Chapter 617 - 357: God-level Material

Su Ze left the continuing hunt for the Nian Race experts, along with the missions to eliminate the Evolution Divine Teachings and the Guardian Divine Dice, to Chen Suifeng.

Now that Blue Star was at peace, Lin Hua Continent could spare more manpower for these tasks.

As for Su Ze, his next target was the Filth Earth Organization.

While the Nian Race was still a threat, Su Ze had allowed the Filth Earth Organization to grow unchecked. But now that the Nian Race had been temporarily defeated, he had no choice but to start dealing with those scumbags.

The leader of the Filth Earth Organization, in particular, had to be eliminated.

His power was too immense. Su Ze feared that once he left Blue Star, no one on the entire planet would be his match.

Su Ze had once heard a theory from a certain King Mu: if a race’s strongest member was a traitor to their own kind (a Corrupted One), then that race was doomed.

He hadn’t understood this theory at all before, but after learning about the Origin Gene, he suspected it was most likely related to it.

Thus, Su Ze understood he could not allow the Filth Earth Organization to grow wild. The consequences would be disastrous.

Su Ze had always kept tabs on the whereabouts of the Filth Earth Organization’s leader.

This was because the man always kept Pulamon with him.

Although Su Ze had no direct way to contact Pulamon, he could still sense Pulamon’s location through their parasitic bond.

Piloting the Magic Cube, Su Ze followed his senses and flew in the direction of Pulamon’s location.

This sense wasn’t as precise as satellite positioning, especially over long distances; it only gave him a general direction. Therefore, Su Ze slowed the Magic Cube’s flight speed so he could adjust his course in real time based on his perception.

Based on the Filth Earth Organization leader’s physical features, Su Ze judged that he was likely from the Snowfield Continent.

At this thought, Su Ze released the legendary expert from the Snowfield Continent who was being held captive on the ship. He spoke with him for a moment, asking if he knew the identity of the Filth Earth Organization’s leader.

Unexpectedly, the question yielded some real information.

The leader of the Filth Earth Organization’s real name was Nacho Best. Because he was a dwarf, he was abandoned by his parents at birth and later adopted by an old, childless couple.

What followed was a story as cliché as it was tragic. Because Nacho was a dwarf with a repulsive, ugly face, he suffered endless discrimination and humiliation from a young age. He was bullied by his peers at school and disliked by his teachers.

Apart from his adoptive parents, no one ever showed him any warmth.

He had never seen a smile that wasn’t laced with malice on anyone’s face but his adoptive parents’.

Tragically, his elderly adoptive parents passed away one after the other when he was only eleven or twelve. His life became even more miserable afterward...

These tragic experiences, from childhood to adulthood, forged his antisocial personality.

Then, at the age of sixteen, he shot and killed a Pupa Stage evolver. He absorbed the person’s extract, setting him upon an evolutionary path steeped in stench and blood.

Nacho loathed all normal people, envied anyone who was able-bodied, and held no reverence for life whatsoever.

Although plenty of Corrupted Ones existed before him, they had never grown strong or formed an actual organization.

He was the one who single-handedly founded the Filth Earth Organization. His initial reason for creating it was simple: he discovered that as long as others were stained by the same foul stench, they wouldn’t discriminate against him. They were all just insects festering in the same sewer.

And so, the insane idea of creating a world populated entirely by Corrupted Ones was born.

He had been striving toward this goal for many years.

Without a doubt, the man was a dangerous lunatic.

This only strengthened Su Ze’s resolve to eliminate him—to kill him outright, not recruit him as he had the Pope.

Su Ze didn’t feel the slightest bit of sympathy for Nacho, despite his tragic childhood.

No amount of suffering should ever become a reason to harm others.

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Soon, the Magic Cube, following the direction Su Ze sensed, arrived above a natural cave in the wilderness.

Based on his senses, Su Ze knew Pulamon was inside the cave.

The cave was bottomless. Peering down from above, he saw only pitch-black darkness, like an abyss.

Su Ze recalled Pulamon mentioning that the Filth Earth Organization’s early base had been a natural cave called the Shadow Abyss.

Nacho’s Shadow Palace was even created by harvesting shadow energy from the Shadow Abyss, and it had to return here periodically to recharge.

Clearly, this bottomless cave before him was the Shadow Abyss.

It seemed reasonable for Nacho to be hiding here with Pulamon, yet Su Ze felt that something was off.

Previously, Nacho had clearly been avoiding him, even taking Pulamon and leaving the Ancient An Country.

And when Chen Suifeng later led his men to retake the Ancient An Country, they met with almost no meaningful resistance.

’He’s so afraid of me. Shouldn’t he have hidden somewhere I’d have no hope of finding him?’

’The Shadow Abyss is secluded, but it was a former base of the Filth Earth Organization. It was still possible for me to find it; after all, there were leads to follow.’

’But if he had hidden in some random spot in the wilderness, or even in some other cave, I would have had no way of finding him.’

’Besides, the Shadow Palace can move at will. He could have just kept moving, never staying in one place.’

’Maybe I’m overthinking it. Maybe he just happened to come back here to recharge.’

Su Ze didn’t dwell on it. He extended his Perception Tentacles into the cave, intending to investigate.

But to his surprise, the moment his Perception Tentacles entered the abyss, it felt as if they had been shoved into a sack. His awareness of the surroundings plummeted.