Chapter 985, The Palace On The Moon

Translator: Silavin

 

The Archpriest should have been the strongest person in the Tsukimi Sect.

 

Seeing that even the Archpriest had been cleaved in two with a single slash, the other members present, despite knowing that Lu Fan and his group were invaders, dare not advance for a moment.

 

However, just then, the Moon in the sky brightened.

 

All the members’ expressions immediately became vacant, their eyes flickering with silver light. Like people who had lost consciousness, they all roared and charged toward the invaders.

 

Seeing this, Lu Fan knew that as expected, the Moon Goddess’ blessing had not been given for nothing. Once something happened, the Moon Goddess could completely control them and use them as her own meat shields.

 

Lu Fan had originally intended to have his Pet Dragons release a couple of Skills to kill all the Players present and be done with it.

 

Moreover, the Tsukimi Sect was not anything good to begin with. On Okino Island, those who acted tyrannically under the name of the Tsukimi Sect were numerous.

 

The Tsukimi Sect had no doctrine requiring its members to restrain themselves or leave any good reputation on Okino Island. On the contrary, the more arrogant and domineering its members were, the more it demonstrated the Tsukimi Sect’s power, and the more people wanted to join.

 

When recruiting members, the Tsukimi Sect did not pay attention to character. They only valued strength and loyalty. As long as one had sufficient strength and was loyal to the Tsukimi Sect, they were permitted to join.

 

Because of this, those who truly harboured justice and honour in their hearts actually looked down upon the Tsukimi Sect.

 

They would never join such a Sect without principles. Those who did join the Tsukimi Sect were all those who wanted to leverage the Sect’s prestige to become superior beings on Okino Island, like Mikami Heiji.

 

The Tsukimi Sect on Okino Island was famous, and people did aspire to join it. But this was merely a case where everyone was fearful of its members, and they needed to join to seek shelter to protect themselves.

 

So, Lu Fan had no psychological burden whatsoever in killing these members.

 

However, just as Lu Fan was about to act, a Golden Crow’s cry rang out.

 

At this moment, Jin Zhan had also put away his Mask of Deception, revealing his true strength.

 

Riding the Golden Crow and wielding a spear, he said. “Lu Fan, you go deal with the Ancient God. “With our strength, we might still not be a match when dealing with an Ancient God. But these small fry, we can handle them. You need not worry, This Ancient God is making so many members risk their lives to obstruct us. Her goal is to escape. You can’t let her escape!”

 

Lu Fan looked down and saw that while all the Sect members’ eyes flickered with silver light, their entire bodies were visibly withering at a rate perceivable to the naked eye. Clearly, they were burning their Life Force to exchange for such power.

 

The Moon Goddess’ Ancient God Power allowed them to break through their own limits and obtain strength far exceeding those limits. But correspondingly, it also consumed their vitality.

 

This method was extremely cruel. However, what did that have to do with Lu Fan and the others? These people only wanted to join the Tsukimi Sect and become superior beings on Okino Island.

 

But there was no such thing as a free lunch in this world. If the Tsukimi Sect truly encountered trouble, wouldn’t they need these people to step up and sacrifice themselves to preserve the Tsukimi Sect and the Moon Goddess’ safety?

 

Even though they had been blessed by the Ancient God and had now obtained strength far exceeding their upper limits… Facing Jin Zhan, Jian Ying and the others, they still had no chance of victory.

 

Therefore, Lu Fan could rest assured leaving these weaklings for them to handle, while he himself went to search for the Moon Goddess.

 

“Alright then, I’ll leave this to you. Protect my Aunt!” Lu Fan nodded, glancing at Han Ke beside him.

 

Jin Zhan smiled and waved his hand. Two Golden Crows flew down, circling around Han Ke.

 

“Don’t worry. If this Young Lady loses even a single hair, I, Jin Zhan, will have wronged you! With me here, no one can harm her!”

 

Lu Fan smiled. “Good. With your words, Brother Jin, I’m at ease.”

 

After speaking, he also told Han Ke to be careful, stay close to Jin Zhan, and not run around.

 

Han Ke nodded, telling Lu Fan to rest assured, that she would definitely be fine.

 

Only then did Lu Fan set his mind at ease. Riding Ye Sha, he flew toward the enormous Moon in the sky.

 

The Moon in the sky was not just large; it was incredibly distant.

 

The Tsukimi Lake Map itself was already very large, almost equivalent to a city.

 

And the Map’s true coverage was not wasted on area, but rather on height.

 

Generally, Secret Realms had an altitude limit of just a few thousand meters. Going higher, there would be spatial barriers that could not be penetrated.

 

After sensing the Moon Goddess’s position, Lu Fan flew toward the sky and discovered that this Map’s height exceeded tens of kilometres!

 

He flew for a full ten-plus minutes before finally reaching the very top of the Tsukimi Lake Map.

 

And at this location, hanging high in the sky was an incomparably enormous Moon. Even with his Pet Dragons being so massive, before this Moon, they appeared incredibly small.

 

“Damn, this Ancient God has some standard… to spend time creating such a massive Moon… it couldn’t have been easy…” Lu Fan sighed, then continued flying toward the Moon.

 

Soon, he finally ‘landed’.

 

Theoretically, upon reaching the Moon’s surface, relative to the ground, he should be in an inverted position. In short, his head should be pointing toward the ground, feet pointing toward the sky.

 

This ‘Moon’ seemed to have warped the Space Principle around it, giving it inherent gravitational force.

 

So, Lu Fan quickly adapted to the sensation of Heaven and Earth being overturned. After landing, he looked up at Tsukimi Lake overhead, thinking this feeling was truly marvellous.

 

However, now was not the time to contemplate such things.

 

He carefully sensed his spiritual threads and quickly confirmed the Ancient God’s location.

 

“Not moving? Think you can still escape?” Lu Fan smiled faintly, leading his Pet Dragons toward the direction indicated by his spiritual threads.

 

Flying across the enormous Moon for a long while, Lu Fan finally saw a palace built from crystals standing there.

 

From within, the faint sound of a harp drifted out. It was gentle and slow, with lingering resonance.

 

Lu Fan narrowed his eyes. Dismounting from Ye Sha, he walked step by step to the crystal palace, pushing open the massive frosted crystal doors.

 

After pushing them open, a simply and elegantly decorated palace hall appeared.

 

Most eye-catching was the centre of the hall, where stood an enormous crystal harp.

 

At this moment, a woman sat before the harp, eyes closed, gently playing.

 

The melodious harp music from just now was emanating from here.

 

Because the doors had opened, the melodious music entered Lu Fan’s ears even more clearly, making him somewhat entranced for a moment.