Ren Suo now had two screens in front of him.

One was the laptop screen, which displayed Ren Naiser's live stream "Destiny."

When Ren Suo officially began the game, Ren Naiser launched his viral advertising campaign, which had the annoyance of eczema and the persistence of browser game ads, popping up on all video portals with live streaming capabilities and instantly spamming all online users.

Although some people would definitely record the live broadcast, and even Ren Naiser might post the video afterward, the importance of live streaming lies in watching the completely real, uncut full process.

Without any falseness, without any concealment, witnessing the scene in all its naked truth!

—Of course, that was for the audience.

For Player Ren Suo, the game on the TV screen was his true reality.

"Dialogue Box," "Twist Fate," "Display of Hope," "Despair Shield," "Perspective Shift"...

These odd and unusual options naturally did not appear in the live broadcast; they were blocked out during the sync upload.

Ren Suo felt like a game streamer who cheats, having prepared two screens for himself—one for the audience showing a 'clean and proper image,' while what he actually saw was a 'screen full of cheats flying around.'

At this moment, Ren Suo took the opportunity to change his name again.

He had just changed his name to "Supreme Supreme of Fairy Palace" to intimidate the audience at the start of the live stream, but now he changed it to "Immortal Venerate," which looked as though the cloaked girl with blue hair showed respect to the "Supreme Supreme," addressing him as "Immortal Venerate."

Fundamentally, it was similar to changing one's game name to "Daddy"—the purpose was to take advantage of others.

The reason for using the name "Supreme Supreme," of course, was because of the game character's title... although in reality, only Ilina and the adventurer had ever used this name to address the player, but since he had this alias already, Ren Suo saw no need to come up with another one.

And although the game didn't allow Ren Suo to load saved games, before starting, the blue-haired girl across the table did give a brief explanation about the gameplay and the essence of Destiny to the player.

Ren Suo thought that having "Supreme Supreme" make an appearance here shouldn't be a problem.

If later on, a character more badass than "Supreme Supreme" appeared, Ren Suo still had plenty of impressive and grand names to choose from.

For instance, "The Saint Ground Down by the Great Path," "The Ancestor Fishing for the Heavens," "The Holder of Eternal Truth"—with so many games played, Ren Suo certainly had a lot of boasting material at his disposal.

Ren Suo was picking his starting game character, and as usual, he could also customize the face.

However, unlike past character creations where he could only decide the appearance, this time Ren Suo could also choose different states of the protagonist's corpse!

That's right, the state of corpses; it seemed that this time Ren Suo was choosing the main character from among corpses.

A body that 'died a natural death' had the 'Spiritual Power Specialty.'

A body 'reduced to ashes' had the 'Agility Specialty.'

A 'Giant's corpse,' unsurprisingly, had the 'Strength Specialty.'

In addition, there were also 'Skinning,' 'Cold Storage,' 'Specimen,' 'Medical Student Teaching Tool,' and so on...

As Ren Suo browsed through, his eyes suddenly lit up—he saw a very interesting state of corpse.

* * *

"Supreme Supreme!?"

Early in the morning, Shen Tong, the Cremator and morgue attendant at Baiyun City's Milky Way Park Funeral Home, was also watching Ren Naiser's live broadcast.

He was a diehard fan of Ren Naiser and had even set Ren Naiser as a 'vibration alert' for special attention in the GILIGILI App.

As soon as Ren Naiser updated, he would rush to grab the first comment and the first spot on the barrage, often being teased by others as the 'sofa king' (sofa, meaning the first floor of the comment area) who 'lived in giligili.'

And he did manage to snatch the 'sofa' a few times, mainly because his job required him to work night shifts, and he usually had nothing else to do but play with his phone, which naturally allowed him to discover Ren Naiser's updates instantly.

Having just sent a body into the Corpse Refining Furnace, he had nothing to do, so he just turned on his phone and discovered Ren Naiser was live.

Yes, he started cremating bodies at 6 AM on the first day of the National Day holiday.

Of course, he wasn't killing people and cremating the bodies to destroy the evidence at this particular time—in fact, cremation takes 1.5 to 3 hours, and the body wasn't yet reduced to ashes when the other staff had to start their shifts.

Shen Tong cremated the body of an Unnamed female. Bodies like these aren't actually that common, but the issue is that there are too few funeral homes equipped for cremation, so each one needs to process or store such bodies every day.

After the police have collected DNA, blood, fingerprints, and other information from the body and preserved it in a hospital for a period, they send it to the funeral home for cremation.

For these Unnamed bodies, naturally, there would be no relatives nor a memorial service, and the funeral home staff could simply find some time to cremate the body and then store the ashes.

Generally speaking, cremations are supposed to be carried out during working hours, but as the process takes about two hours, if no one comes to the funeral home for a memorial or cremation service during the day, the funeral home might schedule the cremation of Unnamed bodies during that time.

However, if there are events during the day, staff will need to cremate the bodies either before the home opens or after it closes.

After all, the main source of income for the funeral home is helping families hold memorial services—this is not to be neglected.

Bodies like these from Unnamed individuals naturally could only be put at a disadvantage.

Shen Tong wasn't aware of other funeral homes, but Milky Way Park Funeral Home only had one Corpse Refining Furnace, and with the daytime memorial schedules nearly full, most Unnamed bodies could only be squeezed into the time before the home opened.

What, you ask why Shen Tong doesn't cremate at night?

Even Shen Tong, who dares to work in a funeral home for money and even takes charge of the morgue's night shift, wouldn't dare to cremate bodies alone at night.

Working at a funeral home was one thing, but what if cremating bodies at night offended the ghosts… Shen Tong too was afraid of retribution.

There are very few funeral home staff who are not superstitious, and with the resurgence of Spiritual Energy, superstition increased, reaching a peak after the show "High Energy Ahead" aired.

Prior to that, the funeral home's memorial schedules weren't so packed, and Shen Tong could cremate the bodies of Unnamed individuals during the free slots over two or three days of the week.

But after "High Energy Ahead" was aired, those who hadn't held memorial services wanted to make up for it—even when people turned to ash, it could be done.

And for those not yet cremated, some would hold a memorial service for seven consecutive days. Shen Tong wondered if this was like a daily login reward, where attending a seven-day-long memorial service sequence granted a huge gift pack or something...

The director even thoughtfully introduced packages like "Seven-Day Memorial Combo," "Half-Month Luxury Package," and "Full-Month Supreme Package," regardless of whether the body would shrivel up after being stored for so long.

Even if there was a cold storage cabinet, the bodies would still be displayed for everyone to share during the memorial service.

Moreover, there had been an overflow of bodies recently, the cold storage was full, and the director had even purchased a new cold storage unit just to earn more money.

These days, Shen Tong kept hearing Miss Huang, responsible for cosmetic care of the bodies, complain bitterly. He had been doing restorative work rather than cosmetic work lately; the bodies had turned into raisins, and yet she still had to make them look like lush grapes...

However, this maneuver by the director did indeed bring additional revenue to the funeral home. With its hectic daytime operations, Shen Tong also felt terribly overworked lately, becoming increasingly frail, and he found it hard to keep up with nightly indulgences in lascivious pictures.

Shen Tong understood that "High Energy Ahead" hinted that the human soul might linger in Peach Blossom Land after death and even lead a happy and joyous life. Relatives held lavishly repeated memorial services with the hope that the deceased would enter Peach Blossom Land.

Loved by family in life, one might still receive blessings after death.

Shen Tong glanced at the fiercely burning Corpse Refining Furnace, thinking that nameless vagrants who died on the streets were simply unlucky.

If he could earn the favor of the Goddess of Destiny and awaken to become a Transcendent, could he avoid such a lonely demise?

On the screen, the Cloaked Girl with Blue Hair slightly parted her cherry lips, and her pleasant voice made even Shen Tong, who was using a 15-yuan pair of headphones, feel as though he was enjoying a concert. "No take-backs with a wave of the hand, no regrets with a piece laid down." It was as if even his soul was soothed.

There was a line of subtitles at the bottom of the screen, real-time captions in both Chinese and English.

Shen Tong hadn't turned off the bullet comments. As soon as the Cloaked Girl with Blue Hair began to speak, the screen filled with unsightly bullet comments like "So soothing to the ear," "My ears are pregnant," and "Please scold me, miss." So, he simply turned off the comments.

The Cloaked Girl with Blue Hair gently tapped a card beside her with her right hand, and then these cards, embedded with peculiar starry sky patterns, began to float and circle above the wooden table.

She softly laughed and said, "Destiny has prepared a lavish feast. Is the Immortal Venerate ready to partake?"

At that moment, Shen Tong heard a voice that was very close yet strangely ethereal, neither clearly male nor female, neither old nor young:

"Then let us thoroughly enjoy every dish Destiny has prepared."

Was that... the voice of the Supreme Supreme of Fairy Palace!?

Although Shen Tong didn't know the status of the Supreme Supreme in Fairy Palace, the voice was full of immortality, and it was a conversation with an extremely mysterious miss. Their talk revolved around "Destiny" and "chess pieces," and sounded very impressive.

Most importantly—this livestream was hosted by Ren Naiser.

In the span of a few months, Ren Naiser had become a gold-lettered signboard. His Transcendent videos, without exception, were all events that truly happened, and the characters appearing in them were all real powerhouses. No one questioned the content of his videos anymore.

Although Shen Tong believed that the person not shown in the video was the Supreme Supreme, he vaguely felt something subtle about it.

So the two of you discuss Destiny, such a highbrow topic, just by lighting a candle in this small wooden cabin?

Furthermore, the Supreme Supreme and the Cloaked Girl with Blue Hair didn't seem to be enemies, which meant there would be no fight.

There would be no fight, just talking.

Could it be that this livestream was just to let the audience witness the Supreme Supreme's flirting in real time?

As he pondered, the Cloaked Girl with Blue Hair suddenly gathered the floating cards in the air, and moments later, only four cards remained on the table. "Has the Immortal Venerate chosen his pieces?"

A golden figurine of a woman suddenly appeared on one of the cards, pressing down heavily on it.

At that moment, Shen Tong suddenly heard a strange noise coming from the Corpse Refining Furnace. He turned his head to look, thinking that perhaps a bone had exploded.

Supreme Supreme: "Phoenix Nirvana, reborn through fire, is an excellent piece."

The Cloaked Girl with Blue Hair said, "Then let's see what her first step after rebirth will encounter."

The card pressed down by the little golden figurine quietly disintegrated, appearing midair for all the audience to see its front: a group of ghosts gathered together, as if quietly discussing something in a black and white drawing. Below was the name of the card—

"Ghost Party."

At that instant, Shen Tong suddenly felt a chill in his body.

As the only staff member on duty, Shen Tong naturally had no permission to turn on the air conditioning.

But the nights in Baiyun City were cool, and since the Corpse Refining Furnace was a mobile bed incinerator, it wouldn't be hot outside; a fan would suffice for Shen Tong to get by.

So this chill was definitely not due to a drop in temperature.

Shen Tong slowly turned his head and saw, floating above him, several transparent, ghostly figures.

Before Shen Tong looked up, they seemed to be minding their own business. But when he raised his head, these ghostly figures all turned to look at him—directly, with great longing, staring at him.

A bone-chilling cold spread over Shen Tong, freezing him to the core; he couldn't move, nor did he dare to—Shen Tong, who had always been an observer of mysterious events on the screen, had no mental fortitude to deal with them in reality.

As he stiffened, he heard further commentary from the Cloaked Girl with Blue Hair through his earpiece:

"These are a group of ghosts whispering to each other, contemplating whether or not to take away the vibrant young body of the boy in front of them."

Shen Tong barely managed to shift his gaze and found that the image on the "Ghost Party" card in the video had changed. It was no longer a black and white card illustration but a real-life image.

In the image, there was a young man sitting next to the Corpse Refining Furnace with a phone, and enveloping his head were dozens of phantom ghosts!

I, see, myself?!

"However, the ghosts are not inherently evil; they don't wish to harm the boy," said the pleasant voice through the earpiece, bringing Shen Tong a moment of relief. But the next second left him even more anxious: "So they will just suck away a portion of his Life Energy as they did a few days ago."

Suck away a part of my Life Energy?!

Wait, as they did a few days ago?!

No wonder I've felt like my nutrition hasn't been keeping up these past few days!

"But now the boy has discovered them, and the Fear of Annihilation has completely muddled their will." The Cloaked Girl with Blue Hair's voice continued, and her words sent Shen Tong's heart into the abyss: "They are about to use the boy as their main course for a party, sucking away all his Life Energy to extend their own years."

Suck away all my Life Energy?

Shen Tong looked at the phone screen and suddenly felt a bit ridiculous: he must be the first person to live-stream being sucked dry by a ghost, right? And there seemed to be not even a single female ghost among them...

"One must not stand idly by."

As soon as the Supreme Supreme spoke, Shen Tong felt as if he had heard the sound of the heavens!

"Let all dust return to dust, and soil to soil. Eliminate sins born of the heart, grant eternal peace."

The Cloaked Girl with Blue Hair chuckled lightly, "But will things really go as the Immortal Venerate wishes?"

Supreme Supreme: "The decree of the Fairy Palace is the Destiny of the mortal world!"

A card suddenly appeared on the screen, its pattern a dazzling orb of colorful light known as:

Great Hope!

At the same time, a ray of light suddenly pierced through the ceiling, directly landing on the group of ghosts!

The ghosts let out piercing shrieks, nearly bursting Shen Tong's eardrums, but at that moment, they also dripped some murky, foul-smelling black liquid, their bodies becoming purer.

The black liquid that fell to the floor gathered together and swiftly morphed into a deep black strange creature with a single eye but mouths all over its body!

No sooner had it formed than it dashed towards Shen Tong like an arrow released from a bow!

The dozens of gruesome mouths on its body all opened wide, its sharp saw-like teeth seemingly ready to grind Shen Tong into minced meat and swallow him!

By now, Shen Tong was no longer immobilized by the bone-chilling cold and could move freely, but his legs had already turned to jelly out of fear, making escape impossible!

Just as he was about to be embraced and eaten by the strange creature, the mobile bed incinerator suddenly let out a huge noise!

The locked iron door was forcefully opened with a punch from the inside!

And then, with a WHOOSH, the strange creature rushing towards Shen Tong was knocked away by a blazing figure!

"UWAAAAAHHHH—" The strange creature let out a ghastly scream from its dozens of mouths as it fell from the broken wall, its large eye spinning madly, before finally fixing on the figure that had knocked it away!

Shen Tong stared blankly at the person who had saved him.

He had thrown the body of the Unnamed female into the Corpse Refining Furnace for dozens of minutes; even if the bones hadn't turned to ash, the body surely must have been reduced to Charcoal.

So what was going on with this beautiful girl with long black hair wearing a bikini in front of him!?

Impossible!

How could she still be wearing an intact set of a bikini? Both the bra and panties complete!

"In compliance with the Immortal Venerate's Imperial Edict, I twist the gears of fate," Unnamed stepped forward, her voice exceedingly high-pitched as she said, "I shall not fail the grace of rebirth!"

* * *

"In compliance with the Immortal Venerate's Imperial Edict, I twist the gears of fate," Ren Suo, lying on the couch and eating a small cake, mumbled with his mouth full, "I shall not fail the grace of rebirth!"

Unlike typing out dialogue during battle, which would be slower, Ren Suo chose to speak the lines himself.

After all, in the upload settings, one could choose the game character's tone and accent, so even if Ren Suo spoke with his mouth full, the game character could still sound as if making a heroic sacrifice, full of fervor.

However, even after drawing the 'Great Hope' card, which weakened the enemy, Ren Suo, playing the combat mode of this game for the first time, wasn't quite sure he could execute a perfect start.

So, he quickly exited the game, equipped the new character 'Unnamed' with 'Flame Overlord' and 'Combat Basics' on the 'Equipment Interface', and then moved to the space of Destiny to let the Supreme Overlord speak:

"The blade still sheathed; who can you cut down? Follow your nature, release your instincts!"

Ren Suo also playfully tapped on the little golden statue, making it shine with a light glow, as if the Supreme Supreme was buffing Unnamed.

On the other hand, the inspired Unnamed said coldly, "Yes, Immortal Venerate!"

The next second, Unnamed's body burst into crimson flames, clashing head-on with the black strange creature that was leaping towards her!

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