Jiang Lu seemed to understand something.

When he made a living by chopping wood, he was a woodcutter.

When he accidentally entered the underworld, he was a survivor.

When he was rescued by a homeless man and determined to repay him by digging out the Yellow Spring water, he was the Yugong who moved the mountain.

When he finally dug up the Yellow Spring and irrigated the entire underworld, he became the first god of merit in the underworld.

Identity is never determined by birth or bloodline. What really determines identity is goals and what you do.

“I am a human being, and I am also from the past, but that is just a label, not my identity…”

Jiang Lu took a deep breath, suppressed the urge to say “I am Venom, I am Venom, I am the strongest Venom”, and slowly opened his mouth:

“I am the Lord of the Underworld.”

“The past has nothing to do with me, and I refuse to bear any grudges. My position is only in the underworld.”

“No matter if they are the ancient gods or the old days, as long as they put their hands on my territory, I will chop their hands off!”

Jiang Lu’s tone gradually became firmer, and by the end, his voice was deafening.

Hearing words that he had never thought of, the tramp was already shocked by his aura and determination, and stared at him blankly.

Lucifer was thoughtful and began to re-examine himself. He began to doubt whether it was possible that he was always an angel and God was the fallen angel?

For Jiang Lu, returning to the underworld, taking back everything that belongs to him, and then living his life happily, this was Jiang Lu’s original idea and will continue to be his future goal. No matter what he has experienced or what he has learned, this will never change.

After thinking this through, Jiang Lu’s eyes were no longer confused.

He carefully stroked the hoe in his hand that had become ordinary again, silently chanted words of gratitude in his heart, and with mixed feelings savored the last lesson from his father, whom he had not seen for many years and who actually only occupied a short period of his life.

Carrying the hoe that had become light, like the thin figure in the painting, Jiang Lu passed the homeless man, squatted in front of the pile of organs, and merged them into his body one by one.

Although these organs are numerous, they are not complete. Many parts, like the left eye, hippocampus, buttocks, are still floating in the outside world and have not had time to be reborn and delivered to your door.

But even so, they still helped Jiang Lu raise his aura to a new level.

When he stood up again, an extremely terrifying aura was emanating from his body.

“Um…Old Immortal, can you do me another favor?”

The homeless man finally came to his senses: “What?”

“I just figured out not only that point, but also one more thing.”

Jiang Lu turned around and said seriously:

“If you want to do what you want to do, then ability is indispensable.

Just one third of the power in this ancient artifact is enough to make you stronger than most of the ancient gods. If you get all of it, you should have the capital to face Nyarlathotep and Nodens head-on and sit at the same chessboard, right?

So please be a good person and give me all your energy.

I hope you don’t think I’m greedy. Although it may sound a bit petty to say this, you’ve been waiting here for so long and working hard to collect these organs with ancient origins for me. It’s impossible… that you’re really just doing this to repay me, right?

Since we think the same thing, you have no reason to blame me, right? “

Happy New Year to everyone!

I wish you all the best in 2025, all your wishes come true, and money rolls in.

In the new year, I hope that those who want to get married will find their ideal partner, those who are in school will be successful in their studies, those who are preparing for the college entrance examination will be admitted to their target university, those who are working will have smooth careers, those who are starting a business will have good luck, those who are ill will recover, and those who dream of becoming an athlete will break records again and again. In a word, everything will go well.

The author also hopes to continue to accompany you in the coming year. Whether it is this book or the next one, I hope I can always accompany you to live happily every day~

Today the author will spend time with his family, so he will be absent for a day~ Hehe

Chapter 472 Purebred

At this point, for Jiang Lu who has made his goal clear, nothing else matters anymore.

Any information, whether favorable, unfavorable, expected, or never imagined, will only help him to clarify this goal, and that’s all. It will no longer interfere with his thoughts and ideas.

Since the original intention will not change, then one’s identity will not change either, this is beyond doubt.

He was very grateful to the homeless man for helping him make this clear. No matter how hard he tried, the fact and result would not change.

So, he used a respectful tone of request.

I asked him to give me the “energy” he took from the antiques, which was a great honor for him.

The tramp might refuse. After all, this is a temptation that no god, any supreme true god with domain power can refuse. This is only one third, which is enough to surpass the realm of God. Even when the realm is not full, one can have strength that surpasses most of the ancient gods.

The tramp had no reason to give up.

In fact, he had ulterior motives, and Jiang Lu was convinced of it.

Over the years, he has lured and killed many “Jiang Lu” and preserved their organs from ancient origins. It seems that he is helping Jiang Lu, but in fact he is not.

Repaying a favor is just a cover. He is grateful to Jiang Lu’s father for rescuing him, so waiting for Jiang Lu here and guarding the inheritance is just an excuse.

What he really wanted was to make up the remaining two thirds!

One third can make him a hidden strong man and a leader among the ancient gods, but it is not enough to make him one of the top ones, such as Nodens and Nyarlathotep. There is still a gap between him and them.

From escaping by chance, feeling lucky to have survived, to discovering the extraordinaryness of possessing a treasure and wanting to go further, this change in thinking is reasonable, because human desires are constantly expanding.

It is understandable that at first you want to survive, then after surviving you want to live a better life, and then when you have better conditions you want to be unique.

Therefore, Jiang Lu did not blame the homeless man for coveting him. Instead, he was very grateful for his protection over the years and for bringing him here. As for whether the illusory fate and favor were torn apart and destroyed, he did not care too much.

Even brothers can quarrel for the sake of interests, and even fathers and sons can quarrel for the family property and throne. He has no relationship with the tramp, so how can he ask too much of him? Moral kidnapping is a bit bad.

However, Jiang Lu’s ability to understand does not mean that he can accept it.

He also needs these origins, and the tramp also wants to take away his “talent” from him. If this is the case, then it is just as the tramp said before, there is no point in saying more, and the one who is capable will take it.

Jiang Lu was extremely determined at this moment. Although he gave the other party enough face and respect, he was also prepared to break off relations.

Perhaps he could pretend to be friendly and discuss with him first to take down the “physique” that is still wandering around, that is, the monster that is of the same origin as Jiang Lu, and then look for an opportunity to attack him secretly, which is what Jiang Lu is good at.

However, he had no ill feelings towards this person who had a very close relationship with his family, nor did he deny his friendship. He could only sigh that they were not on the same page. Therefore, he chose to speak directly and frankly, and rarely used some means that seemed despicable in the eyes of the world but were very efficient and useful.

This is a kind of recognition.

After hearing Jiang Lu’s words, the homeless man laughed and said, “You said something that was beyond my expectations. As expected, you are different from them.”

As he spoke, he looked towards the pile of bones.

Jiang Lu was curious: “What do they usually say?”

The homeless man narrowed his eyes and took a long breath. “Some who fear me offer their origins to me. Some who respect me discuss with me how to distribute them. Some who plot against me pretend to be friendly with me and pretend to work with me to subdue the ‘physique’ and look for opportunities to plot against me…”

Jiang Lu’s expression was a little unnatural, and he continued to listen to the homeless man’s listing.

“There are smart ones who sensed something fishy and wanted to escape. There are stupid ones who never thought for themselves from beginning to end. There are cunning ones who were suspicious and never believed me, so they naturally could not see the truth. There are also naive ones who took my words as the criterion until the last moment. There are cowardly ones who want to escape everything…

Now there is another one who is so confident that it is annoying. He directly asked me to hand over my origin. Haha, although they are all from the same source, the differences are very different. “

“So, do I make you feel uncomfortable?” Jiang Lu asked with a smile.

“What a lie…” The homeless man shook his head helplessly, “Who would feel comfortable being ordered around?”

“It seems that there is no way to reach an agreement.”

Jiang Lu sighed: “Actually, I really like you and respect you a lot.”

Although he said respect, Jiang Lu was already walking towards the homeless man step by step.

Each of his steps carried a great sense of oppression, and his footsteps seemed to be stepping on Lucifer’s heart, causing the latter’s heart to tremble with each step.

This was difficult for Lucifer to understand.

Logically speaking, these organs were already in Jiang Lu’s body before he was reincarnated. Then why hadn’t he reached such a level at that time, but instead of being fully completed now, he was able to possess such power?

The tramp spoke the truth in one sentence.

He noticed something, and after a moment of surprise, he quickly regained his composure.

“No wonder you are so confident.” He said with some envy: “So now even your bloodline comes from them. Although it is not from the same source as this ancient artifact, you can perfectly integrate it and exert their most primitive power.”

Jiang Lu had a blank expression on his face, and it was obvious that he had already known the result.

He had had suspicions a long time ago, but everything he experienced tonight finally made him certain that the bloodline of the Queen Mother of the West originated from a higher level of life, and Pangu the Great was one of the old days who opened up the heavens and all worlds to hatch ancient things.

The human blood in the previous life was not enough to bring out the true power of the origin of the ancient artifacts, but now, after being nurtured by the Queen Mother of the West, he has been reborn.

Even though that one-third of his origin was still imperfect, he was definitely able to fight the homeless man at this moment.

This is his confidence.

But Jiang Lu originally thought that his trump card would make the homeless man wary or even afraid, but what he didn’t expect was that the homeless man’s face, which had always been unpredictable, suddenly showed a smile from the heart.

“In that case, I’m even more curious.”

Jiang Lu said nothing, but frowned, not knowing what the other party was up to.

The homeless man stood with his hands behind his back, completely defenseless against the fiercely watching Jiang Lu.

“You’re wrong about one thing. I’ve actually lost interest in this thing for a long time.”

“It’s not a treasure that I’m eager to get. In fact… it should be a curse, right?”

“So there’s no need to be so confrontational. If you want it, I’ll give it to you.”

“The only thing that’s interesting to me right now is that even your bloodline comes from them. When you completely replenish your essence, will you experience any interesting changes?”

Chapter 473 Blood Curse

Jiang Lu did not choose to believe the homeless man’s words at first.

He chose to remain silent.

The homeless man didn’t seem surprised.

“You don’t seem to believe what I said.” He chuckled twice. “That’s no wonder. As I said, you are so confident that you are annoying. Of course you will stick to your own opinions. I can understand that.”

At this time, Lucifer could not help himself, relying on Jiang Lu’s confidence, he said yin-yangly: “Your words are hard to convince people, right?

You yourself said that you came back to complete the remaining origins of the ancient artifacts, but you failed because one third of them had already been obtained by Jiang Lu.