The Moon Deity's old body vanished. Her soul entered the newly reforged Godslayer Puppet.

"It's been so long..."

The reborn Moon Deity looked overwhelmed with excitement.

But the aura gathering around her gradually weakened. Her excited expression suddenly froze.

"What's going on? Why is my power..."

She suddenly realized her strength had stopped at Tier 3. She turned to Qin Yu, wanting to ask what was happening.

"Lady Moon Deity, everything runs on equivalent exchange. I did save the life of a Tier 10 god, after all..."

"What do you mean?"

Qin Yu smiled slightly. "From now on, Lady Moon Deity, you're my puppet."

The Moon Deity's eyes widened. The joy of escaping death was washed away by more than half in an instant. She had been too careless.

Her fear of death had overwhelmed her reason.

"No. A mere human dares to enslave me?!"

Unwilling to submit, the Moon Deity tried to attack Qin Yu and kill him on the spot. Silver Crimson Snow was about to step in and help Qin Yu. Yet after only a few steps, the Moon Deity suddenly collapsed to the ground, unable to move.

A collar-like object appeared around her neck.

"Why... why is this happening..."

Looking at her motionless body and that humiliating collar, the Moon Deity even felt that death might be better.

"Your strength is linked to mine. My current strength is Tier 0, so you can only have the power of Tier 3..."

This was a restriction designed to keep alchemists from losing control of their puppets. The gap between a puppet and its alchemist could not exceed three tiers.

Qin Yu walked over to the fallen Moon Deity and crouched beside her. "The lofty Lady Moon Deity is my toy now. There are quite a few seals on your body. I hope you won't do anything stupid. If they trigger, it's going to hurt..."

Filled with hatred, the Moon Deity could only turn her face away and avoid looking at Qin Yu. Silver Crimson Snow, standing nearby, saw another side of him.

Qin Yu pulled the Moon Deity to her feet. She was now in much the same situation as Silver Crimson Snow. Her once voluptuous figure had become petite. In other words, she had gone from a mature beauty to a loli. One was red, one was blue.

"Don't touch me!"

The Moon Deity wanted nothing to do with Qin Yu's touch. This human might not be strong, but he was even more dangerous than an Elder God.

[Congratulations! You have made Luna, the Moon Deity, your Combat Puppet!]

[Name: Luna]

[Identity: Moon Deity]

[Strength: Tier 3]

[Aptitude: 10]

[Fated Artifact: Azure Moon (Gold, Divine Artifact)]

[Affection: -99999999]

[Master: Qin Yu]

"What am I supposed to do with that affection score..."

Thanks to Qin Yu's full-on villain speech just now, Luna's affection toward him had directly broken past the -100 limit. Trying to win that back looked a little difficult.

Still, it wasn't really a problem. Worst case, he'd just stop caring and turn the Moon Deity into a Stockholm syndrome case.

Qin Yu had never had any fondness for these lofty gods. Beneath the gods, all were ants.

They had never once regarded weak creatures like Qin Yu as worth noticing. So why should Qin Yu regard them highly?

"Servant, you were kind of scary just now."

Silver Crimson Snow floated over as she spoke.

"Really? But I think I'm pretty gentle~"

As he said that, Qin Yu put on a smiling expression. He really did look harmless. But on the other side, Luna only felt a chill run through her.

"If that girl is your servant, then she's my servant too, right?"

A servant's servant was your servant too. That was how Silver Crimson Snow understood it.

"Of course. But Xiao Xue, be a little gentler with her. Not everyone is as easy to talk to as I am."

Luna naturally heard their conversation loud and clear. If looks could kill, her eyes would have slaughtered Qin Yu and Silver Crimson Snow, this adulterous pair, ten thousand times over by now.

At this point, Qin Yu's trip through the Bloodsoul Domain could be called a perfect success.

He dared say that no one else could compare to what he had gained in the Pantheon Realms. In his previous life or this one, even added together, they still might not match what he had gotten now.

This time, he had abducted a future leader of the Bloodkin, along with a former god of the Bloodsoul Domain.

As for resources and building blueprints, those went without saying. Qin Yu was truly taking off right from the start.

"Let's say goodbye to the children at the monastery, then head straight to the main world continent and find a place to establish our territory."

Qin Yu already had a rough outline of his future plans.

"Lord, please, you must keep your promise!"

The beastkin girl Hong looked at Qin Yu with pleading eyes. Not just her. The other forty-nine children looked the same. They all wanted to leave this place of endless trouble.

The only reason they could live in peace right now was because the players were still in the trial period, and the Elder God's forces were being suppressed. Once that period ended, these children would be forced back into a life of drifting and suffering.

"I will. This is my promise to all of you."

Qin Yu smiled and gently patted Hong on the head. This girl's affection toward him had already surpassed Silver Crimson Snow's. Kids really were simple.

After a brief farewell to the children, Qin Yu also chose to end his trial period in the Bloodsoul Domain.

[Do you wish to leave the Pantheon Realms early?]

[Warning: The relatively safe Pantheon Realms can only be entered during the first seven days after server launch. Once you leave early, you will not be able to return!]

"Yes!"

Qin Yu chose yes.

[Evaluating character template...]

[Summary of explored locations: Nameless Graveyard, Abandoned Town, Blood Cathedral, Abandoned Monastery, Observation Platform, Observation Tower, Above the Blood Moon...]

[Summary of obtained items: Purple xN, Blue xN...]

[Summary of obtained skills: Shadow Step, Vanish into Shadows, Master-Level Alchemy...]

[Summary of slain monsters: N Tier 1, N Tier 2, N Tier 3, N Tier 4, N Tier 5...]

[Summary of completed hidden challenges: Shadow Sprint, The Alchemist's Last Wish, The Dying Moon Deity...]

[Conducting overall evaluation based on the player...]

[Generating template...]

[Evaluation Rank: SSS]

The system's final evaluation of Qin Yu was the highest rank: SSS.

"An SSS-grade template. Then my aptitude should be... 9."

This was good news on top of good news.

After Tier 7, every advancement required enormous amounts of money and resources. If your aptitude wasn't high enough, you'd also need to search for ways to improve it. It was time-consuming and exhausting.

Now that Qin Yu had directly obtained 9 aptitude, all he needed was the final item required to break through to godhood. And he just so happened to know where that item was. He just couldn't get it yet, so there was no rush.

Besides aptitude, there was one more thing Qin Yu had expected.

Master-level swordsmanship. His understanding of the sword from his previous life had been completely preserved. Even though Qin Yu was still weak right now, his sword skills were absolutely enough to contend with someone at the level of a Sword Saint.

Qin Yu, along with Silver Crimson Snow and Luna, was teleported out of the Bloodsoul Domain and sent to the main world continent.

"So he left?"

A hidden figure revealed himself. "What exactly is this person's relationship with the Blacknight Sword Saint? Is he really a disciple?"

"And who is the girl he brought out from the Blood Moon?"

"The Moon Deity?"

...

Faced with one question after another, the shadowy figure crushed a scroll and left the Bloodsoul Domain as well...