This probably explains why Lin Xue was initially rejected by the barrier of the City of Eternal Night.
Below the City of Eternal Night, there must be the remains of a deity whose legacy is to be inherited by the future City Lord. Since Lin Xue already possessed the legacy of the Grim Reaper, it was natural that she would be repelled.
However, as soon as Mu You thought of the Grim Reaper’s Bloodline, he immediately remembered a conversation that had taken place in the Tomb of the Death God, where they had confronted the World Walkers. At that time, the World Walkers had said something to Red Sleeve.
Back then, Red Sleeve had complained that her fragment of Eternal Night was stolen, and the World Walker’s response was, "No worries, once you obtain the Grim Reaper’s Bloodline, the other cities in Sky City will be useless to us..."
At that moment, Mu You had not given it much thought, but now, understanding the secret beneath Sky City and the rule of Divinity Repulsion, the meaning of that sentence became clear.
At the time, the World Walker had already secured Dawn City, and if Red Sleeve also acquired the Grim Reaper’s Bloodline, the two of them would each possess a divine legacy, thereafter becoming unable to inherit any other from Sky City.
In other words, these two had known from the start about the ’presence of a God’s Corpse beneath Sky City’.
Their goal was clear: to ensure that both of them obtained the skin of a God.
However, what intrigued Mu You was why the two chose Dawn City out of the twelve cities? What is so special about the deity beneath Dawn City?
Mu You pondered for a moment to no avail.
He could only set aside the question for now and began checking the information in his mind.
Congratulations, you have triggered a special quest: the Legacy of the God of Order.
1. (Mandatory task) Seek the Lost Divine Artifact: Find any one of the Divine Artifacts "Scales of Order," "Pen of Order," or "Book of Order" once used by the God of Order.
2. (Mandatory task) Find Divine Blood: Locate a drop of pure Divine Blood, use it with the God’s Corpse of the God of Order to turn it into Order Blood. Transform your bloodline with Order Blood, and you will become an inheritor of the God of Order’s bloodline.
3. (Optional task) Find Divine Bone: Locate a pure Divine Bone, modify your body to bear more of the God of Order’s power. (Can be completed multiple times)
Quest Duration: While serving as City Lord of the City of Dawn.
Quest Reward: Receive the legacy of the God of Order. You may remotely borrow the energy of the God of Order in battle to condense it into your Divine Skin.
After reading the quest details, Mu You pondered for a few seconds.
He also tried to explore the concepts of ’Divine Blood’ and ’Divine Bone’.
Divine Blood: Extract all the blood from the corpse of an ordinary deity to condense into a drop of Divine Blood.
Divine Bone: Extract all the bones from the corpse of an ordinary deity to condense into a piece of Divine Bone.
Having read this, Mu You was speechless. Both tasks required the extraction of an entire deity’s fluids and skeleton, wasn’t this essentially telling him to find another deity’s remains?
However, if the remains of a deity were so easily found, Divine Power would not be so rare...
And besides the remains, he also has to find at least one Divine Artifact...
Clearly, this quest was much more difficult than Lin Xue’s initial legacy quests. Other than the final step where she had to compete with Red Sleeve, her quests involved trivial routine errands that only took time, presenting almost no challenge.
But Mu You soon came to terms with it. He couldn’t compare to Lin Xue.
Lin Xue and Red Sleeve were both genuine ’insiders,’ born with both the Grim Reaper’s Bloodline and the Grim Reaper’s Artifact, so the two mandatory tasks that Mu You needed to complete were automatically finished from the beginning in their case.
Essentially, their legacy quests were nothing more than a formality.
Unlike Mu You, an ordinary person without such connections, who had to start from transforming his bloodline and work his way up from the beginning...
Shaking his head, Mu You came back to his senses and began to think of ways to complete these two tasks.
The three Orders’ Divine Artifacts were unfamiliar to Mu You.
There wasn’t much he could do about those; he would have to collect information from everywhere and then consider how to obtain them upon receiving some news.
As for the God’s Corpse...
Other than those within the various cities of Sky City, Mu You only knew of the unnamed Statues of Gods in the Dark Elf Temple.
However, both types of God’s Corpse were unattainable for him; the Sky Cities were out of the question, as only the City Lord could enter the power rooms. As for the Statues of Gods in the Dark Elf Temple... judging by how the Dark Elves rioted when he extracted Divine Power, if he dared to touch that statue, he would surely be hunted by the Dark Elves to the ends of the earth.
As a result, he would have to find other God’s Remains, preferably those unexcavated and not connected to other races...
As Mu You was engrossed in thought, he suddenly felt an itching sensation at his feet and looked down to see the Shadow Fur Ball, which had somehow returned to his side, rubbing affectionately against him while giving him a pitiful look, as if pleading not to be abandoned.
Mu You glanced at his mind: the Shadow Fur Ball returned to him, and the quest of inheritance, indeed, hadn’t disappeared.
However, once he completed the quest and truly obtained the Divine Skin, the Shadow Fur Ball certainly couldn’t coexist with it.
Shadow Fur Ball was powerful and useful, Mu You didn’t want to give it up, and he certainly didn’t want to relinquish the Divine Skin either. Before that, he needed to find a way to see if they could be made ’compatible’ with each other.