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Chapter 1811: This Guy Is Too Scary!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The aura of silver-face's combat strength was falling. He looked at his Kingdom that had been removed, which was now in Lin Huang's hand, in a daze.
He really did not expect Lin Huang to actually do it. He thought that he was just trying to scare him. Instead, he had really removed his Kingdom.
Sensing his combat strength plummeting at speed visible to the naked eye, and that his half-step dominator-level combat strength was dropping below the threshold, he found it all hard to believe at first, after which he quickly fell into a maddened state.
"I'll kill you!!! I'll kill you…" He shrieked in rage. He wanted to attack Lin Huang.
However, he forgot that he had been drained of all of the Odyl in his body. Not only that, his limbs and neck were tied. He could not move at all.
"You weren't my match even at your peak, let alone now." Lin Huang mocked him directly, "After I retrieved your Kingdom, you're just a piece of trash now. Heavenly dao-level aside, it'd be a problem for you to even maintain major dao-level combat strength in the future."
Lin Huang suddenly paused as he spoke up to this point. He then leaned in and said softly into silver-face's ear, "I have a way to give you a certain opportunity to kill me. I wonder if you'll dare to try it or not…"
At that moment, silver-face finally stopped shrieking. Instead, he stared at Lin Huang, seemingly wanting to confirm his intentions.
"You can tell me the Black Abyss' secret and activate Aza's brand to transform yourself into an Abyssal monster. Perhaps that's your only chance to kill me." Lin Huang sounded like he was telling a secret as he spoke softly. However, he did not use voice transmission to speak at all. Everyone present heard his words loud and clear. "However, you must decide as soon as possible. The reason being is that, the longer you delay, the more your combat strength would drop. If you drop to heavenly dao-level, even if you become an Abyssal monster, it's impossible for you to be my opponent."
"You have to know that this might be the only chance you can take revenge on me."
Lin Huang even used thousands of enchantment-type Dao seals to activate his Odyl.
Nangong Tian and the other two felt a chill run across their backs when they heard his words. This white-robed man was a devil.
Retrieving silver-face's Kingdom aside, he even tried to persuade him to take the initiative to trigger Aza's brand.
Under the mask, silver-face had a complicated expression on his face.
On one hand, he knew that Lin Huang was definitely persuading him on purpose.
On the other hand, he knew that no matter whether he triggered the brand or not, he would die. It was impossible for Lin Huang to let him live.
If he did not trigger it, he would be humiliated and then killed.
He would have his consciousness wiped out by Abyssal energy if he triggered the brand. It would take over his body, turning him into an Abyssal monster completely. However, there was a possibility that he could kill this man before him this way.
Seeing that his combat strength was about to drop to heavenly dao-level, silver-face made up his mind eventually.
"If you want to obtain information about the Black Abyss from me, keep dreaming!" As soon as he was done speaking, pitch-black Abyssal energy spread from between his brows frantically. It contaminated half of his face within the blink of an eye. Even the silver mask on his face was devoured, and half of his contaminated face began to deform. However, his consciousness had yet to be wiped out completely at the moment. He laughed hysterically as he stared at Lin Huang. "I can still trigger the brand without telling you information about the Black Abyss. Hahaha…"
At that moment, Lin Huang finally saw that person's face.
His laugh merely lasted for a second before stopping abruptly. The reason being was that the remaining half of his face began to transform quickly as well.
After that, the transformation spread downward.
His aura that had dropped due to the loss of his Kingdom began to increase significantly. It even surpassed his strength at his peak after a while.
Even Lin Huang raised his brows as he watched this scene unfold.
He noticed that there seemed to be a Kingdom consolidated in his body again.
The Kingdom that had appeared out of nowhere was even more powerful than silver-face's original Kingdom. Not only that, it released an endless amount of Abyssal aura.
Within three seconds, silver-face had transformed into an Abyssal monster completely. He had completely lost the Protoss' aura he had before.
It was a human-form fiend. He was seven to eight meters tall. His body was dark-purple, and there was a black mist that lingered all over him.
His aura was at least three times more powerful than silver-face's was at his peak.
Suddenly, the eight eyes on the fiend's forehead opened.
Each of them seemed to have lava flowing inside.
The eight dark-red eyes stared at Lin Huang instantly. They turned bright red almost at the same time.
"I'm going to kill you!"
A shriek came out of the fiend's mouth.
It seemed that silver-face's lingering obsession was affecting this monster's mind.
However, the fiend could not do as he said after that shriek. The reason being was that he realized that his limbs and neck were still tied up.
When Lin Huang saw his transformation, he did not remove the imprisonment. Not only did he not remove it, he even secretly integrated more God Weapon flying daggers and superimposed them with several times the amount of Dao seals to reinforce the imprisonment.
As expected, the reinforcement worked.
The fiend struggled intensely, but he could not get out of the chains that were made of God Weapon flying daggers.
"Never would I have imagined that you would have a new Kingdom consolidated in your body after you turned into a monster from the Abyssal energy…" Lin Huang's eyes under the mask stared intensely at the fiend before him.
When Nangong Tian and the rest saw silver-face turn into an Abyssal monster, their hearts skipped a beat. They were staring at the changes happening to silver-face's body. They thought that if this fiend fought with the white-robed man, they could seize their opportunity amidst the chaos to escape.
However, they then saw this fiend, whose aura was clearly a couple more times more powerful than silver-face, fail to struggle out of the chains.
At that moment, they heard the obvious joy in the white-robed man's tone.
They instantly guessed what would happen next.
As they were thinking to themselves, a couple of blood-colored electric arcs penetrated the fiend's chest the next second.
The Odyl in the fiend's body drained immediately.
After that, the white-robed man pointed between the fiend's brows.
Very soon, a Kingdom covered with black mist and exuding a terrifying aura was pulled out of the fiend's brows by the white-robed man.
"The Kingdom… is real!"
Lin Huang stared at the Kingdom covered in black mist. His face under the mask was filled with shock.
Initially, he thought that the newly-consolidated Kingdom in silver-face's body was just an illusion. After all, the consolidation process lasted less than three seconds. Never would he have imagined that it was a legitimate Kingdom. It was no different from a Kingdom that a person cultivated.
Lin Huang was secretly a little fearful of Aza now. If that person could reconsolidate a Kingdom within seconds, then his level of ability was indeed quite unbelievable.
"That's not right. This Kingdom bears no similarities to silver-face's original Kingdom. It's impossible that this is a reconstruction of his old Kingdom…" Lin Huang squinted and soon realized what was wrong. "This feels more like an occupation…"
"This Kingdom should be that fiend's. Before he appeared, he used his Kingdom to occupy silver-face's body, giving a false impression that his Kingdom had been reconstructed…"
What Lin Huang had no idea about was that, when he removed the Kingdom out of the fiend's body, the fear Nangong Tian and the rest had for Lin Huang was now engraved deeply in their hearts.
"This guy is too scary. He turned into an Abyssal monster, yet he still couldn't escape the fate of having his Kingdom taken away!"
Chapter 1812: Betray the Black Abyss
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Obtaining the second Kingdom was undoubtedly a surprise to Lin Huang.
The second Kingdom was even a few times more powerful than silver-face's first Kingdom.
He could almost imagine how much his ability would increase after refining these two Kingdoms.
Before Lin Huang managed to put away the Kingdom he retrieved from the fiend's body, he saw the fiend's vitality fading away.
His body was melting rapidly, almost as if it had been subjected to high temperatures. Within three seconds, his entire body melted into a pile of mush.
"What happened?!" Lin Huang was shocked to see the sudden scene.
He thought that he would be able to sell the carcass of Abyssal Fiend for a high price.
Never had he imagined that a perfectly fine body would be gone just like that.
"He has gone back to Aza." Nangong Tian, who was not far away, explained.
"What do you mean?" Lin Huang asked with his eyebrows raised.
"As soon as the brand is triggered, we become one of Aza's belongings. He'll send a consciousness to take over our bodies. Our consciousness will be wiped out instantly, and that consciousness will transform our physical bodies, God's souls and Kingdoms according to its own preferences."
"If the transformed Abyssal monster dies or encounters a crisis that it can't handle, the consciousness would give up its occupation of the body directly and return to Aza."
"Just like your act of taking His Kingdom. He knew that there would be no way to turn the tables on the situation, so He chose to give up on the new body without hesitation."
"So it means this Aza that you guys worship is a person who bullies the weak and fears the strong," Lin Huang teased while smiling.
"If I were you, I wouldn't be in the mood to tease us right now," Nangong Tian continued, "Do you think that there won't be any consequences for killing Aza's consciousness clone?"
Lin Huang was stunned when he heard that. Indeed, he had not thought of the consequences. He only thought about the fact that he had gained one more Kingdom.
"The return of the consciousness clone would send its memories back to Aza as well. In other words, Aza will find out everything, including your fight with the consciousness clone just now, the entire process of you taking the consciousness clone's Kingdom, as well as all the other details," Nangong Tian explained.
"So what?" Lin Huang asked while raising his brows.
"So… aren't you afraid that He'll take revenge?" Nangong Tian was slightly confused regarding Lin Huang's reaction.
"I've already done it, so what's there to be afraid of? Just let Him come if He wants revenge. He's in hibernation anyway. It's impossible for His Primordium to come." Although Lin Huang said that, he felt a sense of crisis internally.
After all, this was a powerhouse who was at dominator-level rank-4 or rank-5 at least.
He could destroy the universe with a flip of his hand.
There was nothing that he could do if the Primordium really came to fight him.
However, Nangong Tian had no idea what Lin Huang was thinking about. He only thought he was being really stubborn to be saying such things.
"Since you've told me such a secret, why don't you just betray the Black Abyss directly?" Lin Huang tried to persuade Nangong Tian while staring at him, "The one you worship is Aza, not the Black Abyss. There are hundreds of organizations that worship Aza like the Black Abyss in the infinite universe, if not thousands. You can build one yourself in the future and become the boss."
"Also, the one that I've been in conflict with since the beginning isn't Aza, but the Black Abyss. If you betray the Black Abyss, I'll release you safely. You can just build another organization that worships Aza. Isn't that a win-win situation for the both of us?"
"This offer is not only for Nangong Tian. I think the two of you can consider my suggestion as well." Lin Huang looked at the other two men in masks as he spoke. "Whoever speaks first will walk out of the palace alive. Meanwhile, the remaining two people should already know what will happen to you."
The three of them had to admit that what Lin Huang said was indeed persuasive.
The people from the Black Abyss had absolute loyalty to Aza, but it did not mean that they had absolute loyalty to the Black Abyss.
In the infinite universe, there were indeed many organizations that worshiped Aza. The Black Abyss was not the only one.
If they left the Black Abyss, they could still join other organizations that worshiped Aza, or they could build a new one themselves.
Not only that, they saw the consequences of keeping secrets.
No matter whether it was Zang Kong and Wu Ning being humiliated, or silver-face having his Kingdom removed by force, they saw everything.
"I'll do it." As the two were still hesitating, Nangong Tian took the lead to speak first.
Child-face and swollen-face lifted their heads almost at the same time to look at Nangong Tian. Nobody knew if their gazes contained envy, rage or something else entirely.
However, Nangong Tian ignored their stares and continued to say to Lin Huang, "I'll be upfront first. I can only tell things that won't trigger the brand in my body. I can't reveal the core information about the Black Abyss to you."
"You must promise that I'll leave this place in one piece after I provide you with the intel."
Nangong Tian stared fixedly at Lin Huang, worried that he would reject the conditions he raised.
He had even figured out what he should do to compromise if the white-robed man rejected him.
Lin Huang laughed after hearing that. He did not give his word right away, but said to him, "How can I be sure of where the line is between what you don't want to tell me and what you cannot tell me? If there are questions that you can answer but don't want to, you could totally take me for a ride by saying that you can't answer that as the brand would be triggered if you did."
"Also, I can't be sure of the authenticity of the answers you give. You can totally make up lies to the questions I ask, misleading us."
"You have my promise regarding the first one. I'll answer whatever I can, no matter whether I'm willing or not. For the second one, whatever I tell you will be the truth. If I hear a question that I can't answer, I'll tell you directly. I won't make up lies to mislead you."
"If you don't believe me, I can take an oath." Nangong Tian had a strong will to live. "However, you have to take an oath too. As soon as I answer all of your questions, you have to release me immediately."
"Sure, let's take an oath!" Lin Huang agreed to his suggestion without hesitation.
"Senior…" Zhao Xuan wanted to stop him right away.
As one of Royal's three Sovereigns, he could not just release Nangong Tian.
"I know what you want to say. Save it, I've made up my mind!" Lin Huang signaled to Zhao Xuan after he was done speaking.
Zhao Xuan was stunned, but he instantly understood what Lin Huang meant.
He merely gave Nangong Tian a meaningful glance and stopped talking.
In reality, the moment Zhao Xuan spoke, Nangong Tian was secretly worried. Fortunately, the white-robed man was overbearing and did not let Zhao Xuan speak further at all.
After the two of them took an oath quickly, Lin Huang finally began his questioning.
Chapter 1813: War is Coming
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
"Where's the Black Abyss' headquarters? Also, where's the branch in the Eastern Eight Zone?"
Lin Huang asked directly. These were the things he wanted to know the most.
"I can't tell you the exact location. I can only tell you that the headquarters is in the Western One Zone. Regarding the branch in the Eastern Eight Zone, I can tell you the rough location…"
"Nangong Tian…" Child-face wanted to stop him.
However, a blood-colored gleam shot forth from Lin Huang's sleeve, piercing through his chest instantly.
His aura faded away quickly.
"If the two of you speak again, the punishment won't be this light." Lin Huang glanced at the two men in masks before turning his attention back to Nangong Tian again. "Please continue."
Child face sensed that the Odyl in his body had been completely drained. Lin Huang's one attack had squeezed out all of the Odyl in his body. He was terrified and did not dare to speak again.
As child-face had been made an example of, swollen-face who was standing to the side kept his mouth shut.
Nangong Tian glanced at child-face before continuing, "The branch in the Eastern Eight Zone is in the Ancient Abyss Star Zone. However, I can't reveal its specific location."
"The Ancient Abyss Star Zone in the Ancient Abyss ruins?" Lin Huang asked while raising his brows.
"That's right." Nangong Tian nodded.
"How many half-step Dominators does the Black Abyss have?" Lin Huang asked again.
"Including the one here, there are three on the surface. I don't know if there are actually more. I can't reveal the three half-step Dominators' identities and information."
Lin Huang nodded and proceeded to ask, "How many official members are there in the branch in the Eastern Eight Zone? How many reserve members are there?"
"There are seven official members and 178 reserve members. I can't reveal the remaining two official members' identities. However, I can give you the name list of the reserve members." Nangong Tian displayed absolute cooperation.
"There are so few of you guys and yet you still managed to create such chaos within the Eastern Eight Zone. You guys made a fool of the grade-SSS organizations and their tens of millions of members like a toy. You guys are quite something." Naturally, Lin Huang was not exactly praising. He was just stating the obvious.
Zhao Xuan, who was standing off to the side, looked gloomy. He seemed to be recalling what Royal had gone through.
"How about other zones?" Lin Huang asked again.
"I'm afraid I don't know anything about the other zones. Each zone has their own rulers. Only the headquarters has the full name list. Each zone only has to take care of the matters within their own zone. At the moment, we haven't had any interactions with the other zones," Nangong Tian explained.
"In that case, which zones have branches, and roughly how many people are there? You should know that much, right?" Lin Hung asked again.
"We don't have too many branches. There are only some 30 branches in the universe, with less than 300 official members. Including reserve members, there are some 5,000 to 6,000 people."
Lin Huang fell silent momentarily before asking a question regarding something that he was quite confused about, "You guys have stayed dormant for years, so why did you suddenly start attacking everyone frequently recently without caring about the consequences?"
This time, it was Nangong Tian who fell into a moment of silence. He only spoke a while later, "Because Aza has entered His awakening period."
Lin Huang had a doubtful expression on his face when he heard that. "Can you explain further?"
Nangong Tian fell silent for a moment again. He only spoke again after seemingly choosing what he could reveal, "War is coming. The few battles happening across the universe are just the beginning. That's all I can reveal."
"Do you mean Aza will wage war once He wakes up?" Lin Huang continued to ask.
Nangong Tian stared at Lin Huang quietly. He did not nod, nor did he shake his head.
Lin Huang instantly realized that he could no longer reveal more.
"Alright, let me rephrase my question. Why is the universe being chosen as the starting point of the war?"
"Because the universe ranked at the top among all of the chaotic cosmoses in the infinite universe that are under the coverage of the Abyss. It's perfect as the Abyss' barracks," Nangong Tian only answered after a moment of silence.
Lin Huang came to a realization when he heard that.
"So the Black Abyss' mission is actually to weaken the universe's vitality?!"
Nangong Tian fell silent once again. He shut his mouth.
However, Lin Huang already had his answer.
The Abyss was relying on organizations that worshiped Aza, such as the Black Abyss, to weaken the locals' resistance.
In that case, the occupation later on would become significantly easier.
"What would the Black Abyss obtain by betraying the universe like this?" Lin Huang asked.
"After the Abyss takes over the universe, it will need someone to manage it," Nangong Tian continued speaking, "This includes the chaotic Kingdoms that were taken over, they also would need people to maintain them."
After asking a couple of questions about the Black Abyss, Lin Huang finally could not hold back and asked about the Raiders.
"Most of the Black Abyss members are from the Raiders. You guys should know where their headquarters is located, right?"
"I know where the old headquarters is, but they no longer have one. Since the Black Abyss was exposed, the Raiders' higher-ups quickly convened a meeting and decided to abandon their original headquarters. All of the communications that happened later on were done via video projections."
"There's nothing now?!" Lin Huang had not expected this.
In reality, before the appearance of the Black Abyss, he had been treating the Raiders as his primary foe. He could never have guessed that his primary foe no longer even had a headquarters now.
"You can say that." Nangong Tian nodded. "I can send you the coordinates of the Raiders' previous branches and headquarters."
Clearly, he did not hesitate to betray the Raiders at all.
"What's the highest combat strength they have at the moment?" Lin Huang asked again.
"They should still have two half-step Dominators. Regarding their heavenly dao-level members, there should be around one hundred of them." Nangong Tian continued to betray the Raiders fearlessly.
"Haven't you guys thought about taking over the Raiders to strengthen your organization?" Lin Huang asked with a smile.
"Someone suggested it, but it's too difficult to make it happen," Nangong Tian explained.
"What do the Raiders think of the Black Abyss? Are they enemies?" Lin Huang asked further.
"Not entirely." Nangong Tian shook his head. "The Raiders have existed for far too long, resulting in more and more internal conflicts. There were many people who disagree with the philosophies that the Raiders have been implementing all this time. That's the reason why the Black Abyss could develop within the Raiders."
"There are only some old geezers who insist on sticking to the Raiders' traditional philosophies who see the Black Abyss as an enemy. The rest aren't exactly against the Black Abyss."
Lin Huang nodded. He finally understood that there was really a internal division within the Raiders.
Later on, he asked a couple more questions about the Raiders before turning his head to look at Zhao Xuan, who had been listening.
"You can ask him any questions that you have too."
Zhao Xuan lifted his head to look at Nangong Tian again.
Nangong Tian was avoiding his gaze.
Chapter 1814: Paid Off
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
"I only have one question."
Zhao Xuan walked slowly over to Nangong Tian. He stood less than a meter away from him and asked while staring at him, "Who are Chu Yuan and I to you?"
The Chu Yuan he mentioned was one of Royal's three Sovereigns, Sovereign Yuan.
"We're… friends," Nangong Tian spoke after a moment of hesitation.
"Friends?!" Zhao Xuan scoffed when he heard that answer. "So to you, friends are to be betrayed?!"
"Perhaps I'm more selfish." Nangong Tian looked sincere. "I'm sorry."
"Do you know what you are to me?" Zhao Xuan asked while staring at Nangong Tian.
Nangong Tian said nothing.
"Before you showed up here today, you were my teacher, brother and good friend. You were the person that I admired most in my life… The reason I could become one of Royal's three Sovereigns was because I have always treated you as my role model and made you my life goal and inspiration."
"I even wished that this white-robed senior saved you instead of me when I discovered that you were killed when the Black Abyss attacked. To me, you're Royal's rock and foundation. As long as you were around, Royal would definitely rise up once again."
"Old Chu even joked with me previously that if there were spies from the Black Abyss in Royal, it would either be him or me, and that it was impossible for it to be you. I even told him that I agreed with what he said."
"I truly never thought that you would appear here today. To be honest, I would have been happier if you died when the Black Abyss attacked. At least your status in my heart wouldn't have changed. You'd still be my teacher, brother and good friend, as well as the person that I admire the most in my life…"
Nangong Tian remained silent. He understood how Zhao Xuan felt, but now that he actually heard Zhao Xuan saying it, he felt even more guilty. At this moment, he did not know how to respond.
"I'm sorry…" His apology this time sounded more sincere.
Zhao Xuan did not even glance at him. He turned around directly and looked at Lin Huang. "I'm done with what I have to say."
Lin Huang looked at child-face and swollen-face. "Is there anything that you two would like to add on to what Nangong Tian has said?"
The two of them stayed silent as well. Clearly, they did not plan to betray the Black Abyss.
"In that case…" Before Lin Huang was done speaking, another blood-colored gleam shot forth from his sleeve. It penetrated swollen-face's abdomen directly.
Just like what happened to child-face, the Odyl in his body was completely drained.
When his Odyl was drained, he sensed a strong force pulling him toward the white-robed man directly.
Child-face flew along with him at the same time.
Almost instantly, they arrived in front of the white-robed man.
Their scalps felt numb when they saw him in front of them.
They had witnessed what he did to silver-face with their very own eyes. Naturally, they knew what he was going to do to them very soon.
However, their bodies were completely tied up by Divine Telekinesis threads. Given that the Odyl in their bodies had been drained, they had no strength to resist him at all.
"I'll give the two of you one final chance. Whoever reveals the Black Abyss' secrets will have their Kingdom remain and live." Lin Huang's tone was full of persuasiveness. "Though it has to be something that Nangong Tian hasn't revealed."
The two remained silent.
It was not that they did not want to speak up, but Nangong Tian had told him everything there was.
The remaining secrets were things that would trigger the brand directly if they were revealed.
Lin Huang waited for a moment. Seeing that they did not speak up, he did not bother to waste more time.
"Seems like you guys won't do it."
He lifted two fingers. Divine Telekinesis spread out and, from between their brows, soon caught hold of the Kingdoms in their bodies. He began to pull them out.
Child-face and swollen-face had no strength to fight back at all in the presence of Lin Huang. They could only watch as he pulled their Kingdoms out.
This time, Lin Huang slowed down the retrieval of their Kingdoms on purpose. It was something that would normally only require a couple of seconds, yet he dragged the process until it lasted for over a minute.
On one hand, he was torturing them on purpose.
After all, each second of this intensely torturous for the two.
On the other hand, he was also giving them time to betray the Black Abyss.
However, in the end, they did not provide any information about the Black Abyss by the time their Kingdoms had left their bodies completely.
Child-face and swollen-face both looked devastated beneath their masks.
It was not that they were stubborn and unwilling to reveal any information, but Nangong Tian had prohibited them from doing so by revealing everything so thoroughly. He did not leave any information behind for them.
After Lin Huang obtained their Kingdoms, their auras began to plummet. Within the blink of an eye, they had dropped out of heavenly dao-level.
Sensing their auras falling, Nangong Tian glanced at them from the corner of his eye expressionlessly. He was secretly rejoicing that he had made the right decision.
He could almost imagine that having their Kingdoms removed was only the beginning.
They would have to face the torment Zang Kong and Wu Ning went through next.
Meanwhile, he would be the only Black Abyss member who would walk out of this palace alive.
As he was secretly rejoicing, he suddenly realized that there was a figure before him.
It was Zhao Xuan!
"What are you doing, Zhao Xuan…" Nangong Tian panicked a little. "The senior agreed to let me go in one piece."
"I did in fact agree." Lin Huang nodded, but then continued, "However, I can't do anything about whether he agrees or not."
How could Nangong Tian not realize that he had been tricked when he saw a white flame rising in Zhao Xuan's hand?
"Senior, give me a chance to fight fairly at least?"
His entire body was tied up with Divine Telekinesis threads right now. Even if his Odyl was at his peak, he could not move his limbs at all.
Not to mention fighting back, it was hard for him to even dodge. He had completely target practice for Zhao Xuan.
Naturally, Lin Huang ignored Nangong Tian's request.
In terms of combat strength, Nangong Tian was already at heavenly dao-level rank-9. He was three ranks higher than Zhao Xuan.
In terms of overall ability, if they were to fight, Zhao Xuan only had a 30% chance of winning.
Naturally, it was impossible that Lin Huang would let them fight fairly.
Zhao Xuan did not plan to give him a chance at all. His aura skyrocketed. "Stop struggling and I'll give you a quick death."
"Zhao Xuan, for the sake of our friendship, let me go." Knowing that it was useless to beg Lin Huang, Nangong Tian changed the target of his approach.
"Did you think about our friendship when you led people from the Black Abyss to kill Old Chu and me?! Since I'm still alive, I must avenge Old Chu!"
As soon as Zhao Xuan was done speaking, he slammed the white flame in his palm on Nangong Tian's chest.
Nangong Tian wanted to dodge the attack, but it was futile.
Although Lin Huang did not completely immobilize his body, as he was tied up by the Divine Telekinesis threads, he could only exert strength on the tips of his toes. His speed was restricted significantly.
Zhao Xuan's attack targeted the middle of his chest.
Nangong Tian could only activate the Odyl in his body to defend it without using any strength.
However, Zhao Xuan slammed a second and then a third time… More slams came continuously, each harder than the last.
As Nangong Tian defended against his attacks passively, the Odyl in his body was dwindling quickly.
Within five minutes, his Odyl was drained completely.
Nevertheless, Zhao Xuan had yet to stop. He slammed with his full force again.
This time, Nangong Tian's body was set ablaze by the white flame.
Without the Odyl to fight fairly, he could only watch his body be enveloped by the white flame.
In the end, he was burnt into ashes as he shrieked in rage.
Zhao Xuan mumbled softly as he stared at the pile of ashes.
"A life for a life.. You've paid off the debt you owed Old Chu."
Chapter 1815: Eradicate
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Although Nangong Tian's corpse and Kingdom were gone, Lin Huang said nothing.
It was him who authorized Zhao Xuan to attack Nangong Tian.
He had no qualms about what Zhao Xuan did with Nangong Tian.
"I'll leave these two with you. See if you can get anything out of them."
Lin Huang picked up child-face and swollen-face using Divine Telekinesis threads and tossed them in front of Zhao Xuan.
At that moment, their aura had already fallen to heavenly dao-level rank-1.
Given that they had lost the support of their Kingdoms, they would be able to last even one round in a fight against Zhao Xuan.
Lin Huang did not even bother to remove the mask on their faces. After all, Zhao Xuan would inform him if he managed to get any information out of them.
"Sure." Zhao Xuan bowed to Lin Huang.
He was completely convinced by the white-robed man before him.
This man was a supreme powerhouse who could even capture a half-step Dominator alive.
"I've killed a half-step Dominator from the Black Abyss' headquarters. I suppose they won't just let this go. Their mission this time was targeted at Royal, and their headquarters are definitely aware of it. There's a high chance that the Black Abyss might take revenge later. Given that my identity is unknown to them, they can only take revenge on Royal." Lin Huang paused slightly before continuing to say to Zhao Xuan, "My personal suggestion is that you should seize this opportunity to dissolve Royal. If you can't bear to lose some old friends, build another organization when the chaos blows over. You can gather your old friends back together then."
"Of course, it depends on whether you want to do that. I'm just giving you a suggestion to prevent you guys from suffering a calamity for nothing."
"Senior, I have a different opinion regarding the Black Abyss' response." Zhao Xuan fell silent momentarily before speaking again, "I think the possibility of them taking revenge for the loss of a half-step Dominator is low, at least for the time being."
"Oh? Why do you say that?" Lin Huang raised his brows slightly.
"Looking at the information Nangong Tian provided, the Black Abyss only has three half-step Dominators on the surface. Even if the real number exceeds that, there won't be too many of them. Judging from the Black Abyss members' temperaments, no matter how many half-step Dominators there are, I don't think they're that close with each other. They even betrayed their own brothers, so it's impossible that they'd avenge their friends."
"Secondly, the Black Abyss' main mission is to set up outposts. They likely picked out a couple of zones, which means that the Eastern Eight Zone isn't the only one. Theoretically, it's not a 100% must-have territory. Moreover, since a half-step Dominator died in the Eastern Eight Zone, it proves that there's at least one other half-step Dominator guarding it. To the remaining half-step Dominators in the Black Abyss, compared to other outposts, the Eastern Eight Zone has become much more dangerous. If I was the decision maker, instead of wasting time to chew on this tough bone, I'd rather give up on the Eastern Eight Zone and focus all of my forces on the other outposts."
"Thirdly, even if the Eastern Eight Zone is a territory that they must occupy, and they cannot lose this outpost, the people from the Black Abyss won't waste their time here within this short period of time. If I was the decision maker, I'd bypass the Eastern Eight Zone for now and attack all the other outposts first before focusing all of my forces on the most difficult Eastern Eight Zone. I wouldn't plan to give up on the plans for the other outposts midway just to attack the Eastern Eight Zone."
"Fourthly, the Black Abyss has stayed dormant for so many years and was only exposed when things developed to this point. This proves that their higher-ups are extremely cautious. Moreover, your identity is completely unknown to them. They definitely won't attack the Eastern Eight Zone rashly before confirming your level of ability."
"Fifthly, through this mission, Royal is definitely being watched by the Black Abyss' headquarters. Me dissolving Royal now would make them think that we're worried that their headquarters would send people over. On the other hand, if I maintain Royal's operations as usual, it would make them think that I really have the ability to fight them, and that I'm not afraid of their remaining half-step Dominators coming to fight me."
"The way things are, it's better if I don't dissolve Royal." Zhao Xuan made a rather thorough analysis on the situation.
Even Lin Huang thought it made a lot of sense when he heard his explanation. He could not help but nod lightly.
"Your analysis is great, but there are always "what ifs" in everything. What if silver-face has a good friend who is a half-step Dominator who wants to avenge him? What if the Eastern Eight Zone is the most important outpost that they have to conquer first? What if the Black Abyss has Space-time element cultivators who can restore the scene of the entire battle between me and silver face? What if they have people who have even more powerful abilities than I do?"
"If that really happens, then we can only blame our bad luck." Zhao Xuan's eyes remained determined despite hearing that. "However, I still trust my judgment."
Lin Huang nodded lightly. "I trust your judgment too."
"Don't send out the name list of the Black Abyss' reserve members Nangong Tian provided yet to prevent alerting the enemy. You should send it out only after we locate their branch in the Eastern Eight Zone and settle the remaining two official members. We'll work with the other organizations to capture the reserve members. We must capture all of them!"
Over the next few days, the chaos in the Eastern Eight Zone completely stopped.
On that day itself, Lin Huang located the Black Abyss' branch in the Eastern Eight Zone. After all, to him, the Ancient Abyss Star Zone was considered small. He found it easily after scanning the area with his Divine Telekinesis.
Not only that, the two official members happened to be waiting for news inside the branch. Lin Huang conveniently captured both of them alive.
After he retrieved their Kingdoms, he got Zhao Xuan to take care of them.
Later on, Lin Huang followed the information Nangong Tian had provided and headed straight to the Raiders' headquarters.
Just like what Nangong Tian had said, the Raiders' headquarters and their branch in the Eastern Eight Zone had been dissolved. He went to the two coordinates Nangong Tian had provided, but it was to no avail.
After that, he secretly returned to the Feister Star Zone.
Meanwhile, Zhao Xuan had been busy with maintaining order in Royal, as well as with interrogating the Black Abyss' members.
After he submitted the Black Abyss' name list of reserve members, the remaining organizations began to surround and suppress the reserve members.
Within a few days, the Black Abyss' remaining forces in the Eastern Eight Zone were eradicated by the few organizations working together.
Just like that, half a month passed by quickly.
Just as Zhao Xuan had thought, the Black Abyss' headquarters did not send any half-step Dominators to take revenge on Royal.
The Black Abyss seemed to have even given up on the entire Eastern Eight Zone.
The Black Abyss was only left with six official members in the Eastern Eight Zone. Under Zhao Xuan's interrogation, they basically did not provide any information that was useful.
Everything that they said had been revealed by Nangong Tian a few days ago.
Lin Huang killed the six of them directly and put away their corpses in his storage space.
Just when the Eastern Eight Zone was calming down, Lin Huang and the rest obtained some news of insurrections and infighting happening in a few other zones.
Some grade-SSS organizations were attacked consecutively, while many heavenly dao-level powerhouses died.
Clearly, the Black Abyss had been focusing on plotting against other outposts and had completely ignored the Eastern Eight Zone.
At that moment, Lin Huang's Primordium was busy hunting in the mystic territory.. He was unaware of the changes that were happening in the outside world.
Chapter 1816: New Imperial Monsters
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
"Congratulations host! You've obtained a complete Monster Card, World-ending Spearfiend (Omniscience) x1"
It had been sixteen days since Lin Huang started hunting inside the heavenly dao-level mystic territory in the Southern 61 Zone.
Throughout that half a month or so, he killed over 1,800 monsters in this mystic territory.
Apart from Bloop, which he hunted on the first day, he finally encountered another Omniscience monster today.
It was a human-form monster.
Its size was identical to humans. It was some two meters tall, and its entire body was covered in bronze armor. Its eyes were pitch-black, and contained no white at all.
Its biggest difference compared to humans and Protoss was that it had a layer of semi-transparent black flame lingering on its body.
The flame was real, and was a representation of Abyssal energy. It was the Hellish Flame from the deepest part of the Abyss.
Even a heavenly dao-level powerhouse would not dare to take it lightly.
Were it not for the fact that Lin Huang had Eternity Fire in his body, which made him virtually invulnerable to any contamination of all types of energies, he would have had to be cautious while fighting this World-ending Spearfiend.
After turning this World-ending Spearfiend into a Monster Card, he checked the card's information immediately.
"Monster Card: Not named yet"
"Rarity: Omniscience"
"Monster Name: World-ending Spearfiend"
"Type of Monster: Abyssal Fiend"
"Combat Level: Heavenly Dao-level Rank-9"
"Major: Spear Dao, Fire Element…"
"Major Skills: Mighty Killer Spear, Infinite Flame…"
"Minor Skills: Killing Intent, Reincarnation Vision, Hellish Flame…"
"Summon Authority: Activated"
"Card Remarks: Please spare no efforts in cultivating this!"
…
After reading the information on the card, additional information about the World-ending Spearfiend began to rush into Lin Huang's head.
This World-ending Spearfiend was a pure spear cultivator when it was alive. It had powerful abilities.
Since reaching heavenly dao-level rank-9, it had been looking for ways to break through, but to no avail.
Eventually, in order to break through to dominator-level, it took the initiative to step into the Abyss and was contaminated by Abyssal energy, transforming into a World-ending Spearfiend.
However, despite becoming a fiend, it still did not break through. Its combat strength remained at the limit of heavenly dao-level rank-9.
"I'm afraid this guy is probably the monster with the highest level of ability in this mystic territory," Lin Huang could not help but exclaim.
With a heavenly dao-level rank-9 cultivation base and Omniscience rank-7, one could say that this World-ending Spearfiend had almost no match at heavenly dao-level.
Not only that, when Lin Huang fought it, he could sense that the monster's ability allowed it to fight against a half-step Dominator head-on.
After crushing the card, he took a good look at the World-ending Spearfiend. The more he looked at it, the more satisfied he was.
"I'll call you Old Spear from now on!"
"Sure!" Old Spear nodded in agreement expressionlessly.
After putting it away, Lin Huang continued with his hunt.
Time flew by. Soon, some ten days had passed.
When there were only two days left in the one-month exploration period, Lin Huang finally encountered the third Omniscience monster.
It was a shadow-type monster.
Although its combat strength was only at heavenly dao-level rank-8, its abilities were rather strange.
It could even summon hundreds of heavenly dao-level shadow troops. Each of them had abilities similar to heavenly dao-level monsters.
Lin Huang even held back instead of killing it instantly. He forced it to reveal all sorts of strange abilities.
The things this monster was capable of doing were strange. Its abilities were primarily related to shadows.
It could summon shadow creatures, create shadow clones, perform shadow teleportation, and use an item it summoned to substitute itself, devouring the clones and dead items it summoned to create new ones. It could even attack Lin Huang's shadow directly…
Apart from shadow-related abilities, Lin Huang also saw many Dark Element abilities.
It could create a shield that was similar to a black hole, devouring most of the energy of an impact, reducing the damage dealt to less than 1% of the attack.
After spending almost half an hour trying to understand this shadow monster's abilities, Lin Huang finally killed it.
If not for the fact that his abilities could suppress it, he really might have faced some difficulties in killing it.
"Congratulations host! You've obtained a complete Monster Card, Shadow God (Omniscience) x1"
He instantly checked the card's information that was formed in his hand thoroughly.
"Monster Card: Not named yet"
"Rarity: Omniscience"
"Monster Name: Shadow God"
"Type of Monster: Shadow Fiend"
"Combat Level: Heavenly Dao-level Rank-8"
"Major: Shadow Dao, Dark Dao…"
"Major Skills: Shadow Creation, Shadow Summon, Shadow Engulf…"
"Minor Skills: Dark Shield…"
"Summon Authority: Activated"
"Card Remarks: Please spare no efforts in cultivating this!"
"Although it's only at heavenly dao-level rank-8, this guy's combination of abilities definitely ranks within the top three among the over 3,000 monsters that I've killed." Lin Huang had a high praise for the Shadow God.
Compared to Bloop which he obtained on the first day, the two Monster Cards he obtained later on had powerful abilities.
Lin Huang summoned Shadow God.
It looked like a ball of black cloud with dark, black lights sparkling within it.
"I'll call you Shadow then." Lin Huang gave it a plain name after observing it.
After recalling Shadow into card form, he finally began to look at his gains.
Of the one-month exploration period, 28 days had passed.
He had killed over 3,000 heavenly dao-level monsters.
Among the 3,200 monsters or so, only three were at Omniscience rank-7. Xiao Hei had turned them into Monster Cards.
They had become Bloop, Old Spear and Shadow under Lin Huang's wing.
Apart from obtaining three imperial monsters, the over 3,000 heavenly dao-level monster carcasses were considered a form of wealth to him. Although he did not retrieve their Kingdoms in order to increase his hunting efficiency, if he retrieved and refined the over 3,000 Kingdoms, he could imagine how much of an increase in ability they could have brought him.
Apart from the Kingdoms, heavenly dao-level monster carcasses were valuable on their own. They could be traded for a batch of Kingdoms and resources as well.
Lin Huang was over the moon as he thought about this, but he was a little worried.
"I wonder how many of those Kingdoms I can refine…"
After getting rid of the messy thoughts plaguing his mind a while later, he checked the date. Only two days were left until the end of the one-month exploration period.
He lowered his head and fell into deep thought for a little while. He then lifted his head and looked far away into the north.
There was a strange area less than 10,000 kilometers in that direction from where he was standing.
He had sensed the existence of that area as soon as he entered this level of the mystic territory.
The reason being was that this area, which was less than 100 square kilometers in size, was a black hole in this mystic territory. It blocked all of the probing techniques he used, including Divine Telekinesis.
Although his instincts told him that the area was extremely dangerous, his desire to explore the mysterious unknown was like a kitten constantly being teased.
"I have two days left. Should I check it out…
Chapter 1817: Curiosity Killed the Cat
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Lin Huang stood by the cliff and looked at the bottomless Abyss before him.
The Abyss was the blind spot that his Divine Telekinesis failed to probe previously.
The mysterious area that devoured all sorts of probing techniques.
Even though it was just right in front of him, he could not see anything despite maximizing his vision to peer into the depths.
Apart from the stone wall ten meters beneath his feet, the area was shrouded in complete darkness after that.
The darkness blocked everything, including all forms of probing.
Regardless of whether it was Divine Telekinesis, vision or other probing techniques, none of them could probe the depths of the area at all.
"This place is a little unusual," Lin Huang mumbled while holding his chin.
He had tried all types of probing ocular skills earlier, and he had even superimposed them with Odyl, yet his vision was still obscured by the darkness.
Facing this mysterious area, it was only natural that Lin Huang would not jump in rashly and put himself in danger.
However, he was also quite unwilling to leave just like that as well.
He struggled as he stood where he was. Suddenly, he recalled that he had just obtained Bloop's ability, Death Telepathy.
As the master, he could use all of the Monster Skills of his imperial monsters now. Naturally, this included Bloop's Death Telepathy.
As he thought of this, without hesitation, he activated Death Telepathy.
The next second, the image before him changed suddenly. He felt as if he was in a virtual reality game.
He sensed his physical body, God's soul, Odyl, Kingdom, Divine Power, all of the Goldfingers in his body… Everything seemed to be blocked.
He was falling frantically as if he was being pulled down by an intangible force…
It was unknown how long he had been falling for, but the pulling sensation finally weakened and gradually disappeared completely.
However, at the moment, he seemed to have been completely drowned within the darkness beneath the Abyss.
Lin Huang realized that all of his sensing abilities no longer seemed to be working now.
He could not see anything, hear anything, or smell anything. No matter whether it was the ground beneath his feet or anywhere that his fingers could touch, it was all nothingness.
Apart from darkness, there seemed to be really nothing here.
Suddenly, Lin Huang recalled that he had experienced something similar.
It was the first time he entered a mystic territory. His consciousness was being pulled into the same darkness when he stood atop that altar.
However, this seemed to be different.
He could clearly hear someone breathing that time.
It sounded as if it had penetrated layers of dimensions. It was somewhere extremely far away, but it invoked terror within him.
However, there was no sound at all this time.
The entire darkness was dead silent.
Suddenly, a strange feeling of fear crept up from above Lin Huang's head. It felt as if he was being watched by a terrifying entity.
He wanted to use his Dao seals, but he realized that his body seemed to be completely sealed.
It was not only Dao seals, he could not even use his Divine Power at all.
Even his Divine Telekinesis was useless.
He could not even summon his God Weapon flying daggers and battle swords.
Sensing this, the insecurity that Lin Huang was feeling increased by several times.
As he was worried and had no idea what to do, he suddenly saw a red glow light up far away in the darkness…
However, the second the red glow lit up, he instantly felt a strange change taking place within his body. To be exact, it was not only his physical body, even his God's soul was going through a strange transformation.
"Is this… deformation?!"
Although he could not see his physical body, he could observe the God's soul in his body.
He realized that his God's soul had countless tentacles of various thickness and length growing out of it at speed visible to the naked eye.
Before he could even react properly, he realized that his consciousness was turning blurry.
There seemed to be a terrifying entity wiping away his consciousness and replacing it with a strange entity.
Just when his consciousness was about to fade into nothingness, a cracking noise echoed in his ears suddenly.
The next second, his consciousness returned to his body. He realized that he was still standing in front of the same cliff from before.
"Run!"
Xiao Hei and Eternity Fire issued a warning almost simultaneously!
Without hesitation, Lin Huang activated the Gate of All Realms and went inside.
After coming out of the Gate of All Realms, he had left the mystic territory.
He was relieved when he saw the mystic territory floating in front of him in mid-air.
At that moment, he saw that fog was surging throughout the entire mystic territory.
Almost instantly, it covered the entire mystic territory. The fog even attempted to spread to where he was.
Without hesitation, Lin Huang opened the Gate of All Realms again and went inside.
This time, he was teleported back to the Eastern Eight Zone. However, he did not dare to return to Dongxuan City right away.
He was completely relieved when he realized that the fog did not come after him after he returned to the Eastern Eight Zone.
At that moment, Xiao Hei suddenly spoke.
"What did you do? Why was the Substitute Card crushed on its own like that?"
"Substitute Card?!"
Lin Huang was stunned when he heard that. He checked his cards immediately, after which he found out that he had really lost one Substitute Card.
His back was drenched in cold sweat instantly.
If not for the Substitute Card, he would have been dead by now.
"I only used Death Telepathy to look at the Abyss, and that entity intervened in reality through the scene I was sensing?!" Lin Huang was scared now.
He did not even clearly see what that red glow was at all and he had almost lost his life.
Not only that, his actions seemed to have triggered the entire mystic territory.
The mystic territory was covered in fog again, entering its sealed mode completely.
This meant that the group of explorers from the Southern 61 Zone could not return now.
Moreover, judging by the transformation of the mystic territory he triggered, the probability of those explorers surviving was low.
Lin Huang was almost certain that he had encountered Aza.
He seemed to have escaped last time because Aza was still sleeping, which was why he heard the breathing noises.
This time, Aza seemed to have actively attacked him.
Perhaps He did not attack consciously. However, a powerhouse like Aza could kill him with just a thought.
Before Lin Huang had calmed down completely, a notice was sent from Eternity Fire.
"I suddenly sensed an extremely high grade of Abyssal energy deep inside your body just now. Although it only surged for a brief moment, it surpassed the Odyl in your body by at least tenfold."
What Eternity Fire said shocked Lin Huang once more.
He instantly looked into his body and started observing.
However, he did not sense anything unusual after checking three to five times over and over again. He asked, "Are you sure? I don't sense anything unusual."
"I've already absorbed all of the Abyssal energy."
It was then that Eternity Fire explained the situation.
At that moment, Lin Huang felt speechless. He instantly realized that the Substitute Card was not the only reason he survived. A big part of it was because Eternity Fire had absorbed the Abyssal energy.
It was because those two took action together that he managed to survive.
"Curiosity killed the cat! I'll definitely go around such a terrible place if I run into one again!"
Lin Huang could not help but exclaim.
Chapter 1818: Changing Situations
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
In Plan City of the Eastern Eight Zone.
After coming back from the mystic territory, Lin Huang did not return to Dongxuan City. Instead, he stayed in the Longevity Tribe's territorial city.
He was not exactly sure if he was completely out of danger, so he planned to stay here for a day to observe.
It was only after checking into a hotel on a densely populated planet that he calmed down mentally and began to go through the gains he had obtained from this trip into the mystic territory.
The first one was naturally the three Omniscience Monster Cards.
Two of them were at heavenly dao-level rank-8 and one was at heavenly dao-level rank-9.
The three monsters' abilities were ranked among the top even in the universe. They could basically do whatever and go wherever they wanted as long as they did not encounter half-step Dominators.
The second thing was the over 3,200 monster carcasses.
They were heavenly dao-level powerhouses when they were alive. Each of them possessed complete Kingdoms in their bodies.
Although they were Abyssal Kingdoms, which would contaminate others, since Lin Huang had Eternity Fire in his body, those Kingdoms were no different from ordinary Kingdoms. They could even provide more energy to Eternity Fire.
Apart from Kingdoms, the value of the monster carcasses themselves was even higher.
The Abyssal monsters' Kingdoms were useless but, to many, their carcasses were outstanding materials.
They could be dissected for research, or made into puppets and even clones… Their price on the market was no lower than those of other heavenly dao-level powerhouses.
After all, heavenly dao-level powerhouses' bodies were considered rather rare resources even within the infinite universe.
Lin Huang felt rather remorseful about his attempt to explore that Abyssal area after he calculated the value of these monster carcasses.
If he did not cause the mystic territory to close in advance, he could have hunted for two more days and killed at least another 200 monsters in the mystic territory.
It was possible that he would have even encountered one more Omniscience monster and thereby obtain one more imperial monster.
However, since it had happened, he did not continue to dwell on it.
After he calculated the spoils, he left the hotel and walked around all sorts of markets in Plan City.
As cultivators did not need sleep, a couple of the markets were open all night. Just like that, Lin Huang shopped until the next morning. However, nothing interested him as he looked through all of the markets.
He had breakfast early in the morning before eventually returning to the Feister Star Zone in Dongxuan City.
He recalled his clone as soon as he returned to the Feister Star Zone.
He quickly digested the memories the clone had gained throughout the period of close to one month.
"I can't believe so many things happened in the Eastern Eight Zone. I was only gone for less than a month!"
Lin Huang was shocked after looking through all the information quickly.
His first reaction was to wonder whether his clone had been hypnotized by some powerful entity and fed those fake memories.
The mysterious Black Abyss had their entire branch in the Eastern Eight Zone destroyed.
Not only were their seven official members killed, almost all of their reserve members had been hunted down by all organizations working together.
One could say that the entire branch of the Black Abyss in the Eastern Eight Zone had been completely eradicated.
Although the credit mainly belonged to his clone, he still thought that it was quite unbelievable.
He instantly examined the details more thoroughly.
"These people from the Black Abyss are so nice. They knew that I lacked Kingdoms and Goldfingers so they sent them to my doorstep," Lin Huang teasingly said with a chuckle after reading through everything.
He left the two heavenly dao-level Black Abyss members alive as bait, so that he could attract more members.
In the end, the Black Abyss really fell for it.
Not only did they send over a half-step Dominator from their headquarters, they even got their entire branch in the Eastern Eight Zone destroyed.
"However, this half-step Dominator from the Black Abyss wasn't really powerful." Lin Huang pouted and commented after watching the entire battle carefully.
He was getting happier by the second as he looked at the few Black Abyss members' corpses.
There were a total of seven corpses, one at half-step dominator-level and the remaining six at heavenly dao-level.
There was a Kingdom that had been removed directly by his clone that had no corpse. It belonged to Nangong Tian.
Compared to the gains he obtained from this trip into the mystic territory this time, naturally, these eight Kingdoms were nothing.
However, the eight Black Abyss members had storage rings on them. The items in heavenly dao-level powerhouses' storage rings would definitely be of high value.
Apart from that, among the eight of them, four of them were travelers. His clone had removed the four Goldfingers as well.
Lin Huang was undoubtedly satisfied with this round of gains.
From the clone's memories, he not only saw the Eastern Eight Zone's current situation.
Although the Black Abyss had given up on the Eastern Eight Zone temporarily, they did not slow down their operations at all as they attacked the other outposts.
The Eastern 23 Zone, Southern 61 Zone, Western 119 Zone, Northern 39 Zone…
Throughout this one month, a total of nine zones were attacked consecutively.
Moreover, the attacks were even more violent and scarier than the attacks the Eastern Eight Zone had faced. Almost all of the heavenly dao-level powerhouses in the grade-SSS organizations in nine zones had been attacked. Only a small number of them managed to escape. They were not killed, but they did not dare to show themselves again.
Without heavenly dao-level powerhouses sustaining the nine zones, they were soon taken over by the Black Abyss, blocking the transfer of information to the outside world.
Nobody knew what had happened since then.
Among the zones happened to be the Southern 61 Zone that Lin Huang had just escaped from.
He ran away too quickly, so he did not notice any changes to the zone at all.
However, he knew that the Southern 61 Zone was probably the zone that offered the least resistance.
The reason being was that most of the heavenly dao-level powerhouses from all their grade-SSS organizations had entered the heavenly dao-level mystic territory when it opened. There were only a small number of heavenly dao-level powerhouses left behind.
Facing the Black Abyss' attack, it was only natural that they did not have the power to resist at all.
What was even more terrible for the Southern 61 Zone was that the heavenly dao-level powerhouses who had entered the mystic territory were currently stuck inside. Perhaps none of them would survive.
Heavenly dao-level powerhouses aside, many major and minor dao-level powerhouses had participated in the mystic territory exploration this time.
Perhaps the entire Southern 61 Zone was only left with less than one-fourth of their dao-level powerhouses. They did not have the power to resist the Black Abyss' attack at all.
Judging by the situation, the Southern 61 Zone was undoubtedly the zone that had fallen the fastest among the nine outposts.
"The Northern 39 Zone was only attacked two days ago, and the transfer of information was only sealed today. It seems that it only took a few days for them to completely take over that zone." Lin Huang sorted out the information regarding the zones quietly. "I wonder if they're planning to give up on the Eastern Eight Zone entirely or if they will continue to attack the Eastern Eight Zone to fight for this outpost…"
He did not think that the Eastern Eight Zone would remain totally safe in the future just because nothing had happened to it throughout this one month.
Judging by the character of the Black Abyss' members, although there was no friendship amongst their members, his clone had thrown them a wet blanket and killed their people. The possibility of them taking revenge was actually rather high.
After all, they had already attacked the remaining nine outposts by now.
Their higher-ups would definitely be discussing whether to gather their forces to attack the Eastern Eight Zone, which was the last outpost.
Chapter 1819: Breakthrough Coming from the Boost of Ability!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
After checking through all of the information from the clone's memories, Lin Huang had a strong feeling that the threat in the Eastern Eight Zone had yet to be resolved completely as he had gained a rough understanding of the universe's situation throughout this one month.
He did not delay further. He crushed the Virtual Realm Cabin Card and summoned his virtual body. He then stepped into the virtual realm.
He took out the heavenly dao-level monster carcasses as soon as he entered the virtual realm cabin. He began to retrieve their Kingdoms.
As Lin Huang retrieved the Kingdoms of the 3,000 or so monster carcasses, he summoned Eternity Fire to cleanse their Abyssal Kingdoms.
A couple of days passed in the virtual realm as he did this. He spent his time mostly on the cleansing of the Abyssal energy of these Kingdoms.
He took out the bodies of the Black Abyss members' after he handled all of the monster carcasses. He retrieved their Kingdoms within minutes.
Without wasting any time, he entered closed-door cultivation officially to integrate the Kingdoms after he was done handling them.
Judging by the strength of his current Kingdom, it would not take long for him to integrate these heavenly dao-level Kingdoms.
He needed approximately an hour to integrate heavenly dao-level rank-1 Kingdoms, around two hours for heavenly dao-level rank-2 Kingdoms, and four hours for heavenly dao-level rank-3 Kingdoms.
…
He needed five and a half days to integrate heavenly dao-level rank-8 Kingdoms.
Meanwhile, he needed close to 11 days to completely integrate heavenly dao-level rank-9 Kingdoms.
The one that he spent the most time on among the 3,000 Kingdoms or so was the Black Abyss' half-step Dominator's Kingdom.
He spent some 120 days refining that Kingdom.
As the Kingdoms were being refined, Lin Huang's Kingdom was continuously growing more powerful.
Even a heavenly dao-level rank-1 Kingdom would provide his Kingdom with at least two to three million Dao seals.
As there were many lord-level and dao-level powerhouses who had contract bonds with the Kingdom in the heavenly dao-level powerhouses' bodies, close to a million Dao seals were unsealed.
For the heavenly dao-level rank-8 and heavenly dao-level rank-9 Kingdoms, they provided his Kingdom with over 20 million Dao seals. Close to ten million Dao seals were unsealed.
Meanwhile, most of the monsters that Lin Huang had hunted in the mystic territory in the Southern 61 Zone were above heavenly dao-level rank-7. The total number of monsters below heavenly dao-level rank-7 was less than 20%. He only killed them conveniently along his travel route.
After refining the Black Abyss' half-step Dominator's Kingdom, Lin Huang opened his eyes and released a long exhale of breath.
He spent the most time integrating this Kingdom, but the gains were also the most plentiful.
Refining just this Kingdom had unsealed 20 million Dao seals.
Lin Huang calculated the time he spent roughly. Over 40 years had passed in the virtual realm during his closed-door cultivation session this time.
He also sank his consciousness into his body to examine the final results of all that refinement.
The refinement of over 3,200 Kingdoms had expanded his Kingdom at least one hundredfold.
There was an increase of over 52 billion Dao seals in his body. The total number had skyrocketed to 55.8 billion. It was close to 18 times more than before.
Meanwhile, the number of Dao seals unsealed in his body had increased by 18.3 billion. It had increased by close to 200 times!
In the past, he thought there would be a limit to the strength of his Kingdom.
However, it now seemed that this limit did not exist.
He did not know how many of the over 18 billion Dao seals he unsealed could be consolidated into new Dao seals, and whether there would be a limit.
Lin Huang did not hesitate at all as the thought only briefly flashed through his head. He crushed an Epiphany Card and began the second round of closed-door cultivation—consolidating Dao seals.
Although he was familiar with the entire process of consolidating Dao seals, the speed at which he did so did not increase by much.
It was a process of analysis, disintegration, reconstruction, and adding more god sequence chains for the reintegration.
Many of the Dao seals that he obtained from integrating these Kingdoms were made of 10,000 to 20,000 god sequence chains. Meanwhile, each of Lin Huang's personal Dao seals were a consolidation of a million god sequence chains. It was a hundredfold more powerful.
It was only natural that the consolidation process was time-consuming.
Each consolidation would require at least some ten days or so.
There were many god sequence chains in some of the unusual Dao seals that Lin Huang had only seen for the first time. It made sense that he only managed to consolidate one of these in over a month.
If Lin Huang was not in the virtual realm, he would need at least a billion years just to consolidate the close to 20 billion Dao seals.
Fortunately, the flow of time in the outside world was almost at a standstill while he was inside the virtual realm.
It was unknown how long he had been seated down for when he finally consolidated ten billion Dao seals in his body.
However, he did not feel that he had reached a plateau at all.
It seemed that he could consolidate the Dao seals without caring about a thing as long as they were unsealed.
As such, he continued unsealing the remaining Dao seals.
During this closed-door cultivation session, Lin Huang almost lost all sense of time.
He could only feel that he was gradually getting stronger and stronger.
After consolidating the over 18.3 billion Dao seals that were unsealed, he had personally consolidated over 18.4 billion Dao seals, which was over 180 times more than before.
He could clearly feel that his current self could kill his old self by simply raising a finger.
Meanwhile, his old self before the closed-door cultivation session might not be able to hurt the current him at all even if his old self used his trump card.
Nevertheless, he was still quite doubtful. "Can I consider myself to have broken through to dominator-level? Or am I still at heavenly dao-level?"
He could not figure out which level he was currently on at all.
Even without integrating the chaotic cosmos, he felt that his current self should be strong enough to challenge a legitimate dominator-level powerhouse head-on.
"Forget it. I'll just leave first." Since he could not figure it out, he did not bother to think too much.
He felt that he had stayed long enough in the virtual realm. He put the virtual realm cabin away and returned to the material realm directly.
As soon as Lin Huang's virtual body had returned, his Primordium instantly felt the terrifying reflection of what he had obtained from the closed-door cultivation session this time.
Not only was his Kingdom being strengthened a hundredfold, he was personally strengthened countless times over.
He went through three transformations from the consolidation of Dao seals alone. It happened when he successfully consolidated 100 million Dao seals, one billion Dao seals and ten billion Dao seals.
These three transformations resulted in Lin Huang experiencing a qualitative change in the particles all over his body; not only the particles in his physical body, but the particles in his God's soul as well.
Although he did not integrate a chaotic cosmos to become a Dominator, he was very sure that his current physical body and God's soul was no less powerful than a legitimate Dominator-level rank-1 powerhouse. He might be even more powerful.
Just when Lin Huang was familiarizing himself with his increase in strength, he suddenly felt a sense probing him.
Chapter 1820: Becoming A Dominator!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation | Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
This familiar sense of prying."
Lin Huang spread out his Divine Telekinesis instantly. It broke through the
surrounding space and invaded an unknown dimension.
A gigantic face covered the entire sky. Its face was changing continuously, but
It had Its eyes on Lin Huang the entire time. It looked rather surprised and
curious.
"Your ability has elevated so much?! How do you do it exactly"
Lin Huang was no longer unfamiliar with this entity.
It was the Heavenly Dao of this chaotic cosmos.
I only went into closed-door cultivation for a little bit," Lin Huang's Divine
Telekinesis spiritual body responded. However, the answer seemed rather
perfunctory.
"I can sense that there's no aura of any chaotic cosmos in your body, yet the
strength of your aura has far surpassed the level of half-step Dominator. Your
strength has even reached that of a Dominator."
"Perhaps my Kingdom is special? Lin Huang said with a smile.
"Your Kingdom is special indeed. I sensed that as well. Not only that, it's much
more powerful than the last time I saw you. I couldn't hold myself back and
decided to probe you again after sensing the aura being released by your
Kingdom." Heavenly Dao did not seem to notice that Lin Huang was just being
perfunctory when he said those words.
The integration you mentioned previously. Have you thought it through?" Lin
Huang suddenly asked.
Naturally, he remembered that Heavenly Dao mentioned that It wanted to
integrate with his Kingdom when they had spoken previously. However, It said
that It had yet to make up Its mind. It needed time to think things through.
More thana month had passed since then.
When Lin Huang met Heavenly Dao again, he was still quite excited to
potentially hear Its answer.
Heavenly Dao merely fell silent momentarily before nodding and saying, "I've
made up my mind. I'll do it!"
Lin Huang, who did not have high hopes for a positive answer, could not help
but raise his brows. He thought there was a high probability that he would be
rejected or that Heavenly Dao would continue to hesitate instead of agreeing
here and now.
"Then. what should I do?" Lin Huang quickly asked after recovering from his
daze.
He was a rookie after all. He did not know how to perform the integration
process.
"I'l lead. You just have to cooperate with me." Lin Huang felt a pulling force
coming from his God's soul as soon as Heavenly Dao was done speaking.
"Don't fight it. Ill pull your God's soul into the Land of origin," Heavenly Dao's
voice could be heard.
Lin Huang released his God's soul instantly when he heard those words.
The next moment, his God's soul penetrated the sky and arrived at the
dimension.
His God's soul recalled the spiritual body consolidated from his Divine
Telekinesis. He lifted his head to look at Heavenly Dao, who was floating above
his head.
"Tll enter your Kingdom next and integrate with it. Meanwhile, you'll receive a
lot of information about the universe during the process of integration. The
process will take a long time, but there won't be any changes time-wise in the
material realm."
As soon as Heavenly Dao was done speaking, It turned into a fog-like tornado
and flew into Lin Huang's nostrils and mouth.
This process lasted close to three minutes.
Lin Huang did not feel anything unusual. It was just that his nostrils and
mouth felt rather painful because of the friction.
When Heavenly Dao had entered the Kingdom in Lin Huang's body completely,
the giant face that covered the sky of the dimension could no longer be seen.
The sky was completely clear now, and Lin Huang could even see the stars
twinkling up above.
As Heavenly Dao entered the Kingdom in his body, some changes that were not
visible to the naked eye began to take place.
He could clearly sense that his Kingdom seemed to be transforming.
This transformation was not the same as when he became more powerful from
refining many other Kingdoms. Instead, something seemed to be sprouting
deep within his Kingdom.
Those planets with living beings in them within the entire Kingdom became
more lively than before.
Some of the living beings were even enlightened and became smarter.
There were also some that experienced a transformation of their levels
directly.
What Lin Huang found unbelievable was that Bai and the rest of the imperial
monsters that were bonded to him by contract were all elevating without
exception.
Even if they were currently not in his Kingdom, they were elevating from Pure
Spirit rank-6 to Omniscience rank-7
Even their combat strength was rising frantically.
The aura of the imperial monsters who had just reached major dao-level and
had mastered 18,000 Dao seals was skyrocketing.
200,000..
300,000.
400,000
It had finally stopped when they had reached the limit of major dao-level,
which wasa million Dao seals.
Lin Huang could not help but frown slightly when he saw the changes that
happened to the couple of imperial monsters.
He did not expect at all that the change in his Kingdom would cause such an
influence on the imperial monsters under his wings.
It was not limited to just Bai and the rest, but the entire Bug Tribe that he had
cast aside was elevated too.
The Bug Tribe Queen Mothers and Bug Queens had also been elevated from the
initial Pure Spirit rank-6 to Omniscience rank-7.
Moreover, their combat strength was boosted from lord-level.
Not only did they break through lord-level, they even went beyond minor
dao-level and entered major dao-level. They had reached the same combat
strength as Bai and the rest.
Fortunately, the Bug Tribe soldiers that did not have a direct contract with him
did not experience much change.
Lin Huang was unusually concermed when he saw these changes to the Queen
Mothers and Bug Queens.
The reason for this was that he decided to cast the Bug Tribe aside after
experiencing the prying of the bughorde's will when the few Queen Mothers
were elevated to Pure Spirit rank-6.
Now that the Queen Mothers and Bug Queens had been elevated to
Omniscience rank-7, he had no idea how the bug horde's will would react.
Without hesitation, Lin Huang recalled all of the Bug Tribe monsters into card
form.
However, the changes that were going on within his Kingdom did not stop just
yet.
After the transformation was completed, Lin Huang saw star zones, great
worlds, mini worlds and gravel worlds growing quickly in his Kingdom.
At first, he was still a little confused. However, as he saw the large areas
similar to the Eastern Eight Zone's star map appear, he realized that the star
zones and worlds were the projections of the universe in his Kingdom.
It was unkmown how long it took, but the entire universe grew within Lin
Huang's Kingdom.
At that moment, a large amount of information began to rush into his head
frantically
The origin of the universe, the evolution of the eras, to the many major
incidents that had taken place in the current era. All that information was
clearly etched into Lin Huang's mind.
At that moment, he had a feeling that he was the Heavenly Dao of the universe;
he felt that he could master every chaotic cosmos in the universe.
"Is this dominator-level?" As Lin Huang immersed himself in that feeling, he
slowly understood what being a Dominator meant.
The so-called Dominator was a powerhouse who could master a chaotic
Kingdom.
Just like his current self. When Heavenly Dao completed the integration with
his Kingdom, the entire universe became a part of his Kingdom.
Although it was just a projection, he knew that the projection of the universe in
his Kingdom was the legitimate origin of the universe.
To be exact, the thing in his body was the authentic chaotic cosmos of the
universe.
The universe in the material realm was the concretized projection of the
universe in his body.