!

"I didn't expect... he's actually so powerful!"

Standing in the middle of the road, the white-haired old man's expression was serious. Although they had not met yet, he already knew at this moment that the young man who had just walked out of the palace gate was a genuine Overlord-tier, who had embarked on the first step of the 'human-god transformation', the sublimation of the essence of life!

"Professor Su..."

Looking at each other from afar, merely with such a spiritual pressure sense from hundreds of meters away, Raphael had already erased all the probing plans related to Su Zhou in his mind—he's obviously Overlord-tier already, what's there to probe?

This time, they were a multinational joint operation, not a multinational arena competition. Even if they probed Su Zhou's strength, it was only to know how strong their teammate was.

And now, the time was right! The old man immediately put on a smile on his face at this moment, intending to find an excuse to give Su Zhou a gift and build a relationship with him.

But what Raphael didn't expect was that there was a figure who was even faster than him.

"Judge Su!"

The brown-haired girl turned into a puff of green smoke at this moment and ran to Su Zhou as if she was flying.

In the youth's expression that was either puzzled or wary, Seros took out a notebook and handed it to Su Zhou solemnly, her tone very excited: "Although it's a bit presumptuous... but can you sign your name for me?"