Grinding EXP From a Demon Hunting Ship

Chapter 377: Chapter 372: Accumulation Complete, Orbit Activated

HUM!

He had slain the Goddess of Wisdom.

Information flashed across his panel as he obtained experience points!

[Defeated Pseudo-God. Pastor of the Sea EXP +22,743]

[Class: Pastor of the Sea Lv. 10 (23,043/100,000)]

A smile touched Su Ye’s lips as he glanced over the panel.

Working with the Withered Wood Elder was like making a deal with the devil, but the rewards were incredibly lucrative!

By continuously slaying Divine Incarnations during his recent hunts, Su Ye’s experience points were accumulating at a terrifying rate!

In just over a month,

his Pastor of the Sea class had reached Lv. 10 not long after hitting Lv. 9!

And now, his experience bar for Lv. 10 was already one-fifth full!

This growth rate, so fast it felt like he was cheating, left Su Ye feeling absolutely euphoric!

And besides experience points, there were also Creation Points!

Su Ye reached out, grasped the divinity of the Goddess of Wisdom, and converted it!

Creation Points +320!

[Creation Points: 1,180]

The Goddess of Wisdom had been one of the stronger main gods of the Far South Continent.

Therefore, she provided more Creation Points than the Eternal Hunter Incarnation!

For the first time ever, Su Ye’s Creation Point total had broken the one-thousand mark!

"1,180!"

Gazing at the four-digit number, Su Ye felt a deep sense of satisfaction.

This many Creation Points was enough to raise all six of his Divine Seeds to the late stage!

He could also use it to activate his Quasi-Techniques almost three times!

’I’m starting to understand why Loose Cultivators love exploring mysterious, dangerous places...’ Su Ye murmured to himself, a wave of emotion washing over him.

If he had done things by the book, it would have taken him nearly a decade to grind this much experience, even if he had stopped cultivating entirely to focus on it!

As for top-tier legacies and treasures like the Annihilation Secret Scripture and the Old God Heart Core... they were exceedingly rare, one-of-a-kind items you could never get just by waiting around at home!

’However...’

’These things are too hot to handle...’

Su Ye’s eyes narrowed.

...

Just then, a voice sounded in his ear.

"Scion of the Old Gods, you have broken your word!"

"That divinity should have been mine!"

It was the Withered Wood Elder. His voice was low and heavy with suppressed anger.

"Yes, I broke my word," Su Ye admitted frankly, not even trying to argue.

The main reason was that the evidence was irrefutable; there was no point in denying it.

But Su Ye didn’t care. ’It’s already done. What are you going to do about it?’

"Alright."

He clapped his hands and said coolly,

"I think it’s time we had a proper talk."

"A proper talk?"

"You actually think I’ll still talk to you?!"

The Withered Wood Elder laughed in fury.

His discontent was genuine.

After all, the Withered Wood Elder truly hadn’t expected it.

He hadn’t expected this fellow, Su Ye, to be so utterly shameless!

He had completely devoured the divinity from all three Divine Incarnations. Not only had the Elder not gotten his one-third share, he hadn’t received so much as a single shred!

’I knew you were greedy,’

’but... you could have at least given me something!’

This made the Withered Wood Elder look like a total chump!

He had to spend his own Divine Power on communication and location tracking within his divine kingdom!

And now, after all that investment, he had nothing to show for it. Wasn’t he the biggest sucker of all time?!

"And why not?" Su Ye retorted.

"You’re unhappy because I took all the divinity for myself."

"But that has nothing to do with me. It’s entirely your own fault!"

"Oh?" The Withered Wood Elder’s fists clenched.

"What?"

"Is there a problem with what I said?" Su Ye scoffed, his voice dripping with disappointment, as if scolding a hopeless failure.

"Withered Wood, I used the very same Secret Technique to collect the divinity right in front of you, multiple times, without any attempt to hide it."

"I was practically teaching you everything I know, but... did you manage to figure it out?"

Veins bulged on the Withered Wood Elder’s forehead as he fell silent.

’Figure it out?’

’If I could figure it out, would I be letting you run wild like this?’

’I would have summoned a Tier Five Mutated Creature long ago to grind a clueless brat like you to dust!’

Having silenced the Withered Wood Elder, Su Ye continued.

"So, since you can’t figure out my Secret Technique,"

"then there’s no point in dwelling on the matter!"

Having made his point, Su Ye knew he didn’t have a leg to stand on morally.

He quickly moved on from the topic.

"Now that things have come to this,"

"let’s be frank with each other."

"Our cooperation is built on the fact that we can both keep each other in check."

"If you could figure out my Secret Technique, you would have already killed me and taken all the divinity for yourself."

"And if I could escape this divine kingdom, I would have been long gone!"

Su Ye’s words were blunt, almost brutally honest.

There was no trust whatsoever between him and the Withered Wood Elder.

Therefore, the foundation of their cooperation was the ability to keep each other in check!

"So, if our roles were reversed, would you hand over the divinity?"

Su Ye asked, lobbing the question back to the Withered Wood Elder like a volleyball.

’Of course not!’

The Withered Wood Elder put himself in Su Ye’s shoes and arrived at the answer without a moment’s hesitation.

’What kind of fool would diminish the only bargaining chip they held over their opponent?’

"So,"

"if you want the divinity, you have to let me leave this divine kingdom."

"I’ll give you all of it right before I leave."

"A trade like that would be fair."

Su Ye said with an air of sincerity, twisting the logic to his advantage.

After hearing him out, the Withered Wood Elder fell silent for a moment before seemingly compromising.

"You want to leave the divine kingdom... Fine."

"However, the final stage of the Orbit still requires the Scion of the Old Gods to take the lead."

"Once the Orbit is complete, you can leave the divine kingdom as long as you hand over the divinity."

’After the Orbit is complete?’

Su Ye sneered inwardly at his words.

Outwardly, however, he simply nodded, putting on an expression of relief.

"Excellent!"

A new pact was formed.

Their fragile partnership was maintained, if only barely.

With the collection of divinity complete, the Orbit had reached its activation stage!

...

「The next day.」

WHOOSH.

A gentle breeze rustled the leaves.

The perennial mist that shrouded the divine kingdom began to change under the Withered Wood Elder’s will!

The mist surged, rising and ascending like a heavy, gray behemoth quietly surfacing from the depths!

The boundless mist condensed into vapor, forming a thick, low-hanging layer of gray-black clouds that blanketed the sky of the divine kingdom!

’This is... truly spectacular,’

Aboard the deck of the Ghostly Flood Dragon, Su Ye looked up at the sky and sighed with genuine awe.

His nose twitched as he felt the dampness permeating the air.

WHOOSH.

The breeze carried with it the first fine drops of rain.

He waited a moment.

DRIP.

A cold raindrop fell from the sky.

At first, they were scattered, but they quickly grew denser until they resembled thousands of silver threads sweeping down from the heavens!

"It’s raining," Su Ye murmured to himself.

The torrential rain poured down, forming rivers on the ground.

Before long, these rivers merged, eventually creating a flood that resembled a tsunami!

’It’s beginning!’

Su Ye wasn’t surprised.

This was the beginning of the Orbit!