Online Game: Evil Dragon Against The Heaven - 258

“City Lord, you want to capture the Red Sheep?” Ye Tian Xie turned back, looking at the Tianri City Lord with a peculiar expression.

“Oh? What, kid, you’ve heard of the great Red Sheep?” The Tianri City Lord asked in his booming voice.

Ye Tian Xie nodded, then shook his head. “I’m not too familiar with Red Sheep, but I’ve seen Grey Sheep. There should be some connection between the two, right?”

The Tianri City Lord’s eyes widened. “What?! You’ve seen Grey Sheep?!”

His exaggerated reaction made it seem as if seeing Grey Tai Yang was an astonishing, almost miraculous feat.

“Not only have I seen it, but I also took it out. City Lord, what’s the story behind these two sheep?” Ye Tian Xie asked curiously.

“Oh? You took out Grey Tai Yang?” The Tianri City Lord’s expression first turned doubtful, then the muscles on his face twitched under his thick beard… This kid’s boasting knows no limits… First, he claims he drove away the Dark Nether Ghost King, and now he says he killed Grey Tai Yang? Ha! If you actually managed to kill Grey Tai Yang, I’d be willing to write my name backward!

“You don’t believe me?” Ye Tian Xie pinched his nose, clearly seeing the disbelief in the city lord’s expression. Scoffing, he calmly reached into his backpack, pulled out a dull grey piece of sheepskin, and held it up before the Tianri City Lord. “This is Grey Sheep’s sheepskin. Surely, this isn’t fake, right?”

The Tianri City Lord barely spared it a glance, ready to dismiss it outright—until his eyes suddenly bulged, and he let out a startled yell. “Holy shit… This… this…”

Grey Sheep had roamed the Lost Continent for years. Forget capturing it—most people couldn’t even find it. Yet, the item in front of him was unmistakably labeled Grey Sheep’s Sheepskin.

Item descriptions couldn’t lie. After his initial outburst, the Tianri City Lord was left speechless, staring at Ye Tian Xie in a daze—he had thought Ye Tian Xie was just spouting nonsense when he claimed to have slain Grey Sheep. But now…

“Now do you believe me?” Ye Tian Xie waved the sheepskin a little before smoothly putting it away while the city lord was still in shock.

“Uh! Uh!” The Tianri City Lord dumbly nodded. Finally, his slow-processing brain caught up with reality, and after some rapid facial contortions, he broke into a broad grin. “Haha… Hahaha… Hahahahaha! Young man, not bad, not bad! No wonder you could even send that freak Dark Nether Ghost King running! No wonder that fool from Tianchen City dared entrust you with such an important letter! Indeed, heroes emerge from the youth! To think even Grey Tai Yang fell at your hands… Sigh! If news of Grey Tai Yang’s demise spreads, I can’t imagine how many people will— ahem… Young man, from the start, I’ve had a good feeling about you. And now… well, I must say, I’m liking you more and more! Let’s not rush the Fire Spirit extermination just yet. Why don’t we sit down, have some tea, and chat about life and dreams?”

Even an idiot could see the fakeness in the Tianri City Lord’s grin. It didn’t take a genius to figure out what he was scheming. Ye Tian Xie cut straight to the point: “City Lord, are you trying to borrow my sheepskin?”

Grey Sheep’s greatest ability was its insane speed—an almost uncatchable blur, highly alert and skittish. If not for Xiao Bei’s deceptively harmless appearance hiding a monstrous level of violence, even a hundred Ye Tian Xies wouldn’t have been able to take down Grey Sheep.

If Grey Sheep was that elusive, then surely Red Sheep was the same. No fixed habitat, and the moment it spotted a stranger—whoosh—it vanished, leaving even the strongest warriors helpless.

But with this Grey Sheep’s sheepskin, everything was different.

Because it allowed its user to transform into Grey Sheep at will. And if one looked like Grey Sheep, would the Red Sheep still run?

The answer was obvious—it wouldn’t. Which meant… the moment one transformed back, capturing Red Sheep would be a piece of cake.

And that was why the Tianri City Lord’s address for Ye Tian Xie had smoothly transitioned from 『kid』to 『young man』 and now, to 『little brother』.

The Tianri City Lord’s smile stiffened for a moment before he forced a grin, doing his best to maintain a friendly demeanor. “Heh, little brother, you really are sharp. Talking to someone as smart as you is refreshing… You see, I… your elder brother here am in desperate need of capturing the Red Sheep. If I had that Grey Sheep’s sheepskin, it would make things much easier. So, do you think you could…?”

Ye Tian Xie smiled pleasantly. “City Lord, what are you saying? It would be my honor to help you… But I am curious, what exactly are the Grey Sheep and Red Sheep? From the way you speak, it sounds like many people have tried to capture them.”

“Hmm… More than just many! The number of people who want to capture them would shock you, and every single one of them is a top expert. But the Grey Sheep and Red Sheep are simply too cunning and incredibly fast. No one knows where they’ll appear next. Finding them is purely based on luck, and as for catching them… so far, no one has ever succeeded… Oh, wait, that’s wrong. That Grey Sheep has already been slain by you… Hmm, little brother, you’ve truly accomplished something incredible.”

Ye Tian Xie: “……”

“As for the origin of these two sheep…” Having a favor to ask—and an extremely important one at that—the Tianri City Lord had no choice but to patiently explain. “Little brother, have you ever heard of the Lucky Leaf?”

Lucky Leaf?

Ye Tian Xie nodded. “I’ve heard of it… It’s a mystical leaf that comes in three colors. It doesn’t grow on any specific plant but can appear anywhere, on any plant. It’s said that anyone who finds one will receive great fortune.”

This 『Lucky Leaf』 was the powerful item he had first encountered in the novice village from Yuan Que. Each one permanently increased a player’s Luck by 1. Even now, Ye Tian Xie was still pondering ways to return to the novice village to buy more of those godly items from Yuan Que.

“Then… have you heard of the Wishing Lake and the Wishing Tree?” the Tianri City Lord continued.

“I have… The Wishing Lake is a wandering lake, never staying in one place. No one knows where it will appear next. If one can find it and use its water to nourish the Wishing Tree while holding the Wishing Glass and making a wish with the purest sincerity… then that wish will come true” Ye Tian Xie replied.

This was the first time he had heard someone mention the Wishing Lake since he had obtained the Wishing Glass after completing an impossible feat in the Wreckage of Ten Thousand Bones. Even now, he still found it hard to believe that the legend of the Wishing Lake was real. After all, granting wishes was something straight out of mythology.

But as he thought about it now… The Lucky Leaf could appear anywhere and was only visible to the lucky. The Wishing Lake had no fixed location… And the Grey Sheep and Red Sheep also had no set place of appearance.

The similarities were uncanny!

The Tianri City Lord gave Ye Tian Xie a surprised look, astonished at his『vast knowledge』. Then, he spoke words that left Ye Tian Xie deeply shocked. “Hmm… A maximum of ten Lucky Leaves are generated each year, and if they are not plucked on the day they appear, they wither away. There is only one Wishing Lake and one Wishing Tree… And the chance of one of the rare Lucky Leaves growing on the Wishing Tree is practically nonexistent… But according to legend, the Grey Sheep and Red Sheep were once two Lucky Leaves that simultaneously grew on the Wishing Tree a thousand years ago.”

Ye Tian Xie: “……”

“The Wishing Tree can grant the wishes of living beings, but it can only do so by hearing their desires through the legendary Wishing Glass. However, since the Lucky Leaves were connected to the Wishing Tree, they could directly convey their wish—not to wither away after just one day of existence. Thus, the Wishing Tree granted them new life, transforming them into two sheep. They were originally meant to be called 『Wishing Lucky Sheep』, but since one was grey and the other red, those who saw them in the Lost Continent gave them the names 『Grey Sheep』and『Red Sheep』. Within just a few decades, their appearances had become widely known across the continent. Countless people began searching for them. Because they were born from the combined power of the Lucky Leaf and the Wishing Tree, they inherited their traits—seeing them is considered an extremely lucky event, and if someone can capture or defeat them, they are said to receive unimaginable fortune…”

After hearing the story of these two sheep, Ye Tian Xie was utterly shocked…

So this was what people meant when they said the world was full of bizarre wonders—he finally understood it completely.

The former forms of these two extraordinary sheep were actually two mystical leaves.

Just seeing them was considered lucky, while capturing or defeating them would bring immense fortune. He had destroyed the Grey Sheep on a whim… What kind of unimaginable luck had he gained from it? Were those strange and peculiar items part of that fortune?

Was it his abnormally high Luck stat that allowed him to encounter the Grey Sheep in the first place?

After learning about the origins of the Grey Sheep, Ye Tian Xie was now eager to know exactly what was inside the toolbox it had dropped… Could it possibly contain a divine artifact or something extraordinary?

“City Lord, why do you want to capture the Red Sheep? Is there some kind of treasure on it that even you can’t resist?” Ye Tian Xie asked.

The Tianri City Lord hesitated for a moment but eventually spoke truthfully. “You’re not wrong. There is indeed something on its body that I must obtain… An item called the Seven-Star Lotus.”

“Seven-Star Lotus?”

“The Seven-Star Lotus is a divine flower of the Mysterious God-tier that grows within the Lucky Lake. It is something ordinary people can never witness, and even if one does manage to see it, obtaining it is nearly impossible…because harvesting a Seven-Star Lotus requires at least a Heavenly Absolute-level herb-gathering skill. It is said that the Seven-Star Lotus only blooms once every hundred years, and the power it contains can completely restore the strength of any artifact below the Holy Annihilation-tier. According to legend, when that Lucky Leaf transformed into the Red Sheep, it casually plucked a blooming Seven-Star Lotus and stored it inside a Seven-Star Gourd to keep it from ever withering… Now, with the Tower of Destiny unleashing crises from all sides, and the Fire Spirits raging in the south of Tianri City, I must use the Seven-Star Lotus to restore Tianri City’s guardian artifact, The Seven-Colored Twilight, to have any hope of resolving this crisis.”

Having said this, the Tianri City Lord no longer hid anything. He reached into his robe and pulled out… a chain glowing with shimmering, multicolored light.

The moment the chain appeared, its dazzling colors stunned Ye Tian Xie. It radiated seven distinct hues—not the red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet of Destiny’s Hour, but instead blue, red, green, purple, yellow, white, and black…

These were the colors representing the seven fundamental natural elements—Water, Fire, Wind, Thunder, Earth, Light and Darkness!

The chain was made of flawless, transparent crystal, while the source of the dazzling rainbow light came from the two embedded ornaments at its ends… a Sun and a Moon.

The Moon was a crescent, while the Sun was a full circle, both no larger than a thumb. Though small, the dreamlike glow they emitted was mesmerizing enough to captivate anyone who looked at them.

“This is The Seven-Colored Twilight but it is currently broken. In its complete state, the Sun and Moon would overlap. The moment when the Sun and Moon trade places is known as twilight, which is how The Seven-Colored Twilight got its name. Over the years, I’ve tried countless methods to repair it, but all have failed…However, just recently, the Red Sheep was spotted in the outskirts of Tianri City, so I have placed my final hope on the Seven-Star Lotus… For Tianri City, The Seven-Colored Twilight is simply too important. I must restore it.”

Its fantastical appearance, its mesmerizing glow… The shape it formed when the Sun and Moon were joined was unmistakably that of a necklace. And as the city’s greatest treasure, there was no way it could be anything simple.

“This necklace… What does it do?” Ye Tian Xie swallowed involuntarily, almost unable to suppress his curiosity. Even he, a man, felt the strong urge to snatch it up and keep it for himself. If a woman saw it… there would be no doubt—she would be instantly enthralled.

The Seven-Star Gourd… The gourd he had picked up underground at the ruins of the Illusory Beast Clan, the one the Dark Nether Ghost King had dismissed as something that could 『only hatch an ornamental pet called Golden Butt Huluwawa…』 That very gourd… had exactly seven stars on it…

And that gourd just so happened to be the one the Red Sheep had lost…

Could it be…

Ye Tian Xie’s gaze on The Seven-Colored Twilight grew noticeably more intense. His original intention of simply helping the Tianri City Lord in exchange for some practical favorability had vanished without a trace.

After all…

He was still missing a necklace.

A bare neck felt… rather uncomfortable.