Devouring Evolution: I Reborn as an Arctic Wolf Chapter 1777: 998: Delivery of Resources, Abundant Rewards!
Previously on Devouring Evolution: I Reborn as an Arctic Wolf...
Within this region of the cosmos lies the Silence Zone of the Ten Thousand Demon System, barren of any lifeforms or riches, utterly void and lifeless.
Right now, amid this profound quietude, Su Lin persists in refining the soul bone and steadily eroding the Demon Star Lord.
Through such utter stillness, moments pass by unnoticed.
….
Before long, a full century had elapsed.
The Emperor’s Son of the Ten Thousand Demons had only roused himself more than a decade prior. In that span, following the vanishing of the Demon Star Lord, the Emperor’s Son seamlessly assumed command over the Emperor's authority.
Even had the Demon Star Lord remained, its underlying structure would have fully backed the Emperor’s Son, making any meddling pointless.
Upon ascending as the true ruler of the Ten Thousand Demons, the Emperor’s Son unleashed a wave of revolutionary changes across the whole system.
One key measure involved stripping authority from the outer vassal territories,
permitting them sole control over life-and-death decisions, incentives and penalties, plus summoning exotic beasts solely in wartime,
whereas during peaceful eras, such authority fell under the oversight of the Council of Demon Kings.
Thanks to the Emperor’s Son of the Ten Thousand Demons earning unmatched renown within the armies and exotic beasts of those vassal territories from the prior fierce clash against the Black Sun Evil Army, alongside the binding constraints of his Demon Body on these subordinates, they had no choice but to obey.
Likewise, the Emperor’s Son proclaimed that henceforth, vassals must yield just twenty percent of their yields, with the other eighty percent allocated as bounties to exotic beasts for boosting their fighting prowess and sustaining their might.
Fairness stands as the core of rewards and chastisements.
The full system now buzzed with rigorous war readiness, as research centers, the Council of Demon Kings, and more functioned with precise efficiency.
At last, stability had fully taken hold.
Regarding the timing for the Emperor’s Son of the Ten Thousand Demons to marshal the vast forces of the Ten Thousand Demon System toward the Star Core to claim the core essence and settle the score for his father's demise, such details held no interest for Su Lin, Heavenly Ghost, or their allies.
“By the way, Mo Peng, you vanished for more than a hundred years—what exactly were you doing?”
As Heavenly Ghost and Su Lin lingered in anticipation of the Emperor’s Son presenting the full array of prizes, he posed the question in a light, offhand manner.
Truth be told, Heavenly Ghost had grown to hold profound respect for this fresh backer, who had ascended to the “Unspeakable” tier.
He yearned to uncover the intricate plots woven during that long absence of a century.
Yet Su Lin offered no straightforward reply, instead brushing it off with a vague justification, “I’d gone into closed-door training. Oh, and I assisted the Emperor’s Son in reshaping his Demon Body—what terms did you settle on with him?”
“Eight hundred billion soul stones!”
Heavenly Ghost let the matter drop,
aware that the cunning tactician and fighter known as Mo Peng would reveal nothing if he chose silence.
Still, a flicker of jealousy lingered in his gaze as he added, “Heh, you’ve clearly cleared your obligations to the Unspeakable—congrats, you’re probably the pioneer in the Blazing Nebula to pull that off.”
Given his firsthand taste of the Unspeakable's ruthless, greed-fueled ways, Su Lin saw no reason to question Heavenly Ghost’s begrudging admiration: “But knowing the Unspeakable’s nature, they’ll likely saddle me with fresh debts down the line.”
And during their exchange,
a grand Dragon Chariot soared into view from afar, bearing the Emperor’s Son of the Ten Thousand Demons, whose presence now dwarfed his might from thousands of years back.
Currently, the Emperor’s Son wielded not just the overwhelming Demon Body but also a sliver of Dimensional Truth.
This marked his entry into the Half-step Taboo domain, granting him genuine dominion over the Ten Thousand Demon System.
“Brother Tian Gui, Brother Mo Peng, why not linger a while longer in my Ten Thousand Demon System? I truly hate to see you depart.”
Even before the Dragon Chariot drew near, the Emperor’s Son vaulted from it, striding toward Su Lin and Heavenly Ghost with heartfelt and urgent pleas.
In the end, throughout this fierce contest for the throne, Su Lin and Heavenly Ghost had provided him invaluable aid.
Absent their support, defeat might have befallen the Emperor’s Son instead.
“We can’t linger; each of us has pressing duties.”
Heavenly Ghost and Su Lin sidestepped further discussion,
and soon after, the Emperor’s Son swiftly delivered the promised bounty to Su Lin and Heavenly Ghost.
Heavenly Ghost claimed eight hundred billion soul stones along with an indelible rank tied to the Ten Thousand Demons Ancestor.
This authority, linked to the Destiny Stone, served to intimidate exotic beasts shy of the King Level throughout the Ten Thousand Demon System.
In essence, the Ten Thousand Demon System could neither turn foe nor dare to in the future.
Even drawing on the Ten Thousand Demons Ancestor's strength, if Heavenly Ghost and Su Lin ever faced exile, they could seek refuge here with elite rank and influence.
Su Lin's haul proved even grander.
The initial five trillion star stones got doubled to ten trillion by the Emperor’s Son!
This vast sum matched the total output of three typical rogue stars!
Beyond the star stones, Su Lin obtained a supreme Space-Time Altar, able to span hundreds of billions of miles in a single leap, worth billions of star stones.
Ten forbidden-grade individual foil paper assassins, each fetching billions of star stones.
Two Tenfold Heaven Marks, likewise commanding billions of star stones in value.
On top of the Serenity Bell, a handful of Peak High Heaven Realm crossbows, and the leftover nineteen Extinction Arrows, plus tens of billions of Black Robe Battle Armors designed to block Divine Soul Spiritual Sense scans, and so forth.
One could argue that the upfront gains had already been a lavish windfall.
Now came three elite Heavenly Realm Blood Pills, a complete assortment of elite Heavenly Realm Treasured Pills and Secret Pills, two thousand high-quality Heavenly Realm Blood Pills, and sixty million standard Heavenly Realm Blood Pills.
On this occasion, Su Lin pocketed concrete wealth totaling no less than five trillion in star stones and blood stones.