Sacred Souls: Genesis
Chapter 578 - 557: Harmony! (1st Update)

Chapter 578: Chapter 557: Harmony! (1st Update)

This was definitely the most nervous moment Jiang Qiao had ever experienced since his birth, way more nerve-wracking than the college entrance examination.

But upon careful consideration...there wasn’t any reason for Jiang Qiao to be nervous. Even if Wan Xiang and Add-Milk-Don’t-Add-Money found out about him living with Hai Lan, there wouldn’t be any problems.

The main reason Jiang Qiao didn’t want Hai Lan to show up in front of everyone was because...it would be very troublesome to explain.

However, after several evolutions, Fureya’s appearance now had some differences from Hai Lan. The most intuitive impression was that at first glance they looked quite similar, but a closer look would reveal that they were completely different people.

Plus, Hai Lan’s current hair color had been adjusted to black. Jiang Qiao thought there probably wouldn’t be any issues.

Calm down, Jiang Qiao... it’s just members of the Nameless Guild getting together for a meal offline!

"Jiang Qiao...I’m hungry," Hai Lan suddenly stopped scrolling through her phone and habitually spoke to Jiang Qiao, who was sitting beside her.

"The chopsticks and bowls are in the kitchen! Go get them yourself!"

Jiang Qiao almost lifted Hai Lan from the sofa and threw her onto the floor. Maybe because he had spoiled Hai Lan when they first met, Jiang Qiao now really felt like he was raising a chubby cat that required someone to feed it even its cat food.

Hai Lan dawdled a bit before heading into the kitchen.

"Jiang Qiao... your relationship with her seems...very good?" Wan Xiang glanced at Hai Lan’s back and spoke in a very low voice.

"A good relationship? My relationship with her is more like that of a pet owner and pet..."

Jiang Qiao said this very confidently, knowing full well Hai Lan could hear everything he was saying in the kitchen.

"Pet..." Wan Xiang was somewhat taken aback by Jiang Qiao’s description of Hai Lan, but Add-Milk-Don’t-Add-Money, on the other hand, didn’t see anything amiss, instead...

"Guild leader, can I help you raise her?" Add-Milk-Don’t-Add-Money said.

"Wait a minute, Add-Milk, what do you mean by raising her together..."

"I live right next to you, Guild Leader. I usually order takeout for meals. I’ve just realized, can I come over for meals in the future? And I can help take care of the pet too."

Add-Milk-Don’t-Add-Money launched her offensive first, and Wan Xiang already sensed danger approaching.

Raise together? Is that even an option? No...you shouldn’t treat a person as a pet, right?

But...

"I...I can do it too!" Wan Xiang promptly joined in, knowing she’d have no chance if she didn’t speak up now. "The school is also very close to here. Can I come over to eat too?"

At this moment, Jiang Qiao was being watched by both Wan Xiang and Add-Milk-Don’t-Add-Money. Logically speaking, Hai Lan should come forward to refuse because if Wan Xiang and Add-Milk-Don’t-Add-Money came over for meals...

"That’s okay." Hai Lan unexpectedly poked her head out from the kitchen and said, "In that case, Jiang Qiao will have to make breakfast, lunch, and dinner for four people, right?"

Hai Lan’s response gave Jiang Qiao a headache as he covered his forehead.

"Come over whenever you want, consider it a perk of the Nameless Guild."

Jiang Qiao really couldn’t think of how to refuse Add-Milk-Don’t-Add-Money’s proposal since Add-Milk-Don’t-Add-Money had helped him out a lot. If he didn’t refuse her but only Wan Xiang...

Then he would feel too distressed for Wan Xiang.

The feeling of being excluded by the group, that must be what Wan Xiang dislikes the most.

After all, it’s just coming over to mooch off meals! If Jiang Qiao could take care of Hai Lan, other members of the Nameless Guild should be able to manage as well.

"I...I will bring my own ingredients most of the time," Wan Xiang said, seeming very happy after getting permission to visit Jiang Qiao’s home.

What surprised Jiang Qiao the most was that Hai Lan actually brought over the food for four people.

The dinner passed very harmoniously. Wan Xiang had excellent table manners, such as not speaking while eating and chewing carefully, habits that one is taught from a young age, which Wan Xiang practiced to perfection.

From the whole dinner, Jiang Qiao felt like Wan Xiang was a proper lady, sitting at the table with a girl who seemed like she was famished, and another quite normal girl who was just very picky.

Add-Milk-Don’t-Add-Money surprisingly didn’t like vegetables much and preferred meat, perhaps because meat was more expensive?

There wasn’t much communication throughout the meal, and afterwards, Wan Xiang even helped Jiang Qiao clean up the dishes...ending this somewhat tumultuous offline gathering of the Nameless Guild.

Eventually, around nine o’clock that evening, Wan Xiang and Add-Milk-Don’t-Add-Money tidied up and came to Jiang Qiao’s door to say goodbye.

"Can I... come again tomorrow?"

Wan Xiang repeated the same question to Jiang Qiao as if to confirm, just before she left.

"Well, I’m coming over for breakfast tomorrow anyway."

"I... might have early self-study tomorrow, so I can only come over at noon and in the evening..." She stretched out her finger, carefully calculating the time to travel between Jiang Qiao’s house and the school.

Jiang Qiao was glad that where he lived wasn’t too far from his school; otherwise, this girl might face a substantial risk of failing her exams.

"You can come whenever you want, Wan Xiang. Do you want me to walk you home? I remember our dorms close at ten o’clock." Jiang Qiao was still anxious about Wan Xiang being out so late by herself.

But this task was eagerly taken up by Add-Milk-Don’t-Add-Money, and under Jiang Qiao’s watchful eye, the two of them took the elevator and left the floor.

Today was fairly peaceful, but what about tomorrow?

Jiang Qiao no longer had the mood to consider all this, because...

"Jiang Qiao!" Hai Lan rushed to Jiang Qiao’s face the first time, "Alma from the Sustainable Sanctuary said she has an urgent matter to find us."

"Got it..."

Jiang Qiao still had a pile of affairs accumulating in the game that needed to be dealt with.

......

The core area of Sustainable City.

"Agent, this is Tian Qi, the Governor of the Order Sanctuary," said Spear Alma, pointing to a holographic projection behind her.

The figure displayed in the holographic image behind her was a hunchbacked old man.

"Is the Order Sanctuary planning to form an alliance with us?" Jiang Qiao had guessed this possibility a long time ago, the Sustainable Sanctuary turned into a hive was most likely to first invade the Order Sanctuary.

Because the Order Sanctuary was the closest to the Sustainable Sanctuary, had it not been for the brave warriors of the Annihilation Legion delaying the Void Swarm’s advance, the Order Sanctuary would have likely been surrounded by the hive long ago.

"Strictly speaking, it’s not forming an alliance. I persuaded them to allocate a hundred deities to fill the cracks in your Divine Fragments, plus the gods under my command, we should be able to repair those two shattered Divine Fragments in one go," Spear Alma finally truly helped Jiang Qiao.

"Really?"

But Jiang Qiao still dared not believe it completely, fearing there was some trap, this was tantamount to Order Sanctuary selling a hundred gods to Jiang Qiao.

"In the face of a calamity capable of destroying the entire Creator’s Sanctuary, every individual entity of the Creator’s Sanctuary is insignificant," said the supervisor named Tian Qi, uttering such a statement.

"So... where are the gods you are providing?" Jiang Qiao wouldn’t hand over the Divine Fragments; what he wanted was for them to send the gods over.

"Right beneath this."

As Spear Alma’s voice fell, the ground beneath Jiang Qiao’s feet suddenly turned completely transparent.

Jiang Qiao looked down at the space below and saw a hundred metallic rectangular constructs, which looked like coffins.

But Jiang Qiao could sense the presence of life within them, or rather, the aura of deities.

"What do you mean by this?"

Jiang Qiao realized that these ’coffins’ came with a sealing effect, meaning these hundred gods from the Order Sanctuary were forcibly captured and brought here.

"Not satisfied, Devouring God? Isn’t a hundred offerings enough?" asked Tian Qi, the Governor from Order Sanctuary, somewhat dissatisfied.

"Very satisfied, more or less."

Jiang Qiao suppressed the anger in his heart. Order Sanctuary was not selling people to Jiang Qiao, it was more like selling livestock, food, to the Devouring God.

Now, to deal with the Void Swarm, the Creator’s Sanctuary needed to borrow the strength of the Devouring God.

These hundred gods were the offerings, the nourishment for Hai Lan.

After Jiang Qiao had figured it out, he immediately summoned the Fire Spirit to smash the ground beneath their feet, and then Jiang Qiao and Hai Lan descended into the space where the hundred unfortunate deities were located.

"Maybe I should have asked the Order Sanctuary to use a more... appropriate method?" Spear Alma also appeared in the center of this space and asked.

"How do you open this?"

Jiang Qiao came to one of the coffins and started asking Alma.

The complexity of this device far surpassed Jiang Qiao’s imagination.

"They won’t be grateful to you, Holy Spirit," warned Spear Alma, really hoping at times like this that Jiang Qiao could be a bit more ruthless and let Hai Lan swallow all of these hundred gods alive.

"I don’t need their gratitude; since these gods come from the Order Sanctuary, God knows if any of them are friends with that Holy Spirit... or perhaps wives? Governor, at times like this, please put some faith in the reputation of the Holy Spirit’s level-up service," Jiang Qiao said.

With a long sigh from Spear Alma, she still helped Jiang Qiao unlock the sealing on these coffins.

The gods awakening from the coffins carried their own worlds with them; they were all the abandoned pieces forsaken by the Order Sanctuary.

As Spear Alma predicted, these gods were all extremely fearful and scared.

However, Jiang Qiao patiently began to do ideological work with them, thanks to the reputation he had built up throughout his journey as the Holy Spirit level-up service.

When these gods really harbored great malice, Jiang Qiao would ask them about past good relations with the Holy Spirit level-up service, then he would use the special event approach to let the deity have a heart-to-heart chat with that Holy Spirit player, casually coaxing the other party into joining Holy Spirit City or something.

This pacification work continued for about three days, and finally, when the last sleeping deity in the coffin had also been persuaded by Jiang Qiao and another enthusiastic player who didn’t want to reveal their name,

Hai Lan’s two damaged Divine Fragments were declared successfully repaired, and the level cap for Holy Spirit players was raised to seventy-five in one go, Jiang Qiao gained the qualifications for six hundred thousand players, instantly bringing the server population of the Holy Spirits to a whooping one and a half million.

"A new version, huh? It’s about time for the Holy Spirits to step out into the world."

Jiang Qiao flexed his fingers, ready to start writing the content for this brand new version.