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Chapter 1771: Lin Huang Attacks
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White Brow's Kingdom appeared in the form of an ancient saber tomb.
The saber tomb had all kinds of sabers all over the place.
As a sword cultivator, Lin Huang felt an intense sense of uneasiness the moment White Brow's Kingdom descended.
It was not that he despised saber cultivators, but a place filled with Saber Dao Odyl would cause an instinctive feeling of rejection for a sword cultivator.
Holding back the impulse to initiate the descent of his own Kingdom to get rid of the uneasiness, Lin Huang chose to observe instead.
He would definitely fight when it was necessary, but now was not the time.
Watching White Brow's Kingdom descend, the expression on Xia Bing's face did not change at all.
The ice corpses' attacks did not slow down at all.
Lin Huang could not help but exclaim when he saw this.
'She has such a stable mentality!'
Her battle rhythm was not affected by the descent of White Brow's Kingdom at all.
The very next second after White Brow's Kingdom appeared, a few of the close combat ice corpses approached him.
White Brow did not dare to delay his actions at all. When his Kingdom appeared, a saber gleam was consolidated in front of him from thin air again.
Just after the silver-white saber gleam finished consolidating, those few ice corpses attacked.
However, this round of fierce attacks did not break through the saber gleam's defense like before.
Lin Huang, who was watching the battle from a distance, could clearly sense that White Brow had borrowed a massive amount of Dao seals from his Kingdom to consolidate this saber gleam.
He had mastered over a million Dao seals himself. However, the Odyl fluctuation coming from the saber gleam clearly indicated that it had been superimposed with over two million Odyl.
Without hesitation, White Brow retaliated after instantly resolving the threat coming from those few close combat ice corpses.
The defensive saber gleam shot forth as soon as it was done with its defensive duties. It targeted the heads of those few of the ice corpses.
The few close combat ice corpses failed to dodge the attack. Their heads were pierced instantly.
This time, Lin Huang finally managed to see it clearly.
The instant the saber gleam touched the heads of those ice corpses, there was a layer of ice that began to form rapidly on their foreheads.
However, the layers of ice did not have two million Dao seals superimposed into them. Therefore, it's defense was broken through by the saber gleam easily and pierced through.
Lin Huang's eyes lit up as he watched the battle between the two.
Clearly, White Brow and Xia Bing had yet to reveal their real trump cards.
Although their Kingdoms had descended, they kept their borrowing of Dao seals from their Kingdoms under control. They did not borrow the maximum number of Dao seals for their trump cards.
White Brow could not help but show joy on his face, seeing that his attack was successful.
He immediately decided to consolidate more silver-white saber gleams that covered the sky to suppress the ice corpses.
He wanted to kill those ice corpses before Xia Bing managed to adjust the defensive capabilities of the layers of ice.
A torrent of silver saber gleams drowned the ice corpses instantly.
Watching this unfold, Lin Huang became faintly worried about Xia Bing.
If the ice corpses were killed, he was not sure whether she would have other techniques available to fight White Brow.
Xia Bing's cultivation direction clearly relied more upon techniques.
In order for a technique cultivator to fight a sword or saber cultivator with powerful cultivation methods, she had to have sufficient control-type techniques. If she did not, there would not be any suspense in the result of the battle if the enemy approached her in close combat.
If Xia Bing's ice corpses were killed, and she did not have a better control-type technique to fight White Brow, Lin Huang would have to intervene in the next round of combat.
Just as Lin Huang was getting ready to fight, when the silver saber gleams faded, it turned out that almost none of the ice corpses were killed…
Lin Huang was stunned momentarily, after which he could not help but reveal a smile.
How would Xia Bing not know what White Brow had in mind?
When the first close combat ice corpse's head was pierced through, she made her adjustments immediately, boosting the amount of Odyl in the layers of ice defense.
It was just that White Brow's attack had been too fast initially. The few close combat ice corpses failed to adjust in time, so they were killed instantly.
However, White Brow was clearly too late in his subsequent attack.
The silver-white saber gleams that covered the ice corpses did not break through most of their defenses.
When White Brow recalled his saber gleams, those few close combat ice corpses were already getting up from the ground. The wound on their heads was recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Lin Huang was finally relieved when he saw the situation unfold.
Compared to intervening when it was the last resort, he hoped that he could strike unexpectedly and catch White Brow unaware after discovering his weakness and kill him when he attacked.
If he exposed his true ability before he performed a sneak attack, White Brow would definitely be prepared.
Fortunately, Xia Bing had a stable plan to deal with this attack. He did not have to expose his true ability in advance.
The battle returned to its previous stagnant state.
Lin Huang was quite curious about what the two would do next.
White Brow frowned. Xia Bing's ice corpses were too difficult to handle.
If he did not kill them, he had no way to focus his attacks on Xia Bing at all.
The reason being was that as long as she was controlling the ice corpses, she could interfere with his battle rhythm at any time.
Even if he used the saber gleams to protect himself, and the ice corpses could not break through the saber gleams' defense, each attack of the ice corpses would exhaust his Odyl.
That was the reason why he insisted on killing those ice corpses first.
Meanwhile on the other side, Xia Bing clearly knew what he was thinking. Thus, she had been focusing on controlling the ice corpses.
She was a cultivator who focused more on techniques. In order to defeat cultivators with powerful attacks like saber and sword cultivators, she definitely could not fight them head-on.
The battle fell into a stagnant state again.
In reality, both of them were quite worried.
The reason being was that it was the last day of the mystic territory's exploration period.
If they failed to get out in time, they would be trapped in this mystic territory.
No matter whether it was Xia Bing or White Brow, that was the last thing they wanted to see happening.
However, the current state of things tested the two's patience.
Clearly, White Brow was not as patient.
The silver-white saber gleams in front of him suddenly lit up brightly, and their auras increased.
Almost at the same time, the endless saber gleams transformed into countless bolts of silver lightning, enveloping the ice corpses.
This time, the superimposition of Dao seals on those saber gleams had multiplied by at least onefold.
The auras of the saber gleams contained at least level-5,000,000 Odyl.
Meanwhile, Xia Bing was prepared as well. The second White Brow did that, she strengthened the ice corpses' defenses.
The saber gleams enveloped all of the ice corpses.
Just when everyone had their focus on the collision between the saber gleams and the ice corpses, Lin Huang's pupils suddenly shrunk.
His Kingdom descended instantly.
It covered everything present in the endless sky.
At the same time, a golden saber gleam shot forth from his sleeve rapidly. It was targeted at where Xia Bing's coordinates were.
Xia Bing's back was drenched in cold sweat at the moment. Never had she thought that Lin Huang would turn around and attack her suddenly. However, the saber gleam arrived before her instantly, whereby she did not have time to react at all.
Just when she thought that she would definitely die, the golden saber gleam exploded before her, transforming into 10,000 golden gleams.
It was only then that Xia Bing saw a black saber gleam that had no Odyl fluctuations, that was less than two meters in front of her, collapse slowly.. There was a faint abyssal aura remaining in the air…
Chapter 1772: Let's Work Together to Kill Him
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White Brow's expression looked extremely terrible when his sneak attack was blocked by Lin Huang.
He had specifically used a sky full of saber gleams just now to distract Xia Bing and perform a sneak attack on her. He even used a hidden abyssal technique to conceal the attack's aura fluctuations.
He had almost 100% confidence that the attack would definitely severely injure Xia Bing or even kill her instantly.
Never had he thought that the masked white robed-man, that he had never bothered with earlier, would be able to stop his sure-kill attack at the critical moment.
In reality, since Lin Huang entered the space, White Brow had never taken him seriously.
The reason being was that Lin Huang's first attack had exposed his ability level. He had only mastered less than 800,000 Dao seals.
To Xia Bing and himself, powerhouses with such ability levels could only provide auxiliary assistance at best.
He had never actively attacked Lin Huang directly. On one hand, he did not really take him seriously. On the other hand, he did not want to force him to attack, which would interfere with the battle rhythm between him and Xia Bing.
Never had he thought that the white-robed man before him had concealed his true ability.
He had not held back with that saber sneak attack he performed earlier. There was close to level-6,000,000 Odyl superimposed in it.
He was even sure that even if Xia Bing noticed it at the very last second, she would definitely be injured severely if she was to hastily defend against it.
However, the attack that he had poured all of his strength into was casually stopped by that white-robed man with the unknown identity.
"Who exactly are you?!" White Brow could not help but yell out.
He rummaged through all of the information on the major dao-level powerhouses who participated in the exploration this time in his mind a couple of times. None of them corresponded to this person in front of him.
He even suspected for a split second that Lin Huang was a native of the mystic territory. However, he denied that possibility instantly. The reason being was that, judging from Xia Bing and this man's interaction, they clearly knew each other.
This made him even more suspicious of Lin Huang's real identity.
However, what he had no idea of was that Xia Bing herself did not know exactly who Lin Huang was.
They knew each other simply because they happened to meet in the mystic territory.
Hearing White Brow questioning his identity, Lin Huang pointed to his mask. "Why do you think I'm wearing this mask?"
At that moment, Xia Bing had finally calmed down. She said to Lin Huang through voice transmission, "Thank you!"
Sensing Xia Bing had released her Divine Telekinesis entirely and the possibility of another successful sneak attack was close to zero, Lin Huang nodded lightly at her and said, "Let's work together to kill him as soon as possible."
Since his Kingdom had descended and his ability level had been exposed, Lin Huang knew that White Brow would definitely have his guard up against him. It was quite impossible to discover his weaknesses and kill him instantly like he initially planned at this point.
Therefore, he chose to work with Xia Bing directly to suppress White Brow head-on.
Xia Bing nodded and agreed to work together without hesitation.
She knew that it would be extremely difficult for her to kill White Brow on her own given her ability.
With their similar ability levels, it was uncertain who would win when they revealed their trump cards.
Just like before, if Lin Huang had not interfered, she might have been killed by that sneak attack. Even if she was lucky to have survived that, she would have definitely been injured severely.
Now that she had the chance to fight White Brow alongside Lin Huang, it was only natural that she would not let the opportunity slip by.
This might be the only way to defeat White Brow in a short period of time.
Lin Huang took the lead in attacking as soon as they came to an agreement.
Endless golden saber gleams shot forth from his sleeves frantically. Almost each one of them was superimposed with level-5,000,000 Odylic Force. They were no less powerful than White Brow's silver-white saber gleams.
White Brow did not dare to delay his attack at all when he saw Lin Huang strike.
The silver-white saber gleams that were attacking the ice corpses shifted like ocean waves. They shot forth toward the golden storm on Lin Huang's side.
At the same time, more silver-white saber gleams were consolidated in front of White Brow. They joined in the fight with the golden storm immediately after.
At that moment, the sky was filled with frantic collisions as the silver-white and gold storms converged. Endless golden and silver-white gleams exploded in the air.
While Lin Huang and White Brow fell into an intense battle, Xia Bing instantly controlled the ice corpses to attack White Brow.
Although her ice corpses were hit by White Brow's attacks superimposed with level-5,000,000 Odyl, they did not fall. Moreover, those that had fallen were revived immediately. They got back up and joined in the battle.
Despite the fact that White Brow had shifted his attention to Lin Huang, he did not dare to ignore Xia Bing at all.
Countless protective saber gleams consolidated in front of his body. However, they were no longer attacking the ice corpses actively, but rather defending against the close combat ice corpses that were attacking and the other ice corpses' long-distance attacks.
He knew that he could not kill these ice corpses within a short period of time, so he figured that he would go with a defensive strategy.
The situation of the entire battlefield was completely different from before.
Lin Huang, who was initially observing the battle, had become the main person attacking White Brow.
Xia Bing, who was evenly matched with White Brow earlier, was now playing the role of an auxiliary assistant.
However, Xia Bing was undoubtedly an outstanding auxiliary assistant.
A battle bow appeared in her hand instantly when she realized that the ice corpses could not do anything to White Brow for the time being.
She placed her jade-like fingers on the string, and an arrow made of crystal was condensed instantly. It was filled with Dao tattoos and dazzled with a white glow.
The next second, the arrow left the bowstring. It turned into a comet streaking through the air, aimed at White Brow.
Subsequently, the second and third arrows were shot forth consecutively.
Within a split second, Xia Bing had released hundreds of arrows.
Each of them was no less powerful than Lin Huang's "flying sabers".
White Brow had not expected Xia Bing to possess such a technique.
Watching the incoming arrows, he did not dare to delay at all. He rapidly condensed more saber gleams to stop them.
However, the moment the silver-white saber gleams collided with the white arrows, the arrows exploded directly.
White Brow was stunned to see this strange scene.
However, he was being forced to retreat by Lin Huang's "flying sabers". He retreated frantically.
The reason being was that, after the white arrows exploded, they transformed into white fog, enveloping White Brow like a spider web.
Even his protective saber gleams were frozen when it came into contact with the passing white fog.
White Brow's pupils shrunk slightly. He escaped immediately.
The attack was no longer just merely Frost Dao. Xia Bing's arrow attack contained the Odylic effect of stopping time.
He might be affected even if he came into contact with the white fog in the slightest bit.
He might even be killed if he was stopped for a second during a battle with experts.
Naturally, Lin Huang sensed the unusualness of Xia Bing's arrows right away. His eyes lit up at the same time.
He performed a hand seal with both hands quickly and converted the Dao seals that were superimposed on the "flying sabers" into Dao seals that majored in space, time and seal.
The countless flying sabers were no longer intended for attacking; they avoided head-on collisions with White Brow's saber gleams as much as they could. Instead, their main objective was to restrict and seal White Brow's movements instead.
Lin Huang's change of battle strategy instantly made White Brow feel even more troubled..
Chapter 1773: White Brow's Trump Card
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Lin Huang and Xia Bing changed the pattern of the battle, after which they began to take control of the battle.
In the air, there would be white arrow gleams intersected with the golden saber gleams.
At this moment, White Brow was only able to defend and dodge the attacks forcefully.
He knew that he would not only be hurt if he came in contact with any of the attacks, but also that his movements would be directly affected as well.
He might slip into a fatal situation instantly if his movements stopped for even a second during such a high-level battle.
He could only try his best to control the saber gleams to defend himself and dodged the remaining attacks carefully. He tried his best to avoid making any contact with the two's attacks.
As he responded to the two's attacks, he was quickly thinking of a strategy to resolve his current predicament.
Although defending and dodging might be enough to keep him alive against the two for now, he knew that he would definitely suffer a loss if this dragged on.
The reason being was that he was alone. He definitely could not compete with the two in terms of the rate of Odyl exhaustion when the two of them were working together.
Meanwhile, Lin Huang and Xia Bing were very patient. After attacking for a few rounds, they were gradually getting more and more in sync.
Lin Huang's God Weapon flying sabers transformed into a web that covered the sky, while Xia Bing's arrows transformed into ferocious beasts that chased after White Brow.
The ferocious beasts went after their prey over and over again, forcing him to fall into the web of golden saber gleams.
White Brow was not a pushover. He was like a slippery loach and always somehow managed to escape at critical moments.
The stagnant situation lasted for over ten minutes.
Suddenly, Lin Huang performed a hand seal again to adjust the superimposed Odylic Force on the God Weapons.
He boosted a portion of his God Weapons with speed-shifting Dao seals, while a portion of the God Weapons were superimposed with Dao seals that allowed Space Warp and Shadow Warp…
At the moment, the telekinetic flying sabers' trajectories became at least ten times more complicated than before.
They were either slow or fast, their trajectories were either visible or concealed…
White Brow felt even more pressure now.
Xia Bing, who was on the other side, also noticed the changes that Lin Huang had made.
Her eyes rolled a little bit, and then the Dao seals that were superimposed on the arrows in her hand instantly changed as well. Each of the arrows was different now.
The pressure on White Brow increased again.
The changes performed by the two during this round of attack had undoubtedly brought White Brow a great deal of trouble.
He had just adapted to their battle rhythm, but he had yet to reach the state where he could fight them at ease.
The round of changes had messed up his rhythm directly. He was under great pressure once again.
Lin Huang and Xia Bing did not give him any chance to catch a breath at all. Seeing that his rhythm was messed up, they immediately pressed their advantage and sent out even more attacks.
This made White Brow fall into a panicked state. He was stretched thin.
Within ten seconds, he finally revealed a flaw.
One of Lin Huang's space flickering God weapon flying sabers penetrated the gap of the saber gleams defense formation.
Although White Brow dodged at the very last second, avoiding his chest from being pierced by that saber gleam, Xia Bing saw her opportunity.
A white arrow nearby exploded instantly, accurately predicting and covering the location in which White Brow had dodged toward.
Once he noticed that, he wanted to dodge by using teleportation again, but he was too late. A frosty fog had tainted his sleeve.
The second his movements paused, the sky full of golden saber gleams and white arrows cascaded down upon his location.
White Brow's pupils shrunk slightly. That one second of stagnancy had turned into his biggest flaw.
It was too late to dodge, and it was too late to defend.
However, he still had a trump card!
Just before the endless saber gleams and arrow gleams got to him, the entire air surrounding him turned black.
A strange black fog began to appear around White Brow rapidly.
At the same time the black fog rushed out of his body, his hair and brows that were initially turning black faded quickly. They were white now.
Meanwhile, the black fog instantly consolidated into a set of black armor on his body, receiving all of the attacks by force.
"It's Abyssal energy!" Xia Bing exclaimed softly.
Meanwhile, Lin Huang said nothing as he stared at the lingering black fog around White Brow.
He was familiar with the aura.
It was the energy that had attempted to contaminate him when he retrieved Yan Jun's memories back then.
The aura exuded by White Brow's body was almost exactly the same as the black liquid from back then.
"Be careful. The Abyssal energy on his body is exactly the same as the energy in Yan Jun's body," Lin Huang said to Xia Bing through voice transmission.
Xia Bing's face turned solemn after hearing that.
Naturally, she remembered Lin Huang telling her that he accidentally triggered a strange black energy when he was reading through Yan Jun's memories. The black energy was highly infectious, and had almost contaminated Lin Huang.
"I didn't want to expose this secret of mine, but you guys left me with no choice," White Brow said rather hatefully.
"So you've finally admitted that you're a spy from the Raiders, and you're colluding with the Abyss!" Lin Huang exposed him ruthlessly.
White Brow's state seemed rather weird. He laughed directly when he heard that. "The Raiders? I'm not the same as those old geezers."
What White Brow said confused Lin Huang and Xia Bing a little.
"The people from the Raiders are close-minded, and they're pompous. They're nothing but dust." White Brow smiled as he looked at Lin Huang and Xia Bing. "They honestly should've been eliminated by the times since the beginning."
"If you're not a Raider, then who are you?"
Xia Bing could tell that his mental state did not seem to be very stable. She wanted to seize this opportunity to obtain more information.
White Brow looked at her with a smile and said nothing. His smile was getting creepier.
"If I'm not mistaken, you're probably from the Black Abyss?"
Combining the only two keywords Lin Huang got from Yan Jun's memories, and the fact that White Brow could borrow the Abyssal energy, he made a bold speculation.
The smile on White Brow's face turned stiff, after which he looked closely at Lin Huang. "Seems like you know more than I expected."
Xia Bing began to think of many things after Lin Huang's speculation was confirmed.
"So it was you guys who have been stirring troubles in the mystic territories all over the universe? And you guys blamed it on the Raiders on purpose?!"
"It seems like you came prepared. Although those old geezers at the Raiders are dumb, they're not so foolish as to be making enemies everywhere they go. Moreover, no matter how good they are at clearing their traces, someone will find clues eventually," White Brow explained like a madman.
"Then are you guys sure that people would look for the Raiders instead of investigating the Black Abyss directly?" Lin Huang asked another key question.
"You've asked the right question to the right person…" White Brow placed a finger in front of his lips and lowered his voice as he spoke, "Let me tell you guys a secret.. Don't tell anyone. The Black Abyss actually hides deep among the Raiders…"
Chapter 1774: Worship Me
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White Brow, who had Abyssal energy lingering around his body, seemed be mentally unstable.
He even revealed the secret of Black Abyss hiding deep among the Raiders to them, while at the same time speaking of Black Abyss putting the blame on Raiders out loud.
After hearing that, Lin Huang and Xia Bing looked at each other almost simultaneously. They could see the shock and surprise in each other's eyes as they locked gazes.
They had not expected to hear of such a secret from White Brow.
Lin Huang spoke again after they signaled to each other.
"I have another question. Who are you worshiping in this space?"
As soon as Lin Huang asked that question, White Brow froze instantly, and his expression turned serious, "I'm worshiping the ruler of all things, the source of the stars—Aza…"
Lin Huang and Xia Bing looked at each other again, and they immediately understood what the other had in mind—They both had never heard of it.
Aza… Black Abyss… Abyssal energy…
Lin Huang connected the dots quickly and asked further, "Does that Aza you mentioned have anything to do with the Abyss? Is he the god of the Abyss?"
"In the presence of my lord Aza, the Abyss is just a dream fragment, while the universe is just dust. He has surpassed the ultimate entity. Ordinary people can't understand how mighty he is at all…"
To Lin Huang, those were totally empty words.
He even wanted to tease him, did he know exactly how big the universe was? He went so far as to call it dust? How big was this Aza exactly?
At that moment, Xia Bing spoke, "Then why are you worshiping him in a place like this mystic territory?"
"The mystic territory is the bubble of His dreamland. Bursting the bubble will accelerate His awakening…" White Brow seemed to have stabilized his mental state a little as he spoke up to this point. He stopped talking immediately and looked at Lin Huang and Xia Bing fiercely.
"The two of you shouldn't know about these things…" White Brow suddenly laughed hysterically as he spoke, "But it's fine even if you do, since you both won't be alive after today… Hahaha…"
At the same time, a vast amount of saber gleams consolidated in front of him.
The saber gleams no longer exuded the silver-white color from before. Instead, there were clouds of black fog surrounding them. Not only that, the number was increasing.
Within the blink of an eye, hundreds of millions of saber gleams had been consolidated.
The strength of the auras that each saber gleam exuded had exceeded the superimposition of eight million Dao seals…
Xia Bing's face turned pale instantly.
Those saber gleams, each bearing such intense power, were almost at the limit of what she could handle.
Even if she was hit once, she would definitely be severely injured if not killed.
Lin Huang looked serious. He knew that he could no longer hide his true ability any longer.
Red gleams shot forth from his sleeves. In an instant, hundreds of millions of God Weapon flying daggers had been consolidated.
Xia Bing was slightly stunned when she saw his God Weapon flying daggers. Confusion flashed across her eyes, but she soon looked away from Lin Huang, concealing the fact that she was stunned by him.
Facing the pressure of White Brow's saber gleams, Lin Huang could no longer pretend to be a saber cultivator.
The Odylic Force superimposed in those God Weapon flying daggers had reached the maximum number of Dao seals that Lin Huang could borrow from his Kingdom—7,838,500 Dao seals!
The Critical Hit Hammer's limits of authority was released completely.
The next second, Lin Huang's God Weapon flying daggers and White Brow's saber gleams moved almost at the same time.
Suddenly, the black and red storm in the air were like two giant beasts occupying the sky as they fought against each other frantically.
At the moment, the endless black and blood-colored electric arcs were intertwined crazily in the sky, tearing everything around them apart.
The entire space was shaking with the intense roars that were a million times more powerful than lightning.
The collision of the saber gleams and flying daggers released terrifying energy fluctuations.
At the moment, if there was a major dao-level powerhouse witnessing this battle, he would have felt like a lonely boat drifting in the ocean, weathering through a grade-30 tsunami.
Even Xia Bing, who was a powerhouse of the same level, also felt uneasy as if she was being pushed aside by the waves on the ocean.
To prevent herself from being harmed by the impact from the battle, she even had a layer of ice enveloping her body, and had also superimposed the maximum amount of Odylic Force in it.
Meanwhile, all of the ice corpses had turned into mush within ten seconds of the battle between Lin Huang and White Brow commencing.
The level of power displayed by the attacks during this round of battle was completely on a different level compared to the previous rounds with White Brow before.
Xia Bing was not in a rush to activate the revival ability of her Kingdom to revive the ice corpses.
Although her Kingdom came with the revival ability, it would drain her Odyl every time she activated it.
If she revived the ice corpses now, apart from having her Odyl drained, it would not help with anything.
Therefore, she chose to watch quietly.
It was not that she did not want to participate in the battle. She had no chance of interfering in a head-on battle.
The type of battles that she was good at was completely different from the type of battle that the two were engaged in currently. If she was to interfere forcefully, she might end up affecting Lin Huang's battle rhythm.
Therefore, she decisively chose to watch from the side. She had her eyes on White Brow the entire time.
She would attack to obstruct his movements and actions occasionally.
She had completely become an auxiliary assistant.
However, very soon, Xia Bing suddenly frowned lightly.
She saw there were black spots of light appearing on Lin Huang's flying daggers. She reminded him instantly through voice transmission.
"His attack is imbued with contaminating properties. Many of your flying daggers have been contaminated now!"
Lin Huang turned his head to glance at her and nodded lightly to show that he was aware.
In reality, he had noticed it earlier.
White Brow's saber gleams were imbued with contamination properties. Although it was not as powerful as the black liquid in Yan Jun's head, they could corrode his Odyl and contaminate his God Weapon flying daggers.
If it had been someone else, it would likely have created a really tough battle situation to overcome.
The reason being was that the longer this went on, the more God Weapon flying daggers would be contaminated, and it would gradually get more and more serious.
Meanwhile, the contamination of such an Abyssal energy was very difficult to deal with. One would need to expend much more Odyl than the Abyssal energy to cleanse it.
Naturally, White Brow noticed the two's exchange.
He even eavesdropped on the voice transmission Xia Bing sent Lin Huang. He said out loud with a smirk after hearing it, "It's too late seeing that you've only found out about it now!"
He performed a hand seal as soon as he said that.
The black saber gleams suddenly began to change form.
They were no longer simple saber gleams, but tentacles made of black fog that were like slime starting stretching out of them.
Those tentacles would attach a part of themselves on the God Weapon flying daggers each time they collided with the God Weapon flying daggers.
The rate of contamination suddenly accelerated!
The God Weapon flying daggers that were only less than one-fifth contaminated initially were half-contaminated within the blink of an eye…
Xia Bing was worried for Lin Huang as she observed the situation unfold.
She said to Lin Huang through voice transmission directly, "This can't go on. Let's think of a way to leave this space first."
However, Lin Huang replied calmly, "Don't worry, I have a way to deal with it."
For an ordinary person, there was almost zero possibility to turn this situation around. They would only be slowly drained to death by White Brow.
However, Lin Huang was not someone ordinary. He had Eternity Fire in his body.
Eternity Fire could even absorb the liquid black energy in Yan Jun's body previously, let alone this Abyssal energy in fog form now.
As soon as he spoke, Eternity Fire's function was activated instantly.
The black fog that had contaminated the God Weapon flying daggers began to fade quickly at speed that was visible to the naked eye…
"How is this happening?! How is that possible?!" White Brow's face was filled with disbelief when he saw what was taking place.
Even Xia Bing was in a daze.
Lin Huang merely smiled faintly. "Stop worshiping that Aza.. You should worship me instead!"
Chapter 1775: White Brow Dies
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
White Brow was in disbelief when he first saw the Abyssal energy could not contaminate Lin Huang's God Weapon flying daggers. However, his expression suddenly turned strange a moment later.
He looked like a starving stray dog who had suddenly seen a pile of delicious meat.
He began to mumble softly as he stared at Lin Huang.
"Thank you almighty Aza for sending me the gift I desire…"
Although he was speaking softly, Lin Huang and Xia Bing heard him loud and clear.
Xia Bing's face was filled with shock when she heard his words.
Meanwhile, Lin Huang felt goosebumps all over his body.
Just when Lin Huang was beginning to have suspicions about the old man's approach, more black saber gleams were consolidated in front of White Brow at a rapid rate.
A hundred million, 200 million, 300 million…
Over 800 million saber gleams were consolidated within the blink of an eye.
There was more than level-15,000,000 Odylic Force superimposed on each saber gleam.
The number of saber gleams was not why Lin Huang had a change of expression, nor was it the level of Odyl superimposed on them, but the powerful saber formation that was quickly formed by those saber gleams…
"This saber is called Dazzling Galaxy."
White Brow was like a crazy demon. There was even blood dripping from his mouth and nose, but his tone of speech had begun to calm down.
Lin Huang's pupils constricted slightly, while endless blood-colored electric arcs shot forth from his sleeves.
Instantly, there were over a billion electric arcs gathered.
He did not dare to hold back when facing such an attack.
Not only did he borrow the maximum amount of Dao seals from his Kingdom, he also did not hold back on the close to 80,000 Dao seals that he consolidated himself as well.
Xia Bing, who was not far away, knew that she could no longer hide her ability either.
Her hands turned into shadows as she performed a complicated hand seal rapidly.
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The moment she was done with the hand seal, snow began to fall in her Kingdom.
Almost at the same time, White Brow pointed at Lin Huang from a distance.
The saber formation comprising endless black saber gleams turned into a swirling galaxy, enveloping Lin Huang and Xia Bing instantly.
Suddenly, Lin Huang and Xia Bing seemed to have really envisioned a whirling galaxy.
The saber gleams were like black stars rotating in the universe, crushing everything that was swirling around it into the galaxy.
At that moment, Lin Huang's God Weapon flying daggers were triggered instantly.
Destructive lightning!
The over one billion God Weapon flying daggers turned into a sky full of lightning, which exploded in the middle of the galaxy.
Suddenly, it was as if a bright red lightning flower had bloomed at the center of the galaxy.
The destructive lightning flower and the black galaxy that was swirling at an unstable frequency fell into a stagnant situation.
On the surface, the Dao seals Lin Huang used were indeed quite little.
However, each of the Dao seals he consolidated himself contained a million Dao tattoos. It was at least a hundred times more than the amount other dao-level powerhouses had.
The power exuded by the close to 80,000 Dao seals at the moment was no less powerful than the eight million Dao seals he borrowed from his Kingdom.
Although there were disparities in their techniques, he took White Brow's most powerful hit forcefully.
In reality, the number of Odyl superimposed between the two of them had surpassed Xia Bing's limit.
Nevertheless, she attacked without holding back.
Under the superimposition of her Kingdom, snow suddenly began falling over the battlefield, and it gradually started to snow more heavily.
The battlefield was covered entirely by a strong wind and snowstorm almost instantly.
Each of the frosty snowflakes that landed on the black saber gleams would seal one to two levels of Odyl.
As the density of the snowflakes increased, their speed was increasing too.
White Brow clearly felt the gradual increase of the suppression of Abyssal energy on his body as the snowflakes fell on him.
However, the snowflakes transformed into a superimposition when they landed on the God Weapon flying daggers.
Although there was only one to two levels of Odyl in each snowflake, the effect was significant as they gradually accumulated.
Through the waning and waxing, the battle situation that was initially stagnant had finally lost its balance.
The lightning flower was blooming more and more dazzlingly, while the black galaxy began to collapse slowly…
White Brow wanted to turn the terrible situation around when he saw what was going on. He controlled the swirling galaxy and changed its forms a couple of times. However, it was all futile.
The boundless black galaxy could not overcome the lightning flower in the end. It could not hurt Lin Huang and Xia Bing at all.
Through the endless snow, wind and saber gleams, Lin Huang saw that White Brow's seven orifices began to bleed, and his hair started turning white and thin. Even his skin was rapidly aging at a speed that was visible to the naked eye…
The Abyssal energy that had allowed him to regain a little bit of his lifespan as well as his youth earlier was currently engulfing his vitality, of which not much remained.
'You brought this upon yourself. You should die!'
Lin Huang commented deep within his heart.
Through the endless lightning, snow and wind, White Brow saw the way Lin Huang was looking at him.
It was the kind of gaze one had when looking at someone pathetic.
"I'm unwilling… Why…" White Brow seemed to know the consequences of his attack failing well. "I thought I could obtain the treasure in your possession after killing you and wouldn't have to worry about the corrosion of Abyssal energy again…"
Under the collision of the flying daggers and saber gleams, White Brow's voice was as soft as a buzzing mosquito, but Lin Huang heard it loud and clear.
He had finally realized that White Brow had been eyeing the Eternity Fire in his body.
Him removing the Abyssal energy just now had exposed the function of Eternity Fire.
White Brow's physical body was aging quickly, and even his vitality was fading fast.
The Dazzling Galaxy would soon collapse.
In the galaxy, the saber gleams began to fade away quickly as if they had lost their energy supply. They faded into nothingness.
The entire galaxy collapsed within ten seconds.
It gradually faded.
The current White Brow was so skinny that he was only left with skin and bones, like a dried corpse. His Odyl had faded almost entirely, and he was only left with a sliver of vitality. He did not have the strength to fight anymore.
Lin Huang and Xia Bing halted their attacks on their own when they saw his decrepit state.
"Do you still think that guy named Aza will still take care of you?" Lin Huang asked expressionlessly.
White Brow no longer had Abyssal energy left in his body. He was dying, but he remained conscious.
However, he could no longer speak. He merely nodded lightly, while tears were streaming down his face continuously.
Lin Huang wanted to say more but, as he was about to speak, he sensed that White Brow's vitality had collapsed entirely.
"Let's see if I can retrieve any useful information," Lin Huang said to Xia Bing who was next to him, and pressed his hand on White Brow's forehead, of which all that was left was but a layer of thin skin.
He began to read the remaining memories in his mind as he spread Divine Telekinesis inside.
A moment later, he retrieved his hand. Xia Bing asked quickly, "How was it?"
Lin Huang shook his head. "Look at it yourself."
Xia Bing nodded and took a step forward too. She pressed her hand upon White Brow's corpse.
She retrieved her hand merely a moment after as well.
"As expected, all the information regarding the Black Abyss has been removed…"
"Fortunately, he revealed quite a lot verbally during the battle." Lin Huang did not think that they had been left empty-handed.
"His Kingdom is still here. You can put away his corpse," Xia Bing said casually.
Just as Lin Huang was about to put the corpse away, he seemed to have suddenly thought of something, after which he turned his head to look at Xia Bing. "You know who I am?!"
Chapter 1776: The Strange Altar
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The reason why Lin Huang suspected that Xia Bing had discovered his identity was because she said "his Kingdom is still here".
Not just anyone could refine Kingdoms as they wished.
There was a limit to everyone's Kingdoms' territories. It depended on the foundation when one consolidated their Kingdom in the beginning.
Therefore, there was a limit to the Kingdom that one could refine and integrate.
Meanwhile, White Brow's Kingdom was close to the strength limit of major dao-level powerhouses.
Most major dao-level powerhouses could not refine such a Kingdom at all.
To a powerhouse like Xia Bing, although she could refine it, she had to have refined many Kingdoms to have been able to cultivate to this level, so her Kingdom should have reached its limit and she could no longer integrate any more Kingdoms.
Therefore, to most people, White Brow's Kingdom was useless.
Lin Huang on the other hand, was a unique case. His Kingdom's foundation was more powerful than everyone else's.
Refining other people's Kingdoms was one of the main ways to elevate his strength.
However, only people who knew him or people he was close with knew that fact.
Xia Bing mentioning it made him suspect that she knew him. Not only that, he thought that she had guessed his real ability judging from his God Weapon flying daggers.
Xia Bing was stunned. A subtle panic flashed through her eyes, but her expression remained calm.
"How would I know? The mask you're wearing has shielded your real aura entirely. Maybe… you should remove your mask and see if I know you?"
Lin Huang stared at Xia Bing for a moment and did not see anything unusual. He figured that he was overthinking things.
"It's impossible for me to remove my mask. Stop thinking about such things."
He intentionally adjusted his mask with his hand as he spoke. Only after that did he put away White Brow's corpse into his storage space.
After dealing with the corpse, Lin Huang turned around to look at the altar that was covered in black fog not far away.
"Did you say that the altar couldn't be destroyed?"
Xia Bing looked at the altar with a rather worried expression. She nodded. "I've tried it. I don't think a major dao-level powerhouse can destroy it."
"Let me try it," Lin Huang attempted it directly as he spoke those words.
His Kingdom descended instantly, enveloping the altar.
The next second, endless electric arcs formed by the one billion God Weapon flying daggers enveloped the space where the altar was.
He borrowed all of the Odyl outside his Kingdom for this attack. He almost did not hold anything back.
After all, he had exposed his true ability to Xia Bing. There was no need for him to continue hiding things now.
Under the superimposition of the Critical Hit Hammer's effect, the God Weapon flying daggers unleashed terrifying power.
Any one of them was sufficient to kill a peak major dao-level powerhouse.
However, such an attack seemed to have fallen into a swamp as soon as it entered the area covered by the black fog where the altar was.
As the flying daggers continued moving, inch by inch, the Odylic Force covering them would detach and dissolve rapidly.
The remaining attack power was next to nothing by the time the flying daggers hit the stone platform.
His attack did not cause any damage to the stone platform at all. Not even a stone chip was dislodged.
Lin Huang could not help but frown slightly when he saw the outcome of his attack.
While controlling the God Weapon flying daggers to continue attacking, he covered the entire altar with his Divine Telekinesis, trying to discover where the problem lay exactly.
Although the black fog was corroding the Divine Telekinesis that was being spread out quickly, indeed, Lin Huang soon discovered something unusual.
There were many runes "carved" onto the altar. Lin Huang had initially thought they were carvings.
Observing through his Divine Telekinesis, he discovered that the black runes were made from Abyssal energy in liquid form. Not only that, the Abyssal energy was flowing continuously.
It was just that the rate of flow was rather strange, giving people the illusion that it was completely still.
That was what caused Lin Huang to initially think that the runes were carved.
He also discovered that every time his God Weapon flying daggers hit the stone platform, the Abyssal energy within the runes would exude a faint black glow.
Lin Huang guessed that there was a high probability that those runes were the reason why the stone platform remained perfectly unscathed by his attack.
After seeing his futile attack, Xia Bing who was standing at the side could finally no longer take it.
"Forget it, stop wasting your strength. Let's leave it if we can't get rid of it, since this mystic territory won't appear again within a short period of time. Our priority now should be to bring back the news about the Black Abyss."
Lin Huang thought for a moment before speaking again, "Let me try again."
He recalled his Kingdom and God Weapon flying daggers directly after saying that.
In a flash, he dove into the black fog and appeared on the altar directly.
Xia Bing wanted to stop him when she saw that, but it was too late.
"You…"
Although White Brow had died, the altar that he had activated remained active.
Xia Bing had only dared to attack it from a distance previously, as she was afraid that she would be tainted by the Abyssal energy surrounding the altar.
Never had she thought that Lin Huang would take the initiative to jump inside the black fog.
It was an action that was equivalent to asking for death had it been performed by an ordinary person.
White Brow was the best example of what would happen when one was contaminated by Abyssal energy.
However, Xia Bing soon calmed down. On one hand, she recalled that Lin Huang had a unique technique to cleanse the Abyssal energy. On the other hand, she saw that Lin Huang, who was standing on the altar, did not show any signs of being contaminated by the Abyssal energy at all.
In addition, he looked more like he was absorbing the Abyssal energy.
In reality, that was indeed what Lin Huang wanted to do.
He went straight to the altar and activated Eternity Fire to absorb the Abyssal energy frantically.
As Eternity Fire absorbed the Abyssal energy wildly, the black fog surrounding the altar soon became thin.
Very soon, it faded entirely.
Meanwhile, Eternity Fire started the second round of absorption.
The black runes on the altar began stretching out threads, that were like inverted tornadoes, into Lin Huang's body.
It was not that Lin Huang was being attacked, but rather an effect caused by Eternity Fire's absorption.
On the altar, as Eternity Fire absorbed the ink-black runes, they rapidly started fading at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.
At this moment, Xia Bing could finally see the possibility of this altar being destroyed.
Time was passing by inside this virtual realm space.
Over half an hour later, Eternity Fire had finally completely absorbed the last bit of liquid Abyssal energy.
However, the second it was absorbed, Lin Huang suddenly felt a shudder inside his body.
The next second, he noticed that his physical body, God's soul, Odyl, Kingdom, Divine Power, Divine Telekinesis, and the Goldfingers in his body… Everything seemed to have been blocked.
He was only left with his consciousness, which was being pulled by an irresistible force. It was falling continuously…
Not knowing how long he had been falling, Lin Huang only felt that his surroundings were getting darker and darker. When it became so dark that even his consciousness could not sense anything around him, he faintly sensed that the pulling sensation had finally stopped.
He tried his best to sense everything around him, but there was only darkness.
However, he soon heard a faint, long breathing sound that was coming from extremely far away.
Not knowing why, Lin Huang felt an unknown fear sprout inside him when he heard that sound.
The feeling was indescribable. If he had to describe it, he could clearly sense the source of the breathing sound. It was a powerful entity that he did not know of. Even if He did nothing and merely existed, it was enough to make one tremble.
Lin Huang tried to maintain his very last strand of rationality to resist this great and unknown fear.
After an unknown period of time had passed, an intense dizziness suddenly hit him.
When he looked around again, he realized that he had returned to the altar…
His physical body, God's soul, Odyl, Kingdom, Divine Power, Divine Telekinesis, and the Goldfingers in his body… Everything had become normal again..
Chapter 1777: The Mystic Territory Collapses
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
As Lin Huang's consciousness returned to his body, the first thing he did was to contact Xiao Hei and the rest of the Goldfingers in his body.
"Did you guys feel anything strange just now? Like you guys had lost connection with me or something?"
"No."
Xiao Hei answered almost without any hesitation.
The Soul-controlling Tablet, Eternity Fire and the rest of the Goldfingers gave the same answer.
In reality, Lin Huang had expected that answer, but he insisted on asking anyway just in case.
Just as he was about to ask further, the entire altar suddenly began to crack and collapse.
Not only that, the entire space started to tremble intensely. It looked like it was at risk of collapsing anytime.
"Let's go!" Lin Huang said to Xia Bing.
At the same time, he arrived at the teleportation entrance which they had used to come in earlier directly in a flash.
Xia Bing arrived almost at the same time. The two of them stepped through the entrance one after the other.
Just as the two of them returned to the sixth level of the Abyss from the teleportation entrance, the entrance began to collapse rapidly before they could even turn around.
Within three seconds, the entrance vanished completely.
Lin Huang and Xia Bing were slightly relieved. At that moment, the surface of the mystic territory's sixth level began to tremble as well.
The two of them locked eyes. They moved again almost at the same time. They went toward the fifth level's entrance without any hesitation whatsoever.
When they had arrived at the entrance, the surface of the sixth level had begun to collapse.
They merely turned around to take a glance before heading straight to the fifth level.
Without waiting for anything to happen on the fifth level, they headed straight to the fourth level's entrance.
When they arrived at the fourth level's entrance, the surface of the fifth level began to tremble violently.
The two of them locked eyes and headed straight to the fourth level.
When they got to the fourth level, they headed straight to the third level's entrance frantically before waiting for anything to happen to the fourth level.
Later on, they headed to the second level, and then the first, all the way until they had gotten out of the Abyss. It was only then that they stopped running.
"I wonder if it'll affect the places outside of the Abyssal zone." Xia Bing stood at the entrance of the Abyss and looked below.
"No matter what, this will be the end of the exploration this time." Lin Huang looked at Xia Bing.
He hesitated for a while, but could not help but ask, "Did you feel anything strange, even for the slightest moment, when I was on the altar?"
Hearing the odd question, Xia Bing recollected the scene carefully and then shook her head in confirmation. "There was nothing strange. I only saw you absorbing that Abyssal energy and then the altar collapsed. After that, the entire space collapsed."
"At any moment, did you suddenly not sense my aura anymore?" Lin Huang continued to ask.
Xia Bing shook her head in slight confusion. "No, why are you asking that? Did you sense anything strange?"
Lin Huang thought about it and decided to not tell her for the time being. "Nothing. I thought I'd just ask."
Xia Bing did not want to give up and wanted to ask further, but more people were running out of the Abyss consecutively. The conversation between them ceased.
Most of the powerhouses who ran out headed straight toward the sky and left the mystic territory soon after. Only a small number of them stayed behind.
"I'm leaving too. Only a few hours remain until the end of the exploration period. It's pretty meaningless to stick around." Lin Huang headed toward the sky in a flash after saying that.
Xia Bing hesitated no longer and caught up to him in the sky when she saw him move.
It was simple to leave the mystic territory. All they had to do was to fly upward.
After they arrived at a certain height above the ground, they would leave the mystic territory automatically.
Very soon, Lin Huang left the mystic territory. He had once again returned to the boundless sky.
He removed his mask and disguise after leaving the mystic territory. He was now wearing the clothes and the look he had before entering the mystic territory.
Xia Bing got out less than three seconds after Lin Huang did.
After she got out, she glanced through the crowd of faces quickly. She looked away without stopping when she glanced at Lin Huang.
Lin Huang was relieved. She did not seem to recognize him.
There were a bunch of dao-level powerhouses who had escaped from the abyssal zone who came out almost at the same time as they did.
Most of the powerhouses from the different organizations did not leave immediately. Instead, they began a discussion in the air outside the mystic territory.
"What happened to the abyssal zone? Why did it collapse suddenly?!"
"That's right. The exploration hasn't ended yet. Theoretically, the mystic territory shouldn't close so soon."
"The closing of mystic territory never involved it collapsing directly. Instead, it should have been gradually enveloped by the fog."
"Yes, such a collapse makes it look like it was caused by someone. Perhaps someone triggered something in the abyssal zone…"
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Lin Huang felt a little guilty when he heard the crowd's discussion.
Although he did not do anything bad, the collapse of the abyssal zone was caused by him absorbing the Abyssal energy at the altar after all.
As the crowd was still discussing, more and more people teleported out of the mystic territory consecutively.
Lin Huang saw many people that he was familiar with as well as those that he had met when he was disguised as the white-masked man.
Old Wang and Old He from Royal, Chi Yao and Yue Wu, as well as the tall and short brothers from Snow Kingdom.
Soon, Lin Huang heard more news.
After the abyssal zone collapsed, it very soon spread to the ground, the sea and other zones.
With the abyssal zone as the core and starting point, the collapse and disintegration spread outward in all directions throughout the entire mystic territory.
The people who initially ran out were only powerhouses who were hunting in the abyssal zone. As the collapse spread, almost all the survivors escaped one after the other.
This included Liu Fu who had just been elevated to minor dao-level.
He saw Lin Huang as soon as he got out.
He arrived before him in a flash and gave him a hug directly.
"You're alive as well, bro. This is amazing!"
After letting go of Lin Huang, he began to whine incessantly, describing the tragic encounters he went through over the past one month.
Lin Huang could only listen in silence, while responding occasionally.
Most people chose to stay. They were chatting with the people they were familiar with as well.
Only a small number of them chose to leave immediately.
More and more people gathered in the sky outside the mystic territory.
Some ten minutes later, the mystic territory collapsed into fragments and then vanished quickly before the crowd's eyes.
Nothing was left in its place.
However, at that moment, someone came to a realization that the major-dao level powerhouses from their organization had not come out.
"Where's Master White Brow? Why isn't he out?!"
There was a clamor on the Longevity Tribe's side.
The other organizations slowly fell into chaos, including Royal.
Chi Yao glanced through the crowd and asked loudly, "Did anyone see Yan Jun?"
The people from Royal were shocked. Yan Jun was most probably dead if he had not managed to get out.
He was a major-dao level powerhouse!
Lin Huang looked at Wang Xuanan secretly. He had not told Chi Yao through voice transmission that Yan Jun was a spy.
Lin Huang guessed that he might not trust Chi Yao completely.
She could only move on since nobody answered her question.
After all, even White Brow was missing. Not only that, she had sensed a powerhouse scanning with Divine Telekinesis on the sixth level of the abyssal zone earlier. It was possible that Yan Jun had been killed.
As the organizations counted their members, they soon left the sky.
Lin Huang did not stay any longer. Instead, he headed over to his first stop in the universe directly—the Feister Star Zone!
Chapter 1778: Feister Star Zone
The Feister Star Zone was located in Dongxuan City in the Eastern Eight Zone of the universe.
It had the highest trading volume among the three trade zones within Dongxuan City.
The reason Lin Huang chose this as his first foothold in the universe was because Dongxuan City was Sovereign Xuan's territory. His safety was guaranteed. On the other hand, he was attracted by the rapid development of the trading market here.
He could deal with many of his spoils here conveniently. Not only that, most of the resources he needed could also be found here.
As soon as Lin Huang arrived in the Feister Star Zone, the first thing he did was to buy a property.
In the Feister Star Zone, where land was scarce and expensive, property prices were high.
Naturally, that was only true for regular cultivators.
To Lin Huang, a dao-level cultivator, it was not even worth mentioning.
He merely used an ultimate-grade god sequence relic to purchase a compound that was over 30,000 square meters in size in the busiest part of the Feister Star Zone.
After completing the transaction procedures within ten minutes, Lin Huang directly moved in. He also released Lin Xin, Lin Xuan, his Sword Servants and the rest of them out of the Kingdom in his body.
"From today onward, this is our first foothold in the universe."
"This is the Feister Star Zone. It's under the jurisdiction of Dongxuan City in the Eastern Eight Zone. Theoretically, safety is definitely guaranteed here. The Feister Star Zone is one of the three trade zones in Dongxuan City. You guys can check it out over the next few days to familiarize yourself with the surrounding environment."
Lin Huang took out a storage ring and passed it to Sword 1 as he spoke.
"There are communication rings that I got for everyone inside. Register and activate them when you guys put them on."
Sword 1 handed out the communication rings to everyone quickly. They knew that they were no longer in the great world, but the universe. They could no longer use the communication rings they had been using before.
"There's no need to rush to establish the Sword Alliance for the time being. Familiarize yourself with the surrounding environment first and learn the basics about the universe."
In reality, Lin Huang himself needed to use some information channels to understand the universe's current situation.
Although he had learned a lot about the universe and many great worlds through the True Spirit fragments from the Nirvana Trees, most of the information fragments were outdated, and there were many that were from the past era.
Much of the information was obsolete now.
That was the reason why he did not sort the information into usable data and share it with them.
Back on Earth, a country could go from being impoverished to wealthy in 30 to 50 years.
Perhaps within ten years, a change in industry would produce many wealthy people.
Perhaps the rise of a new industry would give rise to the success of a bunch of young people within two to three years…
Naturally, the changes within the universe would not be as rapid. However, there were definitely many changes that had taken place after hundreds to thousands of years, or even an era.
"I'll drop by Royal to resubmit the application for Sword Alliance a few days later after we've settled in. Once that's done, everyone can take on the missions published by Royal on their information channel."
Sword 1 and the rest left one after the other after Lin Huang gave them a simple reminder.
He was not exactly worried about the Sword Servants' safety.
The reason being was that the Sword Servants were already Lords. Although their ability was not considered top-tier in the universe, they were already considered powerhouses.
However, he was still worried about Lin Xin and Lin Xuan.
After the Sword Servants left, he turned around to look at Lin Xin, Lin Xuan and Xiao Mo.
"Your ninth-rank true god-level combat strength isn't considered weak in the great world. However, it's rather weak here in the universe. Those who are below heavenly god-level can only be considered reserve members within the major organizations in the universe. Heavenly god-level is the first threshold before becoming an official member of many major organizations."
"You guys can slack off a little bit these few days to familiarize yourself with the new environment, but you'll really have to cultivate seriously after that. You guys don't have to care about anything else. I'll only give you one mission, which is to break through to heavenly god-level!"
They nodded in silence. They did not want to slow Lin Huang down.
"Although Dongxuan City is theoretically safe, it's not definite. You guys should still be careful when you familiarize yourself with the surrounding environment these few days. Stay as low profile as you can."
Lin Huang got them to pick their own rooms after giving them simple instructions.
Meanwhile, he walked toward the main building through the courtyard.
Including the main building, there were a total of 18 buildings in the compound. They were three-story buildings.
Among them, the main building was the largest. Excluding the courtyard, the surface area was some 1,200 square meters. The main building was the tallest too; each story was at least 3.5 meters high.
To many, such a building was sufficiently luxurious. To Lin Huang though, it was quite plain.
When he was Emperor in the gravel world, any of the god relic palaces was gigantic here. The space inside could easily contain a planet.
After stepping into the main building, Lin Huang scanned through the place with Divine Telekinesis instantly.
He had looked through the transaction details earlier. He wanted to examine it thoroughly now.
He scanned through each and every corner of the entire building with Divine Telekinesis, then he extended his scan toward the other directions from the courtyard.
He saw Lin Xin and Lin Xuan each picking the buildings close to him, while Yang Ling and Hong Zhuang were staying in one building. Xiao Mo, Huang Wuji and Wu Hao also decided to stay in the same building.
They did not sense his Divine Telekinesis scanning at all.
Very soon, he had scanned through each and every corner of the entire compound and did not find anything out of the ordinary. He recalled his Divine Telekinesis and then summoned Bloody.
Such a large compound came with its own defense and shield formation. All he had to do was to activate them, and they would block probing attempts from the outside world.
However, such formations were usually not too powerful.
They were standard formations created by a heavenly god-level formation master, which would only block the probing of heavenly god-level cultivators.
Therefore, many lord-level, or even more powerful cultivators, would get their friends to revise the formations, or even do it themselves.
Lin Huang summoned Bloody primarily to get her to set the formations again.
Bloody was a limit lord-level powerhouse now. Not only that, her attainments in formations and shields were more powerful than her actual cultivation base.
However, Lin Huang did not want to attract any unwanted attention. He only got her to set a shield formation that had the strength of limit lord-level.
After Bloody received the order, she soon went into working mode.
Some ten minutes later, she had completed the new setting for the formations.
"I've only set up one layer for the shield formation. It can block all of the auras in the entire compound, and its strength is within limit lord-level."
"I've set a 68-layer defense formation, with each layer being at limit lord-level. If the first layer is damaged, it will trigger the activation of the second layer. If the second layer is damaged, the third layer will be activated. If the third layer is destroyed, the remaining 63 layers of the formation will be activated instantly, integrating into a minor dao-level defense formation. It's sufficient to defend against a full-force attack of a powerhouse who has just been elevated to minor dao-level."
"Apart from that, I've also created a hidden maze. When a cultivator below dao-level falls into it, he definitely won't be able to escape."
"I've thought about adding an attack-type formation, but in the end I didn't set one up. The reason being was that I thought that, if someone could ignore the maze and destroy the defense formation, an attack-type formation would be rather useless. Moreover, maintaining these formations at all times would require the continuous expenditure of Divine Crystals. We can spend less money by having one less formation."
Bloody gave a thorough explanation of her work.
"Thank you." Lin Huang nodded in satisfaction, and then explained, "You guys can rest for the time being. I've just arrived in the universe and I haven't understood the situation entirely. I'll release you guys when the time is right."
"Got it." Bloody nodded lightly. She knew that a limit Lord was considered a powerhouse in the universe.
They might attract other powerhouses' attention from the star zone if over 20 of them suddenly appeared at once..
Chapter 1779: Bountiful Gain
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Lin Huang sat with his legs crossed in the living room of the main building after activating the formations Bloody had set up.
He spread out his Divine Telekinesis into his storage space and began to check the spoils he obtained from the trip into the mystic territory.
His first gains were from the Voids that he had killed when he entered the black and white zone in the mystic territory. There were approximately 1,800 of them.
However, he only obtained Origin Energy from killing those Voids. There were no carcasses left behind.
Fortunately, Origin Energy was quite useful. It could be used to elevate his imperial monsters' combat strength and the God's Figurine's Combat Souls' abilities.
The second pile of spoils were from the Abyssal creatures that he had killed when he entered the foggy area.
Including the Gluttons, Lin Huang had killed over 20 types of Abyssal creatures there. There were over 3,000 Abyssal creatures.
They were at minor dao-level.
The third pile of spoils were from the sea monsters Lin Huang killed in the sea.
There were over 9,000 of those sea monsters that had basically mastered between 10,000 to 40,000 Dao seals.
The fourth pile of spoils naturally came from the abyssal zone.
There were already some major dao-level monsters on the first level of the abyssal zone.
The monsters that Lin Huang killed had basically mastered between 80,000 to 100,000 Dao seals, and he managed to kill more than 3,000 of them.
He killed over 3,500 monsters on the second level of the Abyss.
On the third level of the Abyss, he only killed some 2,500 monsters, and then 2,000 monsters on the fourth level of the Abyss.
He then killed over 3,000 monsters on the fifth level.
When he got to the sixth level, there were actually not many monsters left in the abyssal zone. Given that Lin Huang was in a hurry to search for Xia Bing, he did not take the initiative to hunt. He only killed the hundred or so monsters that were attracted by his Divine Telekinesis probing.
Nevertheless, the prey that had sent themselves to him were of high quality. They had basically mastered over 800,000 Dao seals.
Lin Huang quickly scanned through the Kingdoms left behind on the monster carcasses with Divine Telekinesis one after the other.
However, he could not help but frown soon after. Most of these monster carcasses' Kingdoms were complete, but most of them were dead Kingdoms.
Less than one-tenth of the Kingdoms had living beings remaining, much lesser Lords in them.
Lin Huang soon realized the reason after thinking about it for a moment.
Many of the monsters in the mystic territory were spirit species and undying species. They had died many years ago. The resources in the Kingdoms were exhausted, so they could not cultivate powerhouses. Many cultivators and non-cultivators died when their time was up.
There were some Abyssal creatures that contained a high amount of Abyssal energy in their Kingdoms. Normal creatures could not survive in it at all. They were either contaminated, turning into Abyssal creatures, deformed or dead. Meanwhile, most Abyssal creatures were only left with survival skills. They did not have the motivation or method to cultivate on their own. Very few of them had been elevated above Lords.
Lin Huang calculated carefully. Among the close to 33,000 monsters he killed, only some 700 or so of them had Lords and cultivators above lord-level surviving in their Kingdoms.
Among them, there were some 500 minor dao-level cultivators and approximately 200 major dao-level cultivators.
Combining all of the Kingdoms, there were some 110,000 Lords and some 700 dao-level powerhouses.
That meant that the number of Lords in Lin Huang's Kingdom would skyrocket if he refined those Kingdoms. There would even be dao-level powerhouses.
These Lords and dao-level powerhouses would undoubtedly unseal many Dao seals within Lin Huang's Kingdom.
"I'll refine those that can be refined, and then I'll find time to deal with the remaining carcasses. I'll trade them for dao-level Kingdoms with Lords inside or some other resources…" Lin Huang very soon clarified his thoughts.
After calculating the number of monster carcasses, Lin Huang laid his eyes on the few Black Abyss members' corpses.
The first one was Lu Yi, who was a spy within the Star Cluster. He had mastered over 55,000 Dao seals.
The second one was Bai Rong, who was a spy within the Snow Kingdom. He had mastered some 52,000 Dao seals.
The third one was Infinite's minor dao-level team leader, Ao Yu. He was also a spy from Black Abyss.
He had mastered over 100,000 Dao seals.
The fourth one was the Black Abyss' major dao-level spy hiding within Royal—Yan Jun.
He had mastered some 330,000 Dao seals.
The fifth one was Householder White Brow, who was hiding within the Longevity Tribe.
The number of Dao seals he had mastered had reached the limit of major dao-level, which was 1.08 million Dao seals.
There were also two corpses that were not killed by Lin Huang. They were the dried corpses that he picked up from the space where the altar was located.
They were Jin Feng from the Snow Kingdom and Hu Shan from the Star Cluster. They were both major dao-level powerhouses. They had mastered some 740,000 Dao seals and 800,000 Dao seals while they were alive.
However, Lin Huang was not planning on retrieving their Kingdoms to refine them. Instead, he was going to return them to the Snow Kingdom and Star Cluster.
The reason being Xia Bing asked him to return the corpses through voice transmission before leaving the mystic territory. The rewards he would obtain would not be lower than the value of looting the corpses.
Although he could only refine the remaining five people's Kingdoms, the quality of their Kingdoms was very high.
Lin Huang examined their Kingdoms through Divine Telekinesis. There were a total of over 4,000 people in their Kingdoms. There were some 180 dao-level powerhouses within them.
Apart from these corpses, there had to be great stuff hiding inside their storage rings.
He also noticed that there were no longer rings on Jin Feng and Hu Shan's fingers. They should have been taken away by White Brow after he killed them.
Lin Huang did not plan to return the two's storage rings.
They were taken by White Brow anyway, not him. Meanwhile, White Brow's carcass was his loot.
He had done his best in returning the corpses!
Apart from the storage rings of the five Black Abyss spies, there were actually a small number of storage rings from the human-form monsters in the mystic territory. There were almost 30 rings in total.
Lin Huang did not have high hopes for these 30 rings.
After all, most of them were old; some even been around for more than an era. Even if there was good stuff in the past, perhaps most of it had decayed.
The storage space did not come with a time-stopping function. It merely blocked the air from the outside world from entering. However, although it isolated the decaying effects of oxidation, most of the items could not resist the decaying effects of time.
Over an hour had passed by the time he was done calculating all of the spoils he had obtained from the trip to the mystic territory.
Lin Huang took out the 41 storage rings and called Yang Ling over. He gave all of the rings to him to unlock.
After Yang Ling left with the rings, Lin Huang summoned Bai.
"I'm going into the virtual zone. Stay in the house and don't let anyone disturb me."
Although going into the virtual zone would only take a moment, Lin Huang summoned Bai to guard him as a safety precaution.
Bai nodded and walked out of the main building directly. He closed the door and stood there with his hands crossed over his chest.
Lin Huang summoned the virtual body and virtual realm cabin in the living room directly. He placed the storage ring in the virtual realm cabin.
He then contacted Mr. Gate to open the gate to the virtual zone.
His virtual body hesitated no further as he stepped into it directly.
Chapter 1780: Major Dao-level?!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
As soon as Lin Huang stepped into the virtual realm, he spread out his Divine Telekinesis instantly.
There were no Voids in the few surrounding star zones.
He then entered the virtual realm cabin in relief.
After getting into the cabin, he picked up the storage ring on the floor and sat with his legs crossed.
He adjusted himself mentally and took out the first monster carcass, after which he began to extract its Kingdom without hesitation.
The ones that he chose to extract were naturally those whose Kingdoms still had living beings and Lords.
It only took him a moment to extract the Abyssal monster's Kingdom. He tossed the carcass back inside his storage space casually and activated Eternity Fire to cleanse the Abyssal energy in the Kingdom.
Very soon, Eternity Fire had engulfed all of the Abyssal energy in the Kingdom.
Lin Huang then began to refine the Kingdom directly.
As his ability was close to peak major dao-level, the speed at which he refined Kingdoms was much faster than before.
He merely used about a week to refine the minor dao-level Kingdom.
There were five Abyssal Lords who survived in this Kingdom.
Among the five Lords, four of them were lower-rank Lords, and only one was a middle-rank Lord.
However, the five of them unsealed 53 Dao seals for Lin Huang.
Apart from that, the Kingdom contained over 60,000 Dao seals. They had now become a part of his Kingdom.
The extraction and refinement of the first Kingdom was unusually successful. Lin Huang released a sigh of relief and very soon started the second round.
The second Kingdom still belonged to an Abyssal minor dao-level monster.
The entire handling process was almost identical to the first one.
Meanwhile, there were more Abyssal Lords left behind in this Kingdom; eight of them.
Among them, six were lower-rank Lords, and two were middle-rank Lords.
The eight Abyssal Lords unsealed a total of 181 Dao seals for Lin Huang.
This Kingdom also added over 90,000 Dao seals to his Kingdom.
Later on, Lin Huang got the hang of things and managed to familiarize himself with the extraction and refinement process.
The third Kingdom…
The fourth one…
…
Very soon, he extracted and refined most of the Kingdoms.
The Dao seals in Lin Huang's body were unsealed over and over again, while the number of Dao seals in his Kingdom was skyrocketing.
There was no concept of time inside the virtual realm.
He did not know how long had passed, but he had finally extracted and refined all of the 561 minor dao-level monsters' carcasses.
The 561 minor dao-level monsters' Kingdoms undoubtedly brought a huge elevation in strength to him.
Some 180,000 Dao seals were unsealed in Lin Huang's body, while the total number of Dao seals in his Kingdom had been increased by over 85 million (not the number of Dao seals he could use).
After refining the minor dao-level Kingdoms, Lin Huang examined his body briefly before quickly extracting and refining the 198 major dao-level monster carcasses.
Days went by as Lin Huang stayed in the virtual realm.
He spent over a hundred days to refine the first major dao-level Kingdom.
Nevertheless, the gain was undoubtedly a bountiful one.
There were close to a hundred Lords living in this Kingdom alone.
Among the hundred Lords, there was only one ultimate-rank Lord and close to ten upper-rank Lords.
Placing this batch of Lords and the dao-level Kingdom into his Kingdom, it unsealed over 4,000 Dao seals for Lin Huang.
The refinement of the Kingdom increased the number of Dao seals by over 300,000 in Lin Huang's Kingdom.
He did not stop at all. He merely glanced at the growing numbers and quickly extracted and refined the second major dao-level Kingdom.
After that, he continued the process for the third one, the fourth one…
The monster carcasses he extracted later on had mastered more Dao seals. The time spent to refine them was getting longer and longer.
This caused Lin Huang to lose track of exactly how long he spent to finally refine all of the 198 Kingdoms.
As soon as he refined all of them, he checked the numbers again.
He was rather shocked as a result.
The gains he had obtained from the 198 major dao-level Kingdoms was so much more than the over 500 minor dao-level Kingdoms he had refined before this.
The unsealed Dao seals alone had surpassed 15 million. In his Kingdom, the number of Dao seals had increased by over 300 million.
After refining all of the carcasses he obtained from the mystic territory, Lin Huang cast his eyes on the five Black Abyss members' corpses.
He spent some time extracting and refining those five Kingdoms.
Although Lu Yi and Bai Rong were merely minor dao-level powerhouses who had mastered some 50,000 Dao seals, there were more Lords in their Kingdoms, more than most of the major dao-level Kingdoms from the mystic territory.
Combining their Kingdoms, there were five ultimate-rank Lords and over 30 upper-rank Lords.
Ao Yu, who was at peak minor dao-level, had more Lords in his Kingdom than the two of them combined, not to mention Yan Jun who was on major dao-level.
The number of powerhouses in White Brow's Kingdom was far beyond Lin Huang's imagination.
Not only were there some ten minor dao-level powerhouses, there was also a major dao-level powerhouse who had just been elevated not long ago. There were over 3,000 Lords too.
The five's Kingdoms unsealed over 3.7 million Dao seals for Lin Huang. Meanwhile, there were more than 48 million Dao seals added to his Kingdom.
After refining all of the dao-level Kingdoms, Lin Huang made some calculations.
This round of closed-door cultivation unsealed approximately 19.5 million Dao seals, while more than 440 million Dao seals were added to his Kingdom.
However, the unsealing of Dao seals only meant that Lin Huang had a larger quota to work with now. It did not mean that he had mastered the Dao seals directly.
He would need to analyze the Dao seals, speculate the Dao seals' synthetic process and then consolidate them into his own Dao seals.
To Lin Huang, refining those Kingdoms was only the first stage.
The consolidation of Dao seals after this would take even more time, and it would be even more boring.
Lin Huang merely glanced at the number of Dao seals that he had unsealed and got Xiao Hei to create an Epiphany Card without hesitation. After crushing it, he went into realization mode and immersed himself in the consolidation of Dao seals.
Fortunately, the Epiphany Cards Xiao Hei created now would not be exhausted when the first realization was completed. Instead, each Epiphany Card allowed Lin Huang to remain in realization mode for a year.
Meanwhile, throughout the year of realization mode, his comprehension and speed in sorting information would be accelerated by tens of thousands of times.
This meant that using an Epiphany Card was comparable to 10,000 years of cultivation.
Lin Huang had only used one Epiphany Card and managed to consolidate over 100,000 Dao seals in his body successfully. He was officially at major dao-level now.
By the time he had exhausted the 10th Epiphany Card, he had finally mastered 1.08 million Dao seals.
Theoretically, this number should be the limit of a major dao-level powerhouse.
However, what puzzled Lin Huang was that this did not seem to be his limit.
He continued to use Epiphany Cards to continue consolidating more Dao seals.
One million eight hundred thousand!
One million nine hundred thousand!
One million one hundred thousand!
One million five hundred thousand!
Two million!
Three million!
…
The number of Dao seals skyrocketed to ten million!
Initially, Lin Huang thought ten million would be the upper limit.
The strange thing was that it was somehow not the limit yet.
He continued to use the Epiphany Cards, while more and more Dao seals were consolidated.
It still had yet to reach its limit even after he had reached 19.5 million Dao seals, which was the Dao seal quota he had unsealed.
Lin Huang was confused when he looked at the 19.58 million Dao seals consolidated in his body and all of the 450 million Dao seals that he could borrow from his Kingdom (They could be multiplied a hundredfold within the Kingdom).
"Am I at major dao-level now or have I broken through major dao-level?"