Under the leadership of the Heavensnare Saintess, Centralia was unified, while several major Western nations formed new regimes.
At the same time, ninety-nine percent of zombies worldwide had already been wiped out, with only a few hiding in remote corners, barely surviving.
The elimination of zombies did not mean humanity was safe—mutant beasts were appearing in ever greater numbers. Now, not only the land, but the skies and seas had become their domain.
Ian Song's return to this world did not attract much attention.
He simply had a drink with a group of old friends at the survivor settlement, then took Lillian Liu and Coco Guan back to the real world.
As for Jewel, she was now Centralia’s top expert, honored as the nation’s female war-god and charged with protecting humanity. If she left with Ian, Centralia would suffer a huge loss.
Therefore, he didn’t suggest that Jewel return to the real world with him.
She herself could not abandon her mission to leave with Ian.
So, the two of them had a tacit understanding about this.
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In the blink of an eye, it was already Ian Song’s deadline for his next world traversal.
Currently, seven beautiful women lived in his villa: Susie and Kara Moran from the high-martial world, Spring Lily, Autumn Fragrance, and Lena Yu from the Great Qin World, and Lillian Liu and Coco Guan from the Doomsday World.
Each of the seven beauties had her own charm, and all of them belonged to Ian.
This made Ian feel both proud and a bit troubled; he had no idea how Hannah Han would react when she discovered he had quietly found seven new partners.
So, Ian decided that in the next world he traversed, he would have to restrain himself and not casually get involved with more women.
After explaining the situation to the seven women, Ian went to the study.
With one hour left before the traversal deadline, this time Ian could choose to continue exploring worlds behind the Bronze Gate or step into a Silver Gate world.
Now that his cultivation had reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, and he had completed the first stage of the Dark-Gold Body, even early Golden Core experts could not harm him.
Therefore, traversing into a Bronze-tier world posed no danger to him.
But Bronze-tier worlds now held little value for him, so he decided to traverse into a Silver Gate world.
However, before traversing, Ian Song decided to do one or two lottery draws.
With a thought, the system interface appeared.
Host: Ian Song
Level: 18
Physical Strength: 12,000
Mental Power: 1,732
Skills: Martial Arts, Piano Master, Driving Expert, Gun Master, Super Chef, Painting & Calligraphy Expert, Eastern Medicine Expert, Gambling Expert, Language Master, Dance Master, Surging Waves, Thousand-Hand Buddha, Ninefold Dragon Step, Whirlwind Thirty-Nine Kicks, Huarong Golden Needle Technique, Fire Spellcraft.
Divine Powers: Photographic Memory, Mastery Insight, Clairvoyant Vision, Radiance of Life, Spatial Stasis, Gravity Domain, Pill Condensation Technique, Puppet Mastery Divine Art, Omniversal God-Eye, Soul-Control Brand.
Cultivation Methods: Origin-Nurturing Scripture, Azure Lotus Sword Codex, Dark-Gold Body.
Virtual World: Enabled.
Fame Points: 3.26 billion
Next Draw Fame Cost: 200 million.
"Meow-Meow, I want to draw the lottery!"
The next moment, the lottery interface appeared.
Ian Song tapped the big 'Draw' button, and the lottery pointer immediately started spinning. Correspondingly, his Fame Points decreased by 200 million.
One spin.
Two spins.
Three spins.
The pointer slowed down, finally stopping on the purple square.
Even with Ian Song’s current temperament, he couldn’t help but grin.
Very quickly, the words 'Resurrection Divine Art' appeared in golden script on the purple square.
Whoosh!
The golden script fused and shot into Ian Song’s brow. Instantly, he felt his body undergo a strange transformation, while a flood of information exploded in his mind.
Resurrection Divine Art: Eighth-grade divine art. Allows the host to resurrect upon death. Only triggers in the event of actual death. After activation, enters a three-month cooldown before it can trigger again.
"What an overpowered skill!"
After understanding the Resurrection Divine Art’s function, Ian Song was overjoyed. With this divine power, he effectively gained an extra life.
"Looks like my luck is pretty good today. Should I try another lottery draw?"
He pulled up the system interface again and saw that the lottery price had jumped from two hundred million to one billion.
What a rip-off—or at least, that’s what Ian Song thought.
Still, he decided to go for it.
He had Meow-Meow bring up the lottery interface again.
He tapped on 'Draw'.
The lottery pointer spun rapidly.
Once again, it landed on a purple square.
Three golden characters—'Beastmaster Seal'—appeared on the purple square, then turned into a beam of golden light and shot straight into Ian Song’s brow.
Soon, all the details about the Beastmaster Seal filled Ian’s mind.
Beastmaster Seal: Eighth-grade divine art. Allows the user to enslave beasts one full major realm above their own cultivation. Usable one hundred times per day.
"One full major realm—does that mean I can enslave late Golden Core monster-beasts?" Ian exclaimed.
Just thinking about it made Ian Song excited. And he could enslave up to a hundred beasts per day.
If he could command thousands of late Golden Core monster-beasts, even Nascent Soul experts would have to bow before him.
This was absolutely insane!
After a while, Ian Song finally calmed down. He brought up the lottery interface again and saw the price had risen to five billion. He couldn’t help but curl his lip.
As for his Fame Points, only 2.06 billion remained—not even enough for a single draw.
"Meow-Meow, start the traversal!" Ian ordered.
"Okay!" Meow-Meow replied cheerfully.
Then, three two-meter-high doors appeared before Ian Song.
One Bronze Gate, one Silver Gate, and one Gold Gate.
Without a moment’s hesitation, Ian Song stepped straight into the Silver Gate.
Beyond the door was another oval-shaped room, with six doors lining the walls.
Ian Song remembered Meow-Meow’s explanation: time in the Silver Gate worlds flowed ten to one compared to the real world—ten years inside equaled one year outside.
"Meow-Meow, if I spend a hundred years in a Silver Gate world, will I turn into an old man?" he asked.
Meow-Meow replied, "You don’t need to worry. Your lifespan isn’t affected by that world—it’s still calculated according to real-world time!"
"That’s a relief! Now I can relax."
Scanning the six doors, Ian Song mused to himself: The Bronze Gate had nine doors, the Silver Gate has six—would the Gold Gate only have three?
With that thought, he casually picked one of the doors and stepped inside.
Darkwing Star—a world where humans, demons, and monster-beasts coexisted.
Of the three, the demon race was the strongest, ruling sixty percent of the planet—the Demon Domain.
Monster-beasts came second, controlling thirty percent of the territory.
Humans were the weakest, occupying only ten percent of the land.
Kaiyuan City, Huang Clan, back courtyard, inside a locked study.
A youth in luxurious clothes, as fat as a pig, suddenly opened his eyes and immediately cursed under his breath: "Damn you, system—how could you swap me into a three-hundred-jin fatty?"
This three-hundred-jin fatty was none other than Ian Song—swapped into a new body by the system.