A Peacock Husband of Five Princesses by day, a Noble Assassin by Night-Chapter 216
The glowing holographic wheel appeared before his fading eyes. he could see the image of coins, blank slots, and some fragments of a jellyfish.
Lin Fang didn't waste time. He tapped the 11x button.
The wheel spun. The water vibrated faintly from the system's glow.
*Ding!
[You received: Spirit Jellyfish Shard x9, Coins +68.]
He exhaled sharply. "Again…"
He kept spinning.
11x.
Again.
Again.
Again.
Without any care about how many coins he was spending and what results he was getting. The only thing he needed was a particular notification to stop his process.
Lin Fang's fingers shook violently, but he kept pressing the button. His life was being chipped away. His mana was trying its best to resist the salt waters that invaded his body. Pain was shredding through him. His consciousness flickered—
—but he didn't stop.
By the 15th spin, at last...
Ding!
[Spirit Jellyfish Shards: 102/100.]
Lin Fang almost laughed — or cried — or both at once.
"Finally…" he rasped, hand slipping from the holographic wheel as his head sank slightly.
Alpha's voice softened just a fraction. "Good. Now hold on, kid. We're not out of danger yet."
Lin Fang's grip tightened weakly on consciousness.
And the water around him continued to bleed red.
### **Chapter 133 — Jelly and the Breath of Life**
The pain in Lin Fang's body hadn't even faded when the next wave of light flooded his vision. The system prompt hovered before his eyes, steady and cold even as his awareness wavered.
**Assimilate 100 Spirit Jellyfish shards?**
"Yes," he replied without hesitation.
The shards dissolved into motes of light and vanished.
**Spirit Jellyfish Summon Token has been added to your inventory.**\\
**Lottery-origin spirit detected. Rejected from Summoner's Shop.**\\
**Excess shards dismantled. +30 Coins obtained.**\\
**Lottery Wheel refreshed. New item added to shop.**
The wheel flickered briefly, revealing the silhouette of a massive woolly mammoth before Lin Fang dismissed it without sparing it a glance. His focus was already elsewhere. He dragged open his inventory, found the newly formed summon token, and activated it.
A faint golden glow bloomed in the dark water before him.
At first, it was no bigger than his palm. A tiny jellyfish, soft and translucent, pulsed with gentle light as it floated just above his eyes, bobbing in the water as if curious about the world it had just entered.
The system prompt appeared again.
**Please name your summoned creature.**
Lin Fang didn't think twice. "Jelly."
The name locked in.
**Bond formed. You have reached maximum summon capacity. Upgrade required for additional summons.**
Lin Fang barely registered the last line. His hands moved quickly as he opened the shop and bought a stack of growth pills in bulk. Fifty thousand coins vanished in one transaction. He crushed the pills in sequence and let the system feed them to Jelly.
Eight pills in.
The transformation was immediate.
Light surged outward like a pulse. The tiny jellyfish swelled in size, its glow intensifying until the lakebed around him was bathed in warm gold. Its delicate internal structure became clearer, flowing strands of energy drifting within its bell like living rivers. In an instant, its presence shifted from fragile to powerful.
Commander Tier.
Lin Fang didn't waste time. His chest still burned, his blood still drifted in thin trails through the water.
"Jelly… help me," he whispered through the bond.
A soft squeal echoed in his mind, clear and innocent.
The jellyfish flared with blinding light.
The glow wrapped around Lin Fang's body like a cocoon. The torn flesh along his chest knit back together. Fractured bones realigned with muffled snaps. The icy burn of salt water vanished as warmth flooded his veins. His lungs filled with strength again. Even his mana core surged, overflowing back to full as if it had never been emptied.
For a single breath, Lin Fang felt perfect.
Then the light faded.
The once-radiant jellyfish shrank rapidly, its glow dimming until it looked like a deflated golden lantern drifting helplessly downward. Its movements slowed, sinking gently through the water.
Lin Fang caught the new system notice as it appeared.
**Restoration Skill (Level 30): Restores the target to peak condition within the last 24 hours.**\\
**Cooldown effect: Summoner enters hibernation for 24 hours.**
He reached out and lightly touched the soft surface of its bell. "You did good," he murmured through their bond.
A faint, sleepy emotion brushed against his consciousness before Jelly fell completely still.
He stored it carefully back into the pet inventory.
Only then did Lin Fang turn his attention forward.
Through the distorted water, he could see Sun Nianxi's small body drifting weakly. Her breathing was uneven, her burns dark against her skin. Without a word, Lin Fang angled forward and swam toward her, the lake around them once more growing heavy with blood and shadow.
### **Chapter 134 — The Weight of Witnesses**
Lin Fang reached her just in time.
Sun Nianxi's body drifted weakly in the water, burns still crawling across her skin like blackened veins. Without hesitation, Lin Fang placed one hand against her back and released Alpha's **Genesis Pulse**. A soft golden shockwave spread outward from his palm.
Her wounds vanished in seconds.
The second-degree burns faded as if they had never existed. Beneath the surface, the damage to her organs and torn flesh rewound itself completely.
A system prompt flashed before Lin Fang's eyes.
**Greater Restoration activated by Divine Authority. Internal injuries fully healed.**
He grabbed her around the waist and kicked upward with all his strength.
They burst through the surface together.
Lin Fang sucked in a long breath of air, chest tightening with relief as his lungs filled properly for the first time in minutes. He kept a firm grip on Nianxi as he turned his head toward the shore.
The lake had turned into a battlefield.
The Green Anaconda King thrashed violently near the shoreline, its massive body rearing again and again as black lightning and sword light tore across its scales. Li Ying's wyvern swooped low, spitting dark flame along the serpent's wounded flank. Bu Mokong struck from the side with heavy bursts of force. And above them all, the white-haired teenager leapt through the air, black lightning exploding around his blade as he slashed downward again.
Ryan.
Lin Fang's eyes narrowed behind the wolf mask.
"That brat…" he muttered.
The memory of the black lightning ripping through the water earlier flashed through his mind. Not all of it had struck the Anaconda. Nianxi had taken the rest.
The urge to kill him surged hot and immediate.
Lin Fang forced it down.
He didn't know the boy's background. Someone that young wielding that kind of power did not come from nowhere. Charging in blindly would only invite bigger trouble. And right now, this place was already watched.
His gaze shifted upward.
High in the sky, a faint red light blinked as a drone hovered silently, recording everything.
Lin Fang clicked his tongue.
Too many eyes. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖
He couldn't unleash his full strength here. Not Alpha's real power. Not the undead. Not the things that would make him impossible to explain later. And even after everything he had thrown at the Anaconda earlier, it still wasn't dead.
This monster was too tough.
With these three here, he couldn't finish it cleanly without exposing himself.
But that didn't mean he had to walk away empty-handed.
His eyes slid back to Ryan.
Lin Fang didn't need to kill him.
He only needed to make him lose.
Lin Fang did not hesitate for long.
The moment the thought settled in his mind, he turned his body and slipped back beneath the surface of the lake. The sounds of battle faded into a dull, distant roar above him, replaced by the muted pressure of water pressing in from all sides. He stayed just a few feet under, close enough that the surface shimmered dimly overhead, close enough that he could still see the shadow of the Anaconda moving like a mountain of muscle in the distance.
Nianxi floated limply beside him, just barely conscious.
Lin Fang pulled up his system interface, steadying his heartbeat as he navigated to the quest tab. His gaze locked onto the completed entry.
**Hidden Quest 1: Kill and Absorb 100,000 Common-Grade Spirits**\\
**Progress: Completed**\\
**Reward: Random Mythical-Grade Guardian Spirit**
His finger hovered over the confirmation for just a fraction of a second. Then he pressed it.
A sharp chime rang inside his skull.
**Ding. Mythical-grade guardian spirit is being assigned at random.**\\
**Ding. Congratulations, Tiamat has been selected.**\\
**Proceeding with binding…**\\
**Binding successful.**
The moment those words finished, the world snapped.
Lin Fang's consciousness was torn free from his body as if an invisible hand had reached inside his skull and ripped his soul straight out. The pressure in the water vanished. The ache in his muscles disappeared. Sound folded inward until there was nothing at all.
His body and Nianxi's both sank quietly beneath the surface.
But Lin Fang was no longer there.
He opened his eyes to a sky made of endless pale light.
