Chapter 544 — Idling Made Me Stronger
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Bing Ling, the vice president of the Environmental Protection Association.
Kong Di had heard that name before.
She was one of the few super-god-level humans currently on Realm King Star.
And what made her rarer still was that both she and her contracted partner were super-god-level—a super-god duo.
Unlike those five slack super-gods of Blue Star's Divine Race Alliance who refused to take the battlefield, she was a thoroughgoing fighter, permanently on the Dark King Legion's kill list.
One could say that though they were all super-gods, she stood firmly at the very apex of power on Realm King Star, while the super-gods of Blue Star's five divine races were little more than local warlords.
The gap between them was roughly like the gap between an ordinary totem and a totem half-god; even within the super-god realm, there were the strong and the weak.
That was precisely why Kong Di found it so baffling that such a personage would seek him out.
What on earth had that brat Shi Tan been up to out there?
"Lady Bing Ling... Shi Ying is indeed from the Skysuspended Realm. May I ask... has something happened?"
Kong Di asked with the utmost caution.
From what he knew, Shi Jin was a restless sort who could never stay out of trouble.
If Shi Jin really had stirred something up, and it had drawn in a super-god-level figure, the trouble would be enormous.
Of course, Kong Di truly could not imagine what Shi Jin could possibly have stirred up.
Could he have torn down the Environmental Protection Association the way he cracked that ruin? Kong Di was straining his imagination to its limits.
"Naturally."
"Skysuspended Realm Lord, you have done well. You discovered such a genius for the Environmental Protection Association," Bing Ling said.
Kong Di was stunned.
Huh?
He had discovered such a genius for the Environmental Protection Association?
She meant Shi Jin?
He thought it over. How could it possibly be Shi Jin?
The Environmental Protection Association only ever took in members proficient in the power of purification.
Did Shi Jin have that? Well, yes—Shi Jin had contracted the Vast Sea Spirit, a being condensed from the ocean-purification faith of Blue Star...
But by any reasonable account, it could not be because of that...
Though not every planet could condense a life form like the Vast Sea Spirit, any planet of mid-tier or above had a chance of birthing such a race.
Across the entire universe, races akin to the Vast Sea Spirit—though they required the right timing, the right place, and the right people to condense—were by no means few in number.
Moreover, such faith-deities were only truly powerful on their own planets; once removed from their territory, their abilities dropped severely.
So Kong Di did not believe that contracting a single Vast Sea Spirit could make Shi Jin draw the attention of a super-god-level powerhouse from the Environmental Protection Association's headquarters.
Even the upper echelons of the Environmental Protection Association in the Canglan Realm would probably not give Shi Shuo a second glance over a Vast Sea Spirit.
"Lady Bing Ling... what do you mean by this?"
"The genius you spoke of... is that Shi Jin?" Kong Di asked, dumbfounded.
"It seems you are not aware of his situation," Bing Ling said.
Kong Di pricked up his ears.
He was eager to see what mischief that brat Shi Tan had gotten himself into this time.
"Shi Jin of the Skysuspended Realm passed the three-star purifier examination in the Canglan Realm, and is now the vice president of the Environmental Protection Association of the Canglan Realm, a first-tier realm."
"His status now equals that of you, the realm lord of a second-tier realm."
"To achieve so much in his twenties—that is not bad at all."
The moment Bing Ling finished speaking, Kong Di coughed so violently he nearly coughed himself to death.
He stared wide-eyed at the realm lord token in his hand, his face a mask of disbelief.
"What did you say???" At that moment, Kong Di suspected his own ears had gone bad and he had misheard!
Damn it all—he had only sent Shi Jin to the Environmental Protection Association to get ID cards for his abyssal pet beasts, and the kid had gone and made himself a vice president?
What kind of joke was this?
"Lady Bing Ling, how is that possible..." Kong Di still could not believe it.
"Hah, congratulations to you."
"The planet-tier Purification Faith Spirit he contracted has successfully evolved into a Purification Star Spirit."
"And it has displayed truly extraordinary talent. With talent like that, sooner or later it will have to come to the Environmental Protection Association headquarters for training. I am informing you now only because I want to learn more from your side, and I need your cooperation with some matters."
"Purification Star Spirit??" Kong Di's mind roared at the words.
A Sea Spirit, evolved into a Purification Star Spirit?
The Purification Star Spirit ranked seventy-seventh among the myriad races of the starry sky?
Kong Di of course knew of this heaven-defying race. They were hailed as possessing the strongest purification talent. Though their overall combat power was not the greatest, against the legions of the Dark King, the Purification Star Spirits were absolutely the strongest race.
The strongest of every generation in the Environmental Protection Association had always been a Purification Star Spirit, and it was no different now.
But how had Shi Jin's Sea Spirit evolved into a Purification Star Spirit?
A planetary faith god, a cosmic faith god—these were simply not on the same level at all!
Kong Di's expression shifted. If it was a Purification Star Spirit, then he could understand why a super-god-level powerhouse of the Environmental Protection Association had been stirred.
A race like that would certainly receive the Association's full cultivation!
Once a Purification Star Spirit matured, it was bound to become a great general of the Environmental Protection Association.
"Yes. Now you understand."
"I understand..." Kong Di said through gritted teeth.
So Shi Jin had become vice chairman of the Canglan Realm's Environmental Protection Association???
The Canglan Realm was a first-tier realm, and its realm master was super-god-level. For an official organization's branch like the Environmental Protection Association, the chairman's status was even above the realm masters of ordinary second-tier realms.
Which meant Shi Jin's current position as vice chairman, paired with his identity as a three-star purifier, put him on equal footing with the realm masters of ordinary second-tier realms—no problem at all.
Thinking of how he had fought for hundreds of years in the starry sky to earn his own status, while Shi Jin had caught up in less than a month after arriving here, Kong Di felt a profound sense of absurdity.
It felt as though all these years of his life—chasing women, tempering himself through life and death, cultivating with all his might—had been lived for nothing.
Was Shi Jin an archaeologist???
He had assumed that in the future Shi Jin would make his name across the Cosmic Sea through archaeology of epoch relics. But the way things stood now, nothing was following the script.
Honestly, he had thought Shi Jin's Chaos Panda, Azure Dragon, World-Devouring Dragon and other beasts were already outrageous enough. He had never imagined a Purification Star Spirit would appear as well—and that was the most outrageous of all!
"Good, then." Chairman Bing Ling said:
"Realm Master Xuan Kong, the life that emerges from your Blue Star really is no simple matter."
"If I am not mistaken, you are planning to let your mother planet drift to the vicinity of the Cosmic Sea's King Star, correct?"
With the Environmental Protection Association's scale, it had naturally long known that Kong Di, Lin Feng, and Blue Star's five great divine races all came from the same mother planet.