Ascending the Heavens as an Evil God

Sylvia was always by Gu Nan’s side recently. She was still worried about Gu Nan's plans for the Mirror God.

After learning that Gu Nan would use Cain's Left Hand soon, she simply started following him to see what he was actually going to use the staff for.

On the other hand, she was also very curious about this other controller of shadows.

Her efforts finally paid off. Classmate Sylvia eventually saw Gu Nan make a move, and his first move was using a power she’d never seen before.

"So the power of shadows can also be used to create life?" Sylvia murmured. Her mind was already filled with "Shadow Resurrection”—a term Gu Nan made up on the spot— there was no room for anything else in her head.

Gu Nan gave a somewhat strange smile. He didn’t mind leading Sylvia astray. Anyhow, regardless of whether it was the right or wrong path, this Goddess of Shadows wouldn’t be able to grow stronger even after tens of thousands of years.

Maybe she could even discover an entirely new path if he directed her down a nonsensical path?

Gu Nan shook his head and threw both Zi Dian and Shana to Lady Mara, asking her to help find the antidote.

The information revealed by the shadow servant of Lu Xinhuan wasn’t completely exact. There were still some vague places in the formula.

But this didn't matter. In any case, Qinghe Pavilion still had lots of these kinds of gu worms lying around, so they could simply find some random people to test the antidote on. Two days was enough time to determine the correct antidote.

Of course Gu Nan didn’t know if the shadow servant’s information was complete or not, but he didn’t care all that much if the two hostages died.

Zi Dian was merely a bonus that came with Wu Gui, and while it would naturally be best if Shana could survive, Gu Nan also had Christina as a substitute if she died, so Shana wasn’t a must-have either.

If not for the fact that he was in a hurry, then a conventional genius like Christina would actually be more suited to being the clan head, both in terms of personality and prestige.

……

Gu Nan didn’t have to wait too long. Just two days later, a perfectly intact Zi Dian and Shana stood in front of Gu Nan.

The Raymond clan was quite competent when it came to handling matters, especially since they wanted to request something from Gu Nan.

And someone else who also arrived at the same time was the maiden Wu Gui, whom Gu Nan hadn’t seen for a long time.

Wu Gui currently looked a little disheveled. Her exquisite kasaya was slightly tattered, and she even put away the lotus pedestal she always sat on, instead electing to rush here on foot.

Indeed, Qinghe Realm’s power couldn’t be underestimated. Just a single Lu Xinhuan could call over a helper of Sylvia’s level and even stall Wu Gui for a while.

"You sure have it easy, leaving us behind in Skeleton City and then arbitrarily falling out with the people from Qinghe Realm." Wu Gui saw Gu Nan’s calm expression and was instantly furious.

With her and Zi Dian's patience, waiting for two months was nothing, but the people of Qinghe Pavilion suddenly turning on them was truly unexpected.

It could be said that Gu Nan's act of abducting Zhong Die indirectly screwed Wu Gui and Zi Dian over.

But Gu Nan shrugged, entirely unconcerned. He’d always acted without regard for what others thought. As long as it didn’t affect his plans, who cares who died?

"You’re just in time. I had these vampires investigate the Sacred Catacombs of the Undead. We’ll leave as soon as there’s a result," Gu Nan told Wu Gui.

In his original plan, he was already planning to have the vampires search the entrance to the Sacred Catacombs. Lu Xinhuan and her group were actually an accident.

"I hope we won't have to wait too long this time," Wu Gui couldn’t do anything about him, so she could only throw down such a sentence.

Gu Nan naturally ignored her. His daily routine continued to be training Zhong Die. Oh, and there was one more task, which was to help Shana run for clan head.

Because the God of Iron was also behind the Raymond clan, Gu Nan couldn’t just kidnap the entire clan—not if he didn’t want to completely expose his existence to this side.

The way he helped Shana was also very simple—he gave her Cain’s Left Hand.

Shana fused her own origin blood with it as soon as she received this staff, turning this divine weapon into her sole possession.

From then on, unless she died, she was the only one who could use this staff.

This was too much of an advantage in the clan leader election!

The Ancestor’s Staff was able to directly enhance the purity of a vampire’s bloodline and indirectly increase the strength of the vampire clan.

Now that it fell into Shana's hands, even if the entire clan could use it, it would only be through Shana.

And since there were so many people in the clan, there had to be a line, right? Who could go first and who would be next, as well as who could use it for a longer time—as the owner of the divine weapon, Shana undoubtedly had an extremely large say in it.

Even if she gave off the impression of treating everyone equally on the surface, it was quite a simple matter for her to tamper with the actual process slightly.

Day by day, Shana stabilized her position in the Raymond clan, and voices supporting her to become the next clan head also grew.

It was at a time like this when they found one of the entrances to the Sacred Catacombs of the Undead.

The Sacred Catacombs of the Undead was indeed a mystical place. Not only did it have nine entrances, but each one’s location was in constant flux.

Almost every once in a while, an entrance would appear in a different place.

Gu Nan's luck was pretty good this time. One of the entrances wasn’t far from the Capital of Blood, and he could get there in two days while traveling on foot.

Three figures slowly appeared at the entrance to Yorktown, the location of the current entrance.

"It's on that mountain," said the white-robed young man among the trio.

Beside him were two women. One was dressed in a gold kasaya, but with an expression as cold as frost. The other one wore a black dress, and her gaze kept wandering around.

The three quickly headed for the mountain peak, but a few people at the foot of the mountain immediately stepped forward, blocking their way.

"Who are you three? Up ahead is—"

Before their voices fell, the white-robed youth had already swallowed them all into the shadows with a gentle wave of his hand.

These three newcomers were naturally Gu Nan and his party. He brought Wu Gui to the Sacred Catacombs of the Undead, and Sylvia also followed them.

"How cruel!" Sylvia shook her head, expressing her distaste of Gu Nan's action.

Wu Gui cast her a puzzled glance. In the former's eyes, this girl in black was clearly also a Star Ruler existence. By all rights, she really shouldn’t be so sentimental.

Gu Nan, however, just smiled. He knew that the gods in the World of Gods had a closer relationship with mortals than Star Rulers did. After all, they still required faith.

Gu Nan and his group clearly weren’t the first to discover the entrance to the Sacred Catacombs. The entire road up the mountain was guarded by people.

But news of a strong enemy attack spread quickly, and no one dared to come up and stop them again after a few waves of people died at Gu Nan's hands.

When the three of them reached the top of the mountain, they saw a faintly fluorescent cave entrance surrounded by groups of powerful figures from various sides.

This was clearly not the one “real” entrance everyone knew how to open, so everyone was blocked outside, while a few who refused to give up were still trying to use their own methods to open it.

Gu Nan merely glanced at the sign outside the cave, then told Wu Gui with a smile, "Your luck isn’t bad."

Wu Gui's luck really was good. The random entrance they found just happened to correspond to the tomb of the Living Dead.

Perhaps some of the surrounding people overheard Gu Nan. Immediately, someone walked over with a smile. "Do you want to try solving the entrance's puzzle? Just pay three hundred divine gold coins each."

Sylvia stared at this person somewhat speechlessly, not expecting that even a Sacred Catacombs they couldn't open could be turned into a means of raking in money.

But she also didn’t care about such a small amount of gold coins. For a place like the Sacred Catacombs of the Undead, it was obviously better to sneak in rather than cause a commotion.

But Gu Nan continued walking forward by himself. The man who came up to talk leisurely blocked Gu Nan’s way, still smiling.

Several commerce guilds joined forces to control the entrance. They were strong enough to bully normal experts, and the truly strong powerhouses wouldn’t care about this meager amount of money anyways.

After all, the fewer people who knew about the Sacred Catacombs, the better. He believed that no one wanted information on this place to be made public.

However, the next moment, his head flew up into the sky and landed heavily to the side, while Gu Nan didn't even spare him a glance.

As far as players were concerned, money that can be saved by killing people definitely should be saved—Gu Nan said so in his heart, making it sound like he actually had any money in the first place.