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Chapter 986 Familiar!

A silver net suddenly appeared in the dark space behind Luo Lang. The net covered Luo Lang's back. All the figures that were controlled by the grey gowned elder got trapped in the net.

"As expected, your domain is a controlling type, the irritating kind," the calm personality said indifferently. From the moment he smelled the disgusting smell, he had guessed that this was his domain.

"Why does that net looked so familiar?" Luo Lang was puzzled.

"Tsk!" Luo Lang's suddenly expression changed and he rolled his eyes.

"I see." Luo Lang then looked enlightened. His other personalities could communicate through his mindscape. They didn't need to talk however, the primary identity liked to nag.

After the personalities in Luo Lang's mindscape saw how was Ling Lan using the ice threads, they were astounded. They got interested in this attack and had great respect for Ling Lan.

It could be said that the other personalities decided to bow down to Luo Lang because he had a powerful and scary boss. Although Luo Lang's primary personality was naive and innocent and was willing to accept all of them, it wasn't the main reason that they took into account into accepting Luo Lang. Instead, the main reason was that the other personalities didn't want to be killed by Ling Lan, who was able to freeze them to death with a single look.

Hence, if you wanted someone to listen to you, it's important to be much more powerful than them so that they would look up to you and be frightened by you.

The personalities in Luo Lang's mindscape wanted to learn Ling Lan's technique so they started analyzing it. However, this technique needed to be complemented by corresponding domain energy. The domain energy of the wild personality was the only one that could complement the technique.

Thus, the silver net could only be formed by the wild personality. When Luo Lang heard about this, he silently labeled his Boss as wild.

The grey gowned elder narrowed his eyes when he noticed that the corpse he controlled were all trapped by his opponent.

He quickly placed his hands together and the corpse of the people that got killed by Xie Yi and Luo Lang jumped up and rushed towards Luo Lang.

He didn't believe that he wouldn't be able to break Luo Lang's net with his sea of corpses.

Luo Lang's gaze turned cold again when he saw the grey gowned elder using such a powerful technique. During fights, all the personalities would pass the decision making to the calm personality. They would act based on the calm personality's order.

They were all different personalities but there wouldn't be any mistakes when they were executing techniques during a battle. This was because they were still a single person despite being all different.

Suddenly, the tangled chain started spinning. Sounds of the small chains clanging into one another were heard.

In an instant, Luo Lang got covered up by his chain, forming a huge chain cocoon around.

"Are you trying to withstand my attack with this? In your dreams." The grey gowned elder laughed arrogantly when he saw the cocoon.

He moved his fingers quickly. The corpses around the vicinity started decaying and a corrosive liquid began to spurt out from the corpses.

The moment the liquid touched the chains, a hissing sound was heard from the corroding silver chains. At the same time, the chains gave off a disgusting smell.

As the chain cocoon got slowly corroded from the outside, the calm personality still remained calm inside the cocoon. If this was just a normal chain cocoon, why did he call the dark personality out? It was time for him to perform.

The calm personality moved his finger quickly and lingering shadows started snaking around his feet. The chains started spinning even faster to prevent a single side of the chain from corroding due to the liquid. Then, he said coldly, "Bloom, chain of flower!"

Numerous silver metal buds of flowers started appearing on the chain cocoon, covering the entire cocoon.

Then, the buds bloomed!

When the grey gowned elder noticed that the blooming silver flowers were made from many tiny silver needles, his expression turned from one of confidence to one of fear and nervousness.

"Shoot!" The calm personality didn't give the grey gowned elder any time to think. He quickly gave an order and the silver needles shot towards the grey gowned elder as well as the corpse he was controlling.

The sound of silver needles piercing through the air could be heard.

The grey gowned elder moved back immediately to evade the sharp needles that was powerful enough to turn his body in a sieve net. However, he was still too late. To protect himself, he had no choice but to gather all the corpse in front of him and use them as his meat shields.

Soon, these corpses basically turned to little pieces of flesh on the floor. As for the grey gowned elder, he had managed to escape the attack with the help of the corpses.

However, this also meant that his technique couldn't be used anymore, as there was no corpse for him to control left.

His domain only allowed him to control corpses that hadn't decayed yet. He couldn't do anything to these tiny pieces of flesh.

"Damn it." The grey gowned elder gritted his teeth in frustration. However, without normal corpses, he still had some things up his sleeve. He shouted angrily, "Chi, Mei, Wang, Liang, Ba, Xiao, Kui, come out!"

Luo Lang's powerful technique had forced the grey gowned elder to use his ultimate skill.

After he shouted, the ground within his domain territory started vibrating and seven corpses that were blue-grey and hideous-looking crawled out from the ground.

The calm personality frowned when he saw

those corpses.

"Is there any problem?" Luo Lang asked seriously.

"It's okay. I just didn't expect him to have such a skill," the calmly replied indifferently.

These corpses were not ordinary corpses so they couldn't be destroyed by the silver needles. The defenses of their bodies was extremely strong. Those corpses that got nourished with the domain of domain realm masters were said to be as strong as domain realm masters.

"I'm not strong enough to fight these evil things," the dark personality said coldly. His power was from the same base as his opponent. They were both using dark energy. Hence, the damage caused by his attack would naturally decrease.

"I understand." The calm personality acknowledged what he said. Then, the dark personality walked out of Luo Lang's body and disappeared.

At the same time, a figure with a vibrant aura appeared in Luo Lang's domain territory.

The seven corpses started getting agitated when the figure appeared.

His aura made them uncomfortable. It was as if he was their natural enemy.

The grey gowned elder knew that something was wrong when he saw his corpses starting to shiver in fear. He controlled the seven unwilling corpses and forced them to attack Luo Lang's body which hadn't merged with the bright figure.

The bright personality saw this and immediately stepped into Luo Lang's body. Luo Lang shouted, "Bright, I don't like you but for the sake of destroying these disgusting things, I'll cooperate with you. Let's destroy these things!"

"They shouldn't exist in the first place," Bright said calmly.

'Tsk, this is why we shouldn't have brought the bright personality out.' The wild personality thought to himself. He always sounded as though he was the only one who was worth existing.

The silver chain started shining brightly. That holy aura it gave out caused the seven corpses to feel extreme pain from the core of their bodies. The holy aura caused great damage to dark energy characters like them.

Of course, at the same time, the dark energy was equally lethal to the bright energy.

Chapter 987 Xie'Er!

The grey gowned elder was clear about this so he forced more energy out of his grey domain. Soon, the entire space was filled with a rotting smell. The dark energy even started corroding Luo Lang's holy aura too.

Luo Lang had no expressions on his face, as he was taken over by the calm personality again.

"Howl!" The seven corpses howled in the air. Then, they jumped up and pounced at the chain cocoon.

They opened their dry, thin and sickly-looking hands. Their black nails grew longer, turning into sharp claws. There was also a black cloud with the aura of death around them. They began slashing the shining silver cocoon in front of them.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The silver chain started breaking under the sharp black claws like pieces of tofu.

The grey gowned elder smiled proudly at the power exhibited by his seven corpses. He lifted his right hand and pointed at bare Luo Lang who was in the center of the cocoon. Then, the seven corpses charged at Luo Lang with fervour.

Just as Luo Lang was about to be clawed into a pile of meat, Luo Lang suddenly smiled brightly.

The broken chains suddenly turned alive again. They bounced up from the air and twirled themselves around the corpses.

The seven corpses tried struggling but the white aura on the chain caused the suppression power of the chain to be stronger and more powerful. The seven corpses started giving off a smelly and black smoke. This was because they were getting scalded by the white aura.

Luo Lang stood in the middle and curled his fingers slightly. The chains around the corpses became tighter even , causing even more damage to the corpses.

The grey gowned elder turned serious. He didn't expect his opponent to feint weakness in order to lure his corpses into the chain array.

"This is Boss's strongest technique. As his comrade, I can't be too weak." Luo Lang smiled brightly. However, in the next second, his smile disappeared.

"Go and die!"

His voice was calm, wild, and indifferent.

The white aura exploded, blinding everyone's eyes with a flash of white light

The grey gowned elder suddenly felt a sense of danger. He quickly elevated his domain to its maximum. After that, he waved his arms and attempted to control the corpses to kill his opponent forcefully.

"Howl!" The seven corpses shouted fiercely and broke free from the chains around their bodies.

However, there was an innumerable amount of chains around them. When one chain broke, another chain would take over its position.

All these happened during the time when everyone was blinded by the white light. As the white light disappeared gradually, he saw what was happening in the chain array. He was delighted and felt that the danger was over.

Suddenly, he felt his chest was in pain. The grey gowned elder looked down in surprise. A piece of the chain had come near him when he was looking at the chain array and stabbed him in his heart.

He suddenly understood that the white light was not to suppress his corpses. It was to hide this piece of chain.

The chain was small and came too suddenly so he didn't notice it in time, as all his attention was focused on the seven corpses.

Boom! The silver chain exploded and blood stained the face of the grey gowned elder.

The grey gowned elder said in pain, "Despicable! Do you have no shame…"

Luo Lang just glanced at him coldly. Then, numerous chains quickly stabbed into the elder's body, turning him into dust.

The seven corpses just turned into seven piles of black sludge without the support of the domain energy from the grey gowned elder.

After he killed the grey gowned elder, Luo Lang's domain collapsed. The wild, calm, and bright personalities returned into his mindscape.

Luo Lang kneeled on the floor with a pale face. He smiled bitterly. "Merging three personalities is still too much for me. I can only last for a short period of time."

Luckily, the calm personality changed how he was attacking at the very last moment. The other personalities smoothly cooperated with him and that was how they managed to kill their opponent before Luo Lang's domain collapsed.

The seven corpses were just too powerful. With Luo Lang's current ability, he wouldn't be able to destroy them. Hence, he had to attack the source of their power.

"No wonder Boss always says that we're too weak. Domain is really just the start." Luo Lang finally understood that they had just stepped on the path of becoming a formidable warrior. Their opponents would only get stronger from this point onwards.

After Luo Lang killed the grey gowned elder, Xie Yi, who was engulfed by a world of green, was wrapped up in a crucial moment too.

The green gowned elder was a wood element domain realm master, a natural counter to a lightning element domain realm master. Thus, the power of Xie Yi���s lightning element would naturally be weakened in front of a wood element domain realm master.

The two elders were both very experienced in battles. Hence, the grey gowned elder chose Xie Yi as his opponent to his advantage.

It looked as though Xie Yi and Luo Lang chose their opponent but instead, the elders were the ones who lured them into making this decision.

The green gowned elder appeared to have gained the upper hand now but in actual fact, he was having a hard time.

This was because when Xie Yi noticed that his lightning was unable to hurt his opponent greatly, he decisively split his lightning into two.

Xie Yi's lightning element was different from other lightning element domain realm masters. He had two different lightning element, one Yin and one Yang. If the Yang lightning didn't have the Yin lightning to neutralize it, it was more explosive and faster than normal lightning, making it really difficult to control, as the Yang lightning might be backfire and hurt the user instead. As for the Yin lightning, it's damage was caused to one's spiritual mind, not the body.

The green gowned elder could block Yang lightning but he couldn't do anything to the Yin lightning

The green gowned elder's plan was to use his domain to exhaust Xie Yi's domain energy. He felt that a young man who had just entered the domain realm must have a lesser amount of domain energy than him.

However, after experiencing the damage the lightning caused to his spiritual power, the elder in green gown decided that he couldn't stall out the battle any longer. If not, he would lose this battle.

Thus, green seedlings started popping out of the ground around them. Soon, the seedlings turned into huge trees and engulfed them within.

When he saw his opponent attempting to use his ultimate technique, Xie Yi was elated. He was bothered by the Yin lightning too.

The Yin lightning was able to hurt his opponent but he would receive a backlash too. After all, he wasn't the one controlling the Yin lightning

"Xie Two, it's time for the life-or-death battle. Gather your strength." Xie Yi shouted in his mindscape.

"It's Xie'Er, not Xie Two." A cold voice sounded in his mindscape. "Xie One, take care of yourself first and don't drag me down."

Chapter 988 The Door of Hope!

"Haha, then let's see who's stronger." Xie Yi pretended to not hear Xie'Er's deliberate name calling and laughed out loud.

Immediately afterwards, lightning began to snake around Xie Yi's body. Beneath the snakes of purple lightning, a shadow appeared. It was Xie'Er.

Xie'Er looked at Xie Yi with a complicated look on his face. Xie Yi saw his expression and smirked as he nodded towards Xie'Er. Then, he reached out his right hand.

Xie'Er looked at that hand and sighed. He reached out with his left hand and held Xie Yi's hand.

Xie Yi's smile was even bigger now. He turned around to look towards the green gowned elder and said softly, "I'm still just a bit weaker right now. In the future…" 'In the future, I will become even stronger so that you can actually appear in front of my comrades.'

After seemingly understanding Xie Yi's unfinished statement, Xie'Er also held Xie Yi's hand firmly.

'I hope you won't let me down! That lonely and cold world isn't a really good place to live.'

Xie'Er thought of Xie Yi's extremely capable Boss. With him around them, he believed that Xie Yi would not become a weakling who couldn't withstand his powers. Xie Yi didn't know that what gave Xie'Er's confidence to believe in him was not him, but actually Ling Lan, who had appeared only for a short moment in Xie'Er's world.

As Xie Yi and Xie'Er walked hand in hand, the snakes of glowing purple lightning around their bodies became even darker, and eventually into a pitch black color. But when put under a light, there was still a shade of purple, proving that the lightning was dark purple.

As the purple lightning became darker and darker, there was dangerous and suffocating aura slowly exuding out from within. The green gowned elder had already raised the power level of his domain to its strongest. Seeing Xie Yi's domain energy getting stronger, he decisively made a move.

The jade like sea all around him went straight towards Xie Yi.

Seeing this, Xie Yi and Xie'Er raised their interlocked hands and two lightning dragons shoot from their hands.

The dragon that appeared from Xie Yi's left hand was vibrant in color with some red shade in the purple. The radiance of the color was seemingly enough to reach into a person's soul. It also made the jade colored sea around them lose its color. The aura the lightning was exuding out was the same as Xie Yi's personality, free and enthusiastic, and could easily affect the atmosphere around him.

Xie'Er's dragon from his right hand, on the other hand, was fully black. Within the black dragon, there was an inked lightning with tar-like density, calmly moving along with the movement of the dragon. It was just like him, a presence that was calm enough to enclose the universe into it.

Their interlocked hands were suddenly clenched firmly. Then, the two different colored lightning dragons were pushed outwards from their hands at the same time.

The two lightning dragons ruthlessly flew towards the jade sea.

Once the radiantly colored dragon touched the jade sea, the jade sea was instantly set ablaze. Although fire was destructive, there was also the power of life infused in it. The black dragon on the other hand turned the jade sea on its side into a gray wasteland. That was the power of death.

These two different dragon forms stunned the green gowned elder. But, he quickly slapped himself awake and countless thick branches suddenly appeared from the ground to attack Xie Yi's main body.

However, the branches that were once filled with life, quickly withered away and had its life force drained the instant it got close to Xie Yi.

Compared to Xie Yi's lightning power, Xie'Er's lightning was more suitable for defense.

At that moment, the two dragons finally combined together in mid-air. One began to take in the power of life and the other was replenish its destructive power. As the lightning continuously crackled and burst apart, it became stronger and stronger, before finally congregating into a gigantic lightning dragon. As the green gowned elder was looking at it with despair on his face, the dragon instantly devoured him.

Seeing that his opponent was defeated, Xie Yi, who was enduring immense pain until now, instantly sat onto the ground. He opened his mouth and coughed out burning black smoke.

"You're still too weak. If you don't make body stronger, you won't be able to endure my destructive powers the next time I come out," Xie'Er said coldly. Although Xie Yi controlled his power of life well, he was still weaker compared to Xie'Er's knowledge of his own destructive power.

Xie Yi laughed out loud. Right as he was about to answer, his wounds opened up, causing him to grit his teeth in pain.

Seeing this, Xie'Er coldly said, "You should rest up so you don't have to trouble your buddy." He looked towards Luo Lang, whose condition was also not so good. "But… it seems your buddy needs your help more."

Hearing that Luo Lang's condition was not good, Xie Yi instantly jumped up in response. This made him seem that was not injured at all.

Xie'Er shook his head as he saw this scene. When Xie Yi heard that his comrade was injured, he could completely disregard his own injuries… Compared to Xie Yi, he wouldn't care about comrades first. Instead, he would be selfish and care for himself first.

This was perhaps why their father chose Xie Yi and didn't choose him! Xie'Er felt his body slowly become transparent and returning to the cold world that he belonged in.

"Luo Lang, are you alright?" Xie Yi had already ran towards Luo Lang and asked him hurriedly.

Luo Lang's face was pale. In order to defeat his opponent, he completely depleted his domain energy, so he was now unable to move from the exhaustion.

Xie Yi quickly helped Luo Lang to drink a strong recovery agent that Li Shiyu had made. At the same time, he didn't forget to drink one himself.

Not long after, Luo Lang's complexion began to look better. Luo Lang didn't think that depleting his domain energy would result in such a strong side effect, he did not even have the energy to take out a medicinal agent.

If Xie Yi had somehow lost, the two of them would have actually died here. After thinking about this, Luo Lang couldn't help but be terrified at the thought. The thought of becoming stronger was even more engraved in his mind.

After seeing that Luo Lang was alright, Xie Yi stopped worrying and continued to investigate this building. He discovered that other than the children locked up in cages, the others were either dead or ran away when the two of them were fighting the elders.

"What should we do about those children?" Xie Yi pointed towards the children in cages who were unconscious.

Luo Lang frowned and twirled his hair with his finger. In the next second, Luo Lang's eyes calmed down and said, "We're not saviors. Our Boss's orders were to infiltrate and destroy, not save. Whether they can successfully get out of this building, would depend on their luck."

Xie Yi knew this was Luo Lang's extremely calm personality talking. He also knew that his judgment was rarely wrong so he nodded in agreement without much hesitation.

However, the calm personality still had a sliver of humanity left in his body so he told Xie Yi to open the cages, cut the shackles around their limbs to give them a sliver of hope.

After finishing this, Xie Yi carried Luo Lang, who had not fully recovered, on his back and left the building.

Not long after they had left, one youngster from the cages woke up from his dreamworld. He saw his cage was opened and the shackles around his arms and legs were broken. He then saw that the entire area was in ruins, with countless puddles of blood and silence all around him. The youngster immediately realized that this horrifying place was completely destroyed by two masked individuals who had suddenly appeared. The opened cages and broken shackles was the opportunity the two strong individuals had given them to escape this hell hole.

The youngster understood that with so many people, the two strong individuals could not save everyone. Plus, they also didn't have any reason to save them. However, just the thought of giving them a chance to escape, was enough to let this youngster be grateful eternally. He knew that this act was essentially the same as giving them all a new start on life.

Chapter 989 Not Willing to Give In!

The youngster crawled out of the cage. As he walked a few steps forward, he suddenly bit his lip and walked back into the cage. Then, he began to go and wake the other innocent children who hadn't woken up yet.

Soon after, all these children woke up and along with a few adults. They slowly crawled out and escaped from the destroyed building. They were lucky that their minds weren't successfully wiped by the elders. They still knew where they were from. Even though some had their minds wiped and forget everything, their cellmates still told them what had happened to them and where they came from.

Although these individuals had escaped the clutches of these villains, they still needed to go through many more dangerous and difficult situations if they wanted to go back home. However, this was their own story and was not related to the story of Ling Lan and the others. It was just that only after decades, these people would think about the two masked domain realm masters who saved them and guess who they were.

At the three locations, Li Lanfeng and Little White had it the easiest. Although Xie Yi and Luo Lang was in somewhat of a difficult situation, they still resolved perfectly in the end. It was only Liu Furong and Zhao Jun who were stuck in a life-or-death crisis.

Zhao Jun ran around the hidden corridor as his life was on the line. His face was pale, with sweat dripping down from his body like raindrops.

If it wasn't for the fact that there were many hidden corridors, along with the fact that the enemy domain realm master was afraid of going all-out and create too much noise, and accidentally causing the base to be exposed by the people above them. If that wasn't the case, he would probably have been killed by the domain realm master who was chasing him.

This was the power of domain realm masters. Although he was close to the limit of becoming a domain realm master, it was still the same as a three-old-year fighting an adult when fighting a real domain realm master. He was completely unable to defend himself.

Zhao Jun didn't know how long he could hold on. He only knew that if he wanted to live, he must run away with all his might, until Liu Furong arrives.

Zhao Jun felt there was a terrifying power creeping behind him. He didn't even think and somersaulted into corridor on his right.

"Bam!" A terrifying power instantly hit the place he was running towards. If it wasn't for the fact that he was lucky that a tunnel had appeared beside him. He definitely would have been severely injured from this attack.

Although Zhao Jun luckily got away from the attack, he still felt his back was slashed by something, causing him immense and unbearable pain. However, Zhao Jun didn't have the time to examine his own back. He just ignored the immense pain and ran through the corridor hurriedly. It was because Zhao Jun knew that the domain realm master would not stop chasing him.

Another terrifying attack came towards him. This time however, Zhao Jun was not as lucky, as there weren't any other corridors to turn into. Seeing this, Zhao Jun bit his lip and pounced forward.

Without any tunnels to turn towards, Zhao Jun was still sent flying by the shockwave even though he dodged away from the center of the attack. He then rolled on the ground a few meters away from the attack.

"Ugh!" Zhao Jun spat out a mouthful of blood. The attack of the domain realm master still severely injured him even though he suppressed much of it with his Qi-Jin at Great Perfection.

A silhouette appeared in the corridor. It was the silhouette of a 40 to 50 year middle-aged man. It was the domain realm master who kidnapped Liu Aihua and injured Han Xuya.

"Heh, heh, heh…" The man laughed softly. "You're really good at running, but where can you run to now?"

Zhao Jun tried his best to bear the immense pain from his back and bit his lip as he stood up. He quickly thought in his mind to see how could get away with his life from the clutches of his opponent.

After seeing that his prey was thinking of running away, the domain realm master threw out his fist and a formless attack went straight towards Zhao Jun.

Zhao Jun could only raise his hand to block, but he was once again sent flying away by the force behind the fist.

"Bam!' Zhao Jun smashed onto the ground face first. The blood from his mouth was gushing out uncontrollably. In the end, Zhao Jun had become severely injured and lost his ability to move.

"You're this weak, and you dare to cause trouble in our territory? You really don't know your place." As the domain realm master smiled coldly, he slowly walked to the motionless Zhao Jun.

He bent down and held Zhao Jun neck with his right hand. He then lifted him up by the neck.

Zhao Jun's face instantly turned blood red. His opponent's fingers were ruthlessly strangling him, causing him to be unable to breathe which instantly made his face go red.

As time went by, Zhao Jun felt he was close to death for the first time.

"Am I actually going to die here?' Zhao Jun's mind could only think of this.

Even if he was going to die like this, he still wasn't willing to give in. He still wanted to follow his Boss through the stars and create more miracles.

Compared to Qi Long, Luo Lang and Han Jijyun who were of military backgrounds, along with Li Lanfeng, Li Shiyu and Xie Yi who were from elite families, Zhao Jun's background was the most humble from Lingtian Battle Clan. He was from a common family and did not have any strong connections. It should be said that if Ling Lan had actually left the military, he was probably the only person from Lingtian Battle Clan who could follow Ling Lan without causing any trouble.

Zhao Jun clearly knew about Ling Lan's situation, that his chances of remaining in the military was not high. Just a Ling Xiao was already enough for the entire Federation. If there was also a Ling Lan, it would only bring about bad tidings for the Ling family.

Zhao Jun had already made his decision to follow his Boss despite the fact that he was still going to have a good future in the military if he stayed there. Neither his comrades, seniors nor General Ling Xiao would treat him differently than Ling Lan's team members who followed her from the beginning even if Ling Lan left.

However, the factions within the military was set in stone. This made Zhao Jun feel discouraged. Even a general's son couldn't escape from becoming pressured by others. How could a commoner like him even hold up? Instead, he should just follow Boss Lan and travel through the stars to create their own legends. He would be much happier and free compared to staying in the military and plot against one another.

"I'm not willing to give in… not willing!" Zhao Jun screamed out in his mind. The future was what Zhao Jun wanted!

Zhao Jun began to fight for his life. He wanted to continue living. However, with his current strength, he had no chance against a domain realm master.

As his neck continued to be strangled for a longer amount of time, Zhao Jun's struggle became more and more intense. The domain realm master looked coldly towards Zhao Jun who was fruitlessly struggling for his life. He loved seeing his prey struggle before their death, as this would excite him and give him a feeling of accomplishment.

As the oxygen in his body was slowly deprived out from his body, Zhao Jun's eyes opened wider and wider. The unwillingness to give in and anger in his eyes made the domain realm master, who was used to seeing people die, uncontrollably shudder in terror.

Right as Zhao Jun was about die from suffocation, a strong force of presence exploded from within his body.

The domain realm master instantly understood why he was scared just a few moments ago. He didn't think that the rumor of breaking through the barrier during a crisis would actually happen right in front of his eyes.

"Don't even think about it!" The domain realm master roared. He was not going to allow his prey to reserve the tide on him and prey on him instead.

He exerted more force in his right hand. He was rushing to break Zhao Jun's neck and kill this young man, who was about to advance into the domain stage, right here and now.

Suddenly, he discovered that his right hand actually couldn't move at all.

It turns out, unbeknownst to him, his right wrist was being held tight by a large and strong hand.

Chapter 990 Wrong Person!

Inside the temporarily rented room, Qi Long felt his wrist vibrate. He lowered his head and had a complicated expression on his face.

"What's wrong?" Han Jijyun saw this and asked him curiously.

"Boss gave me an order," replied Qi Long.

Han Jijyun instantly sat up straight and asked nervously, "What's the order?"

"Kill people!" Qi Long's expression instantly turned cold. The Boss's order really align with what he wanted to do.

"Jijyun, I'll leave this place to you." Qi Long stood up and put on the black jacket that on the sofa. He turned around and said in a serious tone, "Before I return, you have to protect everyone here."

"I know. Although my physical skills isn't as strong as yours, it's still not that weak. Just leave this place to me."

Han Jijyun knew that if Qi Long needed to move out, the opponent was definitely domain stage individuals. He felt a bit of regret, as domain battles were something he wasn't even qualified to participate in.

Seeing Qi Long's silhouette disappear in front of him, Han Jijyun clenched his fists tightly. If he was to continue to stay at his current stage, one of these days he would not be able to follow them in their mission and be left behind by them.

"Looks like I need to do more training," Han Jijyun said to himself.

"I disagree." Li Shiyu's voice rang from behind him. "Your body has already exceeded its limit by a lot. Even if I use the best recovery agent, I still won't be able to repair the parts of your body that had exceeded its limit. You're still young so you are feeling it. However, if this continues and reaches the threshold, the foundation of your body will be completely destroyed."

"I know, but with the amount of training you're giving me, I can't get close to their level at all." Han Jijyun angrily punched the wall beside him. This was also the reason why he was secretly increasing the amount of training. He couldn't wait any longer. He didn't want to be someone who was protected by others every time something happens and watch his comrades risking their lives for him.

"All of us have our own place. Han Jijyun, if you can't find your place, even if your physical skills were to advance to the domain stage, you would still be a person that will not be needed," Li Shiyu said coldly.

"Then tell me, what is my place?" Han Jijyun shouted. "Strategist? Isn't Li Lanfeng performing better than me? He also constantly reminds me that I'm not as good as him… Not only that, his physical skills and mecha piloting skills are also better than me."

"Li Lanfeng…" Li Shiyu sighed softly. He could only say that Han Jijyun comparing himself with Li Lanfeng was comparing with the wrong person.

As someone who was destined to not live long, unable to operate a mecha and unable to learn physical skills, he had clearly cheated somehow to reach his level today and did not go through everything logically.

"Have you never realized that Li Lanfeng's goal was never to become the battle team's strategist?" In the past few days when he watched his elder cousin brother, Li Shiyu finally understood him.

Li Shiyu's words dumbfounded Han Jijyun as he raised his head with a blank expression. If Li Lanfeng's goal wasn't to become a strategist, then why did he mock him in all aspects?

"Think about it, when he was mocking you, who was there?" Li Shiyu could only say this much. Whether Han Jijyun could get out of this mindset would depend on Han Jijyun himself.

It had to be said that intelligent individuals were people who would willingly go down in a rabbit hole. Han Jijyun was like this. Even Li Shiyu's demon-like elder cousin brother would do dumb things sometimes and make Li Shiyu go speechless.

Li Shiyu's words made Han Jijyun go into deep thought. 'What does Li Lanfeng want if he doesn't want the position of strategist in the team?'

Moving away from Han Jijyun's concerns, the person who came to save Zhao Jun was Qi Long who had received Ling Lan's order earlier.

Ling Lan, of course, wouldn't let her team members be in danger. She had prepared beforehand for Qi Long to reinforce Liu Furong's group.

The domain realm master saw that a black jacket young man had already stood in front of him and was staring him down coldly.

Suddenly, the domain realm master's right wrist writhed in pain. His fingers uncontrollably let go and Zhao Jun, who was being choked by him, fell to the ground thereafter.

The domain realm master took a deep breath and the domain power from his body instantly exploded out.

Qi Long jumped back a few meters. At the same time, he also took Zhao Jun, whose force of presence had completely expanded.

The domain realm master held in the surprise in his mind and coldly asked, "Who are you?"

"I've been looking for you for a long time," Qi Long said calmly. He was thankful to his Boss to let him participate in this mission. In the end, he met up with the domain realm master who injured Han Xuya.

The familiar domain energy on Qi Long's body made the domain realm master instantly remember something. His expression changed slightly, but he still tried to stay calm and show that he knew nothing, "You people intruded on our territory and tried to mess with our organization. Tell me, who sent you?"

He realized that the little girl was trouble, but didn't think the opposition would knock on their door so quickly. The domain realm master felt bitter and depressed. He now hoped that this situation wouldn't affect the impression he had with Hades. Otherwise, his hard work in the past decade would all be for naught.

Qi Long laughed coldly as the killing intent in his eyes showed clearly, "Don't play dumb with me. Since you dare to kidnap our people and injure them, then you must pay the price."

'As expected, they already knew we were the ones who did that!

The domain realm master's eyes instantly froze. Although Hades Palace was afraid of causing trouble, they still weren't afraid of dealing with trouble. The Chaotic Lands was always the territory of Hades Palace. If these people didn't know any better, then they would not be able to leave this place.

The domain realm master increased his domain energy to the highest degree. Qi Long was also doing this as well. The two of them didn't want to fight a long battle of endurance and was planning on defeating each other with one attack.

As night fell, the products in the three districts were all more or less sold. It finally reached the time for the black market auction that everyone was excited about.

Ling Lan, Ye Shao and Dibi Luya followed President Tu into the auction house.

The auction house venue was huge. After entering it, there were countless seats everywhere. Surprisingly, there weren't any private areas for VIPs. Everyone was sitting in the atrium with their auction sign to participate in this auction process.

Of course, this type of arrangement would also completely expose the identity of the people attending the auction. This was a specialty of the Chaotic Lands. If you have money, you can buy anything. However, whether they could actually receive the auctioned item, would depend if they had the capabilities to take it home.

Many secret factions enter the auction house not to buy anything, but to know who bought what. They would choose the people they would make a move on. Thus, the trip home was a bloodbath. It was the time where the buyers would tested on their abilities.

The auction began systematically. At the beginning, the items that were being auctioned off were some precious and little antiques. There weren't many people who were interested in these items so the auctions went by quickly, and it quickly reached the midpoint of the auction.

The midpoint of the auction was auctioning a few children who had potential, along with domain realm masters who had their minds wiped successfully. Here, the domain stage individuals could also be considered an item for sale.

When these auction items started appearing on the stage, the atmosphere of the entire auction house began to heat up.

Ling Lan saw Little Aihua, who had eyes of fear, on the stage. Ling Lan then instantly narrowed her eyes in rage.

Chapter 991 Rainbow Raiders!

Perhaps there were too many people sitting in the crowd and Ling Lan's seat was somewhat at the side, Little Aihua wasn't aware that Ling Lan was at the scene. She just saw countless strangers on their seats looking at her with gluttonous and greedy stares. She was so afraid that she had to curled up in a corner of the cage to just get some semblance of comfort.

She began to pinch her palm with great force, hoping that the pain could calm her down. At the same time, she was so terrified that the tears welling up in her eyes would begin to drip down her face, attracting more attention to herself. In the back of mind, she remembered that Jiang Hui had once told her that "crying doesn't solve any problems, and only being calm would bring about hope".

Despite Little Aihua encouraging herself, she still had two tear drops run down her face uncontrollably and silently, because she suddenly realized the fact that she might never she see her family again.

"Aihua, don't cry!"

Little Aihua heard a soft voice behind and she turned around to look who was talking to her.

It was a boy who was also put up for auction along with her. He was two years older than her. He comforted her after seeing Liu Aihua silently sob to herself in her cage.

He comforted because he was in the same situation as her, children who still had their memories intact. He wasn't like the other children who had already forgotten who they were after having their minds wiped and becoming items for people to buy.

Perhaps it was because he seemed lonely or he saw himself in her. When he saw that there was a little girl who also had her memory intact, he couldn't help but let down his guard and comfort her.

"Understood, Elder Brother Qiao!" Liu Aihua nodded thankfully towards the boy. Now, even the smallest of comforts, would make Liu Aihua's heart calm down.

The auctioneer was very considerate and put up all of the detailed information of the auction items on auction screen, making it convenient for those attending the auction to look through and choose the items they were interested in.

"There are actually two titled domain realm masters? Not bad. Not bad." After seeing the auction list on the auction screen, a chubby old man beside President Tu showed an excited expression on his face.

Compared to other auction items, humans were considered the much safer purchase, as the auction venue had a special method that made it if the buyers were to die, those who were sold to them would also commit suicide, dying along with them. This was the reason why this part of the auction was popular. By purchasing children with a lot of potential or domain realm masters, not only would the buyers acquire a strong security force in the future, they wouldn't have to worry about any privy eyes at the auction.

After the auctioneer declared the auction had begun, he began going through the serial numbers of the items one by one. Little Aihua's serial number was at the end because she was added in at the very last moment. Not long after, the auctioneer reached the number of the boy who was comforting Little Aihua. The atmosphere in the auction house suddenly became intense and everyone jumped in to participate in the bid for the boy.

This was because the boy had awakened a water element based innate talent and had awakened it for a long time already. Of course, the reason everyone had their eyes set on him was because he was only 12 years old. Additionally, his physical skills had actually reached the peak stage of refinement. The black market also determined that in one year he would definitely advance into Qi- Jin stage.

If things went as planned, advancing into Qi-Jin stage at 13 years old and in addition to his awakened innate talent of the mild-mannered water element, this boy would definitely reach the domain stage when he grew older. This was why he was so popular among the auction house attendees.

As the boy's bidding price rose higher and higher, the boy's expression became colder and colder. It was almost somewhat numb.

President Tu, who was calmly sitting beside Ling Lan, suddenly raised his brows and smirked. It seemed that there were others who didn't like the black market other than Ling Lan.

Not long after, the highest bidding price had appeared in today's auction. The auctioneer shouted out excitedly, "Buyer number 27 has bid 250 million coins. Is there anyone else? This is item will definitely become a domain realm master in the future. Going once…"

The auctioneer was trying to ignite the fighting spirit of other buyers. However, without a doubt, this price was already quite high for a future domain realm master. Many of the attendees were all sly old foxes or merchants themselves, and would of course not be provoked or disturbed by the auctioneer's words.

The auctioneer excitedly and yet helplessly struck the mallet the third time, "Congratulations buyer number 27…"

Right at that moment, Ye Shao and Dibi Luya, who sat on the other side of President Tu, suddenly jumped up and rushed towards the stage.

"Stop right there!" Right as these words were said, many black market guards immediately jumped out from all sides in an attempt to intercept Ye Shao and Dibi Luya.

Bam! Bam! Ye Shao and Dibi Luya expanded their force of presence in an instant and sent those guards who were attempting to intercept them flying backwards.

The two of them on the other hand, didn't change the direction of their movements in the slightest and quickly jumped up onto the stage. Their goal was that boy. Right as they were about to reach the boy, a strong mud wall suddenly appeared in front of the boy.

Seeing this, Ye Shao and Dibi Luya immediately released one fire dragon and one water dragon out from their hands to ruthlessly strike the mud wall.

Bang! A large explosion resounded through the auction house. The mud wall instantly cracked open from the force of the fire and water dragon.

Ye Shao then suddenly vanished from where stood. Right as he appeared behind the boy and was about grab him, a person clad in white had already stood in his way. At the same time, a black cloaked elder had also appeared in front of Dibi Luya.

"Who are you people? You actually dare to cause trouble in our Chaotic Lands?" A sharp and thin voice rang by their ears.

It turns out, the person clad in white who was standing in front of Ye Shao actually had heavy make-up on his face. He was actually a middle-aged man with his fingers out like a woman and had an effeminate voice.

Hearing this, Ye Shao was apologetic and replied, "I'm sorry. It's only because we saw our people be forced to be auctioned off. We were angry and made a move impulsively. We're not looking for trouble so I hope everyone can let us off."

"You think just saying sorry will resolve everything? Haha, is that what you think we in the Chaotic Lands do?" The black cloaked elder replied coldly. "Don't think you can do whatever you want in the Chaotic Lands just because you're both domain realm masters. Here, we have more than enough domain realm masters."

After these words were said, President Tu, who was already pale from seeing Ye Shao and Dibi Luya make a move, was now trembling. If it wasn't for the fact that Ling Lan had helped him up, he might have been so scared that he would have fallen on the floor.

He didn't think that two domain realm masters were hiding among the mercenary team he had hired. He especially didn't think that they would cause trouble in the black market of the Chaotic Lands. He could feel his future being all grayed out. The Chaotic Lands would definitely make his merchant group take responsibility. A lighter punishment would be to refuse trading with them, while a larger punishment could possibly be to completely wipe out their entire merchant group.

After hearing the forceful words of their opponent, Ye Shao and Dibi Luya's expression did not waver.

Ye Shao even shook his head and said coldly, "If that's the case, then we want to know why our people would appear on your auction stage? Light and Dark Dragon are both very angry about this and decided to come here themselves to resolve this issue."

After the names 'Light' and 'Dark Dragon' were spoken, the other auction attendees, who originally thought Ye Shao and Dibi Luya were giving up their lives, couldn't help but shudder in fear.

"You're from the Rainbow Raiders?" The effeminate middle-aged man suddenly gasped after hearing those names.

"That's right!" Ye Shao and Dibi Luya replied proudly.

Every world has its strongest individuals. In the Chaotic Lands, Frost Monarch, Hades and Ninja were the strongest. In the adventurer world, there were also seven kings that ruled that world.

Among these seven kings, the ones who no one dared to offend were Light and Dark Dragon from the allied adventurer group, the Rainbow Raiders. It was because they were like brothers to each other and they not would never be apart. One imperial level domain expert was already invincible. Then, two imperial level domain expert… Even if it was another imperial level domain expert, they still wouldn't dare to offend these two people.

Thus, almost all parts of the Chaotic Lands would tremble after hearing the names of 'Light' and 'Dark Dragon'.

Chapter 992 Hurt?

'Who is so important that two kings came out to rescue him?' Everyone looked at the young boy who had no expressions on his face and started guessing his identity.

"Hmph!" A sudden snort shocked everyone.

"You can look for your man, but you don't have to destroy three of our bases. That is too much," the person who snorted at the start was heard again.

Ye Shao was stunned. 'Are you mad? What are you talking about?

'Ye Shao, who didn't know what was happening, just randomly said, "If you dared to mess with the Rainbow Raiders, you must be prepared to bear the consequences."

"How arrogant. Most people might be afraid of Light and Dark Dragon but we're not." Another furious voice could be heard.

"No matter where he came from since he's already ours, he will stay ours."

A frightening force of presence rushed towards the boy. Ye Shao and Dibi Luya were stunned. They thought that the three kings of the Chaotic Lands would give some face to Light and Dark Dragon, but they surprisingly didn't. They just wanted to kill the person they wanted to take back.

"Hades, you half-dead man! How dare you try to kill my child!" A cold voice suddenly sounded. A strong force of presence blocked the vicious aura that wanted to kill the young boy.

"Dark Dragon, you killed people in our territory without informing us. Is this how you show respect?" An angry voice replied.

"Ninja, it's time for you to stop. You've done so many cruel things. Aren't you afraid that your life will be shortened by your sins?" A lazy voice sounded after that.

"Light, your hands are tainted with blood too," Ninja sneered.

"Tsk tsk. The people we killed are people who deserved to die. We have a clearer conscience than you," Light replied without taking a step back.

"Pfft! Light, who are you trying to fool?" Ninja scoffed at Light's blatant lie.

"Let's not waste time bickering. Light and I didn't come here to fight with you. We just want to bring our child back," Dark Dragon replied coldly.

"What about our people?" Hades shouted angrily.

"What about them? I haven't even taken my revenge on you for making my child suffer!" Dark Dragon replied with a cold smile.

"Haha, since that is the case, let's settle this now," Hades was so angry that he started laughing maniacally.

The moment his laughter ended, four invisible energy collided in the air above the atrium.

Bang!

A loud explosion occurred.

The huge force flattened the auction stage, even the roof and the walls of the atrium had collapsed.

The people in the atrium hugged their heads and scurried away when they saw four imperial stage domain experts fighting on top of them.

If these four people didn't hold back their strength just now because they were worried about the people below, most of the people there would be dead by now.

President Tu brought his men and left the atrium hurriedly. After he ran for a distance, he quickly realized that Jiang Hui wasn't beside him anymore.

'He may have ran in a different direction or he is slower than us.' President Tu was frightened by what had happened so he quickly led his men back to their base. He was going to leave the next day and never come to the Chaotic Lands again.

As for Jiang Hui, President Tu wished him good luck, and hoped that he was able to escape from those domain realm masters.

The four unwelcome guests were in the destroyed atrium.

They split into two groups and stood opposite each other.

On one side, a person with a black cape was standing beside a person wearing a ghost mask. No one could see their faces.

On the other side, there was a cold-looking elder in black clothes and white hair as well as an amiable-looking elder in a red cloak.

Even domain realm masters like Ye Shao and Dibi Luya felt that they couldn't withstand the energy from these imperial stage domain experts.

Ye Shao and Dibi Luya were still lucky. Their opponents on the other hand, got injured internally from the residual force and were vomiting out blood.

"Dibi Luya, bring Little Xing away." Light spoke to Ye Shao and Dibi Luya.

"Yes." Dibi Luya immediately accepted the order and grabbed the little boy beside Liu Aihua.

"Bring her along too." The little boy didn't forget his companion. He pointed to Liu Aihua.

"Troublesome." Ye Shao pouted when he saw the little girl from Little Four Mercenary Team. However, he still grabbed Liu Aihua and ran away with her.

"Damn it!" Hades was furious when he saw Light and Dark Dragon taking their people right under their noses. He shouted, "Stop them!"

Eight figures immediately dashed out of the ruins. They rushed towards the escaping Ye Shao and Dibi Luya.

"Howl!" Dark Dragon shouted. Balls of black air started to spurt out of his mouth and fly towards those people.

"Damn it." Ninja moved his body and came beside Dark Dragon. He wanted to stop what Dark Dragon was doing. Dark Dragon quickly pulled his hands away and a black dragon appeared in place. He moved his wrist and the black dragon moved to attack Ninja.

Bang! Dark Dragon and Ninja collided. They were both imperial stage domain experts, but it was obvious that Dark Dragon was more powerful than him. While he was stopping the eight domain realm masters, he still also managed to block ninja's attack.

Ye Shao and Dibi Luya managed to rush passed the eight domain realm masters. Hades, who had started fighting with Light, shouted, "Frost Monarch, if you don't act now, all three of us will be embarrassed."

Actually, if Dark and Light Dragon found them personally and talked to them, they might have agreed to give the little boy back to them. However now, Light and Dark Dragon destroyed three of their bases and even humiliated them in front of so many people. If they forgave them easily, the three of them would be laughed at by the people from the Chaotic Lands.

"Cough! Why do you have to do this?" A cold voice floated over.

Light and Dark Dragon's expressions changed. They dared to come because they felt that Frost Monarch wouldn't act. They might be wrong…

Ye Shao and Dibi Luya felt that their legs were stopped by something. Their expressions froze as they looked down on their legs. Their feet were covered with ice and the ice was slowly moving up their legs.

The Frost Monarch had acted!

Were they unable to save their young master even after Light and Dark Dragon came? Their faces turned pale.

"Hey, don't you know that you might hurt me too if you do this?" A lazy voice sounded beside their ears. The four imperial stage domain experts were shocked when they heard the voice.

Ye Shao looked at the direction where the voice came from and saw Jiang Hui sitting on a chair among the ruins smiling at them at them cheerfully.

Chapter 993 Frost Monarch!

Ye Shao saw Jiang Hui's feet were covered with ice too. He was sitting so the ice had already climbed up to his chest.

He was going to become an ice statue soon, but Jiang Hui still had a smile on his face. He looked as though the ice on his body, which was about to take his life, was non-existent.

A young person was on the edge of death but he didn't look frightened at all. There was obviously something wrong with the scene. Unless this fellow was either an idiot or a lunatic, this shouldn't be his reaction. However, he didn't look like a lunatic or an idiot.

Dark Dragon was in deep thought. Light turned serious too. The expressions on Hades and Ninja couldn't be seen so no one knew what they were thinking.

However, regardless of what was going through their minds, the ice was spreading up from Ling Lan's chest. Within a few seconds, it had reached Ling Lan's shoulder and was climbing up her neck.

As the ice reached her jaws, Ling Lan raised one of her eyebrows and said lightly, "This is not good. If it continues moving up, I won't be able to talk."

The ice that was moving up from her jaw suddenly got suppressed. No, they were moving back. They moved down Ling Lan's neck quickly like the tides in the sea.

In a blink of an eye, there were no signs of ice left on Ling Lan's body. Not only that, the ice around Ling Lan was also starting to melt. Within the span of a few seconds, Ye Shao and Dibi Luya were also freed from the ice.

Light and Dark Dragon were surprised by this scene. 'Who is this young man? He was able to escape from an attack of an imperial stage domain expert.'

People as powerful as Light and Dark Dragon were able to sense a person's age from his vigor of life. Thus, they knew that Ling Lan was still very young.

"Cough, I haven't been out for many years so I didn't know that there is such a powerful youngster." An old man with white hair walked towards them from afar. He had a crystallized ice walking stick in one hand. He walked towards them slowly, but he seemingly reached them within just a few steps.

A few meters in a single step. This was a technique only domain realm masters and above could understand.

The old man raised his head, revealing a face full of wrinkles. He opened his eyes slightly and looked at everyone through his squinted eyes. Everyone suddenly felt a chill up their spines. Even Light and Dark Dragon couldn't help but shudder from the cold.

Frost Monarch's understanding of the ice element seemed to have increased further over these years. Even without activating his domain, he was able to release his force of presence. Light and Dark Dragon had their guards up. They didn't forget that Frost Monarch was one of the three kings of the Chaotic Land, the most powerful one at that.

"As expected of the Frost Monarch." Ling Lan bowed respectfully. From his action just now, she knew that his understanding of the ice element was way above hers. This was enough to gain her respect.

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"Cough cough… Everyone calls me Frost Monarch because they respect me. Actually, I don't have the right to be given this title." Frost Monarch coughed and shook his head.

"Frost Monarch is the title for the most powerful ice element master. You deserve this title," Ninja refuted.

Light and Dark Dragons were enemies with Ninja but they still agreed with what he said.

"You all put feathers on my cap. Actually, before I enter the imperial stage through my physical skills, I shouldn't use names that indicate I'm a king." Frost Monarch didn't agree with what Ninja said.

Hades felt a little awkward. By right, Hades meant the king of hell. However, Frost Monarch was right. A real king should be someone in the imperial stage. However, imperial stage was not so easy to enter. There were only nine people who managed to break through to imperial stage in the entire universe.

As for them, they were known as imperial stage domain experts but in actual fact, they were just half a step into the imperial stage. This half step was a huge difference.

"However, after meditating for more than ten years, your understanding of your domain had reached new heights. It won't be long before you advance to the imperial stage." Ninja was in envy.

The more powerful a person becomes, the harder it gets for him to gain more understanding of his domain. He might even reach a bottleneck and never surpass himself ever again. Frost Monarch was already the most powerful among them. After he came out of his closed door mediation, his force of presence had gotten stronger. It seemed that his meditation was effective.

Frost Monarch sighed. "It's not so easy. I don't know if I'm able to enter the imperial stage when I'm alive." He looked at Ling Lan who was listening to them quietly. "This young man might advance to the imperial stage faster than me. He should be the Frost Monarch, not

me."

From what Frost Monarch said, Ling Lan was an ice element domain realm master that was very close to imperial stage too.

Light and Dark Dragon's expressions changed drastically when they heard this. They looked at Ling Lan with vigilance. They would place much importance in people who were as powerful as them while being much younger than them.

Ninja and Hades turned to look at Ling Lan too. From their tightly clenched fist, everyone could tell that they were in great shock.

"Frost Monarch, you've spoken too highly of me. My understanding of the ice element is much less deep than yours," Ling Lan said honestly.

This was the truth. She wasn't being humble. She was half step to imperial stage but Frost Monarch's control of ice element was much more profound than her. She was still unable to release her domain energy unintentionally just by looking at people.

"This is embarrassing. I'm more than a hundred years older than you. I've more time to understand the ice element." Frost Monarch said regretfully, "I'm already half a step into the coffin. Yet, you're still young. You still have a long path ahead of yourself."

Ling Lan smiled and didn't say anything. Whatever she said now would seem like boasting. She would feel bad if she boast in front of a dying old man.

"Enough of my lamenting. Little brother, I apologize for hurting you just now. However, the rules of the Chaotic Lands must be obeyed. I hope that you'll not interfere with this matter." Frost Monarch didn't want to offend a future king. Plus, Ling Lan managed to melt his ice, proving that she was not much weaker than him.

Plus, there were two half step imperial stage domain masters on their opponent's side. If Ling Lan entered the battle, the strength of both sides would be equal. This wasn't something Frost Monarch wanted to see.

Chapter 994 Haggard!

Light and Dark Dragon's expressions changed when they heard this. If Ling Lan really decided to watch from the side, they wouldn't be able to win against the three kings especially with Frost Monarch there.

With their strength, they were able to leave successfully if they were losing but the people they brought with them would be in danger. They wouldn't be able to save who they wanted to save too. This would be a huge blow to the Rainbow Raiders's reputation. Their reputation might even drop and they might even become the laughing stock of the mercenary world.

Compared to Light and Dark Dragon, Ye Shao and Dibi Luya's expressions were strange.

When Ling Lan started speaking, Little Aihua cleverly kept her mouth shut. She remembered her father telling her that little children shouldn't interrupt talking adults during important times. She was afraid that if she shouted happily, she might cause more trouble for herself.

Ling Lan gave a half-smile when she heard what Frost Monarch said. Her expression told Frost Monarch that things were not so simple.

Light and Dark Dragon looked at each other in surprise. It looked like this domain realm master who came suddenly wanted to interfere in this matter.

Frost Monarch frowned slightly when he saw this. A cold aura exuded from his body. "Little brother, is there anything you're unhappy about?"

Ling Lan smiled gently, "Frost Monarch, there's one matter I would like to ask for your opinion about. If someone hurt my team member and then snatched someone else from my team again after that, what should I do as the leader of the team?"

Frost Monarch's expression darkened. Then, he glanced coldly at Hades before retracting his gaze and calmly replied, "It seems like your men accidentally entered our market. I'll ask someone to return your men unscathed to

you."

"There's no need for that. The person I want to find is saved by the Rainbow Raiders," Ling Lan smiled.

Liu Aihua quickly lifted her hands off her mouth when she heard Ling Lan talking about her. She called Ling Lan excitedly, "It's me. Brother Jiang Hui, I'm here."

Ling Lan nodded at Ye Shao. Then, she nodded at Light and Dark Dragon to expressed that she was grateful to them for what they did.

Light and Dark Dragon heaved a sigh of relief and then gave a relaxed smile. They were really lucky. Now with Ling Lan on their side, they didn't have to be frightened of the three kings of the Chaotic Lands.

Frost Monarch gripped his ice walking stick firmly and the ice walking stick suddenly made a low humming sound. His gaze turned cold. He persuaded Ling Lan nicely because he didn't want to create more trouble. It wasn't because he was afraid of her. But since the other party didn't want to let go of this matter, he wasn't afraid of fighting with Ling Lan too.

Boom! The entire space started vibrating. Ye Shao, and Dibi Luya almost got injured by the vibrations. The two children in their hands got knocked unconscious and blood was flowing down from their facial orifices.

A huge and frightening ice mountain had appeared behind them. No, there were two ice mountains. Cold air oozed out of the ice mountains, turning the entire place misty from the cold.

Even domain realm masters like Ye Shao and Dibi Luya couldn't help but shiver from the cold. The two children in their hands were almost frozen. If they didn't get away from this place soon, the two children might freeze to death.

"Run as far away as you can." A familiar voice sounded beside Ye Shao and Dibi Luya's ears. It was Ling Lan. She had helped them to block Frost Monarch's lethal attack.

The two people didn't dare to waste any time and quickly retreated with the children.

The three kings couldn't stop them, as they had people in front of them who were of higher priority.

However, as the underground kings of the Chaotic Lands, they had many subordinates under them. They ordered their subordinates to chase after the children.

Ling Lan and the people on her side couldn't stop those people too.

The three kings looked satisfied when they saw many domain realm masters chasing after Ye Shao and Dibi Luya. Light and Dark Dragon were worried. But, they quickly put down their worries, as their respective opponents, Hades and Ninja, had started attacking them.

As for Ling Lan, she had already asked Little Four to inform her comrades to help Ye Shao and Dibi Luya after they finished their missions.

Soon, only the six strongest domain realm masters were left in this ruined auction atrium.

Ling Lan and Frost Monarch were fighting with each other by firing ice mountains in full alert. Both of them knew that each other was waiting for an opportunity to launch a lethal blow.

Ling Lan's eyes were filled with excitement and fighting spirit. After advancing to the domain stage, this was the first time she met such a powerful opponent. Frost Monarch was half step to imperial stage. In terms of experience and understanding of their domain, he was better than her in both aspects. The collision of the ice mountains just now appeared as though they were of equal match but in actual fact, Ling Lan was weaker.

The old and weak-looking Frost Monarch didn't move a single step during their fight. On the other hand, Ling Lan had to take half a step back to prevent herself from getting hurt internally. This half step proved the difference of their power.

"I have always thought that I've reached a bottleneck and as long as I overcome this bottleneck, I can advance to imperial stage. However, I think that I might have underestimated the difficulty of achieving the imperial stage." Ling Lan thought to herself. "Frost Monarch has a deeper understanding of ice element and yet he is still unable to breakthrough to the imperial stage. It looks like I have a long way ahead of myself."

Ling Lan observed Frost Monarch's ice element domain carefully. Since their domains were the same, the things Ling Lan could learn from him were greater. The way he used his domain gave her new inspiration for her own.

At this moment, Frost Monarch looked up and multiple ice needles appeared in the cold air.

The ice needles shot towards Ling Lan. In response, Ling Lan clapped her hands together and ice walls were formed around her.

Ice shards started flying everyone when the ice needles stabbed into the ice walls, which resulted in cracks appearing on the ice walls.

Ling Lan frowned as she heard the sound of something breaking. Her ice walls couldn't withstand the pressure from the ice needles and had collapsed, revealing a huge hole pierced ice needles where Ling Lan was standing moments ago.

Not far away, a wisp of cold air congregated into a human figure. Ling Lan appeared there.

When Ling Lan noticed that her ice walls were unable to withstand Frost Monarch's volley of ice needles, she instantly changed her body into ice particles and dispersed into the air. Then, she congregated in another area. This was the first time she appeared so haggard in a fight that she had no choice but to escape like this.

Chapter 995 Disciple!

At that moment, the cold air around Ling Lan suddenly froze, forming two ice dragons. Then, the ice dragons seemed to be infused with life force as it opened their maws and attempted to bite her.

Ling Lan frowned when she felt the cold air beside her freezing. In response, two ice spikes appeared behind her and pierced the ice dragons that were rushing towards her.

Suddenly, Ling Lan's chest got pierced by an ice blade from her back.

An old and wrinkled face slowly appeared on the blade of the ice blade. Frost Monarch's face slowly formed in front of Ling Lan. On the spot where he used to be standing, there was just a melted ice statue.

However, Ling Lan also turned into an ice statue the moment she got stabbed.

When Frost Monarch realized what he pierced wasn't Ling Lan, his expression turned from one of satisfaction to one of seriousness and an ice shield was quickly formed behind him.

Bang! A sharp ice blade stabbed into the shield.

Ling Lan's body appeared again. This time however, she was behind Frost Monarch. Then, countless afterimages was seen flying between the two.

In a blink of an eye, the two of them had exchanged many blows.

"Cough!" Frost Monarch's face turned slightly pale. The massive and continuous drain of his domain energy was a little too much for him to handle.

"I didn't expect you to be able to change between states easily." Frost Monarch was surprised.

Between the three kings, he was the only one of the three who had managed to get a full grasp of all of the states of his element. Hades and Ninja still had some problems when changing the states of their element, as they still couldn't transition their states freely as him yet. The fact that they couldn't transition between their states freely wouldn't be noticeable to most people but for powerful people like him, it was an obvious loophole.

Many imperial stage domain experts who came to the Chaotic Lands proudly were killed by him because he made use of this loophole.

Thinking that this battle would just be a repeat of his previous battles against imperial stage domain expert, he used the same tactic he used against many of his past opponents at Ling Lan. However this time, he met a difficult opponent.

Frost Monarch started to become serious now. He finally took Ling Lan as a real opponent now.

"I'm just curious. How did you discover my force of presence?" Frost Monarch revealed his query. He had merged his force of presence with the cold air around him perfectly, leaving almost no traces behind. This was his domain technique. He was able to merge with his ice element seamlessly which had allowed him to kill innumerable people in the past.

"No matter how perfect a disguise is, it's still a disguise. There will still be a difference." Ling Lan couldn't tell him that this was her innate talent that discovered him. She was able to 'see' the danger with her Profound Insight so she reacted accordingly.

It had to be said that Ling Lan's Profound Insight allowed her to escape many dangers. It was her ultimate trump card during crucial moments.

Unfortunately, Profound Insight was a naughty innate talent. Ling Lan had tried to understand her innate talent many times so that she could use it better but Profound Insight never gave her a chance to understand it.

Ling Lan didn't make herself clear but Frost Monarch knew that his technique must have loopholes in it.

"This battle with you allowed me to gain a deeper understanding of the ice element. If you continue to exist, I might be able to enter the imperial stage sooner than I expected. Unfortunately, in the Chaotic Lands, we never allow anyone who threatens our position to exist." Frost Monarch had a look of pity. Simultaneously, killing intent could be seen in his eyes.

The more outstanding Ling Lan was, the more he wanted to kill her. Frost Monarch knew that if he didn't kill this young man today, he would become stronger than him in the future. He could learn a lot from this battle but this young man in front of him could do so too. Because of his young age, his opponent might even benefit more than him.

If Ling Lan was given more time, she would be able to catch up with Frost Monarch. Frost Monarch even suspected that his opponent had a higher chance of entering the imperial stage than him.

Such a threat must be removed as early as possible.

Frost Monarch became merciless in his attacks once he decided to kill Ling Lan.

Ling Lan felt the ice element around her getting out of control. Earlier in the fight, she already had this feeling. However, she managed to just resolve it. But, this feeling came back even stronger.

Ling Lan tried to control the ice elements, but the ice elements were rejecting her. She had lost control of the ice elements.

Frost Monarch's wrinkled face turned hideous. An ice dragon quickly materialized around Ling Lan and moved to constrict her. Multiple ice needles also appeared in the air and shot towards Ling Lan who couldn't move anymore.

Ling Lan turned serious, as her ability to change into ice particles was sealed by her opponent. It was now impossible for her to escape by just changing into ice particles. This was the most dangerous situation she was in since the assassination at the Scout Academy. Ling Lan felt that she was very close to the doors of hell. This feeling was even stronger than the assassination at the Scout Academy.

'This is his goal from the start!' Ling Lan finally understood how frightening Frost Monarch was.

Now, she needed to think of a way to survive.

Malicious intent quickly flashed past her eyes. Her spiritual power, which she had been restraining all these while, exploded.

"Heptashield!"

Although the ice element around her was controlled by her opponent, she was still able to retaliate back. The techniques from the Divine Command sect, which she had been hiding all these while, was finally revealed to the world.

The strong spiritual power exuding off her caused the ice dragon that was tying her up to disperse almost immediately. The ice needles that were flying towards her dropped to the ground after hitting the Heptashield.

Some of the needles even bounced back towards Frost Monarch.

In response, the Frost Monarch blew lightly in front of him. The needles that bounced back got blown to the ground.

Ling Lan used her Divine Command sect technique to counter Frost Monarch's technique. She thought that her opponent would continue attacking her but he surprisingly didn't. He was just looking at her strangely.

"I didn't know you are his disciple." Frost Monarch held his ice stick tightly. He seemed to be recalling some memories.

"How is Mu Shui-qing?" Frost Monarch asked.

Ling Lan raised her eyebrows. "You know my master?"

"You're indeed his disciple." Frost Monarch appeared enlightened. "Well, he is the only person who can groom such an outstanding disciple like you."

"Are you close to my master?" Frost Monarch sounded as though he was close to Mu Shui-qing. However, the sense of danger in Ling Lan's heart just grew stronger. She turned even more vigilant.

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"Of course! We studied in the same Scout Academy and even sat next to each other!" Frost Monarch seemed to be immersed in his memories.

Frost Monarch was from the Federation too? But, why would a powerful person like him come to the Chaotic Lands and become a king here?

"That year, that block of wood (nickname for Mu Shui-qing) told me that I'll stop at the imperial stage if I continue my method of practicing. I didn't expect him to be right." Frost Monarch appeared frustrated. They had the same amount of potential in the past but they chose different cultivation paths. In the end, Mu Shui-qing managed to enter god-realm and become one of the only two god-realm formidable warriors in the human universe. On the other hand, he got stuck as a titled domain realm formidable warrior for many years. Frost Monarch felt that he was a failure as he recalled his past.