Master of Kaidan
Chapter 198 After Pretending Comes Digestion

Chapter 198: Chapter 198 After Pretending Comes Digestion

Day by day, time slipped away. The thirty-one-day challenge month finally reached its end. Members of the Hundred Tales, who possessed passage rights, began to patrol the tower, driving out the kaidan that had not yet obtained residence rights.

In truth, it was more of a symbolic action, for no violence could occur within the Tower of Babylon, and they did not have the ability to expel those kaidan.

As a rule, unless a rental contract was made to travel to the otherworld, kaidan would generally choose to leave obediently.

After all, merely having passage rights served no purpose within the Tower of Babylon. As for the possibility of challenging at any time... ultimately, if one’s strength was sufficient, a month would be more than enough, but if not, dragging it out for a year or two would still yield no hope. Instead of wasting time in the Tower of Babylon, it was better to go out and train.

Of course, there were those who would indulge themselves by defeating guards on the stairwell. But for Feng Xue, who accidentally killed a superpowered kaidan, cavalry and mass raids no longer held any significance.

Back in the South District, Feng Xue lay on the sofa, his mind replaying the battle with the Vampire Big Sister. Unlike previous and subsequent combats, it was the closest he ever came to obtaining residence rights, yet, undeniably, he failed.

Even though he seized the initiative, even though he had revealed all his trump cards, even though the opponent appeared with their apparitions not fully equipped, he still lost.

In fact, he suspected that his opponent might not have used their full strength. After all, from beginning to end, they only wielded powers from the Vampire and Holy Knight systems. He did not believe that a Daywalker could merely act under the sun, nor that a Vampire Hunter’s attack was solely lethal to vampires.

His opponent had barely used any apparitions (actually because they had gone out for tea, leaving weapons and such inconvenient to carry at home, and had not the time to fetch them in five minutes), yet they treated Feng Xue’s full effort as a mere warm-up, leaving him completely dissatisfied.

But no matter how unsatisfied he was, lacking strength meant lacking strength. Even if he managed to secure victory through the opponent’s momentary carelessness, he would soon be challenged afresh by a regrouped rival.

Taking a deep breath, Feng Xue picked up his work badge and dialed Old Li’s number again—

"Hello?"

"Oh, Feng Xue, I thought you’d directly rented a gate and gone to the Otherworld. How’s it going? Feeling the pressure? Or did you not even defeat the guards?" Old Li’s brazen voice echoed through the badge. Feng Xue raised his eyebrows and joked,

"Why can’t it be that I’ve already obtained the residence rights?"

"Don’t kid yourself, even when Infinite City first came into existence, no powerless individual ever obtained residence rights..."

Old Li’s tone was resolute, but Feng Xue revealed a mischievous smile:

"But I’m already a kaidan!"

"I know... What the fuck? What the fuck! WHAT THE FUCK!!!" Old Li’s voice was full of disbelief. After a series of loud exclamations, he continued with an immensely complicated tone,

"You’ve only been in Infinite City for a year, right?"

"To be exact, a year and three months." Feng Xue added, and Old Li apparently fell into a silent state, hesitating to speak for about twenty seconds before tentatively saying,

"You wouldn’t... well, I mean, you should, um, anyway, did you get residence rights?"

"No," Feng Xue clearly heard Old Li’s audible sigh of relief upon his response, and he also sensed a hint of concealed disappointment in the other man’s demeanor.

"Then what did you want to ask?" Old Li seemed to regain his composure, reverting to his lazy tone. Feng Xue shifted slightly and said,

"I want to know how to cross the threshold of ’newborn,’ or rather, why does everyone who sees me call me a ’newborn’? Although I haven’t been in this world for long, it shouldn’t be something easily discerned, right?"

"Newborn... have you already got more than two kaidan entries?" Old Li’s recently calmed tone became excited again. Feng Xue found it somewhat amusing, but he still replied,

"That’s right. Originally, it was just one kaidan, but during its diffusion, something seemed to change, so it developed a subordinate kaidan."

"You really have unparalleled luck." Not knowing that Feng Xue possessed the top-tier cheat code of "Mastering Language," which he attributed to luck, Old Li said,

"Actually, it’s nothing special. In short, the process of acquiring kaidan entries in the early stage focuses on ’performing,’ and after becoming a kaidan, what you need to do is ’digest.’"

"Digest, huh..." Feng Xue casually threw the salt aside. He was evidently dissatisfied with this vague term. Fortunately, Old Li somewhat needed his help, so he directly asked,

"Digest... does that mean merging those kaidan entries? Like merging [Enchanting Demon] and [Paladin] to become [Enchanting Demon Paladins]?"

"No, no, no, it’s not like that!" Old Li used a very serious tone to deny Feng Xue’s assumption, then continued,

"Merging kaidan entries is a frustrating task. Even if you succeed, you only transform multiple singular kaidan into a composite kaidan. Although some abilities might change, it’ll waste the fame accumulated by the original kaidan entries. Both the effort expended and the final rewards are far less valuable than creating a new kaidan."

"Not merging? But I see that kaidan have only one flame..."

Feng Xue was surprised by Old Li’s answer. He thought kaidan’s creation was a process of accumulating elements and stacking labels, so the next step should be to stack the entries to form something larger. Ultimately, this path would merge hundreds or thousands of kaidan into one, reaching a semi-omniscient, almighty god-like state.

But now, it seemed that Old Li meant Feng Xue had misunderstood?

Hearing Feng Xue’s confusion, Old Li seemed unsurprised and explained immediately,

"Let me put it this way. Once a kaidan condenses a kaidan entry, or what’s called a ’kaidan fire’, even if the kaidan’s main body is killed, it will resurrect in people’s memories. Do you know that?"

"Yes, I know, but is there a problem?" Upon hearing Old Li mention this "common knowledge," Feng Xue frowned, wondering if there were pitfalls in this ultimate pursuit of "Undying" sought by all.

"Not precisely a problem, though our only choice to gain power is to ’become’ a kaidan." Old Li emphasized the word ’become,’ intensifying Feng Xue’s sense of unease. Just as he was about to speak, Old Li continued, though without directly providing an answer. Instead, he posed a question:

"If you died now, what do you think the you resurrected from people’s memories would be like?"