End Of The Magic Era

by Stayrr

The world that nurtured the civilization which reached the pinnacle of magic was on the verge of destruction. The last survivor transmigrated to the past, when the magic civilization started growing, as countless mages were still fumbling their ways through the thorny paths of magic knowledge. He, who came from the end of the magic era, aim to reach the pinnacle of magic.

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Chapter 577: Natural Demiplane

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"Heavens, it's an Outer Plane…" At the same time, Zeuss' eyes widened as he looked at the spatial tear. With his insight as an 8th Rank Archmage, how could he not know where this Planar Path led?

He was frightened…

Because this Outer Plane was most likely a naturally formed Demiplane.

Naturally formed Demiplanes were close to boundless reserves of mana. It was an immortal power, the power of an entire world.

"Sir Zeuss, is there a problem?" Lin Yun asked. He had been directing Xiuban and Reina when he saw Zeuss hesitating to say something.

"High… High Mage Merlin… May I take the liberty to ask if this is a rumored Demiplane?" Zeuss gulped nervously.

"That's right…"

"…" His hope was shattered and he really felt like cursing. 'Sh*t, is this the natural order of things?'

Zeuss could still remember the legend of a certain Heaven Rank powerhouse, Astrologian Agalon.

If he remembered correctly, Agalon was only an ordinary 5th Rank Mage when he was 30. But by the time he turned 40, he had already become a 9th Rank Great Mage. He became a High Mage at 43, he reached the Archmage realm at 50, and the Heaven realm at 70…

And this was all because he obtained a naturally born Outer Plane.

No, it wasn't just this. Soon after reaching the Heaven realm, in the same year, Agalon challenged a Heaven Mage and shocked all of Noscent with that battle.

That battle lasted no less than three days and three nights, and even though his opponent had a complete Outer Plane, he was still defeated by Agalon and his Natural Plane.

At that time, people became aware of how formidable naturally born Outer Planes were. Nearly unlimited mana reserves, the power of an immortal body… This simply made others despair. They wouldn't even dream of setting themselves against Agalon.

As he thought of this, Zeuss started looking at Lin Yun with dread.

'Too terrifying…'

He knew how terrifying a mage that had obtained a Natural Demiplane could be. It was hardly an exaggeration to say that as long as Mafa Merlin's Demiplane matured into a complete plane, he might have enough power to rival Astrologian Agalon.

If that happened, what would a 9th Rank Archmage even count as?

Zeuss was truly terrified.

"High Mage Merlin, are your Natural Demiplane's… Are your Natural Demiplane's Laws stable?" The pitiful 8th Rank Archmage's voice was shivering.

Lin Yun thought for two seconds before answering somewhat truthfully, "Not yet, it will take roughly a year…"

"How… How vast is that Demiplane?"

"Not that much, more or less a hundred square kilometers."

Lin Yun's words silenced the entire area.

'That isn't vast?"

Zeuss was truly stunned when he processed Lin Yun's answer. How could he not be shocked? An area of a hundred square kilometers and the Four Elemental Laws stabilizing in a year meant that in a year, Lin Yun would have a complete world of that. At that time, his power would reach an unfathomable level. He wouldn't just stop at touching upon the Extraordinary realm, he would be able to challenge a Heaven Rank powerhouse.

"But that doesn't matter because the Demiplane is still expanding," Lin Yun added, casually tossing out another shocking sentence.

This made Zeuss feel as if his surroundings had turned dark…

Even as an 8th Rank Archmage, Zeuss was dripping with sweat, he was going crazy.

'Too frightening… This, this, this is simply a monster! A Natural Demiplane with an area of a hundred square kilometers isn't enough? It's also f*cking expanding?'

What kind of concept was that?

It meant that Mafa Merlin's Natural Demiplane could grow even bigger, perhaps several hundred square kilometers, or even a thousand! His strength would far surpass the Heaven Rank if that happened. Just by moving a finger, he would be able to instantly kill an 8th Rank Archmage… No, even 9th Rank Archmages wouldn't be able to escape.

As he thought of the possible consequences, Zeuss couldn't help trembling Thankfully, his relations with Mafa Merlin could be considered quite good. Otherwise, it wouldn't have mattered how accomplished he might be in the future…

This could no longer be described as just unfathomable. Mafa Merlin's future was boundless, he would grow up to be an existence that one could only look up to…

After half an hour, seeing that everyone was more or less rested, he opened the Demiplane again and led Reina, Xiuban, and the puppet in.

Fragrant grass could be seen everywhere, and the entire Demiplane was thriving with vitality.

But after a moment, Lin Yun was rather astounded…

Because he discovered that the Natural Demiplane had greatly expanded.

Lin Yun estimated that it had expanded to at least one hundred and twenty square kilometers.

This was somewhat frightening…

After all, he had checked the surface area a few days ago… If it kept developing at this speed, it wouldn't take long before this Natural Demiplane reached a shocking state.

After confirming this, Lin Yun once again checked the Four Elemental Laws and found out that they were more stable and refined than last time. All the vegetation grew even lusher, and the vast forest in front of him was radiating with the aura of life. The refining of the Four Elemental Laws was truly bringing benefits to the plane that were hard to imagine.

This was a world, this was the origin of life…

Lin Yun led them to the mana pond.

He used a water-type puppet to check the pond and could clearly see a large area of natural mana crystals being formed inside it. There were so many they couldn't even be counted.

Way too many…

Lin Yun couldn't help sighing.

Having such a Natural Demiplane was enough to make a mage in this era wild with joy, but Lin Yun had greater ambitions…

Because he came from 30,000 years in the future.

Too many Heaven Rank powerhouses appeared at the peak of that Era, as well as many Extraordinary Magic Tools. But during the end of the Magic Era, all these formidable figures ended up falling from the sky, and all the Extraordinary Magic Tools ended up being annihilated. In the end, everything ceased to exist.

The current Lin Yun possessed the knowledge and experience to surpass the entire world, including outstanding alchemy techniques and mastery of magic. He had learned too many things in the decaying library. What he wanted wasn't limited to a Natural Demiplane. Every item could topple the understanding of this world…

But Lin Yun knew that this wasn't a good time for this and that there were more important things to do.

The large hemisphere filled with Ancient God Blood couldn't be casually set up in the Natural Demiplane. At the very least, he couldn't let it come into contact with the vegetation, or who knew what could happen?

Lin Yun had to take care of this.

He quickly led Xiuban, Reina, and the puppet to a sandy desert area. There was no water source in this location, no vegetation, and the air was dry. Such a place was the most suitable location to arrange the Ancient God Blood.

"Damn, you got such a good thing?"

At this time, the Star Gem flickered and Enderfa came out of the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel, turning into a black fog as he appeared in the Demiplane.

He had a tone of surprise as he remarked, "Damnit, Mafa Merlin, you, you… You actually got so much Ancient God Blood!"

"Yes…"

"Heavens!" Enderfa uttered in shock, "Where did you find it?"

"You guess…"

"You scoundrel." Enderfa looked at Lin Yun with dissatisfaction. "Do you know how great that Ancient God Blood is? In the 3rd Dynasty, that Sword Saint named Crow Watson was able to reach the Heaven Rank because he took a bath in Ancient God Blood…"

"I know about this," Lin Yun said as he nodded.

"Hmm… Right, I can see that this Draconic Beastman is very suitable for taking a bath in this blood!" Enderfa examined the Draconic Beastman and he stood up with excitement. "As long as he can bathe in it, he should be able to get the same ability as Crow Watson. Not only would he have resistance against most spells, but his body would be strengthened to a shocking level. Even 6th Tier Spells might not be able to hurt him."

"No… Don't!" The pitiful Xiuban was startled, and couldn't even hide behind Lin Yun… He was sure that this had to be some sort of a plot against him.

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Chapter 578: Stable

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"You mean that we can really bathe in it?" Lin Yun interrupted Enderfa. If what Enderfa said was true, then that would be too amazing. Even he was tempted.

Think about it, what if a mage's physical strength could compare to that of a Sword Saint?

"You are thinking too much… The blood of an Ancient God is one of the most terrifying things in the world. Its power isn't something you can even imagine. It would strengthen the body of any lifeform to an outrageous level, and at the extreme, it could even compare to Star Essence…"

"Damn!" Lin Yun was shocked when he heard this comparison. Star Essence was known as Noscent's hardest metal. It was rumored that the Throne of Life and the Shelter Tower had been crafted out of a large amount of Star Essence.

It was also said that armor with a smidgen of Star Essence in it would be able to resist the bombardment of 4th Tier Spells. Even sharp Spiritual Rank weapons wouldn't be able to leave any traces on it.

And as for armor completely made of Star Essence…

This was something Lin Yun had never seen before. A finger-sized piece of Star Essence weighed at least five hundred kilograms. Only Ancient Gods would be able to properly use armor made entirely of Star Essence.

If the blood of an Ancient God could make someone's body as tough as Star Essence, then everyone would yearn for it…

But why did Enderfa tell him those words?

"Hey, Enderfa, I don't get it. Wouldn't it be a good thing if the Ancient God Blood was so formidable?"

"Of course good things are good things," Enderfa said as he rolled his eyes, "But because the Ancient God Blood is so formidable, once you bathe in it, your body will be completely impervious to the magic elements. Do you know what that means?"

"Oh…" Lin Yun was dumbstruck. Being disconnected from magic elements meant that he would completely lose the ability to use magic. No matter how tough his body was at that time, he would be nothing more than a very tough target.

'This is a bit troublesome…'

He was a mage, and Reina walked both paths, so they couldn't afford to lose their magic ability. And the puppet was only a puppet; it didn't have a living body so the Ancient God Blood wouldn't affect it.

Xiuban was the only one that could bathe in the blood of the Ancient God. The Draconic Beastman never relied on magic when he fought, as all his magic abilities came from the magic patterns inherently hidden within his bloodline. Whether he could connect to the magic elements of the world had no importance to him…

Just as Lin Yun thought of this, Enderfa opened his mouth again. "But Merlin, it would greatly strengthen your body if you just drank a bottle of Ancient God Blood. And more importantly, a large amount of mana will surge after you drink a bottle. A small bottle would be enough for you to break through from the High Mage realm to the Archmage realm. Oh, right, I forgot to mention, the blood of an Ancient God can also let you touch upon the purest source of the Laws. After drinking some, your casting ability will rise to a whole new level. You'll find that when you direct elemental power, the elemental power will feel like an arm. In fact, the benefits aren't that much lower than bathing in the blood…"

"Oh?" Lin Yun's eyes shone when he heard that. "You are saying that even Reina can drink it?"

"That's right, as for why you can drink it, don't ask me. I only heard someone had done this before and had succeeded."

"Around what time?"

"A very long time ago…"

"Oh…"

It turned out that the blood of the Ancient God wasn't completely useless to Reina. Despite not being able to bathe in it, drinking the blood would bring her formidable benefits.

Hearing this, he called Reina over. "Reina, follow Enderfa's instructions…"

But, beyond Lin Yun's expectations, after Reina drank the blood, a golden pattern appeared on her skin. Then, a huge lattice of light wrapped around her. She looked like a huge silkworm cocoon at that time. Reina's silhouette could no longer be seen and she remained silent for a long time. No matter how many times Lin Yun called out to her, no reply came from the cocoon.

"Alright, it looks like she fell into a slumber…" After calling out to her for a very long time, he had no choice but to let her sleep in the forest. He then glanced at the puppet.

But he sighed helplessly.

The puppet was quite unfortunate compared to Reina. It didn't have a physical body, so in other words, this puppet couldn't drink the blood of the Ancient God.

"Merlin, your puppet can also absorb the blood. It has the heart of a Hydra, just pour the blood onto it."

"That's possible?" Lin Yun's eyes shone after he heard Enderfa's casual words. To be frank, Lin Yun really wanted to have the puppet drink the blood. He would be perfectly satisfied even if it had only 1% of the effect it had on Xiuban.

Enderfa's suggestion made Lin Yun realize why it worked. He didn't hesitate, and he called the puppet over.

He then dismantled the puppet's mechanical system, took out the Hydra Heart and poured an entire bottle of blood on top of it.

The heart was then reinstalled by Lin Yun, and it started throbbing continuously. Even Li Yun could clearly hear the throbbing from inside. Golden light spread from the mechanical system to the outside and quickly covered the entire puppet. After a few minutes, this puppet was standing there like a golden statue.

"Merlin, how about you take a bottle?" Enderfa didn't have a lot of interest in the puppet. He was holding a bottle of blood in his hand while looking at Lin Yun and saying with an enticing voice, "Only one bottle and your strength will quickly reach the Archmage realm."

"I don't need it" Lin Yun didn't even hesitate. "This isn't my path…"

"Unfortunate…" Enderfa regretfully shook his head.

"No, this isn't unfortunate. Enderfa, don't forget that this Natural Demiplane belongs to me. This Ancient God Blood is mine. Although I can't drink it, as long as the pond is here, its power is mine." After saying that, Lin Yun's eyes fell onto Xiuban who was excitedly gesturing.

"Xiuban, what are you still waiting for? Do you want me to take your hand? Do you need me to teach you what to do?"

"…" Xiuban froze. Sensing that cold gaze, Xiuban really wanted to ask, 'Sir Merlin, aren't I pitiful enough? Can't you be a bit gentler?'

But he obviously wouldn't dare to say this…

Xiuban went to the pond, and the bathing process took him an hour.

During that hour, the Draconic Beastman's originally dark-red skin was suffused with a golden yellow layer. Despite the color being very light, if one carefully checked his skin, they would be able to detect it. Xiuban slowly closed his eyes, and as if the blood had life, it curled around his body. Xiuban's skin quickly started swelling, followed by his body growing. His muscles were bulging a lot more than before, and his power had truly been strengthened.

At this time, the Three-Eyed Secret Wolf rushed over from the forest and rubbed itself against Lin Yun's leg.

"You want a bottle too?" Lin Yun lowered his head and looked at the Three-Eyed Secret Wolf, nodding approvingly. He was showing praise for the Three-Eyed Secret Wolf's intelligence.

Then, Lin Yun grabbed the Three-Eyed Secret Wolf and led it to the side of the pond.

But to his surprise, the Three-Eyed Secret Wolf reacted as if it had seen something frightening, and its and its fur stood on end. It let out some alarmed whimpers and ran. It seemed like it didn't want to stay one more second next to the pond.

"What was that…" Lin Yun looked dumbstruck. But he didn't have time to pay attention to the behavior of the Three-Eyed Secret Wolf, so he sat on the ground and underwent deep meditation.

Lin Yun was doing another important thing, which was understanding the power as well as the Laws contained within that Ancient God Blood. Lin Yun firmly believed that the power he wanted wasn't one that would just fall into his hands, but one that came from his own power.

Time quickly passed, and Lin Yun was on his third day of meditation.

"Snap…"

Lin Yun suddenly heard a strange sound, waking him from his meditation. He raised his head and discovered a fiery red sphere in the sky.

'A sun… It's unexpectedly a sun…'

Lin Yun was in disbelief because he clearly understood what this represented.

The Demiplane had yet to fully develop and the Four Elemental Laws weren't completely stable, so there couldn't be many changes to the plane. But it was different now. The birth of the sun meant that the Four Elemental Laws had thoroughly stabilized, which started forming the sun, the moon, and the stars…

As he thought to this point, Lin Yun could hardly suppress his joy. He then paid attention to the Demiplane. There would definitely be new changes appearing here with the birth of the sun.

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Chapter 579: Results

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This world was undoubtedly larger than it used to be. When he just entered the Demiplane, it had been a hundred and twenty square kilometers, while now it had grown to two hundred and forty square kilometers. In other words, the surface area had doubled in size. Standing next to the hemisphere carrying the golden liquid, Lin Yun couldn't see the end of the plane on the horizon.

This was a bit exaggerated…

And that wasn't all… The forest had grown even more lush, covering a few dozen square kilometers. It was comparable to an ocean of green. Trees that were up to a kilometer tall could be seen throughout the Demiplane.

He then checked the changes to the flow of mana and was completely shocked. He didn't even need to analyze them to know that the mana density had reached a shocking level.

It was at least forty times higher than normal.

What kind of concept was that?

It meant that Lin Yun didn't even need to rouse his Magic Arrays here. He only needed to operate his Core Meditation Laws to replenish all the mana in an instant, Alchemic Mana Whirlpools included.

It was astonishing when thinking about it. During a fierce battle, he could enter the Demiplane and instantly recover his mana. This was hundreds of times better than any potion.

What shocked Lin Yun even more was the thriving Mana Vine in the forest. As the Demiplane grew vaster and vaster, the area covered by the Mana Vine also reached an astonishing size. The Mana Vine was occupying an area of a few dozen meters and was still growing at a crazy speed. It could be seen that it was far from being done with maturing.

Lin Yun estimated that once the Mana Vine matured, it would absorb mana from the void at an even faster pace. At that time, the Natural Demiplane's growth speed would be twice its current rate.

It would be truly frightening then…

Lin Yun summoned a water-type puppet and had it explore the mana pond. He discovered that the mana density of the natural mana crystals had once again increased. They were already comparable to level 27 mana crystals.

At this time, Lin Yun was pleasantly surprised because it meant that the natural mana crystals could mature to reach level 30!

Once the puppet disappeared, Lin Yun looked at his Demiplane with a smile.

Lin Yun had seen plenty of notes regarding Demiplanes in the spacious decaying library, which even contained information about Astrologian Agalon's Natural Demiplane. Compared to Lin Yun's Demiplane, Agalon's Demiplane's evolution process was far slower, needing a few dozen years for the development of the Four Elemental Laws.

At this time, Lin Yun saw that he could already use a part of the plane's power. Although he couldn't reach the level of the Astrologian for the time being, Lin Yun was convinced that it was only a matter of time before he surpassed the Astrologian.

"Sir Merlin… Sir Merlin… Take a look at Xiuban's amazing changes!" As he walked back to the blood pond, the voice of the Draconic Beastman echoed in the distance. It was full of eagerness and excitement, just like a child telling his parents about the new toy he had discovered.

"It's really amazing…" Lin Yun's eyes were filled with disbelief when he saw the Draconic Beastman coming over.

The changes were indeed too shocking…

The Draconic Beastman's originally dark-red skin was now carrying a hint of a golden luster. He stood there flickering with a golden light, his muscles bulging, and every single one of his movements carried a wild aura. What surprised Lin Yun the most was that his aura had already reached that of a 1st Rank Sword Saint.

And there was also Carnage. That huge hammer had clearly been affected by some of the blood, perhaps because of its bond with the Draconic Beastman. It had now become dark golden, and Lin Yun was amazed as he found that the Boundless Layering Technique had undergone a transformation, increasing the weight a thousand times. A five-thousand-kilogram hammer was very heavy. It could kill a Dragon in an instant.

It was hardly an exaggeration to say that Xiuban, when equipped with Carnage, could hold his own against a 5th Rank Sword Saint…

"Isn't Lord Xiuban frightening?" Xiuban said with a prideful expression. But soon after, a loud Dragon Roar echoed, making him turn pale. Even Lin Yun felt the formidable power.

An explosion echoed as golden smoke rose up into the sky. Golden light spread everywhere, carrying a bone-chilling aura. A Frost Dragon's huge wings spread open, covering heaven and earth. They engulfed the area in sandstorms and gales with every flap.

The extreme pressure made the cowardly Beastman shiver in fear and hide behind Lin Yun, forgetting his earlier prideful display.

The loud noise came to an abrupt end. After no less than a minute, Reina changed back and walked over from the depths of the forest. Just like Xiuban, after hibernating, her snow-white skin now possessed a faint golden luster.

The temperament of this Frost Dragon had completely transformed, and what puzzled Lin Yun the most was that he couldn't sense the slightest bit of ice aura from her body.

Before, whenever Reina was around, there would always be a hint of a chill and the formidable pressure of a Dragon. Almost anyone looking at her would be able to find out that she wasn't a human, but actually a Frost Dragon.

But now…

Reina's flow of mana was fully under control. She now had golden hair, and her face was a masterpiece.

But whether it was Lin Yun or the foolish Xiuban, they both knew that Reina's power had grown much stronger than before. It was like she returned to her true self. Instead of losing power, she found a new way of controlling it.

"Reina, do you have any confidence to beat Zeuss Watson in a battle now?" Lin Yun asked as Reina walked over.

"Could try it." Reina lowered her head and pondered, before giving such an answer.

Lin Yun nodded with satisfaction. Now, only the puppet was missing.

Just as he thought about it, he heard an explosion in the distance. It came from a side of the forest, and just as that noise echoed, something big happened in the area. Countless plants were sent flying, turning into dust in midair. The entire Demiplane seemed to shake as that dust spread everywhere.

Then…

Lin Yun led the Draconic Beastman and the Frost Dragon over using a 2nd Tier Spell, Tornado Whip, to dispel the dust. Lin Yun was soon able to see the puppet standing in front of him, a dark-golden light rising from its body.

Lin Yun quickly dismantled the puppet's mechanical system. It would definitely be troublesome if there were any problems with the puppet. But what surprised him was that the Hydra Heart had shrunk to a small ball and also adopted the characteristic dark-golden color, looking just like a piece of crystal floating in the mana reactor of the mechanical system. Its throbs were filled with more vitality than before.

Lin Yun was undoubtedly the one who understood the Hydra Heart the most. He had been the one to kill the Hydra and take its heart out and then insert it in the puppet's mechanical system. Yet, he couldn't have expected the Hydra Heart to shrink and condense like this.

No, no, this wasn't all.

Lin Yun could sense the level of strength that the puppet had attained. It was at least level 38, and that was without the draconic magic staff.

It looked like…

The team's entire power had drastically increased…

Whether it was Reina, Xiuban, or the puppet, their overall strength was a lot greater than before they entered the Demiplane. Even he couldn't help feeling some kind of pressure, let alone those Watsons.

But…

This was only the beginning.

The Ancient God Blood's benefits were far from limited to what had happened so far. As everyone slowly digested the Ancient God Blood, they would get more and more benefits…

Lin Yun chuckled and made Xiuban and the others leave the Natural Demiplane. As for Lin Yun himself, he remained there, meditating.

In fact…

The Demiplane had already started fusing with the Ancient God Blood. This was the only explanation as to why the soul fragment had transformed.

Lin Yun clearly knew what he had to do: He had to further master the current power of the Demiplane.

Three days soon passed in the blink of an eye.

When Lin Yun opened his eyes, he couldn't help freezing when he discovered that the Ancient God Blood had already disappeared. There was not a single trace of the blood within the hemisphere. Lin Yun looked at the forest and discovered that the soul fragment had undergone an astonishing transformation.

Three days ago, the soul fragment had started transforming, from solid to liquid, and then back to solid, turning into a huge, dark-golden crystal.

It was too large. Lin Yun discovered that the Ancient God's soul fragment was now three hundred meters in diameter. Several hundred people would be needed to encircle it.

The large crystal was emitting inexplicable mana fluctuations filled with the aura of Ancient Gods. Lin Yun could see the Ancient God's soul fragment had absorbed the blood of the Ancient God making the aura that it was emitting even more intense.

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Chapter 580: Why Run?

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'Wait…' Lin Yun was taken aback. Because he discovered that the Three-Eyed Secret Wolf was actually sleeping under the crystal and its fur was emitting a golden luster.

'It looks like there are many more secrets hidden in the soul fragments.' Lin Yun stood there, pondering for a few minutes before sighing and leaving the Demiplane.

When he returned to the icy peak, Lin Yun glanced at the meditating Watsons.

After a few days, Zeuss' aura had clearly been strengthened and the surging mana was like a lion about to throw off its cage. He could clearly advance to the 9th Rank as long as he had time.

Moreover, Rhett Watson and Arthus both got a surprising power up with the help of the Ancient God Blood, they would advance to the 8th Rank anytime…

And it wouldn't be long from now.

By this time, the Ancient God Blood had already thoroughly merged with the Demiplane and by relying on his connection with the Demiplane, he could understand some of the secrets of the Ancient God Blood. He knew that these weren't the only benefits.

It could be said that not even a tenth of the benefits had been displayed.

That was the blood of the most powerful lifeform between heaven and earth, it was the essence of their lives, the source of their power. Just a drop was enough to be described as invaluable, let alone the two bottles they drank.

Lin Yun would dare to bet that in the next three years, all those who drank the blood would greatly advance. Zeuss advancing to the 9th Rank was a matter of course. It would only be a matter of time before he overtook Harren and Jouyi. The only unknown part was whether he would be able to break through to the Heaven realm.

As for Rhett and Arthus, although they couldn't get as great of a progress as Zeuss, it also wouldn't be small. They would be able to reach the 9th Rank within a few years without too much trouble.

This increase in rank shouldn't be looked down upon.

Once an Archmage reached the 5th Rank, every single increase in rank would be extremely difficult. Many Archmages who lacked talent and resources might spend a hundred to two hundred years to gain a rank. Rhett and Arthus' advancing speed would be like a dream come true.

While Lin Yun checked them out, Arthus also checked Lin Yun out. In fact, this 7th Rank Sword Saint felt quite baffled.

Zeuss had already told them how frightening a Natural Demiplane was. He felt that great changes should have happened to him after remaining so long inside, but it looked like that wasn't the case.

There didn't seem to be any change between before and after he entered the Demiplane.

This was illogical.

'Do I have bad eyesight?'

But Zeuss' reaction was completely different from Arthus, he had a grave expression ever since Lin Yun came from the rift, only feeling that Lin Yun was unfathomable. The aura of the young mage felt suffocating.

But just as he wanted to say something, everyone felt the earth quake, the ice mountain seemed to crumble, gales whistled past, ice and snow fell, it was as if something kept ramming against it.

"What's happening?" Rhett was whispering to Arthus when he suddenly felt something happen to the mountain and was the first to react and go to the edge of the peak to take a look.

"Damnit, how come it's another Mountain Python?" In a split second, Rhett's face became deathly pale as he let out a shriek.

Everyone could see this Mountain Python drilling out of the earth. Everything within five hundred kilometers was part of its body, this could only be described as horrifying.

And at this time, this female python was looking at the corpse of the male and let out a mournful roar, making the entire world shake. The aura of ice was earth-shattering, devastating mountains and shattering the earth. The mana fluctuations emitted by the Mountain Python had an immovable feeling.

Then, the female python dragged her few kilometers long body and coiled around the ice mountain, quickly rushing towards the top. Her head rapidly reached the top and suddenly roared after seeing the empty peak. Frost covered her body, radiating with a dazzling light, before shaking the mountain once again…

Rhett massaged his eyes in disbelief. After making sure he wasn't dreaming, he was startled and said with a despairing voice "Heaven, it's actually a female Mountain Python…"

After the encounter with the Mountain Python, Rhett asked Zeuss about important details regarding Mountain Pythons. This included the difference between males and females.

A male and a female Mountain Python appearing together had never been recorded in history.

There had been two female Mountain Pythons appearing in Noscent's history. A newborn female Mountain Python wasn't too powerful, not that different from a male. But as time passed, after the female Mountain Python awakened for the 9th time, Python Runes would appear on their body and their power would grow to a frightening degree. Because the Python Rune on its body would give them even more powerful ice power.

And the Python Runes meant that the females didn't need a source of mana and would never risk mana exhaustion. They would display terrifying power just by endlessly using magic.

Thus, Rhett knew how bad the situation was when he noticed the Python Runes on her body, it was a Mountain Python that had slumbered at least nine times, and if they were unlucky, they might not be able to survive.

"Roar!"

At this moment, the Mountain Python had already climbed to the peak and Rhett could clearly see its malevolent head and its bloody maw preparing countless powerful spells. Once they were cast, it would be the end of them.

"We should run…" Helplessly said Rhett. The Mountain Python's Python Runes were frantically surging with mana, putting Rhett one step closer to true despair.

"Why run?" Lin Yun asked with a strange expression.

"Listen to me and run, we can't match a female Mountain Python." Rhett looked at the approaching Mountain Python and was terrified, he felt as if he had come across a predator.

"Why run? Do you want to turn away free magic materials?"

"Eh?" Rhett froze. He thought for a long time but couldn't understand what Lin Yun meant by free magic materials.

But Lin Yun didn't have time to chat with Rhett.

He instantly turned to give instructions to Reina and Xiuban with excitement, while giving an attack command to the puppet.

"No problem, leave it to Lord Xiuban!" The Draconic Beastman roared, Carnage bursting with a dazzling light as he charged towards the Mountain Python.

"Sh*t, it's not going to end well!"

Rhett turned towards Zeuss with a pale expression, hoping that the latter would stop Lin Yun. But before he could say anything, he heard a loud noise.

Rhett was startled and promptly turned his head, only to see the Draconic Beastman bursting with a terrifying power, smashing his hammer onto the python's head. That small mountain-like head was sent back a few dozen meters in an instant.

Then, Xiuban once again swung Carnage and heavily smashed it on the ground, causing a visible shock wave, propulsing the Draconic Beastman a few hundred meters high. At this time, the dark golden radiance of the Draconic Beastman dyed the sky.

The Draconic Beastman truly wasn't hiding his strength, he used his strongest power to dive down towards the Mountain Python's head like a lightning bolt. Before the Mountain Python could react, Carnage heavily landed on its skull.

Only a loud and deep sound could be heard echoing, and everyone who heard it felt numb.

And it wasn't just Xiuban…

While Rhett was blanking out and the situation was unclear, the puppet also made a move, emitting shocking mana fluctuations as a Meteor Rain covered in dense flames emitting blazing temperatures appeared above the Mountain Python. There was a total of ten Meteor Rains falling down on the python like an inescapable net.

After being strengthened by the Ancient God Blood, the Hydra Heart had thoroughly transformed. The puppet's casting ability was flabbergasting, casting 6th Tier Spell Meteor Rain hundreds of meters away, creating a huge pressure.

After being hit by a large number of meteors, the Mountain Python's body was covered in flames, and the power of the flames kept leaving marks on its body. The dazzling scales flickering with Python Runes were burnt red in a short few seconds.

"How could it be… How could it be…" Seeing this scene, cold sweat started trickling down Rhett's back, 'Those are 6th Tier Spells, yet the puppet casts them instantly, and in such quantity also.'

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Chapter 581: Chaos Twin Snakes

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The situation was terrifying!

While Rhett Watson was stunned, ice filled the air and a huge wave of ice aura spread as a slender figure rushed in the sky once again…

"Roar!"

The Frost Dragon let out a huge roar, reverberating Rhett's eardrums. At the same time, the Frost Dragon charged towards the Mountain Python at an incredible speed.

The momentum of that huge body was astonishing and a cracking sound echoed when the Frost Dragon rammed into the Mountain Python. Close to a hundred meters of skin caved in under her powerful claw attack…

"Roar!"

A sinister roar echoed as the Mountain Python's let out a cry filled with pain. Frost Runes flickered in that damaged area, raging with chaotic mana fluctuations.

"Heavens…" Rhett was speechless as he saw this, the power displayed by the Frost Dragon far exceeded Rhett Watson's imagination…

Too shocking…

The Mountain Python looked like a target dummy…

Right after, Rhett detected the young mage letting out some fierce mana fluctuations. And before he could react, the young mage had already changed shape, transforming into a several dozen meters tall Frost Giant as he used Ice Elemental Incarnation.

Then, the young mage relied on the surrounding ice elements and used a Frost Flash to reach the Mountain Python's head.

"Sh*t!" Rhett suddenly let out in alarm, 'That Mafa Merlin is too crazy! Females are definitely different from males! The head of a male Mountain Python is definitely its blind spot, but it's not the case for females. Females have Python Runes, standing on her head wouldn't stop her from attacking, even if someone stood under her belly, they still wouldn't be able to dodge her attack…'

And yet…

When Rhett wanted to remind Lin Yun, he discovered shocking mana fluctuations spreading outward from Lin Yun's draconic staff as he raised it up. Mana flared up as the space around the young mage started distorting, forming a rift in the air.

Rhett could clearly feel that the surging mana contained within this spatial rift was in a frantic state, it would pour in the young mage's body with every breath he took. Rhett even wondered if the young mage would burst if this continued…

Not only him, even Arthus' complexion changed as he saw this scene, shock appearing on his face as he looked at Lin Yun with disbelief. The current Lin Yun gave him an overwhelming feeling.

It was to the point that even as an 8th Rank Archmage, Zeuss was scared by the mana fluctuations as well.

Lin Yun's Ten Thousand Spell Wheel was already floating above his head, the Mid-Rank True Spirit Magic Tool was radiating with an even brighter radiance. The might of the Magic Tool had increased a few dozen times, this was the effect of the Demiplane, it was unbelievable.

"Roar!"

The Mountain Python let out a world-shaking roar, its voice full of confusion and worry. She ultimately felt an aura of danger when the Demiplane appeared, as only a fraction of the power surging from the Demiplane could tear her body apart. Even a vicious beast like the Mountain Python was aware of the danger, and that kind of unprecedented power made her forget her own goal, only fear could now be seen in her eyes.

"It's too late…" Lin Yun expressionlessly said, announcing the death sentence of the female python just like he did for the male.

Then, Lin Yun's Ten Thousand Spell Wheel, powered up by the Demiplane, cast an endless amount of 6th Tier Spells, wave after wave.

That's right, 6th Tier Spells!

The power of the Demiplane was too frightening, it could help the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel burst with more power than usual. After all, that was the power of a world containing the aura of an Ancient God.

"Rumble!"

Countless dazzling raging flaming spells tore through the void, tearing the Mountain Python's head apart, and then cutting into her body.

And Lin Yun also took the opportunity to find the python's weak point and dig out the mana crystals.

Lin Yun was somewhat pale, he closed the rift and instructed Xiuban, "Xiuban, you and Reina shall gather the materials…"

Since it had already been done once, the gathering of the materials took less than ten minutes this time. The scales, bile and fangs were taken out one by one and entered a Spatial Magic Tool.

After this event, both Rhett and Arthus looked very excited. This battle had been won too easily, especially to the Watson Family, they didn't do anything and ended up victorious.

It looked like as long as they had Mafa Merlin, the rest of the exploration would proceed smoothly.

But, while he was excited, Rhett found out that Zeuss' expression was quite serious. Even Mafa Merlin was looking at the Mountain Python's corpse thoughtfully.

Their behaviors were too strange…

They had clearly gotten rid of the Mountain Python, there was no more danger, so what was going on?

Just as Rhett grew suspicious, he suddenly saw Zeuss turning towards Lin Yun with a serious expression, "It looks like we met some trouble…"

"Yes, indeed…"

"High Mage Merlin, Sir Zeuss, what are you saying? How come I can't understand?" Rhett noticed Lin Yun's nod and serious expression and couldn't help but ask. Whether it was Zeuss or Mafa Merlin, weren't their words a bit too ominous?

Lin Yun shook his head and looked at Zeuss, "You should explain."

"Okay…" A bitter smile appeared on Zeuss' face. He pointed at the Mountain Python's corpse, "When two Mountain Pythons appear together in the same place, they are called Chaos Twin Snakes."

"Chaos Twin Snakes?" The eyes of the curious Rhett opened wide.

"That's right, Chaos Twin Snakes…" Zeuss bitterly smiled, "It is said that each and every Ancient God had their own Godly Nation, and every Godly Nation had their own unreasonable Guardians. These Guardians could be Heaven Rank unusual beasts, powerful alchemy puppets, and so on…"

Zeuss then paused and looked at the puppet behind Lin Yun, the power the puppet had burst with even left an 8th Rank Archmage like himself feeling on edge. It could easily be seen that this puppet wasn't simple.

At this time, Zeuss didn't delay for too long and quickly looked away, continuing with that old story, "The Godly Nation of Ancient God Constance was guarded by Chaos Twin Snakes. In the rumors, there were two Chaos Twin Snakes, one representing light and one representing darkness. Since Chaos Twin Snakes appeared here, it means that we already entered Constance's Godly Nation…"

"Godly Nation!" Rhett suddenly let out in alarm. Godly Nations were only spoken of in Legends. From the Ascian Dynasty till today, no one had ever stepped foot in a Godly Nation. It wasn't just the Ancient God's residence, the Godly Nation was both the Ancient Gods' territory, as well as the source of power of the Ancient God. If one stepped in a Godly Nation, they might have to face a God.

"But, these Mountain Python's rank seemed a little low…" Zeuss frowned. These two Mountain Pythons had only been at their 9th Awakening. They hadn't stepped in the Heaven Rank yet, so how could they have enough power to be a Guardian of a Godly Nation?

But then, Lin Yun's voice could be heard in the distance, "Don't forget that it has been a long time since the era of the Ancient Gods…"

"Right…" After hearing Lin Yun's words, Zeuss was shaken and quickly understood. The true Chaos Twin Snakes must have fallen during the Ancient God Era and the current Mountain Pythons were only descendants of the Chaos Twin Snakes.

It could be expected that after their 10th awakening, these two Pythons would become genuine Chaos Twin Snakes.

As he thought of this, Zeuss suddenly felt a chill. It looked like they had been very lucky. Not only did the two snakes not appear at the same time, they also awakened for the 9th time and their power hadn't reached their peak. If what they faced had been two Mountain Pythons fully embodying the power of the Chaos Twin Snakes, then their team would have been wiped.

Going through the blockade of the Chaos Twin Snakes meant that they had already stepped foot onto the Godly Nation. After a short rest, the team got on the move once again and started walking towards the depths of the world of ice.

This part of the trip took a long time, after no less than one and half a month, they reached the edge of the world of ice.

This Demiplane was far bigger than they had imagined. From the edge of the world of ice, all they could see was endless forests surrounded by mountains on both sides, and a huge valley. There was no more ice there and the fiery sun could clearly be seen in the sky.

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Chapter 582: Red Beard

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"Finally out…" Lin Yun was relieved. They had no less than 37 encounters with Frost Giants and other ice monsters on their way here.

This meant that they had underwent 37 battles, for a total of over several thousand magic beasts. They could easily handle it at first, but as they got deeper and deeper, the amount of magic beasts kept increasing and they started succumbing to exhaustion. Especially on the final day, even Lin Yun had no other choice but to frequently return to the Natural Demiplane to recover his mana.

Fortunately, they were finally out…

"Hold on…" Zeuss, who was at the forefront, suddenly stopped, his face filled with shock.

"Yes?" Lin Yun was surprised at first, but then, his expression suddenly changed as he felt a fierce mana fluctuations covering the surroundings. Before Lin Yun had a chance to analyze it with his Magic Array, this fierce fluctuations transformed into a loud rumbling noise.

It sounded very distant at first…

But after a split second, they could recognize that this sound was getting closer…

"Rumble…"

"Rumble…"

That loud rumble felt as if thousands upon thousands mammoths were charging…

"Sh*t!" Lin Yun suddenly cursed.

Then, a huge rift appeared under his feet, just like a scar dividing the world of ice in two…

"Fly up, fly up, quick!" Lin Yun unhesitantly used Levitation and floated upward while looking at the happenings below…

Sure enough…

The world of ice seemed to be torn apart, shattered ice spread everywhere while the rumbling never stopped and another sharp sound started accompanying it instead, the sound of ice shattering.

Formidable waves surged from the depths of the rift, coming over with a roar. No one expected that a boundless ocean actually existed in the depths of the ice field…

The sea was raging up, its great waves reaching the sky.

Ultimately, a huge colossus slowly rose up from the depths of the sea.

That was a huge grey ship!

That ship was enormous, its hull spread for ten thousand meters and appeared far longer than the Mountain Pythons they had encountered. The entire hull gave out a decayed and desolate feeling, as if it had been laying at the bottom of the sea for several dozen millennia. Outlines of a fierce skull could be seen on the remains of the sail, a symbol of a pirate ship. After a quick glance, Arthus found out that there was no silhouette on the ship, it looked eerie and silent.

"Ghost Ship…"

As Arthus let out those words, a terrifying force suddenly emerged, covering everything within a few kilometers. Lin Yun didn't have time to understand what was happening, his body fell down when that power covered him.

"Hell…" Lin Yun was startled. He tried using Levitation once again, but discovered that it was useless.

Yes, Levitation couldn't be used!

With the surge of power, Lin Yun's Levitation stopped working, no matter how much he incanted, he couldn't decrease his falling speed at all…

'What's going on?'

The sound of wind whistling was echoing in his ears as he was falling faster and faster. Lin Yun stiffened and tried to cast a Featherfall in a rush, hoping it would decrease his falling speed, while also summoning ten Water Elementals below, hoping they would more or less help him.

Then…

A loud sound echoed.

Lin Yun had never been so miserable, Featherfall didn't work and Lin Yun's falling speed didn't slow down in the slightest, leaving him heavily crashing on the deck of the Ghost Ship…

But how could the rotten deck handle such torment, only a crash echoed as Lin Yun directly met with the deck only to create a huge hole before continuing his fall. He didn't even know how many floors he broke through.

'Thankfully I'm smart…' Lin Yun managed to recover soon enough and couldn't help rejoicing after noticing the damp feeling of having crashed into the Water Elementals…

Thankfully he hadn't put all his hope on one spell, otherwise he might have turned into minced meat after a kilometer long fall.

But, even then, Lin Yun's fall wasn't exactly gentle…

Every single bone in his body felt as if it was broken, that kind of pain made Lin Yun feel as if he had been stepped on by a colossus…

"Sir Merlin, Sir Merlin…" Xiuban's voice could be heard not far from there. After having taken a bath in the Ancient God Blood, the resilience of the Draconic Beastman's body had greatly increased, it was far beyond that of a High Mage. After such a long fall, his body didn't have the slightest scratch and he was now standing there, loudly shouting.

"Alright, stop yelling, I'm still alive…" Lin Yun scolded in a low voice and struggled to crawl up from the ground, massaging the wounded areas while taking the time to ask Xiuban, "What about the others?"

"I don't know…" Xiuban straightforwardly shook his head, "I've seen no one except that Dragonwoman…"

"Alright…" Lin Yun looked around, and sure enough, Reina was there.

As a Dragon, falling from such a height was nothing, her clothes weren't even crumpled. After seeing Lin Yun get up, Reina's expression relaxed a bit and she nodded at him, "I didn't see anyone else."

"A bit troublesome…" If Reina said that she didn't see, then she didn't see. Lin Yun couldn't help frowning, this huge ship was too strange, the way it appeared even stranger, and there was also that mysterious power that restricted all flying-type spells. It was definitely one of those legendary flight-restricted domains.

Any array that used such a domain would definitely be nothing to scoff at. Domain meant altering Laws, or even creating Laws. That belonged to the realm of Saint Alchemists.

"Sir Merlin, where… Where are we?" Xiuban sounded somewhat afraid.

"How would I know…" Lin Yun unhappily answered. The lights were dusky, there was no sound, and an eerie and gloomy aura filled the place.

Lin Yun frowned and started incanting, and as he did one Mage Eye after another appeared in front of him. After a short time, several dozen Mage Eyes appeared in the hold of the ship.

After connecting them with his mana, Lin Yun glanced at these Mage Eyes and sent them flying out of the hold. After three seconds, Lin Yun was pleased by the information the Mage Eyes sent back and led Xiuban and Reina to another side of the hold.

Lin Yun soon found the puppet…

But the Watsons were missing.

"Sir Merlin, can we leave this place? It feels wicked here…" The ghastly surroundings had got completely rid of Xiuban's courage, there was a sobbing tone in his voice.

"Wicked and restricting magic." Lin Yun didn't know where they were, but that place was restricting flying-type magic, no matter how evil it was, they couldn't leave for the time being.

"Sir Merlin…"

As Xiuban whined once again, Lin Yun was already leading Reina and the puppet out of this hold and towards the next room. Xiuban fearfully looked around and after being scared by a passing cold breeze, he sprinted towards Lin Yun.

The hold was huge and filled with countless hallways. There were no decorations, it was freezing cold, eerily devoid of sound and desolate, making everyone's mood very heavy.

Hours passed as they kept moving. The place didn't seem to have an end, making Lin Yun's frown accentuate, up until they finally arrived in front of a giant painting.

The person on the painting was a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a black captain hat with a vivid and lifelike skull on it. His right eye was covered by a black leather patch, only exposing his left. As he looked at him, Lin Yun felt as if he was stared at by a viper.

The most important part was that this middle-aged man had a red beard.

'Hold on… Red beard?'

Lin Yun suddenly recalled such a person in Noscent's history…

"Damnit, it's Red Beard…" After examining the painting, he was stunned when he recognized the famous Red Beard.

It was rumored that in the Ancient God Era, Red Beard was one of the most powerful humans and was highly valued by Constance, who made him his naval commander. Until the later period of the Ancient God Era, numerous Gods had fallen and Red Beard was said to have entered the northernmost Endless Sea, establishing the Red Beard Pirates, and becoming one of the most famous pirates in history.

According to the legends, he had once plundered a Pure-blooded Elven Princess on the outskirts of the Endless Sea.

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Chapter 583: One More

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Red Beard completely disappeared in the later part of the Nesser Era. Some said that he followed Constance into an unknown world, while others thought that he ended up getting killed by Pure-Blooded Elves as retaliation for what happened to the Pure-Blooded Elven Princess. There were many theories.

But…

"If I'm not wrong, this ship should be the Intrepid…" Lin Yun's expression sank.

It was said that at the start of the God War, Constance defeated an Ancient God named Sanders and used his body as a frame to build the Intrepid.

Before dying, Sanders used the last of his God Power to cast a God Curse, turning this ship into a cursed ship. Thus, the God Curse had always been hovering around the Intrepid. All those who set foot on the Intrepid would encounter sinister things in there, including countless powerhouses who met there ends.

After obtaining the Intrepid, Red Beard suppressed the curse on the ship and took the ship on expeditions through the four seas.

As he thought of this, Lin Yun's heart tightened and he rushed to lead everyone out of there.

The curse left by an Ancient God was no joke…

Not to mention the fact that Lin Yun was only a High Mage, even a Heaven Rank powerhouse would have to flee in defeat when faced with the curse of an Ancient God.

They had to quickly leave this ghost ship, or else…

The group went through a long passage and quickly reached another hold. This place was cold and filled with the fishy smell of seawater. Apart from the sound of their footsteps and the heavy panting of the Draconic Beastman, the surroundings were very quiet.

"Sir Merlin, I…"

"Shut up Xiuban." Lin Yun didn't even look at the Draconic Beastman as he told him to be quiet. He knew that the only thing this cowardly Draconic Beastman would say at such a time was how scared he was. Lin Yun didn't want to deal with his complaints. He had to quickly find the captain's quarters because that was the only place where he might be able to find a way to control the ship and find a way out…

"Okay…" Xiuban opened his mouth, hesitated, and then decided to hold his tongue…

The group continued forward…

But, less than five minutes later…

"Sir Merlin, I…"

Xiuban fell silent as Lin Yun turned towards him angrily.

But…

Xiuban didn't look like he was just being cowardly… Rather, he seemed incomparably devastated…

Thus, Lin Yun took back the words he was about to say and instead asked, "What is it?"

"Our… Our group…" Xiuban was faintly sobbing and he struggled to answer. "Our group seems to have one more person than before, Sir Merlin…"

"Hmm?" Lin Yun suddenly froze, he looked around and felt a chill. 'Hell, there really is someone else… One, two, three, four, five…'

There were indeed five of them…

Himself, the Draconic Beastman, the Frost Dragon, the puppet, they should have been the four members of the group, but now there was an extra…

"Sir… Sir Merlin, it looks like there is one more of me…" Xiuban said with a sob.

Indeed…

Just as Xiuban said, there were two of him…

One Xiuban was standing in front of Lin Yun, sobbing softly, and one was standing at the back of the group looking pale and stupefied.

They were identical!

"Sir Merlin, what should we do, what should we do?"

Lin Yun looked at Xiuban before his eyes, then looked at the one at the end of the group. It was just like in the legends, Ancient God Sanders was called the Nightmare Lord and the Godly Nation that he controlled was known as the Nightmare Nation. He was said to be an expert in illusions, able to create all kinds of illusions that others were unable to differentiate from reality.

Lin Yun just experienced it.

There was no difference between the two Xiubans.

"Sir Merlin, do something, quick! He, he, he… He wants to snatch my body…" The Xiuban who was standing in front of Lin Yun cried out.

"Shut up, I know what to do!" Lin Yun glared at the Draconic Beastman and slowly raised his staff, its huge Draconic Crystal letting out dazzling radiance.

Then, an explosion echoed.

A Flame Burst was instantly cast.

But the target wasn't the Xiuban in the back…

"You…" The Draconic Beastman standing in front of Lin Yun was sent flying after being hit by the Flame Burst. The flames on his chest remained as he looked at Lin Yun in disbelief. "How did you know?"

"Xiuban isn't as courageous as you…" Lin Yun chuckled while rousing his Magic Array, pouring a large amount of mana into his staff as he cast multiple Flame Bursts, blasting the target into ashes.

But…

Just as everyone thought that this unknown existence had been annihilated, black smoke rose from the ashes and twisted in the air, turning into a smiling, malevolent face…

"Hahahaha, Human, your luck is quite good. I hope that it will remain that way in the next game…"

After saying that, the black smoke suddenly dispersed, leaving no traces behind.

Lin Yun's immediately roused his magic array to try to catch the smoke's tracks. But a loud sound suddenly echoed in the hold.

The entire hold shivered with a deep rumble. A formidable mana fluctuation rose up in an instant, and before Lin Yun's group could recover, the hold had already turned red, a deep blood red. A huge hexagram array appeared in front of everyone, and as the ground shook, Skeleton Warriors began to stream out from inside.

"F*ck!" Lin Yun cursed. Flames instantly appeared around his body, slowly being emitted from his skin as he turned into a ten-meter-tall Flame Giant. He grabbed Reina, Xiuban, and the puppet, before whisking them all away with a Flame Flash.

"That's a lot of Skeleton Warriors…" Although Xiuban already had the power of a 1st Rank Sword Saint, he couldn't help feeling numb when he saw the thousands of Skeleton Warriors. The hold, which had room for many thousands of people, slowly became crowded as more and more Skeleton Warriors appeared, the aura of death spreading to every corner of the hold.

"This place doesn't seem too welcoming," Lin Yun said as he looked at the numerous skeletons. The Skeleton Warriors were only level 10, so even Great Mages wouldn't care about them, but the horrifying part was how many of them there were.

It didn't take long for the number of Skeleton Warriors to surpass several thousand, and it kept increasing. Let alone Xiuban being terrified, even Lin Yun couldn't help frowning…

Lin Yun knew that this couldn't be avoided. With so many Skeleton Warriors, they could easily block all the exits, so he instantly cast volleys of Flame Bursts, sending them towards the areas with the most Skeleton Warriors.

After being transformed by the Magic Array, the might of the Flame Bursts reached the limit and they were comparable to Ultimate Spells. As he suppressed the Skeleton Warriors, Lin Yun also looked behind him and said to the other members of his group, "What are you foolishly standing there for? Are you waiting for their invitation?"

"Sir, I'll rush over immediately…" Xiuban wiped the sweat from his forehead. Noticing the dissatisfaction in the young mage's voice, he didn't hesitate. Only a whistling sound was heard as he charged into the fray.

"Rumble!"

A dazzling, dark-golden light rushed in the sky. That was the might of the Boundless Layering Technique. The ship shook, and with a "boom", Xiuban sent a hundred Skeleton Warriors flying.

"Sir, Sir, did you see?" Xiuban, who had originally been so terrified, now seemed rather excited as he swung Carnage once more. The might of 5,000 kilos burst with a deafening sound and shattered the bones of countless skeletons, greatly thinning out the horde.

At the same time, Reina turned into a huge Frost Dragon before casting a large number of spells along with the puppet. In a flash, countless spells burst out from them: Frost Spikes, Flame Roars, Fire Arrows, and all sorts of Low Tier Spells. But against Skeleton Warriors, these were the most effective spells. And with their power, casually casting one spell would take out a large wave of Skeleton Warriors.

The tyrannical power quickly changed the course of the battle as thousands upon thousands of Skeleton Warriors were exterminated, their bones spreading on the ground, forming thick piles. The last time Lin Yun saw so many Undead beings was in the Bone Plane.

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Chapter 584: Big Guy

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But Lin Yun didn't just stand there. He was staring at the hexagram star. For some reason, Lin Yun was feeling danger from it. Clearly, these Skeleton Warriors were far from a real threat to them; the problem was elsewhere…

Sure enough, when they had downed more than 30,000 Skeleton Warriors, Lin Yun's Magic Array caught some movement from the hexagram array. A bloody light was already rushing out of it, and alongside the Skeleton Warriors, Bones Devils and Liches appeared…

"…"

Lin Yun suddenly frowned. Although facing so many thousands of Skeleton Warriors was frightening, they weren't undefeatable.

But Bone Devils and Liches…

These were above level 20 at least. If several thousands of those appeared, he would almost certainly be injured even if he didn't die.

And what if it wasn't just Bone Devil and Liches?

If there were Higher Undead such as high-level Liches, Death Knights, Vampires, or even Bone Dragons… it would really be an ordeal.

"Let's go, we have to leave!"

Lin Yun assessed that if they kept fighting, then let alone them, even Jouyi and Harren would be stuck in this place forever after running out of mana.

Thinking of this, Lin Yun roused his Magic Array and used a Meteor Rain spell that was merged with his Magic Array. It was a 6th Tier Spell, and after being strengthened by his Magic Array, its might could compare to that of a 7th Rank Spell. After no less than five seconds of incantation, the area around him distorted…

There was no spell more suitable than Meteor Rain against these enemies. A ball of flames fell down, followed by a second, a third, a twentieth, a hundredth, thousandth… In the end, tens of thousands balls of flames fell from the sky, submerging everything like a tide.

Amidst the restless mana fluctuations, flames and destruction had appeared out of nowhere, leaving a thick smoke in their wake. Only a sea of flames could be seen as the area that had been infested by the foes was now littered with a shocking number of blazing meteors.

Their sudden appearance startled Xiuban and Reina…

Before they could even react, a loud sound echoed. The formidable meteors filled with outrageous mana turned the hold into a sea of flames.

"Rumble!"

"Rumble!"

"Rumble!"

Every meteor falling onto the Undead caused huge explosions. The aura of the meteors contained dense mana, as well as a thick aura of destruction. The enemies fell to the attack one after another, their bones not even leaving any ashes behind…

"Let's go…" The battlefield had already cleared up and the way out of the hold was already opened, but Lin Yun knew that this was only temporary as more and more Undead would come out of the hexagram array.

As he thought of this, Lin Yun hurriedly led everyone out of the hold. While holding his draconic staff, he used a dozen simple spells to set up a blockade.

Just as they rushed out, they heard an explosion. Over ten thousand Undead lifeforms were rushing over like a tide.

"Hell, they are chasing so fiercely!" Lin Yun gnashed his teeth in anger as he cursed. They soon passed through the 4th hold, but these Undead had shown no intention of going back and were still hot on their tail.

But when they reached the 6th hold, Lin Yun froze.

Lin Yun could clearly see that there was a huge, flickering crystal ball at the end of the hold floating in midair.

It was an Undead Eye…

Seeing this Undead Eye, Lin Yun understood where that tidal wave of Undead came from…

The places were Undead Eyes appeared were definitely places extremely rich in death energy. Once an Undead Eye matured, as many as three Death Gates would appear in its vicinity, and many Undead beings would keep pouring in from those gates.

And sure enough, Lin Yun raised his head and saw a rift suddenly appearing…

'Sh*t…' Without a doubt, that Undead Eye had given birth to two Death Gates… One of them was the hexagram array they had encountered earlier, while the second one was this rift.

'I hope there are only two,' Lin Yun thought. Xiuban's eyes were wide open as he looked at the several dozen Bone Dragons flying out of the rift…

"So many!" Xiuban cried in alarm. "So many Bone Dragons…"

"Less talking!" Lin Yun smacked Xiuban's head while raising his draconic staff. As he poured mana into it, a frantic aura of mana pulsated. At the same time, Lin Yun also told Reina and Xiuban to attack.

Lin Yun clearly understood that the current situation was far more serious than he had thought…

The tidal wave of Undead was about to reach this hold. Once they came here, they would be washed away.

"Roar!"

A loud Dragon Roar echoed as Lin Yun saw Reina charge into the sky, slashing with her claws while casting at least ten 6th Tier Ice Spells from her mouth. Huge Ice Walls instantly appeared above and below a Bone Dragon, successfully cutting it in two. It shattered before even touching the ground.

As for Lin Yun and the others, they were also on the move…

These Bone Dragons weren't very troublesome for this group, as they didn't even reach level 30. Lin Yun's strength had greatly increased compared to the time in the Bone Plane when he had to flee from a Bone Dragon. After all, they had fought a creature infinitely close to the Heaven Rank not long ago. In contrast, the Bone Dragons weren't worth considering.

The team took less than half an hour to thoroughly take down these Bone Dragons…

But, more and more of the Undead kept coming out.

And it wasn't limited to Bone Dragons this time…

Boundless black smoke rushed out of the Death Gate and expanded the rift. Waves of the Undead coursed out, and the most frightening part was when he heard the roar of a Nightmare.

'Sh*t, Death Knights!'

Sure enough…

When the rift expanded to its limits, a Death Knight riding on a Nightmare finally appeared…

At the same time, footsteps could be heard coming outside of the hold.

The Undead that chased them caught up, and there seemed to be more of them.

"Reina, take them with you and block the chasing ones, I'll take care of the rest…" Lin Yun gave orders as he stared at the Death Knight.

"Understood." Reina nodded. The army was too huge, and even the Frost Dragon felt pressured.

After Reina took Xiuban and the puppet with her, Lin Yun focused on the Death Knight. Death Knights were disgusting existences. They were Undead Horsemen that not only walked both the martial and magic path, but they also had their own Death Runes, and one of their blows would be enough to cripple Lin Yun…

"Come!" Lin Yun charged over, casting a Flame Burst at the Death Knight. But at the same time, the Death Knight's black spear pierced through the air at him.

But the Death Knight didn't know that Lin Yun's Flame Burst was only a diversion. With a rumble, dazzling flames soared. It was the 6th Tier Spell, Blazing Storm, a large-scale area of effect spell. He had spent no less than six seconds secretly preparing it, waiting for the best chance to use it.

When the Blazing Storm exploded, twenty to thirty Flame Bombs appeared, each one comparable to the full might of a High Mage. With the amplification of the draconic staff, even an ordinary Archmage wouldn't be able to escape unscathed from this, not to mention a mere Death Knight. The power of the Blazing Storm far exceeded anything that Death Knight had ever faced before.

Then, the draconic staff flashed with a dazzling radiance, and a loud explosion thundered out as the Nightmare kept rushing forward. A loud roar echoed as flames covered everything and the smell of sulfur spread.

That was the power of a few dozen Flame Bombs exploding together. The body of the soulless Death Knight was torn apart by the flames, and it could no longer get up once it fell.

The Death Knight turned to ashes in an instant, but Lin Yun didn't spend too much time on it, as time was too precious. He used Blazing Storm to get rid of it and then used his draconic staff to summon a hundred Flame Spears.

But unfortunately, it was useless.

The hundred Flame Spears hit the Undead Eye, but the only outcome was the rift slightly shrinking…

And then the rift soon enlarged once again…

"It looks like a big guy is coming…" When the Death Gate opened again, Lin Yun felt an icy mana fluctuation from its center. It felt just like the cold wind of the Ice Field, and it made everyone shiver…

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Chapter 585: Hellfire

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Sure enough, this time, a Death Knight came out of the Death Gate. Its body was covered with a strange, pitch-black armor. It was holding a black greatsword covered with black fog in its right hand, while it had a rusty iron hook in its left hand that seemed to have been at the bottom of the sea for several hundred years.

The Death Knight walked out of the Death Gate but didn't rush to attack Lin Yun.

It only stood there, emitting intense pressure. It was the kind of pressure that only peak powerhouses could release. Lin Yun inwardly assessed that this Death Knight should be at least level 38.

"Human, you disturbed our sleep…" A deafening roar echoed as the entire hold seemed to shake.

"In fact, I don't really want to disturb you…"

"You have to pay the price!" The Death Knight shouted as it raised its greatsword.

Lin Yun reacted pretty quickly, raising his draconic staff and casting Spirit Defense, followed by a series of incantations. The floor of the hold started shaking before a dark-red swamp spread under the Death Knight's feet.

That was Crimson Swamp, one of the most powerful control spells among 6th Tier Spells!

But the Death Knight was a lot stronger than expected. Before Lin Yun's Crimson Swamp was finished, the greatsword was already approaching Lin Yun, its black edge carrying a formidable aura of death.

In that instant, Lin Yun only had time to cast a Runic Shield before the sword hit him in the shoulder. Despite the protection, it felt like being struck by a huge rock. His bones felt as if they were split open. He was completely pale after retreating a few steps.

'A magic swordsman indeed…'

An Undead with the power of an 8th Rank Archmage and 8th Rank Sword Saint wasn't to be trifled with.

Following that loud clash, the Death Knight's greatsword was brandished once again. The raging death energy in the flurry of blows made Lin Yun fall back again and again, and his Runic Shield couldn't afford to keep blocking such an attack. All Lin Yun could do was keep retreating until he was at a safe distance.

But he didn't remain idle as he retreated, an Undead Purification spell already prepared.

A dazzling light suddenly illuminated the entire hold. This 4th Rank Spell had a simple and direct effect. It thoroughly purified the death energy of the Undead. It could be said that it was the predator of the Undead.

But this predator didn't seem to work this time.

Lin Yun's Undead Purification tore a wound in the chest of the Death Knight, but then, a large amount of black mist suddenly burst out of that wound, and before Lin Yun could understand what was happening, that black mist quickly fixed the wound.

'Damnit, it's the Undead Eye…' Lin Yun felt like cursing as he realized what had caused the black mist to appear.

It looked like the legends were true…

The fighting power of the Undead would greatly increase when they were supported by an Undead Eye. Some powerful Undead beings could even gain truly undying bodies with the help of the Undead Eye.

Lin Yun frowned as he thought of this.

'This is troublesome… If I don't deal with the Death Knight, I won't be able to take care of the Undead Eye… But if I don't take care of the Undead Eye, then this Death Knight will be extremely hard to get rid of.'

A level 38 Death Knight was troublesome enough, especially since it Death Knight hadn't even used any spells yet. It had yet to use the power of an 8th Rank Archmage, yet it still was pressuring Lin Yun.

In his Fire Elemental Incarnation, Lin Yun kept using Flame Flashes to dodge the Death Knight's Death Aura Slashes while also casting many Low Tier fire spells. But the damage caused by these spells was insignificant.

"Damn Human, the price of disturbing our sleep can only be paid with your blood! Your soul is bound to sink for all eternity! Wretched Rat! You better pray that you can keep jumping around!"

The Death Knight sent many waves of slashes while Lin Yun kept using Flame Flashes. The jet-black Death Aura Slashes never reached him.

As for the endless torrent of Low Tier fire spells, the Flame Bursts, Fire Arrows, Fireballs, and the Fire Rain…

Although these Low Tier Fire Spells could be disregarded, they kept irritating the Death Knight more and more.

But the Death Knight didn't notice that the aura of death covering the place was slowly being suppressed… The fire elements were increasing and becoming more and more lively.

'Almost!'

Seeing Lin Yun casting another Flame Flash, the Death Knight casually sent another Death Aura Slash, waiting for Lin Yun to dodge to another location.

But Lin Yun didn't do as the Death Knight expected. Instead of casting another Flame Flash, he suddenly used a Runic Shield again.

The Runic Shield displayed a terrifying power in Lin Yun's hands. The incredible quantity of runes he had gathered made the Runic Shield far exceed its original defensive power.

Even if the Death Knight's Death Aura Slash was comparable to an 8th Rank Sword Saint's full-power attack, it was easily blocked by this Runic Shield.

The Death Knight paused. It had casually sent out that Death Aura Slash, hoping to restrain Lin Yun with the nonstop barrage of attacks.

But it hadn't expected that the other side would suddenly stop and begin casting an incantation.

The Death Knight flew into a rage. It had been forced into a pattern, tricked by Lin Yun. It brandished its greatsword once more, but the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel was already appearing behind Lin Yun and casting even more Low Tier Fire Spells, forming a flood of fire that temporarily suppressed the Death Knight.

Although the power of the Undead Eye greatly increased the Death Knight's resistance to fire spells, it still couldn't press towards Lin Yun for the time being.

This sudden influx of spells made the surrounding fire elements reach an activity comparable to a volcano. It would be a lot easier to use fire spells at this time, and the casting time would be greatly decreased.

By the 6th second, Lin Yun finished the incantation. Once the casting was finished, he pointed his draconic staff towards the suppressed Death Knight.

"Hellfire!"

Suddenly, a red rune appeared on the floor, spreading over ten meters. That complex rune that was so gorgeous that even Pure-Blood Elves wouldn't be able to restrain themselves was the most terrifying thing at this moment.

The moment the rune appeared, a fiery and oppressive aura filled the atmosphere. That aura made the Death Knight shake in fear endlessly. Without the slightest hesitation, it gave up on attacking and fled instead.

But it was already too late. The moment the Hellfire was released, Lin Yun increased his mana output and appeared behind the Death Knight in a flash with a Flame Flash, casting a 6th Tier Spell, Bursting Flames!

Although Bursting Flames didn't sound too different from Flame Burst, the difference between the two spells was like heaven and earth. Moreover, Flame Bursts placed a particular emphasis on the might of the flames and could even be treated as a group attack spell, but for Bursting Flames, the emphasis was placed on impact and explosion. It was focused on a small area and had a huge consumption, but it was ten times as powerful as an Ultimate Flame Burst. The Bursting Flames left a blue trail as it exploded on the Death Knight's back.

The Death Knight snarled and waved its greatsword to try to block the explosion of the Bursting Flames, but it failed to realize that Lin Yun was a dozen meters away and that using Bursting Flames at that distance would cause a double explosion!

The 1st explosion was blocked by the Death Knight, but the follow-up explosion erupted on the Death Knight's chest. The destructive power was comparable to a 7th Rank Fire Spell! Although it only slightly damaged the Death Knight's armor, that explosion was enough to push the Death Knight back.

Even just one second was enough!

Because the Death Knight was knocked back into the area covered by that rune, and boundless golden-red flames gushed out from it, turning into a pillar of flames that wrapped around the Death Knight and reached the ceiling of the hold. Even the Ghost Ship made from the remains of an Ancient God was burnt red.

A mournful and angry roar came from the pillar of flames while Lin Yun sighed in relief.

Hellfire lasted for six seconds. During that time, even if the Death Knight didn't die, it wouldn't pose a threat.

Hellfire was known as the most powerful special fire spell.

Although it was a 7th Tier Spell, it was possible to cast as long as one had enough mana. Even a 1st Rank Archmage could use this spell if they fulfilled the criteria.

But that wasn't the reason for Hellfire becoming the most powerful special fire spell. That spell's strongest power could indeed compare to that of most first-rate 7th Tier Spells, but it did have some special requirements.

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Chapter 586: Death Redemption

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Even with his Magic Array, Lin Yun could only shorten the long and complicated incantation to 6 seconds, moreover, the area targeted by the spell couldn't be moved once it was cast. During complicated battles, especially against a powerhouse like the Death Knight, standing and casting for six seconds was no different from courting death.

Not to mention the fact that Hellfire had stringent requirements on the density and activity of the fire elements, but the casting location also had to be chosen at the start and couldn't be changed afterwards.

During battles, opponents wouldn't stop in the same place for six seconds to become targets. But the power of hellfire made up for these limitations, making it the most formidable special fire-type magic.

But if an enemy couldn't be hit, then no matter how formidable the spell was, it was useless! By the time the casting was over, the enemy would have already escaped far out of its range.

The relative narrowness of this hold worked to the spell's advantage, and it was formidable enough to inflict serious damage to the Death Knight, which was why Lin Yun chose it.

With the Undead Eye, the damage caused by the Low Tier Fire Spells was insignificant and couldn't even keep up with the Death Knight's rate of recovery. A powerful killing spell was a must.

The spell lasted for six seconds, and during that time, the screams of the Death Knight became weaker and weaker. When the Hellfire disappeared, it revealed an incomparably miserable Death Knight.

Its armor was tattered all over and it was covered in burn marks, the entire left leg looking rough, just like coal. Half of the Death Knight's mount also burned, its phosphorus fire flickering as if about to extinguish.

The situation was set!

But before Lin Yun could attack the Undead Eye, he sensed the surrounding death energy flaring up and converging towards the Death Knight.

The Death Knight raised a sword with a rune glowing on it. Lin Yun was startled as the death energy converged in a pitch-black ball.

The black sphere emitted a dark light, and the left leg of the Death Knight instantly recovered while the damaged armor once again became shiny. The mount that had been on the verge of death let out a neigh and its body instantly looked healthy and full of vitality.

The Death Knight that had been on the verge of destruction recovered completely, at the price of the rune on the sword dimming and losing its power.

Lin Yun paled.

"Death Redemption! This is f*cking cheating!"

Lin Yun's expression was terrible. He had racked his brain and released more Low Tier Fire Spells to further raise the density and activity of the surrounding fire elements. He also had to continue dodging… Earlier, he had used no less than a few dozen Flame Flashes just to create that moment of hesitation to fight for two seconds of casting time.

He had calculated everything to hit the Death Knight with Hellfire and burn it to a crisp.

But who would have thought that one of the Death Knight's three spells would be Death Redemption?

Death Redemption… Very few Death Knights had that spell. The probability was so small that it was negligible. Even during the peak of the Magic Era, when the Undead Plane was being conquered, only three Death Knights had possessed that ability, and those three Death Knights were far more terrifying than the one in front of him.

Death Redemption was an instant cast Runic Spell that could cure the Undead. But there was also a difference in might between different instances of the spell, and the one that was just used was too ridiculous… The Death Knight had been on its deathbed, yet it instantly recovered to its peak. This meant that as long as it couldn't be killed before the cooldown of its Runic Spell was up, the Death Knight was practically unkillable!

"Stupid Human, you have thoroughly infuriated me!" The Death Knight bellowed, another rune shining on the one-handed greatsword.

Lin Yun's eyelids twitched as he watched it with a pale face.

The legendary Death Redemption, the most powerful situational spell, had appeared. Seeing this 2nd Runic Spell, Lin Yun couldn't help being worried that he would hit the jackpot again. If that 2nd Runic Spell was just as formidable, it would be his end.

Death Redemption had been studied during the peak of the Magic Era by Necromancers. Even the most powerful Death Redemption needed at least 6 minutes before it could come off cooldown.

This also meant that Lin Yun had six minutes to get rid of this Death Knight, or else he would end up wasting all his mana fighting it!

Six minutes…

Lin Yun couldn't help feeling that it was a pain. This was definitely an impossible task.

Enderfa also understood this and controlled the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel to send waves of spells over, but they yielded very small results.

Lin Yun waited, waiting for the Death Knight's 2nd spell to appear. These kinds of Runic Spells were very fast, and there was no meaning in interrupting them. If interrupted, the Death Knight would just cast it again.

A scarlet ring-like rune appeared below the Undead Horseman's feet. Then, indescribable fluctuations swept through everything within several hundred meters.

Lin Yun grew even more worried than before, his face going from pale to green.

The draconic staff he held shivered. Lin Yun had rarely felt so powerless. He had more knowledge of this era than anyone and he could find any strategy against anything he encountered.

But it was different this time… Even if he understood, he felt powerless.

All tricks were useless in front of absolute strength… His calculations were worthless, and any scheme would be destroyed.

'Evil Halo! It's a damned Evil Halo, and its coverage is so huge! It's not much different from a top tier spell!'

When the scarlet, ring-like rune appeared, the Death Knight's speed instantly increased by fifty to sixty percent, and that included the speed of its Death Aura Slash.

The black mist lingering on the Death Knight's body was the most frightening part. Lin Yun knew that Evil Aura not only increased attack speed and movement speed, but it also sped up the Death Knight's natural rate of recovery by a few times.

As the fierce mana fluctuations swept the surroundings, the Draconic Beastman suddenly shouted, "Sir Merlin, help! Xiuban can't keep going!"

The speed of all the Undead, whether it was movement or attack speed, was increased by fifty to sixty percent. Xiuban, who had been caught off guard by the sudden change, was struck a few times by three enthusiastic Bone Devils.

Had it not been for the fusion with a drop of Three-Headed Golden Dragon Blood, and then the bath in Ancient God Blood, both of which helped reinforce his body to an outrageous level, the Bone Devils' attacks wouldn't have just left red marks on his skin, they would have cut him in half!

"Aaah! You brainless skeletons! Die for Lord Xiuban!" Xiuban exclaimed out of fear, waving Carnage like a pinwheel, causing powerful gales. The might of these gales was comparable to Wind Blade spells.

This was a skill Xiuban had created, and he couldn't help but want to show it off in front of Lin Yun. It was Lord Xiuban's personal technique, Minced Pinwheel.

Its only weakness was that he couldn't keep it up for long, but even Lin Yun couldn't help being surprised by it.

Apart from the Undead that Xiuban had completed shattered, those that had only lost their limbs didn't immediately die, so the ones that were affected by the black smoke recovered at an extreme speed.

Originally, all of the Undead that stepped within ten meters of Xiuban wouldn't be able to survive, but now, the originally slow movements of the Undead had been improved. By relying on the death smoke, they moved faster and were more resilient, increasing the pressure on Xiuban. He swung Carnage around crazily but he couldn't completely get rid of all the Undead surrounding him.

"Sir Merlin, come save your most devoted servant, Xiuban! Xiuban doesn't want to die!"

The Draconic Beastman was flailing around wildly while letting out a miserable shriek.

That chronic procrastinator was now working very hard, and he didn't forget to add some boot-licking.

But unfortunately, nobody had the leisure to pay attention to him at the moment.

Frost Dragon Reina had an icy expression as she tried to keep her foes at bay. Unfortunately, it had suddenly become precarious.

Earlier, one claw would take out several dozens of the Undead. But now, an attack would take out a dozen at best, and if any of them weren't completely destroyed, they would recover to their peak with the power of the Evil Halo in a matter of seconds.

On another side, the silent and unyielding puppet, which could compare to the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel, kept casting instant fire spells, weaving them into waves that cleansed the surroundings. But the encirclement of the Undead was getting smaller and smaller. At the start of the battle, everything within a hundred meters was covered in ashes. But now, the waves of fire spells could no longer keep the fearless undead more than a hundred meters away.

The most terrifying part was that there was still a steady flow of them rushing out of the Death Gate, and although they didn't have high levels, the sheer number was overwhelming, already reaching sixty to seventy thousand. This horde, coupled with the Evil Halo, was overwhelming them. The number of Undead continued increasing, and under such circumstances, even Star Sage Jouyi, an existence that touched the Heaven realm, would feel the need to flee instantly.

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Chapter 587: Soul Roar

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And in this closed hold, anyone under the Heaven Rank would be killed by this sea of the Undead.

Seeing this scene, hesitation flashed in Lin Yun's eyes, before being replaced by resolve.

He took out the Book of Death, holding it on his left hand, while also tightly gripping the draconic staff in his other hand. He hadn't even cast a spell when the ring he wore flashed with radiance. Wisps of smoke appeared as Shawn' boastful voice echoed, "Mafa Merlin, Lord Shawn has thoroughly fused with that eye of disaster, when are you going to give another calamitous eye to Lord Shawn to fuse with?"

From his tone, it was clear that Shawn was in a very good mood. After thoroughly fusing with the Evil Dragon Eye, the Soul Walker had undergone a transformation, becoming a Mid Rank True Spirit Magic Tool. Lin Yun didn't even know how much more powerful his Magic Tool Incarnation had become.

The fog turned into a Ghost Wolf, and Shawn, who wore a pleased smile, suddenly froze, as if he had been petrified.

"Heavens! Mafa Merlin! What have you done? Hell, so many of the Undead! Heavens, a level 38 Death Knight! Damn, what's this?" He asked.

"That's an Undead Eye."

"An Undead Eye?"

Shawn was panicking like a man being chased by his debtors, subconsciously wanting to run.

Lin Yun Flame Shackled Shawn and brought him closer, before saying in a deep tone, "Five level 28 mana crystals."

Shawn's eyeballs spun chaotically. He couldn't help being frightened as he checked the surroundings, but he didn't need to do much thinking to know that if Lin Yun died here, Shawn would never have the opportunity to appear again.

But he still couldn't help himself and pushed for more. "One spirit mana crystal."

"Deal."

Shawn, who knew that he wouldn't be able to escape if he didn't go all-out, still took advantage of Lin Yun and asked for a spirit mana crystal. Hearing the confirmation, he then turned into a wave that was three meters high.

"Hell, following you is truly draining… Had I known earlier, Lord Shawn would have rather remained asleep."

Shawn was nagging at Lin Yun, but he didn't hesitate to make a move. He let out a loud roar, causing a visible shockwave.

The Death Knight and the sea of Undead all froze under Shawn's spiritual roar.

The soul fires of the Undead flickered violently as if they were under extreme fear. They all looked petrified.

It originally was just a Soul Roar that would make souls shudder, interrupting casts and rendering the target silent for a short moment. But against these enemies, its power was comparable to an Ultimate Spell, because the soul fires were the foundations of the Undead. When suffering from a soul shake, the Undead wouldn't even be able to move.

Even the Death Knight was locked on the spot.

Given such a good opportunity, whether it was the Draconic Beastman or the Frost Dragon, they both used their strongest skills and spells.

Mysterious Draconic words came out of Reina's mouth, and even she needed five seconds to incant her spell.

Draconic Spell, Hailstorm!

This spell, comparable to an 8th Tier Spell, wreaked havoc across the hold. It was like an ice apocalypse as snowflakes fell down, bringing a chilling cold aura with them. All the Undead within several hundred meters froze just as they were regaining the ability to move. And those floating snowflakes were like sharp blades, turning the storm into a huge meat grinder.

The storm only left frozen statues in its wake, which ended up shattering into shards.

As for the Draconic Beastman, he was covered in Aura as he rushed towards the horde of the Undead, with Carnage displaying destructive power comparable to a True Spirit Magic Tool.

Every time the heavy hammer was swung, it would shatter every stunned Undead within a dozen meters into pieces. After a few seconds, the Undead within several hundred meters were taken care of.

As for the puppet that only kept casting waves of fire spells, the soul shaking gave it the opportunity to turn all the Undead within three hundred meters to ashes.

The three of them massacred a few thousand Undead within a few seconds!

The instant Shawn used his Soul Roar, Lin Yun crazily poured mana into his draconic staff. A youthful Dragon Roar echoed as the Magic Tool Incarnation appeared.

The young Dragon Incarnation then turned into a huge shadow that stood behind Lin Yun.

This was the ability the draconic staff had gained after birthing its Magic Tool Incarnation. It would support Lin Yun for one minute, making his casting ability comparable to that of a Chromatic Dragon for a minute and raising the power of every spell by a tier.

The instant he was supported by the Magic Tool Incarnation, Lin Yun gave up on using Low Tier Spells and started a complicated incantation. Even with the huge processing power of the Magic Array and the support of the Magic Tool Incarnation, it still took him nine seconds.

A huge Meteor Shower was cast. This spell would mostly appear when Legions battled. It was a very economical channeled spell, but also a very simple spell to interrupt. To display its might, it had to be continuously channeled.

It would only be cast when a Legion fought, as the protection of allies would create the opportunity to channel it. If he tried to cast this spell normally, not only would it need a huge amount of mana, but it would also require a very complicated incantation. Furthermore, the might of the spell would be too scattered. It wasn't great against small numbers of powerful enemies, so the spell was rarely used.

The Death Knight recovered from the soul shake during the nine-second cast time, so Enderfa was controlling the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel to suppress it with a flood of spells, regardless of the mana consumption.

Because everyone knew that even without the Death Knight, they would still be screwed as long as the army of the Undead remained.

The Meteor Shower was released, and a red cloud appeared above the horde of Undead. With the support of the draconic incarnation, the might of the spell raised by one tier.

This Meteor Shower turned into a large-scale 7th Tier Fire Spell. The red cloud was like lava, and many Fireballs fell down like rain. Each of them originally had the power of a 4th Tier spell, but they had risen to 5th Tier at this moment.

The dark-red Fireballs kept falling continuously. At this moment, at least four to five hundred Fireballs had fallen into the sea of Undead, turning the entire hold into a sea of fire. The raging flames charred the bones until they crumbled to ashes. Only the Undead that were level 25 or above managed to struggle on the verge of death for a bit before being burnt a few seconds later.

But there were fewer and fewer Undead below level 20. The Undead rushing out from the Death Gate were gradually at higher levels. The Meteor Shower that had been upgraded to 7th Tier only killed several thousands of the Undead, and most of them were Lesser Undead.

Lin Yun's expression was somewhat pale after casting that spell, as it had used a bit too much mana.

But after completing that cast, he followed with a 6th Rank Bursting Flames spell, which was also upgraded to 7th Tier, on the suppressed Death Knight, sending it flying.

The Death Knight with its Evil Halo wasn't injured too much by the 7th Tier Spell, and while it was sent flying, the death aura helped its wounds quickly recover again.

But before the Death Knight could regain its footing, Lin Yun's 2nd Bursting Flames already landed. The blue Bursting Flames once again sent the Death Knight flying.

The explosion-oriented Bursting Flames did next to no damage to the Death Knight, but it also couldn't stop itself from being blown away by each time.

Lin Yun calculated the timing and cast five Bursting Flames in a row, each of them landing while the Death Knight was still trying to stabilize itself, sending it further and further away.

After five Bursting Flames, the Death Knight was pushed a very long distance away from Lin Yun. Enderfa clearly understood what should be done and controlled the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel to continuously suppress the Death Knight with fire spells. As for Lin Yun, he kept using the Meteor Shower.

By the time the Death Knight rushed through the flood of spells, Lin Yun frantically cast more spells alongside the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel to suppress it.

During that minute, Lin Yun cast a total of four Meteor Showers and turned all the undead-infested areas into oceans of fire.

Several tens of thousands of the Undead, with Reina, Xiuban and the puppet sweeping through them… All of this had started with Shawn's Soul Roar, stunning all of the Undead.

The Draconic Staff's Draconic Incarnation returned to the staff, exhausted. Lin Yun was also pale, his body faintly shaking. Only the hands holding onto the Draconic Staff and the Book of Death were stable.

Shawn had been unresponsive for a long time after using that Soul Roar.

This sweep alleviated the pressure, and although there was still a steady flow the Undead rushing from the Death Gate, it wouldn't form waves like before for the time being.

Lin Yun glanced at the Book of Death in his left hand and knew that he could no longer hesitate.

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Regarding the Undead Eye, Lin Yun had gotten some understanding…

In the decaying library's books, he had once seen some information regarding the Undead Eyes, how they were formed and how they died out.

Places rich in death energy had a chance of birthing an Undead Eye, but the Undead Eyes were very weak during the birthing process. During the peak of the Magic Era, most Undead Eyes didn't have time to fully mature before being destroyed.

A mature and awakened Undead Eye could open a Death Gate connected to the Undead Plane, and from the moment they awakened, a steady flow of the Undead would go through the Death Gate until the power of the Undead Eye was eventually consumed and it withered away, closing the Death Gate leading to the Undead Plane.

But it was written that an awakened Undead Eye would almost never be destroyed midway. Every time an Undead Eye appeared, it would cause a huge Undead Calamity.

The Undead coming out of the Undead Plane would sweep through the land, killing every living creature. When an Undead Eye appeared, the best outcome would be at least five cities being wiped out. A few millennia ago, an Undead Eye awakened in a small kingdom, and as a result, this small kingdom collapsed under the flood of Undead invaders.

Every time an Undead Eye appeared, the only solution was to wait until it exhausted its power and died out naturally. But by then, the Undead that went through the Death Gate would have already become a disaster, causing the fall of many Archmages and Sword Saints.

And the only record of an Undead Eye being destroyed while awakened came from the Ivory Tower's Bane!

That matter had remained a secret for a very long time in the Ivory Tower, and only a few words were recorded about it in the decaying library.

It was written that at the time, for some unknown reason, an Undead Eye appeared in an area not far from the Ivory Tower, causing the tower to be surrounded by many of the Undead. At the time, people believed that the Ivory Tower would be greatly weakened by that Undead Calamity.

And at the time, Bane, the holder of the Book of Death, single-handedly killed his way to the Undead Eye's location. When he returned to the tower, the Undead Eye had been destroyed. Without the steady flow of the Undead coming out of the Death Gate, the ones that were already there weren't as much of a threat.

And the few words Lin Yun had seen were a secret the Ivory Tower had guarded for many years.

Bane relied on the Book of Death to destroy the Undead Eye. To be more exact, it was the Book of Death's Truth Chapter!

The Truth Chapter was the bane of evil and was like a predator to an extremely evil existence like the Undead Eye!

This was information written in Heaven Rank Bane's diary, but unfortunately, he didn't explain the process in detail. He only wrote that he had relied on the Truth Chapter to destroy the Undead Eye.

Lin Yun had been thinking about it ever since he saw the Undead Eye, but unfortunately, he didn't have a concrete plan, as he didn't know what to do. Moreover, Bane's Book of Death had been at its peak. It wasn't like Lin Yun's, which only fused with three Augments.

The difference between the two was like the difference between heaven and earth, and furthermore, Lin Yun had yet to use the power of the Truth Chapter. Although it had fused with the Book of Death, it had yet to perfectly merge with it!

Lin Yun also didn't have the power of a Heaven Rank like Bane. Even if the Truth Chapter had been fully integrated into the Book of Death, Lin Yun would avoid taking risks.

But it was the limit now. That level 38 Death Knight had yet to use its 3rd Runic Spell and the Undead were still rushing out of the Death Gate.

Lin Yun made up his mind and tried his best to get rid of more than half of the Undead just create an opening to use the Truth Chapter of the Book of Death!

But before Lin Yun could open the Book of Death, the Death Knight on the other side raised its sword once again and the 3rd rune finally appeared!

The last rune flickered on the sword, causing countless lights to appear on the floor near those beheaded Zombies, Liches, Bone Devils, and other shattered bodies.

It was like hands were gently recombining these bone fragments and corpses. One by one, recombined Bone Devils, Skeleton Warriors, and other creatures stood up. Moreover, there were a few Grim Reapers that were five to six meters tall holding scythes and draped with long cloaks, and similarly sized level 30 Skeleton Lords standing out from the dregs.

A rotten smell was emitted from the rotting zombies, and Necromancer Liches also came out from those piles of bones. And in the end, a few short level 30 Undead Shamans that started to buff the Undead in the surroundings also appeared.

With just a wave of its sword, twenty thousand of the Undead appeared out of nowhere!

And counting the fighting strength, it was definitely comparable to the power of thirty to forty thousand typical Undead, especially those Skeleton Lords commanding the skeleton-types. And the buff from the Undead Shamans buff was increasing the power of the Undead by a few times!

'Undead Resurrection… No, it's that damned top-notch Death Knight ability, Death Summon! It can raise corpses into more Undead, and also use them to revive previously fallen ones. And if there are enough corpses, it can even summon some of the Higher Undead!'

Shawn shrieked, and Enderfa's expression was also miserable.

"Merlin, what's this damned place? What monster did you provoke? Evil Halo, Death Summon, damn! What's that Death Knight!"

Lin Yun could only smile bitterly, thinking to himself that fortunately, Shawn hadn't seen the Death Knight's Death Redemption.

A Death Knight that had three such first-rate Death Knight abilities, and high proficiency in all of them. Besides saying that their luck was terrible, there really was no other explanation.

This kind of ability that could reverse the course of a battle, it was comparable to encountering a one-in-a-millennium kind of genius. Having three such abilities placed the power of this Death Knight at the top, and even the abnormal Lin Yun, with his era-transcending knowledge, couldn't comprehend that.

This unforeseen event not only shocked Lin Yun, but Xiuban also panted as he screamed, "Sir Merlin, save me! I really can't keep going! Your faithful servant Xiuban can't bear to leave you…"

Xiuban's golden-red skin couldn't stop his skin from paling. He had just burst with all his power, but he hadn't expected that before he could even be proud of the destruction he had caused, even more ruthless Undead would appear.

Reina was also stupefied and wasn't in the mood to pay attention to Xiuban's scream.

Lin Yun also didn't pay attention to Xiuban. He knew that he had thick skin. Before Reina fell, Xiuban wouldn't die.

Lin Yun watched the Death Knight in the distance and yelled at Shawn, "Work hard if you don't want to die here!"

Before Lin Yun even finished, Shawn had already made a move.

"Such a loss, a huge loss, one spirit mana crystal, such a huge loss!"

While nagging, Shawn opened his 3rd Eye with a pained expression. The crack in his forehead suddenly opened up and a black eye appeared. There seemed to be a vortex slowly rotating within that black eye, and a hint of evil aura suddenly spread out.

Lin Yun felt cold when faced with that evil aura and couldn't help but shiver.

The moment the Evil Eye opened, Shawn let out a loud shout. The cold and unfeeling eye emitted countless jet-black rays.

Each ray that fell into a group of Undeads would cause a ripple, and that ripple contained countless debuffing and weakening spells.

Slow, which slowed down movement speed, Weaken, which weakened the other side's power, Stiffness, which reduced their reaction speed, Corrosion, which harmed their defensive power…

Every ray contained almost all Low Tier Debuffing Spells, but they were more powerful than the average mage's spells, as they were cast by the Evil Eye.

Although they were Low Tier Debuffing Spells, it was practically a flood of spells, and it was enough to greatly weakened the power of the Undead despite the buffs they were receiving from the Shamans. Even the level 38 Death Knight couldn't help being affected.

Shawn especially sent five rays towards the Death Knight's body. Even if Shawn had just finished fusing with the Evil Eye, the Low Tier Debuffing Spells he cast were enough to affect the Death Knight.

Shawn wasn't lazy this time; this large-scale spell he released let Lin Yun relax somewhat.

He unhesitantly opened the Book of Death and flipped to the Truth Chapter's page, and the crystal pattern on the page appeared.

But something unforeseen happened, which startled Lin Yun. Before he could even make a move, the crystal loudly exploded and turned into countless crystal fragments.

Every crystal fragment converged in midair and turned into a crystal phoenix, and with a loud cry, it charged into the distant Undead Eye.

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Chapter 589: Decline

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The Undead Eye turned towards the Crystal Phoenix when it appeared, looking at it as at his mortal foe.

Even the support of the Death Gate and Undeads had been greatly weakened.

A large amount of death energy converged into a back fog and charged into the Undead Eye, forming pitch-black tentacles around its immediate surroundings, wrapping around it.

Then, under Lin Yun's shocked gaze, it flew up and charged at the Crystal Phoenix!

The countless pitch-black tentacles condensed out of death energy spasmed in the air, whipping towards the Crystal Phoenix.

As for the Crystal Phoenix, it let out a Phoenix Cry, basking the Undead Eye in sunlight.

The sunlight and the pitch-black tentacles collided and sizzling noises echoed continuously. The fierce fluctuations even affected the battle happening below, increasing the difficulty of casting.

It felt as if an Archmage cast the 8th Rank Spell, Thunderstorm, in between the two of them as lightning-like sounds kept echoing.

A one-meter thick lightning bolt fell down, striking an unlucky Undead Shaman on the head and disintegrating it, not leaving a bone fragment behind.

At that time, Lin Yun clearly understood that the Truth Chapter and the Undead Eye were natural enemies!

They were more than natural enemies, they were arch-nemesis!

They fought such a life and death battle on their own.

And the Truth Chapter had shown its true colors!

For so long, the Crystal Phoenix had turned into a crystal, and Lin Yun had no method to thoroughly fuse it with the Book of Death, he felt stuck, like a lion wanting to eat a tortoise.

Lin Yun was also clueless when he opened the Book of Death. His biggest worry was how to activate the true shape of the Truth Chapter, he hadn't expected such a scene to appear.

The Crystal Phoenix and the Undead Eye were wrestling it out in midair, and below, Lin Yun didn't remain idle. With the Draconic Staff in one hand and the Book of Death in the other, earth-shattering spell explosions kept showering the Death Knight.

Enderfa was also extremely angry, he turned into his three-faced incarnation and controlled the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel with a sinister expression, his spells washing over the Death Knight.

Shawn bared his fangs, the Evil Eye between his eyes darkening as it slowly closed. That burst of power Shawn had used had greatly weakened him.

Another Soul Roar echoed, and no longer able to maintain his three-meters tall wolf shape, he weakly remained on the ground and turned into a smoke as he flew inside the Soul Walker.

The Purple Dragon of his Draconic Staff and Shawn had used too much power. They had returned to their True Spirit Rank Magic Tools, but their results could be considered quite good. Shawn's final Soul Roar not only stunned the Death Knight, but also most of the Undeads.

The Crystal Phoenix and the Undead Eye were entangled, fighting desperately in the air. The support of the Undead Eye over the Death Knight and the sea of Undeads had decreased by more than half. Even the amount of Undeads rushing fort from the Death Gate had greatly decreased. The pressure on Lin Yun's group had been greatly alleviated.

Not to mention, the sea of Undeads had spread across the entire hold, and the fight between the Undead Eye and the Crystal Phoenix affected many locations, dealing with a lot of Undeads.

But Lin Yun wasn't relaxing yet, in fact, all his attention was focused on the Book of Death.

Lin Yun had no longer doubts about activating the Truth Chapter, but was now unsure if the Truth Chapter could triumph.

This was a great opportunity, with the complete activation of the Truth Chapter, it would completely merge with the Book of Death.

But if he failed and didn't eliminate the Undead Eye, he might end up losing a rare Augment, this was a loss even Lin Yun wouldn't be able to endure.

The might of the Book of Death would greatly plummet if the Truth Chapter was destroyed. By losing that Augment forever it could never end up complete, and its power would never reach its peak.

Although the Truth Chapter was activated, Lin Yun wasn't too optimistic…

The Truth Chapter and the Undead Eye were fighting to their last breath, once they crossed paths, they wouldn't give up until the other one was destroyed. This meant that the situation was worse than Lin Yun had thought, if the Truth Chapter lost, it would end up completely destroyed.

And the battle between the two wasn't something others could intervene in.

Lin Yun was rousing his Magic Array with red eyes, his originally terrifying amount of mana was being consumed at a shocking speed.

The Draconic Staff's Dragon Head was pointed at the Death Knight, and together with Enderfa, a large amount of fire spell flooded the Death Knight like a powerful current, suppressing the Death Knight and adding more and more wounds. Even with the Evil Halo greatly increasing the Death Knight's recovery speed, his state just kept worsening.

This kind of skill-less fighting style was most effective against the Death Knight. Half of the six minutes had already passed, if the Death Knight didn't fall before these six minutes run out, his Death Redemption would make him recover to his peak.

Lin Yun had to go all-out, if the Truth Chapter was defeated and their situation remained the same, they would be screwed. He could only get rid of the Death Knight so that he could still have a chance even if the Truth Chapter was defeated.

As time passed, the Death Knight's mount was at its last breath. It lost all its power, severely reducing the Death Knight's fighting strength, and greatly reducing the frequency of his attacks.

But Lin Yun's expression was getting worse, the consumption of that flood of spells was so huge that even Lin Yun could hardly manage.

And what was worse was that the Crystal Phoenix was slowly forced into retreat in the duel abovel.

The holy light-like rays of sunlight were falling back little by little while the Undead Eye had no need to worry about consumption due to the rich death energy filling the place.

The countless black tentacles whipped over like fearless Undeads. The Crystal Phoenix's sunlight could purify a dozen tentacles with a flash, but the Undead Eye could condense even more tentacles at the same time.

It was to the point that the Undead Eye had already condensed five three to four meters thick huge tentacles. Those tentacles had wretched white bone barbs growing all over and those bony outgrowths were turning black at a visible speed. Anyone seeing this metallic luster would know how powerful these bony appendices were.

Then, those bony outgrowths suddenly shot out, turning into Bone Spears aiming at the Crystal Phoenix.

The Crystal Phoenix did its best to counterattack, but it could only keep retreating due to the Undead Eye's pressure. The battle was becoming more and more unfavorable to the Crystal Phoenix. If this continued, the Crystal Phoenix would soon be killed.

Lin Yun clenched his teeth and called the puppet over, making it give up on cleaning those waves of Undeads to help siege the Death Knight. This greatly increased the pressure on Reina and Xiuban.

The wounded thick-skinned Xiuban made Lin Yun speechless as he kept screaming miserably, his face greatly paling, "Sir Merlin, don't be like this, Xiuban truly can't keep up with this, help me, ah, Xiuban is never going to be lazy in the future…"

Xiuban's eyes were filled with fear, he just kept killing Undead after Undead. The originally easy to manipulate Carnage had now became heavy in his hands. As for Reina, she looked exhausted, but didn't say anything. She only glanced at Lin Yun before wordlessly going back to battle.

With the puppet joining in, Lin Yun managed to spare some leeway to urge the Book of Death to release some energy to support the Crystal Phoenix.

But the Crystal Phoenix hadn't thoroughly fused with the Book of Death, moreover it was now separated from the Book of Death and the support connection between them didn't have too much of an effect, it could only alleviate the decline a bit.

Lin Yun was unwilling to give up, he looked at this scene and realized that alone, the Crystal Phoenix definitely couldn't match the Undead Eye, but since it hadn't fused with the Book of Death, it couldn't borrow much power from it…

By constantly wasting mana to have the Book of Death support the Crystal Phoenix, it would make the Crystal Phoenix notice the effect of the power supply and it might nudge the Crystal Phoenix into thoroughly merging with the Book of Death against an enemy it couldn't handle.

Only by fusing would the Crystal Phoenix have a shot at victory. Lin Yun only hoped the Crystal Phoenix wouldn't prefer to fight to death and be unwilling to merge with the Book of Death till the end.

As long as it had some spirituality, it would seek luck and avoid calamities and hope to survive.

The Crystal Phoenix definitely had spirituality, otherwise it wouldn't have stayed behind his defences, unwilling to thoroughly fuse with the Book of Death for so long.

Time passed, and the six minutes were soon approaching. Lin Yun had used a huge amount of mana but hadn't managed to get rid of the Death Knight, and after the latter waved his sword, Death Redemption appeared once again, and the half dead Death Knight regained his spirit.

The Crystal Phoenix was soon chased into a corner, runes flickering on the five thick tentacles with dark bony outgrowths continuously drilling.

With the runes' appearance, the power of these bony outgrowths became comparable to Ultimate Bone Spears.

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Chapter 590: Who Said I Can't Kill You?

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Lin Yun desperately pushed his Magic Array to its limits, extracting the mana from a spirit mana crystal while putting a huge amount of power in the Book of Death to help the Crystal Phoenix as much as possible.

A few seconds later, the Crystal Phoenix's left wing was pierced by a dark bony outgrowth and a sinister power collided with the Crystal Phoenix, a large patch of death energy frantically moved in and around the wound, making the Crystal Phoenix scream repeatedly.

And with the appearance of a fatal flaw in defense, those bony outgrowths and those several hundred crazily twitching tentacles only needed a few seconds to twist around the Crystal Phoenix.

The Crystal Phoenix let out a sad lament as it turned into a flowing light, flying towards Lin Yun.

Lin Yun hurriedly opened the Book of Death while recalling Reina and Xiuban over, gathering everyone in the small space. Xiuban was guarding them while they were crazily casting spells to block the chasing Undead Eye.

Without the large amount of spells suppressing him, the Death Knight quickly charged over.

It looked as if the Crystal Phoenix wouldn't enter the Book of Death quickly enough, the Death Knight would arrive first!

Xiuban was thoroughly despairing, "Sir Merlin, Xiuban is truly dead this time…"

Despair reached even Reina, "Finished, I shall not see the day my father resurrects…"

Just as everyone was giving up, Lin Yun clenched his teeth and did something unexpected. A pair of flaming wings appeared on his back as he flew towards the flowing light.

Both Xiuban and Reina were stupefied.

On this battlefield, using a flying technique was no different from becoming an easy target!

The Undead Eye was chasing behind the Crystal Phoenix, his tentacles covering the sky… Against that kind of attack, it would be a miracle if Lin Yun's defensive spells could last three seconds! And that was without mentioning the level 38 Death Knight!

But Lin Yun's death courting action ushered their greatest hopes. With Lin Yun flying towards the Crystal Phoenix, it would reduce the time before the Crystal Phoenix fused with the Book of Death by half!

Two seconds. Lin Yun who flew up held the Book of Death in front of him, and the Crystal Phoenix, who had turned into a ray of light, flew inside it.

On an originally blank page appeared a new pattern. The original crystal pattern had disappeared and had been replaced by a vivid Crystal Phoenix spreading its wings.

The Truth Chapter had thoroughly fused with the Book of Death!

Lin Yun didn't have time to relax, he was still sweating profusely. Had he not been quick witted, he might have truly been done for.

Now that they were fused, the Truth Chapter could use the unrestrained power of the Book of Death, and using the Book of Death to display the power of the Truth Chapter was completely different from the Truth Chapter fighting on its own.

Lin Yun floated in the air, several hundred thick tentacles rushing over, alongside three to four hundred dark bony outgrowths flickering with runes. It was like a heavy rain. Under them, the Death Knight slashed a few times, sending a dozen four to five meters long Death Aura Slashes towards Lin Yun.

These attacks were more than thirty meters away from Lin Yun but the pressure they emitted still made it difficult for Lin Yun to breath.

But, Lin Yun's pale face displayed its first smile since the start of this battle.

"See ya."

As he said this, the Book of Death suddenly burst out with an intense light. The glaring sunshine forced everyone to close their eyes.

The sunlight released now was ten times stronger than what the Crystal Phoenix had been able to release on its own earlier!

The radiance turned into a huge glaring sphere centered around Lin Yun, and expanding at a terrifying speed.

When those dark bony outgrowth touched the sunlight, they were instantly turned into dust before dissipating as smoke.

Those over a hundred large tentacles also turned into still death energy and the strong aura of death was instantly purified.

The dozen Death Aura Slashes looked like four to five meters long crescent black moons, but they also ended up being purified when they encountered that sunlight.

That cold and unfeeling Undead Eye finally displayed fear as it recklessly fled. But how could it compare to the speed of sunlight…

The Purifying Sunlight released by the Truth Chapter, once fused with and empowered by the Book of Death, was the bane of all evil!

In just three seconds, the glaring light covered the Undead Eye and vast amount of death energy dissipated, cleased just like that.

As for the Undeads on the floor, they were also affected by the Purifying Sunlight, they didn't even have time to let out a sound before being purged.

The Death Knight also let out a miserable shriek as he tumbled, twitching on the ground as the black fog was purified.

The glaring sunlight converged, and like a substance, returned to the Book of Death.

No Undead Eye could be seen when the sunlight withdrew, that Death Gate also disappeared like a bubble being popped.

A large amount of Undeads was purified, but the Death Knight was only seriously injured, he hadn't been finished.

Lin Yun looked at the Book of Death, the Crystal Phoenix could be seen on the page, holding a pitch-black eyeball in its claw.

It was the Undead Eye. Lin Yun hadn't expected this change, but then, he saw a trace of radiance coming from the Crystal Phoenix.

Lin Yun unhesitantly closed the Book of Death, and the latter strongly shook, as if something was trying to struggle free.

Lin Yun let out a mischievous laughter in a good mood.

"Haha, you want to back out on the fusion?"

The Book of Death was closed and the Truth Chapter had already completely fused. Even if it had amazing abilities, that phoenix still would have to give up on that idea.

But the Undead Eye wasn't actually destroyed, it was instead grabbed by the Crystal Phoenix. This was a bit out of his expectations, but it wouldn't have much of an influence.

One shouldn't throw away free food.

Lin Yun fell from the sky and gave an order to the puppet, letting it take care of the remaining Undeads while Lin Yun himself approached the seriously injured Death Knight.

The Death Knight was in a very miserable state, the four legs of his mount had been crushed by Xiuban, yet its soul fires were still burning.

As for the Death Knight himself, he was bathing in Hellfire from head to toe, continuously emitting black smoke while being covered in traces of sunburns.

After all, the Purifying Light of the Truth Chapter was still a bit stronger than the Holy Light.

It was the bane of everything vile, yet the Death Knight had managed to survive after being hit in close range; Lin Yun was a bit surprised at first.

After all, the Truth Chapter had burst out when meeting its arch-enemy, the Undead Eye, but now, even if Lin Yun wanted to, he wouldn't be able to display such power.

"Stupid Human! Even if you destroyed the Undead Eye, you can't kill me! I am unkillable in here!"

The Death Knight couldn't avoid his mount's fate. His sword had already left his hands, and his lambs had been crushed by Xiuban.

He had yet to finish his cold words when the enraged Xiuban brandished his Carnage and smashed it onto his limbs.

"Stupid Undead! Are you looking down on Lord Xiuban?"

Xiuban had been scared for so long and his golden red skin was still somewhat pale, how could he be polite now that the situation had been solved?

The heavy Carnage smashed onto the Death Knight's body, causing fierce gales to spread around. Lin Yun didn't know whether to laugh or cry and used a Magic Shield to block that shockwave.

"Xiuban, stop, he is right, no one can kill him here."

Hearing Lin Yun's words, Xiuban immediately put Carnage away, he was more afraid of facing Lin Yun than the sea of Undeads. Just now, Lin Yun looked like a God and purified a large amount of Undeads, even getting rid of the Undead Eye.

With the Draconic Beastman's intelligence, he couldn't understand concepts like Truth Chapter, he only knew that Lin Yun burst with power far stronger than the Death Knight in front of them.

"Sir Merlin, you are always right, but isn't there a way for Sir Merlin to get rid of this damned Undead?" Xiuban flattered and asked, unwilling to let it go.

Lin Yun looked at the paralyzed Death Knight and said with a smile, "He is right, he is different from ordinary Undeads. Even I can't kill him on the Intrepid, but someone else can."

The Death Knight couldn't budge, but he still remained unyielding, not worried at all that he might die. But because the Undead Eye was "destroyed", he had lost the ability to live, even though he couldn't be killed.

"Stupid Human, I absolutely can't be killed on the Intrepid. Once I recovered my power, your soul will fall to oblivion for all eternity!"

Lin Yun didn't explain to the confident Death Knight, he instead took out the Book of Death and a light flashed from it, before Lagulin and Barton appeared.

Lin Yun then nodded at the Death Knight with a smile, "Indeed, I can't kill you on the Intrepid, but the result would be different if it's not a human…"

After Lagulin and Barton appeared, that level 38 Death Knight could no longer remain calm.

"Impossible! How could you summon Higher Undeads!"

Lin Yun didn't feel like saying anything superfluous, he just gave the command and the restless Undead Horseman and Lich rushed over like hungry wolves

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Chapter 591: Devour

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Lagulin's mount was the first to act. It bit down the skull of the skeletal horse on the ground and devoured its soul fires.

This was an ability that every Undead possessed, Undead Devouring.

The world of the Undead was originally that ruthless; there was a simple rule of the devourer and the devoured…

But most of the time, it was Higher Undead devouring Lesser Undead.

Just like in Lin Yun's Bone Plane, where the Bone Devil could casually eat any Skeleton Warrior on the Black Wasteland to recover its health, but the Skeleton Warriors could only dream of devouring the Bone Devil…

It was the same on the rumored Undead Plane, just crueler and simpler.

Ranks were strict in the Undead Plane and a Lesser Undead devouring a Higher Undead was almost impossible. Even without the gap in power, just the pressure of levels was enough to make Lesser Undead shiver when faced with Higher Undead. Let alone soul fire devouring, just moving a finger would be very challenging.

But, the Summons of the Book of Death, Barton and Lagulin, were clearly exempt from this.

Because they had been summoned from the Book of Death, they completely listened to Lin Yun's command without even considering the matter of level difference. Even when faced with an Orachiss, they would dare to charge at it. It was needless to say that they would do the same against a Death Knight struggling at its deathbed.

Thus, a strange scene unfolded…

The two lower-level Undead Summons actually gorged themselves on a higher-level Undead, gleefully devouring its soul fire. If it weren't for the fact that the Undead were lacking when it came to emotions, these two might have expressed great joy.

As it shouted miserably, the Death Knight's soul fire turned into two faint blue flames and flowed out of its facial cavities to Lagulin and Barton.

In just a dozen seconds, the Death Knight's shouts became lower and lower before finally dying out.

Its soul fire and been devoured by Barton and Lagulin.

After devouring the soul fire of a level 38 Death Knight, the death energy covering these two starting bubbling, and their aura became more and more powerful.

It looked like these two would advance after digesting the soul fire they had consumed.

The level 36 Lagulin would advance to level 37, and if Barton, who was level 37, couldn't advance, the Lich would at least reach the peak of level 37.

After all, starting from level 35, each advancement would require a lot more effort. For Archmages, the 5th Rank was a huge watershed.

The increase in power that each rank or level brought was huge. It was also the reason that Lin Yun hadn't summoned Lagulin or Barton in the battle.

Although it looked like they weren't far off from the level 38 Death Knight, the difference in power would greatly pressure them.

In battle, they would have been chopped into pieces by the Death Knight, wasting their mana for nothing.

Moreover, Lin Yun had no mana to waste in this battle.

Lin Yun cheerfully looked at Lagulin and Barton. The difference between levels 36 and 37 was huge. Once Lagulin leveled up, his power would definitely skyrocket.

Especially since that level 38 Death Knight was very special. Its power was a lot higher than that of an ordinary Undead Horseman. And as another Undead Horseman, Lagulin might awaken a Death Knight Runic Ability by absorbing the soul fire, and that would definitely be a huge profit.

Lin Yun cheerfully put away the two Higher Undead. He felt that the Truth Chapter wasn't behaving itself, so he didn't flip to its page. As long as he didn't open it, it would be unable to escape. Moreover, he had plenty of methods to make the Truth Chapter behave.

Once the battle was over, Reina didn't even care about her appearance as she sat on the ground to rest. Xiuban was sprawled on his back like a dead fish, not moving at all. Eventually, the sounds of his snores echoed throughout the hold, making Lin Yun not know whether to laugh or cry.

If that puppet hadn't been made with the Heaven Puppet as its foundation and a Hydra Heart that had been reinforced by God Blood, it would have fallen apart after fighting for such a long time.

Lin Yun was rather pale. He had used too much energy during the battle and had absorbed more than half of the mana of a spirit mana crystal.

Shawn hadn't answered for a long time. It was a rare occurrence for him not to come and demand his rewarded mana crystal. The Draconic Staff's Incarnation also didn't react. The consumption indeed hadn't been small.

Enderfa had yet to return to his Magic Tool, and his three faces looked exhausted. Fortunately, the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel had only used Low Tier Fire Spells, and the Spell Wheel had a huge Elemental Amber. Otherwise, Enderfa would have also needed to return within to slumber.

As the Death Knight died, Enderfa's three faces watched the one-handed sword with attention.

"Merlin, that sword is something good, let me study it."

Lin Yun threw a despising glance at Enderfa. If the Death Knight has used only one top-notch Runic Spell, Lin Yun would have felt that the Death Knight had been lucky. Had it used two, Lin Yun would have thought that it had great talents… But it used three, and every one of them had been inscribed in the one-handed sword! Only a fool wouldn't understand that there was something up with this sword!

Especially since Enderfa was going as far as asking for it shamelessly, if Lin Yun didn't understand, he would be a huge fool.

Shawn was greedy for mana crystals, but that was in order to recover to his peak and then progress even further.

Enderfa was usually silent, and whenever he said something, it was bound to be that he had seen something good. Everything he wanted could greatly increase his power. Thus, Lin Yun unhesitantly snatched the sword when Enderfa brought it up.

Enderfa awkwardly chuckled. At this time, the helmet of that level 38 Death Knight fell down.

Behind the helmet was an ashen face with sharp facial features that looked quite brave, but there was no sign of life in the facial cavities.

Seeing that he couldn't trick Lin Yun, Enderfa couldn't help cursing. After glancing over, he suddenly said with alarm, "No wonder I felt he looked familiar, it turned out to be him!"

Lin Yun was a bit surprised.

"Did you know him when he was alive?"

Enderfa shook his head.

"I only recognized him. Moreover, he had already been a Death Knight for a long time when he was famous."

Lin Yun was puzzled.

"I think aren't many famous Death Knights apart from the first generation…?"

This was a fact. There were actually many famous Death Knights during the Planar Colonization Era, but they were all in the Undead Plane and Lin Yun didn't think that anyone in this era had knowledge of the Death Knights of the Undead Plane.

Enderfa transformed into a hand supporting the middle-aged head's chin as he conscientiously explained.

"This guy is considered a 1st generation Death Knight!"

Lin Yun was startled.

"This… This guy is someone from the Ascian Dynasty?"

'Heavens, that level 38 Death Knight was actually someone from the God Era, no wonder he was so tyrannical! His power was far stronger than that of an average level 39 Death Knight…'

Enderfa then casually said, "This guy was named Dean Winchester and was the disciple of Noscent's first Death Knight…"

In the ancient Ascian Dynasty, during the time where the seventy-two Gods ruled the world, there was a human with a rather important position among the Lord of Death's subordinates, called Lenn Mograine. It was very rare in the Ascian Era filled with powerhouses. Moreover, Mograine only had the power of a 1st Rank Archmage, which made the situation seem even more curious.

Although Mograine wasn't particularly powerful, his talent was something that the Lord of Death valued highly. At that time, Gods frequently fought one another, and Mograine's wisdom brought many victories to the Lord of Death. He was the greatest contributor to the Lord of Death's number of victories.

Unfortunately, Mograine was only a 1st Rank Archmage in the end. He had great wisdom, but he still ended up dying.

Not only did the clashes between Gods continue, but they actually increased in intensity. The Lord of Death was unwilling to let Mograine sink into eternal rest and ended up reviving Mograine as the vice commander of his God Nation.

But there had been an issue with the resurrection that the Lord of Death hadn't been able to anticipate. After coming back to life, Mograine lost his memories, even losing the wisdom that had made the Lord of Death value him so much, giving birth to a new soul instead.

In such a way, his memory was erased and he became one of the living dead.

The Lord of Death was very disappointed, but he was unwilling to lose such a capable general, so he kept transforming Mograine until Noscent's first Death Knight was born.

Having lost his original intelligence, he became an undying Undead. But Mograine's fighting power had greatly increased, and he beheaded quite a few Heaven Rank lifeforms.

Death Knight Mograine looked for people who had similar experiences during his later years.

After reviving, they became the Undead and also lost their memories.

Mograine took these people as his disciples and taught them the way of the Death Knights. These people were Noscent's 1st generation of Death Knights.

Winchester was one of Mograine's numerous disciples…

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Chapter 592: Soul Absorbing Tree

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Enderfa knew that the things Lin Yun took for himself would never be taken back out, which was why he was willing to just bluntly explain what he knew.

And even if Enderfa didn't say it, Lin Yun would know that the sword was a good thing.

"Say… In the end, what is this sword?"

Enderfa started talking with an expression full of regret. "This is Mograine's Heaven's Wrath Blade. If not for this sword, how could Winchester could have fled? I reckon that after getting rid of Mograine, there was some internal strife because of that sword. Winchester received serious damage and his level dropped. But he managed to obtain the sword and flee to the Red Beard Pirates."

Lin Yun nodded. It truly looked like this was what happened.

"Sure enough, it was like that. How could there be such a heaven-defying Death Knight apart from Mograine? This sword is truly Mograine's Heaven's Wrath Blade, but how come it's so different from the legends?"

Enderfa glanced at Lin Yun as if he was looking down on him.

"So there are times when you are foolish too? This Heaven's Wrath Blade had nine runes at its peak, each of which could cast a peak Runic Spell. Now, only three runes remain. It is natural for it to be very different."

Lin Yun awkwardly chuckled. He had spoken reflexively without thinking about it. The current Heaven's Wrath Blade was at best a first-rate Spiritual Magic Tool, at its peak, the Heaven's Wrath Blade was a famous Peak True Spirit Magic Tool.

Enderfa's unpleasant attitude was due to him failing to get the Heaven's Wrath Blade for himself.

It was very difficult to upgrade a True Spirit Magic Tool, especially the Incarnation, which was linked to the upgrade and strengthening of the Magic Tool itself. In the past, an Incarnation like Shawn had fused with the Evil Eye, and with the power up of the Incarnation, the True Spirit Magic Tool had been upgraded, but such a case was extremely rare.

Things that a Magic Tool Incarnation could directly devour in order to strengthen itself were very rare, and the three runes of the Heaven's Wrath Blade were such things.

If he devoured all three of these runes, not only would Enderfa's strength sharply increase until it reached a terrifying stage, but the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel might also rank up.

However, Enderfa wasn't Shawn, and he also wasn't the young Purple Dragon. Lin Yun definitely wouldn't let Enderfa's power overshoot the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel, and it would also be a waste of the three Runic Spells.

Enderfa had given up on the three runes, but he suddenly cunningly chuckled at Lin Yun.

"You remember that Black Death Rune you borrowed before?"

Lin Yun was surprised as his eyes opened wide.

"You are saying… That Black Death Rune is…"

Enderfa proudly laughed. "Indeed, that Black Death Rune is actually one of the runes of the Heaven's Wrath Blade. If you can snatch it and fuse it with the Heaven's Wrath Blade once again, the sword might advance to the True Spirit Magic Tool realm. If you can find all of the six missing runes, the might of the Heaven's Wrath Blade will truly reach the heavens, becoming the strongest True Spirit Magic Tool. If you are lucky and find another suitable rune to integrate into it, the Heaven's Wrath Blade might become an Extraordinary Magic Tool!"

Lin Yun rolled his eyes at Enderfa's obvious instigations and didn't bother with him.

Back then, he had received the Black Death Rune out of pure luck. He had helped the Cloud Tower's Jouyi solve a problem that had perplexed him for a long time, and even then, he could only borrow the Black Death Rune for three months.

Every True Spirit Magic Tool was the foundation of a major power, especially Magic Tool Incarnations. They were of the utmost importance, and nobody could afford to just directly give them up.

If he wanted to reintegrate the Black Death Rune into the Heaven's Wrath Blade, he would have no choice but to fight his way through the Cloud Tower's powerhouses.

Lin Yun casually gave the Heaven's Wrath Blade to Reina.

"We can also use it."

The Heaven's Wrath Blade would have felt as light as a feather in Xiuban's hands, and Lin Yun was a mage… Only Reina could use it properly. Moreover, they could the effects of the Evil Halo to a slight degree.

They had no use for Death Redemption, while Death Summon also needed a large number of corpses, or at least the remains of the Undead. But the movement speed and attack speed increase of the Evil Halo was very useful, even though it was incomparably stronger in the hands of a Death Knight.

While everyone rested, the remnants of the Undead were cleaned up by the puppet. When the last Undead collapsed, a door appeared on one of the walls of the sealed hold.

Lin Yun kicked awake the sleeping Draconic Beastman and gave a reminder. "Everyone, be careful. There are too many strange things on the Intrepid."

They crossed through the doorway and appeared in another hold.

That hold was huge. They didn't know why Red Beard had expanded it, or if it had been because of the God's remains, but every hold seemed to be the size of a city, and this hold was even bigger.

Compared to the holds they had been through before, this one was smooth, like the surface of a mirror. With a glance, they could see that nothing was there. It was absolutely empty, and the silence was stressful.

After entering the hold, even the Draconic Beastman with the worst nerves remained obedient, not doing anything without permission.

In this smooth hold, the most noticeable part was the floor, which was different from the other places.

The floor was crafted with blue planks that had some unending runes carved on them. Each plank's pattern was perfectly lined up with the pattern on the next plank, making it look as if the entire hold was made of the same piece of wood.

Lin Yun crouched to look at the floor, and after a while, he shared his findings, "This is made out of Soul Absorbing Trees?"

Enderfa came out of the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel and nodded after a glance, "That's right, it's made of Soul Absorbing Trees, and so much of it!"

It wasn't that Lin Yun lacked confidence in his judgement, but he was in disbelief about how much there was. Hearing Enderfa agreeing with him, Lin Yun held his breath and checked the hold. It was at least ten kilometers wide, just like a small Secondary Plane, and it was completely made out of Soul Absorbing Trees.

Enderfa also smacked his lips. After flying for a bit, he shook his head and said, "There haven't been many Soul Absorbing Trees since the Ascian Dynasty. In fact, even in the Ascian Dynasty, besides the Gods, not many people could use Soul Absorbing Trees for a floor.

Soul Absorbing Trees were a species specific to the Ascian Era. They grew on messy graveyards, on battlefields littered with the dead, or other such places. They used ghosts, specters, spirits, and other evil souls as sustenance.

The Soul Absorbing Trees not only required harsh environments, but they also grew extremely slowly. In the Ascian Era, where everything was larger, even if it had sufficient nutrients, a Soul Absorbing Tree would need at least a decade to grow.

In the Ascian Dynasty, deaths were very common. There were countless mass graves and messy graves, and plenty of people were buried together, spawning many, Ghosts, Evil Souls, and other such Undead beings. Thus, the Soul Absorbing Trees were also in abundance.

But because of the location and growth requirements for Soul Absorbing Trees being so harsh, it was rare for any of them to grow enough to be used as wood.

At the end of the Ascian Era, great changes spread across Noscent, making it so that the environment was no longer conducive to the growth of Soul Absorbing Trees, and they eventually became extinct.

Eventually, during the Nesser Dynasty, the stored wood from Soul Absorbing Trees became a valued treasure, especially to Pure-Blood Elves. Their living quarters all used wood from Soul Absorbing Trees, even after they became extinct.

The Soul Absorbing Tree had the ability to resist attacks from the Undead. If an Undead or another Ghost approached a house built from Soul Absorbing Trees, they would end up being devoured by the wood planks. Some of the more powerful existences would still take the initiative to avoid any area with Soul Absorbing Trees, and the ordinary ones would also take a detour.

Nowadays, the Soul Absorbing Trees still in circulation came from the Pure-Blood Elves of the Nesser Dynasty.

In the Nesser Dynasty, only the Elves had wood from the extinct Soul Absorbing Tree!

Lin Yun was startled by all of this. Red Beard was truly crazy! He used so much of this precious wood for the sake of the floor!

Lin Yun shook his head and continued onwards. He didn't walk long before he noticed some alchemy runes on the floor.

The continuous link of alchemy runes covered the entire floor. Lin Yun casually cast a few Mage Eyes and sent them flying in other directions.

"These runes are truly ancient," Lin Yun sighed as the information from the Mage Eyes were relayed. He actually recognized a few of these runes. However, he couldn't understand the meaning of most of them, and he could understand the array formed by these runes even less.

Enderfa sighed as he hovered in the air.

"These runes date from the Ascian Dynasty, even during that period, there were very few alchemists that used these kinds of runes."

Lin Yun nodded. He couldn't crack the array because of the runes from the Ascian Dynasty, so he could only study them.

After walking for a while, Lin Yun suddenly stopped and released a few Mage Eyes once again, sending them out to explore.

After a short moment, shock and understanding appeared on his face.

"Heavens, there are a few separate arrays here! And they are all True Spirit Arrays!"

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Chapter 593: Baubin

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He originally thought that this was a single huge array, with the Soul Absorbing Tree spread everywhere, the arrays that could be carved wouldn't be extraordinarily powerful, but they would be focused towards Undeads. That could be seen from the fact that they have been walking in for so long without anything happening.

But it turned out that there were actually twelve arrays, and all of them were at the True Spirit Rank, this was a huge difference!

If these twelve arrays formed a huge formation, then its power would be beyond the True Spirit Rank, and there were many types of arrays that could fit in!

Hearing Lin Yun's surprised shout, Enderfa's three faces simultaneously displayed an alarmed expression, he knew how big of a difference that was…

Twelve True Spirit Arrays!

Enderfa shivered.

"Merlin, can you figure out what's going on with these arrays?"

In this cursed Intrepid, anything could happen, who knows when would this seemingly peaceful array suddenly burst out. If these arrays lash out in the sealed hold, their group would be no different from rats being locked into a smelting furnace.

Lin Yun remained silent and took out a stack of paper and a quill before starting calculations.

Many formulas and information appeared on the pieces of paper. Reina only threw a glance and felt dizzy, Enderfa even got a headache, only Xiuban didn't seem to care. To him, Apprentice Alchemists' scribbles were no different from Artisans' formulas, they were just unreadable notes.

Xiuban was so frightened at this moment that he was on guard, ready to fight anytime.

A dozen Mage Eyes were cast by Lin Yun to study every detail of the arrays. In no time, a thick stack of paper, at least a dozen centimeters tall, was piled on the floor.

The runes used in these arrays were ancient runes from the Ascian Dynasty, and although they couldn't compare to Divine Characters, they were far more mysterious than the current era's runes. Lin Yun first had to translate every rune to understand the effect of this array.

After a bit over half an hour, Lin Yun suddenly stopped and massaged his aching wrist, his frown relaxing.

"Alright, I made the calculations, it looks like we are a bit fortunate. Although these are True Spirit Arrays, they pose no real danger."

Enderfa's three faces sighed in relief along with the nervous Reina. As for Xiuban, he had an expression of joy as he put down his Carnage.

"These arrays were definitely set up by a first-rate Artisan, each rune had reached its limit and the arrays had been refined to an outrageous degree."

"They all act in concert with the Soul Absorbing Tree's innate runes and have two effects; suppression and seal."

Hearing this, Enderfa instantly floated in front of Lin Yun, sounding a bit nervous.

"Seal? Suppression? Is there something wrong with the formation?"

Reina and Xiuban couldn't understand the meaning behind this sentence, only Enderfa understood due to his experience. The twelve True Spirit Arrays were fused with a huge amount of Soul Absorbing Tree, this was something that could suppress a level 39 existence. Especially since the entire hold was made of Soul Absorbing Tree, enabling the twelve arrays to create a huge formation array.

If something was wrong, then they would suffer the consequences.

Lin Yun shook his head and said with a serious expression, "There is no problem with these arrays, rest assured. If I'm not wrong, this should be the Intrepid's jail."

Enderfa looked at the spacious hold where not even a rat could be seen and took a while to understand.

"Everyone, look around and see if there is some kind of mechanism."

Soon after, Xiuban's loud voice could be heard.

"Sir Merlin, I found something! Come check it out, is it that?"

Xiuban stood near the wall, proudly pointing at an obvious dark spot on the wall. But Xiuban had learnt from experience and knew that he shouldn't touch anything casually in this place, unless he wanted to run into trouble.

Lin Yun stood four to five meters away and cast a probing spell at a crevice in between planks. He then confirmed that it was fine and that there was only a power switch-like handle inside. He then pointed at Xiuban.

"Xiuban, go and activate that mechanism."

Xiuban's face turned white, he shivered and sullenly said, "Sir Merlin, Xiuban is your most faithful servant, don't be like this, Xiuban doesn't want to die…"

The Draconic Beastman pounced onto Lin Yun and grabbed his thighs while weeping, terrified. This time, no matter how lazy and simple Xiuban was, he could clearly understand that there was no plan behind this and that it was no different from putting his head inside an Ogre's mouth.

He was too regretful, why didn't he just feign not having seen anything, instead, he wanted to take credit and now was about to end up suffering instead. He looked at that strange spot and wondered what malicious mechanism was inside, and there was also the arrays he couldn't understand, he was screwed…

Xiuban was truly terrified, it would be fine if he had to deal with Undeads, he had his trusted Carnage after all. But he couldn't deal with what he didn't understand…

Lin Yun looked at the crying Xiuban and burst into a fit of laughter. As he got stronger and stronger, Xiuban's behavior was worsening. Lin Yun hadn't expected him to be scared like that when asked to activate a simple mechanism.

"Xiuban, Syudos isn't in a good mood recently, I don't want to have to summon him to chat with you."

Syudos had been thrown in the Bone Plane by Lin Yun to clean the large amount of Undeads remaining there. As an Upper Rank Flame Spirit, this wasn't hard work, but it was very exhausting.

After coming to the Intrepid, let alone the Bone Plane, Lin Yun couldn't even connect to the Demiplane and had thus no way to summon Syudos.

Xiuban visibly shivered when he heard that name and instantly rose up, he had the expression of someone willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good as he put away the plank in front of the mechanism before grabbing it with his eyes closed.

Then, after waiting for a long time, the Draconic Beastman opened his eyes with relief as nothing wrong happened.

Enderfa looked at him with disdain, thinking that with that Beastman's intelligence, no matter how powerful he became, he would never be able to escape Lin Yun's grasp.

Following Xiuban's actions, a True Spirit Array started radiating light. Those patterns and runes released shocking mana fluctuations.

Then, it looked as if that blue floor was made of flowing water and in a few seconds, the range covered by an array turned golden.

A ripple appeared before their eyes, and they silently looked on as an over thirty meters long metal cage appeared from that golden light.

Looking at this cage, everyone was on alert, especially Lin Yun.

If they couldn't find a way off this ship, Lin Yun wouldn't move those things.

The cage slowly rose, as if it was floating out of the golden water. The bars of that dark golden water cage were over a meter thick and were covered in countless runes which sealing effect.

As the cage fully emerged, the golden light covering the floor dissipated, a ten meter tall and over thirty meters wide cage was now standing in front of the group.

And inside that cage was an eighteen to nineteen meters long humongous creature, laying on its stomach. The giant creature was shaped like a whale, but it had four short limbs similar to Dragon Claws. Its deep blue skin was covered with natural runic imprints.

Seeing this creature, Lin Yun's hair stood on its end, Xiuban's legs were shivering incessantly, Reina was pale white.

"Eh, sh*t! How could there be such a thing!"

Enderfa's eyes opened wide as he retreated towards the wall, shrieking as if he had seen something terrifying.

The group looked like they were about to confront a formidable enemy, everyone got ready to battle. But after a while, they discovered that the giant creature wasn't moving.

"What's going on?"

Lin Yun found out that something was wrong, although the seal was powerful, there was still two to three meters of space between the pillars, even if the creature's power was suppressed, it should have the strength to release power towards the outside.

That giant creature's back was facing everyone, and Lin Yun didn't believe that it couldn't sense the mana fluctuations behind itself.

"Let's go take a look."

Lin Yun led the few to the other side of the cage, where they were met with a huge maw covered in sharp teeth,and completely black eyes looking rigidly forward. On its forehead was a human-skull sized mana crystal.

Enderfa took it all in and mumbled to himself, "Dead?"

Lin Yun also relaxed and quickly cast a Life Detection Spell resulting in death.

"That big guy already died, have you seen the mana crystal on top? That's its mana crystal, and also its 3rd eye."

"This beast was known as Baubin, it was an overlord-like sea beast. It was comparable to the Orachiss we met earlier, only a step away from the Heaven Rank and was called the Reaper of the Seas. Moreover, as long as it was in the seas, the Orachiss would be killed by the Baubin. And once the mana crystal completely turned into a third eye, it would advance to the Heaven Rank."

"The mana crystal of a living Baubin would keep flickering with light, at the seafloor, that light would lure its prey."

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Chapter 594: Ignorance is Bliss

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Everyone looked, and sure enough, although it looked like the Baubin's mana crystal had turned into a third eye, it hadn't completely transformed, and that mana crystal wasn't emitting light, there was no luster at all.

After being sure that the Baubin was dead, everyone relaxed. The possibility was too scary. It was stronger than the Orachiss to a certain degree. If it was still alive, then even if it had been sealed in the cage, they would have all died.

Lin Yun looked at the mana crystal on the Baubin's head and his eyes quickly focused. They would have to flee as far as possible had they met a living Baubin, but this one was dead, and the mana crystal was still there. He would be looking down on himself if he didn't take it. And he couldn't forget Enderfa's expression.

With a wave of his hand, a Rock Puppet appeared. Lin Yun controlled the Rock Puppet to enter that huge cage. Nothing special happened, and there was no problem with the Rock Puppet.

But as Lin Yun controlled the puppet to climb on the Baubin's head to get that level 39 mana crystal, he ended up stunned.

The moment the Rock Puppet touched the Baubin, the Baubin's corpse instantly turned to dust, and even that level 39 mana crystal turned into fine powder.

Lin Yun was annoyed.

'That was a peak level 39 mana crystal! And it looked like it was evolving into a third eye, just one step away from the Heaven Rank! Gone just like this!'

"Damn! What happened!"

Enderfa's situation was no different from Lin Yun, the three faces were filled with shock, blankly looking as that Baubin slowly faded into nothingness.

"This… How could this be!"

After a long time, Lin Yun and Enderfa looked at each other, seeing boundless shock from each other's expressions.

Whether it was Lin Yun or Enderfa, they both had a lot more knowledge than the average person, they knew that Baubins were innately covered with eternal runes, these runes were formidable enough to be comparable to Laws themselves.

Baubins' skin couldn't be damaged, they were protected by the eternal runes, and beside the Baubins' natural growth, nothing could penetrate their skin. This was also the reason why newborn Baubins could freely travel in the darkness of the sea despite the deepwater pressure, it couldn't cause a single fold on the Baubins' skin.

And the toughness of the Baubins' skin was all thanks to the innate runes on their skin. In human society, these runes could only be carved on certain things, and the inscriptions would make these things resist even against the power of time. During the peak of the Magic Era, the eternal runes started being engraved on the bodies of some formidable powerhouses to preserve their corpses forever in the hope of reviving one day if the opportunity ever occured.

Lin Yun studied the eternal runes and learnt about the Baubin in the process.

Because their skins were covered in eternal runes, their bodies wouldn't rot for hundreds of thousands of years, or even millions of years.

Not to mention there was still the mana crystal, and as long as there was still a hint of mana left, the Baubin's corpse would never be able to decay.

The full name of Baubins was "Immortal Deepsea Reapers".

There has been no record of a Baubin's corpse naturally decaying!

But what was happening in front of them?

Lin Yun's heart sank, there was only one explanation why the Baubin's corpse turned to dust with a touch, it was because there was not a single wisp of mana inside its mana crystal, nor was there any inside its body.

Enderfa remained silent, this matter was too strange. A peak level 39 magic beast died like this, not even leaving its corpse behind, he felt a chill thinking about this.

"Xiuban, time to work, go and see if you can find another mechanism." Lin Yun said with a calm expression.

After seeing that there was no danger and that the corpse was no threat, Xiuban calmed down. Regardless of why or how this magic beast died, it was all good as long as he wasn't in danger.

Xiuban quickly found another mechanism looking exactly like the first. After moving it, another True Spirit Array brightened, and everything happened just like earlier.

Another cage floated out and a ten meter long creature was also laying down in that cage. That creature looked like an octopus but it had a tuna-like head with a sort of spear at the end. On both sides of the head were wide gills over a meter long which were used to breathe and absorb mana.

When the cage finished settling, Lin Yun came to a conclusion.

"This one is also dead."

Enderfa nodded, that huge Speardevil was called the Restless Roamer. The Restless Roamer would never stop during its life, it would die if it stopped. The Speardevil's mana absorption speed was too terrifying, there was no place with enough mana for them to rest at, thus they could only roam.

And its huge gills-like organs would let out an oppressive whistling sound which could be heard a few dozen kilometers away. But there was no sound coming out at the moment, it could only be dead.

Lin Yun summoned another Rock Puppet and sent it inside the cage, but after softly touching the Speardevil's body, its corpse instantly turned to ashes, just like the Baubin.

Lin Yun remained silent, thinking of what could have caused this, it was too strange. Lin Yun felt a chill, level 39 lifeforms had died in silence…

And two of them consecutively! They both silently died and their corpses both turned to ashes!

What caused this…

The threat caused by this was a lot greater than the level 39 magic beasts!

"Merlin, have you noticed?" Enderfa suddenly said.

"Noticed what?"

"I didn't notice when it happened to the Baubin, but it was very obvious with that Speardevil, it looked frightened, or maybe resisting something, its eyes were wide open and it was in a defensive stance. It wasn't too clear with the Baubin, but it was very obvious with this Speardevil, its tentacles were protecting its body."

With Enderfa saying this, Lin Yun recalled something and turned his head to shout at Xiuban, "Activate all the mechanisms!"

The simple-minded Draconic Beastman didn't know what was strange and simply looked for all the mechanisms to activate them one after another, making one huge cage after another appear.

There were twelve True Spirit Arrays, for a total of twelve cages. And inside the remaining ten cages were also huge monsters, and each of them had already died.

This time, Lin Yun carefully observed it, these huge creatures apparently encountered something terrifying as each of them was terrified, futilely trying to protect themselves, all of them seemingly at death's door.

Lin Yun unwillingly summoned a Water Elemental to test and they still turned to dust with a light touch.

This time, even the expression of the puzzled Reina had changed, twelve level 39 creatures had died in such a weird way, only an idiot would not realize the problem.

"Let's leave this place, immediately!"

Lin Yun's complexion was a bit greenish. To tell the truth, he would rather fight a heaven-defying Death Knight right now than stay any longer in this strange and chilly place.

On the other side, the responsible and diligent Xiuban suddenly discovered a path. After approaching and observing, he discovered a crack between a door and a wall that was far bigger.

"Sir Merlin, I found something, I found the exit!"

Xiuban was happy, not only did he find the mechanism, he hadn't expected that he would find an exit. This time, he would definitely not be threatened with a certain flame.

"Good, let's leave this place…"

Although he looked calm, Lin Yun was very tense right now. This place was too strange and they had encountered their fair share of formidable enemies so far, a Hydra, an Orachiss, and he had even destroyed an Undead Eye…

But this time, Lin Yun was nervous, twelve monsters approaching the Heaven Rank had died there, and they looked terrified before their death. Just thinking about it made Lin Yun feel numb.

"Yes, let's leave first." Enderfa also urged, wanting to leave this place as soon as possible.

In fact, Xiuban was the strange one.

After all, ignorance is bliss.

Xiuban was in such situation.

The originally cowardly Draconic Beastman was swaggering as he opened the door, not waiting for Lin Yun to speak as he led the way.

"…" Lin Yun looked at this scene and felt strange. He wondered how Xiuban would react if he properly explained to him how strange this place was.

Nothing dangerous happened after the group went through the door, everything was empty in front of them. The floor was made of the same Soul Absorbing Tree as in the previous room, it looked exactly the same…

"Phew, finally escaped…" Enderfa let out a long sigh, his voice full of relief.

"No…" But Lin Yun wasn't so optimistic.

"What is it?"

"Carefully look at this place, don't you feel that it looks like the place we just left?"

"Eh…" Enderfa was distracted, after looking around, he nodded and concurred, "It does look similar…"

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Chapter 595: Array

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"It's not that simple…" Lin Yun shook his head, "If I'm not wrong, we most likely circled back…"

"What?"

"You said it yourself, this is an extremely evil place…" Lin Yun didn't explain, he instead led the group to the location of the twelve cages according to what he remembered of the place…

And no surprise…

The twelve cages were there, motionless, even the ashes and dust were there.

"Hell!" Enderfa wasn't able to stay calm, "We came back!"

"It seems that we missed something before…" Lin Yun helplessly shook his head, "If I'm not wrong, this should be related to some kind of array. Do you remember when Xiuban activated the first lever? There had been a subtle fluctuation…"

"What… What should we do?"

"Well, if we can't crack this array, we won't be able to go out…"

"F*ck…" Enderfa suddenly cursed, this had been such a simple trick.

"Alright, stop complaining and help me think of a way to deal with this array…"

"Okay…" Enderfa thought for a bit and then activated the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel to analyze the surroundings. But he suddenly felt that something was amiss and froze, then shouted in alarm, "My mana is being consumed, and the speed is increasing!"

Enderfa's voice was shivering, the huge Elemental Amber embedded in the Spell Wheel contained a large amount of mana, this gem was the source of Enderfa's mana.

As a Magic Tool Incarnation, if the mana of the Magic Tool was exhausted, Enderfa would have no other choice but to sink into slumber. This wasn't something to be taken lightly, to the Magic Tool Incarnation, this was comparable to death!

Why had Shawn, the Incarnation of the Soul Walker, fallen so low, to the point of using illusions to scare people? It was because his mana was almost exhausted, giving Shawn no other choice but to put aside the prestige of a True Spirit Magic Tool's Incarnation and use lowly illusions to swindle people…

That deprivation period left its mark on him, Shawn had an abnormal greed for mana crystals now. Mana was that important to Magic Tool Incarnations.

When Enderfa felt his mana being drained, even though the speed wasn't that fast, he couldn't help recalling those twelve level 39 magic beasts who had died without a wisp of mana left, their vitality had completely faded away.

Enderfa didn't think he could compare to those monsters, especially that one who already had one foot in the Heaven Rank and in possession of the eternal runes.

"Merlin, you… You had better be fast… Although the absorption speed isn't too fast at the moment, it is slowly increasing. If this continues, my mana would be completely depleted…"

Lin Yun's expression sank. Sure enough, his mana was also starting to flow out at a fairly slow speed, as long as he roused his mana, he could make up for that loss.

But after a meticulous inspection, he confirmed that the absorption speed was indeed accelerating, it wouldn't be long before it could be easily noticeable.

"I understand, I'll speed up, don't disturb me."

Lin Yun cast Haste on himself and used his fastest speed to move within the hold, continuously observing those twelve True Spirit Arrays while also checking out those twelve strange doors.

He took out a quill and paper and started deciphering every single array in detail. These True Spirit Arrays all had similar effects, and Lin Yun had only deciphered one earlier and stopped as it wasn't necessary to decipher all of them, that would have needed an astronomical amount of calculations.

But with the current situation, Lin Yun knew that he had looked down on these True Spirit Arrays.

Someone who could simplify a True Spirit Array to this extent while also constructing twelve of them inside a ship's hold definitely wasn't an ordinary Artisan. But that person's style was strangely concise, each and every rune's effect was squeezed to its pinnacle.

With twelve arrays appearing at the same time, how could these arrays' abilities not be squeezed to their pinnacles?

Time passed, another piece of paper was thrown aside by Lin Yun, adding to the white pile on the side.

On the other side, Reina's expression wasn't great. She could already feel her mana flowing out. A Dragon, she was still unable to stop it, it felt as if something was forcibly absorbing her mana. Although the mana consumption couldn't be considered much for now, it gave her a feeling of weakness.

Enderfa couldn't stay put, he kept moving in the air, worried and fretful. As for the puppet, it had raised its defenses, that mana absorption had triggered its defensive mechanism.

Lin Yun was pale, his eyes filled with exhaustion. At this time, he felt a force draining him of his mana. There was a large amount of calculations, thus, to speed it up, he had already cast two Ultimate Sharp Mind, greatly taxing his brain and making him look seriously ill.

Only the simple-minded Draconic Beastman didn't feel anything. Whether it was the fusion with the drop of blood from a Three-Headed Golden Dragon, or the bath in the God Blood, they both upgraded his body to an unimaginable level, especially the bath, it made Xiuban completely cut off from mana elements.

Even if he had magic abilities, they came from the Draconic Beastman's innate runes and didn't need magic at all to begin with. While the others were suffering, only Xiuban remained at his peak.

But seeing Lin Yun in that situation, Xiuban wisely chose to shut up, he didn't dare to ask anything.

Lin Yun had been writing and computing like crazy. After no less than an hour, he finished fully translating the twelve arrays.

After the calculations were complete, Lin Yun immediately started incorporating the matching door with the result of his previous calculations. He calculated the angle, power, the time used to go through each entrance, he calculated all the data possible.

After over ten minutes, Lin Yun sighed in relief.

"As expected, it's here!"

Lin Yun walked to the center of the hold and looked at this seemingly ordinary area. The twelve arrays were arranged in a circle, supporting this empty area.

With the appearance of the twelve doors, Lin Yun had immediately thought that the newly activated array must have been in the center of the hold!

But the center of the hold was a vacant area, there was only Soul Absorbing Tree, there wasn't even an array. They could see nothing.

But Lin Yun had a daring thought after thinking of the twelve cages coming from below. This array should be below the Soul Absorbing Tree floor!

After meticulous calculations, Lin Yun confirmed his conjecture, this array was definitely below the Soul Absorbing Tree floor.

Although the twelve cages seemed to have come from the floor, it was more precise to say that it looked as if they floated up from a spatial door. With the True Spirit Arrays' capacity for manipulation of metallic substances and the Intrepid's strangeness, the probability of this kind of spatial variation on top of it was very small.

But the outcome of the calculations shocked Lin Yun. They could only see half of the hold! In other words, the current area was only the upper half of the hold, the bottom half was below the Soul Absorbing Tree floor!

Twelve True Spirit Arrays combined with the Soul Absorbing Tree floor formed a huge array!

Its power was so formidable that even Lin Yun was left highly apprehensive, he even wondered if this formation array had been made by a Saint Alchemist or a first-rate Artisan.

What kind of terrifying thing was sealed below!

The array formation would definitely be stronger on the other side, and Lin Yun didn't think he would be able to crack it!

But in their current situation, if they didn't crack it, they would never be able to leave this place.

Lin Yun's palms were sweaty, this was an unsolvable problem, he could only pray that his luck wouldn't be too bad.

"Xiuban, come over." Lin Yun beckoned to Xiuban.

This terrified the Draconic Beastman and he started shivering. He moved slowly, as if he was carrying a mountain on his back.

"What, you didn't hear me?"

Lin Yun's expression turned cold and Xiuban no longer dared to waste time and sullenly walked to the center of the hold.

"Sir Merlin, tell me what to do…"

Lin Yun frowned and pointed at a mark he made the ground.

"Smash."

This thumb-sized small circle was the result of an hour and a half of calculations. Not having seen the array below, he had managed to calculate the key part of the array below!

Xiuban didn't understand this, but he beamed with joy when he heard Lin Yun's words, "Oh, smash?" He patted his chest trying to guarantee that this mission would be accomplished, "Rest assured, Sir Merlin, I'll take care of it!"

The worried Enderfa flew over and glanced at the self-confident Xiuban before cursing in a low voice, "Idiot."

Xiuban only smiled, ignoring the insult. He held Carnage and moved closer to that mark, looking at it with a murderous glint.

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Chapter 596: Dimensional Cloister

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Not waiting for a signal, Xiuban lifted his heavy Carnage, and with a loud bellow, heavily slammed the 5,000kg Carnage down.

White dust rose up due to the impact and flew in the surroundings. Xiuban let out a scream as he was hit by the recoil.

The recoil sent Carnage to the Draconic Beastman's shoulder.

After a few minutes, Xiuban stood up while cursing, but he had a terrible expression as he looked at the ground, as if he had seen a ghost…

Because the place he had smashed was in perfect condition!

Lin Yun had expected it so he wasn't too surprised, he only scolded, "Giving you a drop of Three-Headed Gold Dragon Blood was truly a waste. As a Highland Beastman, how could you be such a fool? After all, you fused with a drop of Three-Headed Gold Dragon Blood, that's its life essence and the source of its power, yet you still can't smash a floor? Forget it… So disappointing…"

"But…"

"The power of a Three-Headed Gold Dragon had long since fused with your bloodline. When waving your hammer, transfer your bloodline power. You aren't a magic beast, fighting only with your skin, you are a Draconic Beastman, the power of Dragons and Beastmen flow within your bloodline. As long as you can display the power of the bloodline, beating a Dragon with a rod might not be impossible…"

"I… I'll try…"

Xiuban gripped Carnage, shivering with fear and trepidation. Under everyone's watch, he slowly walked forward once again…

This time, everyone could clearly see that every time Xiuban took a step forward, his skin darkened, up until a faint golden luster could be seen.

"That's right, like this, channel the power of your bloodline, your Draconic and Beastman bloodlines, alongside the bloodline of the Three-Headed Gold Dragon, if you really can't destroy that floor then you might as well reconsider the meaning of your existence…"

While Lin Yun was mocking him, Xiuban raised his heavy Carnage…

"Roar!" A wild and berserk shout echoed from the center of the hold.

It was followed by a loud "bang"…

Carnage heavily landed on the mark, causing a shockwave as the explosion spread. In that split second, even space seemed to distort.

Then…

A thumb-sized hole appeared on the floor…

"…"

The entire hold was silent, everyone was looking at that thumb-sized hole, especially Reina and Enderfa. The Dragon and the Magic Tool Incarnation were bewildered as they looked at Xiuban, they wanted to laugh at this awkward scene, but restrained themselves.

"Sir… Sir Merlin, this…" Xiuban looked at the thumb-sized hole and didn't even know what to say.

'Embarrassing…'

'So embarrassing…'

'I, the magnificent Lord Xiuban, transferred the power of my bloodline and smashed down with world-shaking strength, and in the end… Only a small thumb-sized hole appeared. Should I really do as Sir Merlin said?'

"Alright, shut it…" Lin Yun didn't even look at him and waved his hand, "You guys stand over there."

By the time everyone vacated the center of the hold, Lin Yun incanted a spell and let a Mage Eye through that small thumb-sized hole.

From the eye, he could see a black mist, then the Mage Eye instantly shattered by the mana fluctuations.

Lin Yun slightly frowned.

This was unexpected, but it also made sense, the mana fluctuations under them were too fierce, the Mage Eye could only resist for a split second before dissolving.

But in that split second, Lin Yun confirmed the existence of that array, he hadn't made a mistake in his calculations, this small hole was right in its center.

He let out another Mage Eye to confirm, and although he couldn't make out the details of the array in that split of a second, he managed to notice the arrangement, outline, dimension, and the locations of a few large runes.

After constructing a rough outline in his head, Lin Yun took out a crystal pen and quickly sketched a few runes on it.

These few runes had the effect of turning the crystal pen into a crude Magic Tool.

Yes, crude…

At best, it would be of Superior quality, and its usefulness would be very limited. It could receive Lin Yun's mana fluctuations and by turning these fluctuations into commands, it would make the crystal pen able to move according to Lin Yun's will even from a distance.

That's right, it could work remotely…

This kind of crystal pen was something even Apprentice Alchemists looked on with disdain.

Let alone the fact that it was crude, the remote control was rough and troublesome, it couldn't guarantee complete accuracy.

Arrays needed meticulousness, a bit of deviation could result in utter failure, both in setting up an array and in cracking an array, accuracy was key!

Something like a mana controlled pen had a very limited use…

But while it wasn't useful to others, it was very useful to Lin Yun!

He controlled wisps of mana like flexible fingers to start using this remotely controlled crystal pen. At the end of the Magic Era, every single wisp of mana was very precious, so he had to master precise mana control.

Using mana to control this crystal pen, he sent it filled with refined gold ink down the hole before closing his eyes.

He recalled the outline of the array underneath along with the array location and a three-dimensional diagram appeared in his head.

And that crystal pen started blindly cracking that array under Lin Yun's control.

In the distance, Enderfa forgot about the mana absorption and watched Lin Yun as if he had seen a ghost.

He had seen Lin Yun making that crude crystal pen and knew what Lin Yun was doing.

He was blindly cracking an array!

An array that was at least at the True Spirit Rank!

Remotely and with no vision cracking it!

Enderfa couldn't help cursing, was that even possible?

Sensing the surge of mana coming from that hole, Enderfa knew how intense the mana fluctuations were down there, 'Mage Eyes would instantly disintegrate, with a mere glance, can he even see the complete runic structure of the array?'

'He is actually trying to crack the array with lacking information?'

'And with a crazy method like remote control? This is the crudest and most careless method, even Artisans would think it was a joke…'

'Especially with the density of mana below, how could he control a wisp of mana? A single mistake and all his efforts would go down the drain!'

Enderfa would have already scolded him, had he not known of his ability to do the impossible.

Xiuban didn't understand what was happening, he only sat on the ground, lost in thought, but Reina had some knowledge and foolishly looked at Lin Yun's actions. Even if she didn't have a high understanding of alchemy, she knew how troublesome and impossible of a task this was.

Even the person who set up this array wouldn't be able to break it in this manner!

Without having a clear look at the array, how could he crack it?

Time quickly passed and sweat started dripping down Lin Yun's forehead, he had an unhealthy pale expression. As mana came pouring from the hole, the speed of the mana absorption increased a few times. It took ten times as much mana to control the crystal pen without making a mistake.

After more than ten minutes, Lin Yun's frown eased.

Then, the twelve dark entrances disappeared from the hold and a new entrance appeared in its stead.

"Sure enough, I wasn't wrong! It's really a Dimensional Cloister."

At the start, Lin Yun had made a rough conjecture regarding this array, after going through one door they would instantly come out of an identical entrance, without them noticing. Arrays with such effects were at least at the True Spirit Rank, and there weren't many to be seen.

Dimensional Cloisters could turn into spatial structures, forming a huge cloister-like existence. Anyone stepping into it would never be able to stop moving in circles within it, the only way to leave was to break this Dimensional Cloister. If they couldn't, they would forever remain trapped within.

This kind of maze was the least dangerous but hardest to solve, as the array itself had no destructive power, no attack, but also no gap. It only had the effect of trapping people.

It was just like a jail!

Naturally, some legendary powerhouses would be able to escape even if they didn't understand it. As long as they could crush the entire Dimensional Cloister, thoroughly destroying the space and the array at the same time.

And at the peak of the Magic Era, many death prisons would use Dimensional Cloisters.

It was said that once an Artisan had somehow provoked a Heaven Rank Beastman Sword Saint and ended up being chased. That Artisan was only a 7th Rank Archmage, how could he be the match of that Heaven Rank powerhouse? He lost three True Spirit Magic Tools and was chased through three planes before managing to return to his own habitat.

As for that Heaven Rank Beastman, there had been no news of him after he chased that Artisan to his own domain, yet that Artisan remained alive and well.

When the Artisan died, a few millennia later, someone found a Dimensional Cloister Array within his old lair. Moreover, with the Dimensional Cloister as the core, there had been many malicious arrays surrounding the Dimensional Cloister, such as mana absorption arrays, air absorption arrays, weakening arrays, or even aging arrays.

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Chapter 597: Tentacles

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After spending a lot of time cracking the several hundred arrays fortifying the Dimensional Cloister, the body of the Heaven Rank Beastman was found.

Later, the person in charge of a planar prison divulged some information. During the construction of the planar prison, that Artisan had been the main force behind the construction of the Dimensional Cloister.

Even this Heaven Rank Beastman was no different from an idiot when it came to alchemy. He naturally couldn't understand how to crack a Dimensional Cloister, and he wasn't powerful enough to directly destroy the Dimensional Cloister that had been made by an Artisan after spending a lot of time and effort. Thus, he could only remain trapped within until someone found his corpse.

Because he had read about the record of a Heaven Rank being trapped in this way, Lin Yun instantly thought of Dimensional Cloisters. He remembered each rune and each mark clearly as he scoured his memory to crack it.

And although this Dimensional Cloister was different to some extent, the overall characteristics were the same.

It was different from the Infinite Dimensions, which made people travel back and forth through countless dimensions, and it was also different from the ruthless Dimensional Killing Array.

Only the Dimensional Cloister met these requirements!

Lin Yun remembered every small detail of the Dimensional Cloister, so he only needed to see a rough outline to know all the details that others couldn't see!

Even how the array changed due to the array above and other such details… He was clear about everything.

The cracking was completed, and it was indeed a Dimensional Cloister!

Had it been another array, Lin Yun wouldn't have been able to crack it in such a way, but a Dimensional Cloister…

Haha, back then, all the answers, variations, and detailed explanations, he had spent a great amount of time studying it from the library. It certainly wasn't spent in vain.

"Okay, it's settled, let's go…" After finishing, Lin Yun sighed in relief.

"Quick, quick, let's go.." Enderfa impatiently said.

It wasn't just Enderfa; everyone was impatient, as this place was too strange. No one was willing to spend any more time here…

But, as the Dimensional Cloister was cracked, something happened below.

The connection to the mana-controlled crystal pen was instantly severed, and a huge amount of death energy crazily burst out.

And underneath, that gently churning black fog flared up instantly. It had been originally been floating about, but it suddenly rose up.

The black fog was like the water of a fountain as it came out of that small hole.

As these wisps of fog appeared, they quickly condensed and turned into black tentacles.

Lin Yun, who had used a lot of mana, leaving him feeling mentally exhausted, didn't react in time and ended up having three black tentacles coiled around him!

His face turned white when he was grabbed by the tentacles.

The mana within his body was escaping like flowing water… It seemed that the tentacles were siphoning his mana away.

It only took a few seconds for more than half of the mana of an Alchemic Mana Whirlpool to be drained!

"Haha… Prey finally came after so long." A coarse and unpleasant voice, akin to the sound of metal grinding, echoed out.

More and more tentacles condensed and moved towards the rest of the group.

"Leave first, hurry!" Lin Yun roared as he forcibly cast Bursting Flames at himself.

These black tentacles were very strange. Not only were they absorbing energy at a terrifying rate, but they also had a strong mana-sealing effect, making Lin Yun unable to display more than 10% of his power. This Bursting Flames Spell was already the full extent of his remaining power.

Casting the spell at such close range resulted in two heavy explosions…

The second explosion was enough to blow up a few tentacles.

In that split second, Lin Yun freed himself from their grasp.

But he didn't have time to rejoice celebrate yet… He took this transient opportunity and quickly took out two spirit mana crystals and summoned the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel.

Enderfa jumped out of the Spell Wheel in fright, looking at Lin Yun and wondering what he was up to.

"Merlin, careful…" Enderfa originally wanted to say that he definitely shouldn't risk the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel. If he lost it, Enderfa would have to find a new True Spirit Magic Tool to live in, or he would die.

But he then remembered that if Lin Yun fell there, he would also be done for.

Thus, Enderfa restrained himself and swallowed his words back.

But even so, when Enderfa looked over, he saw that while the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel was still in Lin Yun's hands, a tentacle had shot out to coil around it. At that time, this secretive Magic Tool Incarnation held his breath.

Only a woosh was heard as the tentacle arrived in front of Enderfa. Fortunately, Lin Yun reacted quickly enough and sent a Flame Burst over. A muffled sound could be heard as the tentacle was struck, saving Enderfa in the process.

"Get Enderfa away, don't disturb me!"

Lin Yun cast two blazing Fire Walls with all his strength, cutting off all the tentacles and covering everyone as they exited the hold, before focusing his attention on what was in front of him.

More and more black smoke poured from that small hole, condensing into something in the air.

Lin Yun was extremely pale. The mana was from his second Alchemic Mana Whirlpool was also quickly devoured clean, and the mana within his body was akin to a flood pouring out.

Now, Lin Yun could clearly understand the horror that those twelve magic beasts must have felt before dying.

These magic beasts had clearly been drained dry by this unknown evil existence. Considering that a mere few tentacles were so frightening, if they met the main body of that thing, wouldn't they be unable to escape…?

Without a doubt, that thing was the main culprit.

This also explained why the corpse of a Baubin, which had eternal runes, ended up turning to dust.

Struggling had no effect. Even Lin Yun, with his outstanding mana control, couldn't stop his mana from leaking out. Those tentacles not only had an amazing sealing effect, but their power was also terrifying, approaching the power of a Sword Saint. Lin Yun simply couldn't struggle free.

His bones were cracking painfully, but he still tightly held onto those two spirit mana crystals.

At the same time, he transferred the mana of the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel's Elemental Amber, and with no regard for the consequences, he poured that mana into the spirit mana crystals.

The draining of the tentacles, combined with Lin Yun's own extracting, made the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel darken at a visible speed. Enderfa would have let out a heart-wrenching howl had he been there to see that.

At this time, Lin Yun's second Alchemic Mana Whirlpool had been completely emptied, so his own Mana Whirlpool's mana started to flow out.

The tentacles were coiling even tighter, and Lin Yun's hands were turning purple as his blood couldn't reach them, but he was still tightly holding the two spirit mana crystals.

Suddenly, a fluctuation was emitted from those two crystals. The originally calm spirit mana crystals shone brightly, as if filled radiating dense energy.

Sensing this change, Lin Yun unhesitantly summoned the Book of Death and poured a large amount of mana into it.

A light flashed.

Lich Barton was summoned.

Before the Lich even appeared, Lin Yun threw the two mana crystals out, and as it actually appeared, it caught the two spirit mana crystals.

When it sensed the energy from the crystals, the black tentacles that had been coiled around Lin Yun's body split up, wanting to plunder the mana crystals.

And the appearance of the Lich fully captured the attention of the tentacles, as the black mist contained dense death energy.

It was a level 37 Lich, and it had devoured half of the soul fire of a level 38 Death Knight, pushing it to the verge of levelling up.

With it appearing so close, the tentacles that were originally wound around Lin Yun immediately released him as they rushed towards the Lich.

Being freed from the tentacles, Lin Yun's mana was no longer sealed. He unhesitantly used Fire Elemental Incarnation and cast two Flame Flashes to move two hundred meters away.

At that time, there were already forty to fifty tentacles, and a huge head condensed in midair out of the fog coming from the hold.

The head seemed to be made of countless small ink-colored skulls piled together. The skulls of all the races were there, but a few times smaller. There were also human skulls that were the size of a fingernail.

The convergence of those countless skulls formed a huge skull that was four to five meters tall. That skull only had two eyes and one big mouth. Grey flames were burning in those eyes. The flames appeared to be full of grievance as countless howling shadows could be seen flickering within from time to time.

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Chapter 598:

Self-Destruction

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The huge head opened its mouth wide open. There were no teeth and no tongue within. There was only something akin to a deep, dark-red blood pond that was continuously emitting bubbles. From two hundred meters away, Lin Yun could feel the toxicity from that face. If a Dragon fell inside, even if it didn't die, it would be crippled.

Lin Yun's head felt like it was exploding as he threw up blood.

'Damnit, absorbing the mana from both of my Alchemic Mana Whirlpools and over half of the mana from my Magic Array… How could it be so easy!?'

Taking a step back to dodge a black tentacle, he absorbed the mana from a spirit mana crystal.

On the other side, thirty black tentacles were already cutting off the Lich's escape path, driving it towards the mouth.

But the Lich didn't resist. It tightly held the two spirit mana crystals as it charged straight into the huge mouth.

But soon after, a loud sound could be heard.

The skull's huge mouth was opened by an explosion that also blew away the blood pond. The entire chin was missing, and one eye also burst open.

Fierce mana fluctuations spread as if flaring up, and the monster let out a miserable roar.

"Damnit, you wretched ant, you actually dare to do this!"

The large black mist converged towards the monster, and the areas injured by the explosion started recovering.

Lin Yun took the initiative to charge into the monster, fully using Flame Flash before scattering his Fire Elemental Incarnation and using Tempest Elemental Incarnation instead.

The Incarnation was a Tempest Elemental that was four to five meters tall, and although Lin Yun couldn't fly, his flexibility had been raised to its peak.

The Wind Blades were like rain falling onto that monster.

The Tempest Elemental Incarnation greatly increased the power of Wind Spells, as well as greatly increasing their casting speed. The originally instant Wind Blades turned into a veritable storm, similar to the 7th Tier Tornado spell.

Unfortunately, that fierce attack wasn't much of a threat to the monster. Besides displacing the death energy that had been bubbling on that monster's face, it only made it roar.

As that deafening roar echoed, the black tentacles fiercely withdrew, and even the black fog coming out of the hole stopped.

The lower part of the monster's head had disappeared due to the blast, and the top half had deformed. This time, the injury wasn't light, but Lin Yun knew that although this monster looked like that, it wasn't heavily injured or in danger at all.

Lin Yun kept up a fierce offensive, and the monster couldn't recover for a short time. It even showed signs of wanting to retreat into the hole.

"Damn, you want to run when I have the upper hand? How could I let you off easy?"

Lin Yun fiercely raised his Draconic Staff. He would severely injure that monster even if he had to pay a huge price!

The monster was really thinking of temporarily retreating. Lin Yun had been somewhat surprised that his suicide bomber Lich hadn't killed it, but how could he let it run now?

Lin Yun had clearly seen that monster's body. It was the fusion of a huge amount of death energy and some evil energy, but if it recovered that energy, it would be like he hadn't injured it at all.

Only seven to eight tentacles were left, and its strength had greatly suffered. It used the tentacles to protect its body, wanting to return to that small hole once again.

But Lin Yun's Wind Blades slashed out once again. The original cyan Wind Blades slowly darkened, and behind them was an inky cyan Wind Blade!

Those deep cyan Wind Blades were Gale Blades, the advanced, 4th Tier version of Wind Blade. And as for the inky cyan Wind Blade, it was actually a 7th Tier Spell!

Dimensional Edge!

It was rumored that when the comprehension of Dimensional Edge reached the peak, it would be possible to tear through space itself.

Naturally, an ordinary Dimensional Edge didn't have such power.

But this was fine. An ordinary Dimensional Edge was still a 7th Tier Spell. Making Wind Blades reach the level of Dimensional Edges was like turning Wind magic into Space magic, a qualitative leap.

Now, Lin Yun was making it rain Wind Blades, as every second, that monster was hit by dozens of them. The activity of the wind elements reached the peak at this moment.

In this extreme chaos of wind elements, anything would be completely suppressed.

The monster only noticed that last blade when it had already struck.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

The part hit by the ordinary Wind Blades could only turn to smoke before recondensing, but the infinitely small part slashed by Dimensional Edge would turn into a spatial tear, as if space had been cut on both sides!

That Dimensional Edge slashed the left eye of the monster, the upper left corner of that skull looked as if it had been sliced by a sharp blade!

The cut part instantly collapsed and turned into a large amount of black, gooey liquid, falling on the floor.

The monster loudly screamed with a bitter voice. Had it not noticed the Dimensional Edge early enough and moved a bit, that Dimensional Edge would have cut it in two!

"Damn rat! Wait for me! Wait for me…"

The gray flames in its eyes swayed fiercely. There was only pure hatred and resentment within. At that moment, the head collapsed and turned into smoke, quickly pouring into the small hole, with only a tentacle left outside to guard against Lin Yun's attacks.

The monster was determined to escape.

The hold suddenly became peaceful, before an ear-piercing, sizzling sound came from the floor.

The black, gooey pool that fell off the monster was quickly corroding the floor, forming a large hole.

Lin Yun threw a glance and shivered.

He clearly knew how hard the floor made from Soul Absorbing wood was. Xiuban had to use the power of the Three-Headed Gold Dragon to barely create a thumb-sized hole on it.

That liquid was so corrosive that even this floor couldn't resist!

Witnessing the great toxicity within that death energy even made Lin Yun break out in a bit of sweat. He urgently used Wind spells to blow away the air in front of him, afraid of being infected.

The monster had been scared away for a bit, but Lin Yun was very badly hurt.

The losses were too great this time. The two Alchemic Mana Whirlpools had been drained dry, and less than twenty percent of his mana remained in his Magic Array's Mana Whirlpool.

Two spirit mana crystals had been used, and the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel's Elemental Amber had dimmed completely. The huge amount of mana stored within had almost been completely used up.

As he took out the Book of Death and summoned the Lich, Lin Yun's face turned green.

The originally peak level 37 Lich that could have advanced to level 38 any moment was now level 35.

From being entangled by those tentacles, Lin Yun understood how the mana and vitality of those level 39 magic beasts had been absorbed.

Lin Yun didn't believe that he could resist the binding of such powerful tentacles with his magic being suppressed to only 10%, let alone struggle free… Unless that monster let go of him.

Using that seemingly greedy temper, Lin Yun drew up a fighting plan.

First, he would use Bursting Flames to create some breathing room, and then he would take out two spirit mana crystals and frantically pour the mana from the Elemental Amber into them.

In fact, when the two mana crystals came out before, Lin Yun knew that his conjecture was right. The monster didn't care about the two spirit mana crystals.

The mana crystals of those twelve magic beasts had still been there, but they were empty, so Lin Yun guessed that this monster could only feel the flow of mana.

And as long as he was alive, mana would flow.

By pouring a large amount of mana into the spirit mana crystals, he overloaded them. The mana within surpassed what the two spirit mana crystals could contain, creating a very dangerous state.

It would make the mana within the crystals rush forth, just like a mage's Mana Whirlpool. This was also why that monster didn't pay attention to the two spirit mana crystals at the start, but immediately pounced towards them when they started shining.

At that instant, Lin Yun had summoned the Lich by his side. A level 37 Lich at its peak, possessing a huge amount of death energy. It was extremely appetizing to that monster, so that monster's tentacles directly let go of Lin Yun to rush towards the Lich.

And after fleeing, Lin Yun sent the Lich to the head to be swallowed.

The peak level 37 Lich fused with the two overloaded mana crystals and self-destructed within the sealed mouth of the monster.

That formidable power could only be matched by Heaven Rank powerhouses!

Although the results were glorious, the price wasn't light… Lin Yun had bled a lot.

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Chapter 599: Box

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Besides the puppet, the Lich was the subordinate that Lin Yun dispatched the most. It would have become a huge helping hand if it reached level 38. At least, he wouldn't keep it hidden against a level 38 Death Knight.

The suppression between the Undead of different levels of power was too great. Lin Yun wasn't a Necromancer, and he couldn't summon Undead beings that would disregard that level suppression. If it was inferior to the other side, in rank, sending it out would be no different than sending food over.

'Damnit, there is no chance of having it level up now… Forget it, there are many Undead here, it should be able to recover if it devours some soul fires.'

Lin Yun sent the Lich back into the Book of Death and looked at the large hole made by the black, corrosive goo. It was already four to five meters wide and a meter deep. The black goo was also slowly being consumed.

As he was about to leave, Lin Yun suddenly caught sight of a metallic reflection.

He turned around and noticed the corner of a metal box. As the goo slowly disappeared, the metal box was revealed.

The box seemed to have been decorated with specks of stars.

'That box is actually made completely out of Star Essence?'

Lin Yun was shocked by the extravagance. This was too luxurious! Star Essence could even be used as the main part of a True Spirit Magic Tool. In the future, many Heaven Rank Sword Saints were keen to use Star Essence for their weapons. By using it as the main material for a weapon, it would innately have an antimagic effect, giving it the ability to pierce through a mage's shields as easily as paper.

That black goo contained a huge amount of death energy and was extremely corrosive, even able to form a huge hole in the hold of the ship… but it was still unable to harm that box. Considering that, Lin Yun wouldn't believe it if someone tried to tell him that the box wasn't made of Star Essence.

It had been hidden inside the hard hull, and Lin Yun couldn't sense any magic response from it.

So much effort had been spent hiding it that it definitely had to be something important.

Even just the box made out of Star Essence was priceless.

'Do I grab it or not? It's within reach! Most of that black goo has been consumed, not taking it would be a crime!'

Although the monster was still watching its prey, Lin Yun would hate to part with the box.

He quickly summoned three Rock Puppets and had them rush to the sides of the hole. One of the Rock Puppets directly jumped down, spreading like a star in the hole, and the remains of the goo quickly started corroding the puppet.

Another Rock Puppet jumped onto the back of the first one and grabbed the box in its hand.

A large amount of black smoke suddenly rose up within the hole. A few black tentacles instantly took shape, rushing towards the Rock Puppets in the hole.

Lin Yun chuckled.

"You made me waste so much in the fight! Even if it's just scraps, as long as you want it, I won't let you have it!" Lin Yun fiercely shouted.

Seeing the monster fighting over it, he didn't feel like leaving anything!

He pointed his Draconic Staff, and a flaming, golden spear fell from above, sharply impaling a tentacle as it blocked the thumb-sized hole!

Having temporarily lost their connection, these black tentacles became powerless.

One of the tentacles had grabbed a Rock Puppet, but that Rock Puppet threw the box out of the hole, and the last of the puppets caught the box and ran.

The remaining tentacles crazily tried to give chase, but Lin Yun cast a handful of Flame Spears and nailed them to the ground.

He then took the metal box from the Rock Puppet and put it in a Spatial Ring before running away.

The Flame Spear blocking the hole exploded, and a large amount of black fog rushed out, along with a deafening bellow.

Lin Yun was frantically running while turning to send a Dimensional Edge towards the small hole while also casting a few dozen 1st Tier Fireballs, covering the floor of the hold in flames.

"I said I won't even leave you scraps!"

Although the Dimensional Edge was slow, it could easily hit a stationary target.

When the Dimensional Edge hit the hole, it severed the origin of all the tentacles, only leaving dripping black venom behind. But as if nothing could dissuade it, after it was injured, black fog poured out of the small hole once again like an erupting volcano, and it condensed into over twenty tentacles that fiercely pursued Lin Yun.

Lin Yun sent out a large number of Wind Blades to stop them, and he even hid a Dimensional Edge among them. The monster didn't even pause as it continued trying to catch him.

Unfortunately, after a few seconds, Lin Yun had already rushed towards the exit. After Lin Yun disappeared from the hold, that entrance turned back into an ordinary wall. The monster's tentacles crazily attacked the wall, but they couldn't destroy it.

The instant Lin Yun reached another area, he used Haste and quickly rushed away from the wall, but he relaxed when glanced behind and saw that the entrance had closed.

"Merlin, how is it?"

Enderfa floated over, his three faces extremely nervous as they checked Lin Yun.

Lin Yun rolled his eyes and threw the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel over. Seeing that the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel hadn't been destroyed, Enderfa hurriedly rushed in for a bit, before coming back out, exasperated.

"Hell, the Spell Wheel's mana has been completely consumed!"

Enderfa had been away from the True Spirit Magic Tool for so long, and moreover, they had been in different places. The Magic Tool Incarnation's power had already started declining, and now, the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel's mana was almost depleted. It was no wonder he was angry.

Smokey trails led from the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel to Enderfa's three faces as they complained.

"Merlin, did you get rid of that monster?"

Lin Yun sat on the ground, recovering mana while helplessly shaking his head.

"How could it be that easy? I don't even know what kind of monster that was… It didn't die when a peak level 37 Lich absorbed two overloaded spirit mana crystals and exploded in its mouth, and it still had the energy to fight over something. I barely managed to escape, and the losses were quite huge this time. The Lich fell to level 35…

Enderfa was speechless.

"Damn, what the hell is that thing…"

When the pale Reina saw Lin Yun safely coming back, she didn't ask questions and immediately closed her eyes to recover. Dragons had amazing constitutions. Whether they were injured or low on mana, they only needed rest to recover.

And on the other side, a deafening snore could be heard. After confirming that he was safe, Xiuban sprawled on his back and started sleeping. Since Sir Merlin told the rest of them to run first, he would definitely come out alive.

Lin Yun drank a few Mana Potions, slightly replenishing his empty mana.

Yes, slightly…

Lin Yun had his Magic Array and two Alchemic Mana Whirlpools, so his total mana capacity could only be described as enormous. Let alone a few Mana Potions, even a few dozen of them wouldn't be enough to let him recover to his peak. But these few Mana Potions were better than nothing. As for a full recovery, he could only rely on a long meditation.

But, he didn't have time to meditate.

Because Enderfa came floating over.

"Merlin, you said you that monster fought over something with you? What was it?"

Lin Yun unhappily glanced at Enderfa.

"What makes you think I got it?"

Enderfa sneered, his three faces disdainfully looking at Lin Yun.

"Don't even try. You suffered such a huge loss this time that you would even squeeze the blood out of a mosquito if that could help you make it up. There is no way you would have calmly sat there and let that monster get what it wanted, right?"

Lin Yun awkwardly chuckled, refusing to acknowledge this.

"I'm that kind of person?"

At that time, Shawn's exhausted voice echoed.

"Of course, look at Lord Shawn, I didn't even have a single day of peace ever since I met you, I'm squeezed clean every time you have me work."

Shawn also came out of the Soul Walker, but he looked exhausted. He had clearly used a lot of power this time. He wasn't like Enderfa, who used the mana of the Elemental Amber when fighting.

Shawn was using his own power when he fought, and he had used a lot this time. His Evil Eye was tightly closed.

"What about the spirit mana crystal?"

Shawn didn't care and reached his hand out towards Lin Yun.

Lin Yun threw a spirit mana crystal towards Shawn.

Then, in order to prevent these two guys from continuing with their badmouthing, he hurriedly took out that box made of Star Essence and placed it on the floor, where it let out a loud sound.

"This is what I snatched."

Lin Yun explained the origins of the box and it instantly attracted the attention of Shawn and Enderfa.

The box wasn't big… It was only twenty centimeters long, ten centimeters wide, and ten centimeters tall.

But the design was very simple and ancient. The box was whole, without a single crack, and it was covered with numerous arrays, runes, and patterns.

"Very ancient art… This design should have been popular near the end of the Ascian Dynasty, but it was also loved by the Pure-Blood Elves of the Nesser Dynasty."

Enderfa was the first to express his opinion.

Shawn rolled his eyes. "That's the same as saying nothing…"

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Chapter 600: Key

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Enderfa awkwardly chuckled and continued his explanation. "That kind of thing is not dangerous. It is usually used to hide some precious materials, mainly to protect them. If someone destroyed the box because they weren't able to open it normally, the things inside would also be destroyed. But it wasn't common to use Star Essence to create such extravagant things, so the contents must be shocking."

Lin Yun nodded. Although he had extensive knowledge, he definitely couldn't compare to Enderfa when it came to such small details.

A few pieces of paper appeared, and Lin Yun quickly started writing. The things within that box were definitely precious. If he made a mistake, the contents might be destroyed which would be a huge shame.

After calculating twice, he confirmed that his calculations were right and he started using the crystal pen to crack the array on the box.

When the array was cracked, the runes and patterns disappeared, but not a single opening could be seen on the box. Lin Yun was a bit surprised.

Enderfa calmly suggested, "Try looking for a mechanism."

Lin Yun suddenly realized that he had only thought of the array, but he had forgotten to consider possible mechanisms!

Recalling the patterns that were on the box, Lin Yun immediately found two places that had been devoid of runes and patterns.

There had only been one array, which was completely asymmetrical, but there were two symmetrical places on the side of the box that didn't have any runes or patterns, which caught his attention.

The dual opening mechanism was very popular. Only by simultaneously activating them could the box open; otherwise, it would trigger another mechanism.

Lign Yun prepared some defenses first and took a deep breath before simultaneously pushing those two blank areas.

Snap…

A sound echoed as a crack appeared on the originally seamless box, and it automatically opened…

There was no danger.

After lightly opening the box, what they found inside was a bit beyond their expectations.

It wasn't a precious treasure, but a key.

The design of the key was very ancient. It was brown and had a faint layer of rust. There was a refined skull on the shaft of the key, and the skull had an eye-patch with two blades crossing each other.

The three recognized this with a glance… It was the symbol of Red Beard!

Shawn glanced at it and said, "I'm going back," before returning to his Soul Walker while tightly hugging his spirit mana crystal.

Lin Yun was somewhat shocked that it was a key. From this key's appearance, it looked like it was for opening an ancient lock, and it also looked like handicraft from the current era…

If it hadn't been hidden so thoroughly, Lin Yun wouldn't have thought that it looked very precious at all.

Enderfa frowned, thinking hard.

"I can't figure out the use of this key, but since it was stashed away like that, and even that monster wanted to snatch it, it must be very important. It might be the key to Red Beard's hidden treasure room or something along those lines."

Lin Yun shook his head and put the key back in the Star Essence box, thinking that if he couldn't understand it, he might as well not worry about it for the moment. In any case, he had to take what that monster wanted even if only to spite it.

After resting a bit, Lin Yun turned to look at the entrance of the wall, somewhat worried.

He recalled that from the beginning, it felt as if they had been guided… Every hold was far more dangerous than the last.

Even if the Intrepid was dangerous, it was impossible for every location to be so deadly…

And their current hold appeared to be an abandoned alchemy laboratory. There were many abandoned chairs and desks, and there were a few rusted puppets.

When Xiuban and the others came in, they felt relieved as they discovered that there was nothing dangerous in that area.

Lin Yun had almost come to expect every hold to be extremely dangerous, so upon finding finding that temporary respite, he felt that they might be falling into a trap.

There had been a twelve-array sealing formation in that hold, with a floor completely made out of wood from Soul Absorbing Trees, and it was even combined with a Dimensional Cloister, something designed to seal an extremely sinister being in a deadly prison.

They wouldn't have been able to come out had they not cracked it, but the thing they had let out might be even more troublesome.

After recovering half of his mana, Lin Yun couldn't remain still. He walked to the sleeping Xiuban and kicked him, yet that guy didn't even react.

He then casually threw a Fireball out, making that thick-skinned Draconic Beastman jump up.

"Who? Enemies? Where is the enemy?"

But when he turned his head, he noticed Lin Yun calmly standing behind him.

"Sir Merlin, you returned safely! I knew that monster wouldn't be a match for you," Xiuban calmly flattered.

Lin Yun looked at him and said in a poor mood, "We are leaving. Although that monster was injured, it should be mostly fine. I don't know when it might catch up to us.

The exit of that abandoned alchemy laboratory wasn't as hard to find as it was for the previous hold. Only one operational array could be seen in this room. It was an array that alchemists usually used as a gate, and it needed a verbal command to enter or exit.

Cracking it was also very simple, only taking Lin Yun one minute.

"Doroya."

When the strange incantation echoed, an exit appeared in the center of the array.

"Go!"

The thick-skinned Draconic Beastman walked in front, followed by the others.

Surprisingly, what awaited them on the other side wasn't a hold, but a spacious hallway of unknown length.

They could see tightly locked doors on both sides of the hallway, and each door had a simple array on it.

Lin Yun's heart sank. They had clearly entered the main area of the Intrepid. This should be the place where the crew was active. Who knew what awaited them?

The entrance hidden inside the alchemy lab would definitely not lead to a simple place.

"North Fidel."

The simple verbal command closed the array entrance behind them.

They were at the start of the hallway, and only array gates could be seen along its length, over twenty of them.

"We can only check every single one, I guess? There is no clue as to where the captain's cabin is, this ship is too strange. Try to find any useful clues. Without figuring something out, we can't leave this place. It would be even better if we can find a map of the ship." Lin Yun said this aloud to everyone and started the array gate next to him. Less than a minute later, he uttered a simple incantation and opened the door.

The sullen Xiuban was once again the first to walk in.

The space within that room was also expanded many times, but it was far from being as big as the holds. It was only a kilometer or two long, and with the rotten things inside, he could tell that this was an old warehouse, one that had stored food.

There was no danger, but also no harvest.

They kept checking a dozen rooms like that, but they still got nothing. There wasn't even a part that could be salvaged from the alchemy puppets they encountered. They got to an area that seemed to be slaves' quarters, and apart from those chaotic bedding, there was nothing.

They only encountered a group of Lesser Undead that even Xiuban didn't feel like taking care of.

On their way, they examined the doors on both sides once and didn't get anything useful.

But the last door they went through was a lot better. It probably had been the room of a well-paid crew member. This area that covered several kilometers was like a small world lit by a powerful, everlasting illumination spell. There was a huge crystal on the side that was furnishing power, but that crystal had already darkened quite a lot. The light of the illumination was like an old man past his prime, about to stop burning anytime.

The floor wasn't made of wood, but of some type of black earth, and a lawn was surprisingly still growing on that soil.

Only small courtyards were established on that land.

"Xiuban, go and check if there is anything alive in there."

After receiving Lin Yun's command, Xiuban hurriedly followed it. There had been no dangers in all the rooms so far, so it seemed like an easy task.

Lin Yun also checked out the courtyards and found some books, but they had decayed so much that he couldn't make out anything.

Some seemingly intact books turned to ashes with a light touch.

There were over forty courtyards, but they found nothing useful when they searched inside.

And it was the same for the final courtyard. The insides looked like they had been abandoned for a few millennia. Everything useful had already decayed.

"Sir Merlin, I found something!" Xiuban shouted from the back of the courtyard.

They rushed to the back and saw an almost-withered Mana Ivy Morning Glory, and Xiuban was stretching his hand to take it. That Mana Morning Glory was like a mirage. Xiuban's big hand was just passing through it, unable to grab it.

"Sir Merlin, I know this is alive. As for the rest, there's nothing else here, not even any Undead."

With a quick glance, Lin Yun saw that the space here was distorted.

He took out his crystal pen and wrote down a large array. Less than two minutes later, the distorted space stabilized.

Xiuban followed Lin Yun's hint and finally uprooted that Mana Morning Glory.

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Chapter 601: Password

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Lin Yun could sense some reaction. There was not a single bit of mana in that cabin. The illumination spell above their heads had a simple array, and that array was absorbing the mana in the air to supply the light.

And that crystal had also darkened. According to his conjecture, the mana within the crystal was enough to keep this illumination powered for over a millennium. Since the mana within it was running out, the mana within the cabin must have run out four or five centuries ago.

But no matter how little mana it needed, that Mana Morning Glory needed it to grow!

In Noscent, these grew in various places, and some even considered them weeds.

But it wasn't normal!

After cracking the spatial distortion, Lin Yun keenly found the abnormality of that area. This place actually had very little mana, so little that it could barely provide for a Mana Morning Glory.

The mana had been exhausted for a few hundred years inside a sealed cabin, so how could it be normal for there to be an area that still had some mana left?

He used his crystal pen once more and started writing. After a while, the space in front of him distorted and another layer of space cracked.

The original one-meter space had doubled in size!

The space there was folded!

And in the newly revealed area, there was a level 35 mana crystal with more than half of its power eroded.

Lin Yun faintly frowned, writing with his crystal pen once more. After no less than half an hour, he relaxed again and reached with his hand.

Then, Lin Yun's hand disappeared. After a second, a metal box appeared in his hand.

"The first layer of space was twisted, the second layer was folded… Even if someone put a mana crystal inside, before being eroded, that mana crystal should have been about level 40. If someone found this place and discovered a mana crystal close to level 40 after cracking it, they wouldn't have noticed those twenty centimeters of hidden space."

Enderfa glanced at the box in Lin Yun's hands, a bit shocked. He couldn't help cursing, "Again? A jewelry box made out of Star Essence? This is so extravagant!"

But before he could open this box, the surroundings shook and a faint shout could be heard.

Their expressions changed as they realized what it might be.

"Quick, let's leave this place, it's most likely that monster chasing us!"

They rushed out of the cabin and were able to clearly hear the shouts of that monster in the hallway.

An angry, deafening roar came out from one of the back rooms, alongside the sounds of everything being smashed.

Xiuban's expression was terrible, Enderfa's face was shivering, and Reina's hand was trembling as she held Heaven's Wrath.

"Quick, let's take this short distance teleportation array and leave, it should lead us to the upper floor."

Lin Yun pointed at the small array at the end of the hallway and then hurriedly incanted, immediately activating it.

Reina, Xiuban, and the puppet walked into the teleportation array and disappeared with a flash.

As for Lin Yun, he took out his crystal pen and quickly arranged symbols in front of him and tampered with the array of the room that the monster was in, increasing the defenses of the array gate in the process.

As for the array in front, it was a delayed burst array that could annihilate all traces of Aura, mana, and so on.

After finishing with that, Lin Yun didn't wait for the monster to come out and immediately took Enderfa with him and left through the array, disappearing in a flash.

After leaving, before even looking around, he immediately destroyed the array behind him!

Only after destroying the teleportation array did he relax.

'Too dangerous…'

When he heard the monster's angry roar, he knew that the latter hadn't been injured too much. If they were blocked by that monster in that kind of narrow place, or even in any of the cabins, they would be in a dead-end all the same.

Especially after experiencing that monster's disgusting vitality, comparable to Winchester. Lin Yun simply didn't think of fighting that monster face to face.

Able to absorb mana, seal mana, and simply defy death… He simply didn't know how to put an end to that monster. Under such circumstances, avoiding it was the most sensible course of action.

At this time, Xiuban and Reina had already done a rough inspection of their surroundings. Besides the deathly silence, there was no clear danger.

This place was a wide square with multiple array gates all around. Four hallways shrouded in darkness spread from the square's four directions.

After confirming that there was no danger, Lin Yun took out the Star Essence box.

"That monster shouldn't reach this place for the time being. Let's take a look at what's inside this, it might be usable."

After having cracked a similar box already, the second one was a lot easier.

The array cracking went very smoothly. Lin Yun was very careful and meticulous, spending a dozen minutes on that task.

But he stopped at the last step.

"Is there a problem?" Enderfa asked.

Lin Yun pointed at the box, confused and dumbfounded.

"I don't know which scoundrel did this, but the last step not only requires a password, but it also is linked to a Fortune Box!"

Enderfa was confused.

"What do you mean? Is it impossible to crack?"

Lin Yun's expression was terrible.

"It is crackable… I can decipher the last sentence, it only needs time. Even if I don't decipher that sentence, I can crack it, but the crucial part is the Fortune Box linked to it. That damned Fortune Box is still inside the Star Essence box, and if I can't crack the Fortune Box, then it doesn't matter if I get the password! The Fortune Box will teleport the contents away."

Enderfa was at a loss when he heard that.

"Damn, that box was completely forged out of Star Essence, even a Saint Alchemist wouldn't be able to crack the array inside."

Lin Yun massaged his eyebrows before pointing at the Star Essence box.

"You can test it, you can try saying the password. It will work if you are right."

Enderfa's three faces moved in front of the box and started talking to it.

He said everything that went through his mind, even stuff like why Pure-Blood Male Elves couldn't copulate with Female Chromatic Dragons.

But the box still didn't react. None of those things had been identified as the password.

After half an hour, Enderfa ran out of words. Lin Yun glanced at Reina and Xiuban and pointed at the box.

"You also give it a try, who knows what password that damned scoundrel chose."

Reina, who was looking at Enderfa in confusion, recovered her wits. After hesitating, she decided to give it a try.

"Cold moon's sun, carries an intoxicating radiant yarn…"

Reina started reciting all kinds of poems and then moved on to narrating ancient ballads.

Her cold and cheerless voice had a bit of a bard's rhythm… Lin Yun stared at her, seeing an entirely new side to this cold Frost Dragon.

Even Enderfa stopped, flabbergasted.

As for Xiuban, it could be seen how uncultured he was.

"Lord Xiuban raised his Carnage and killed his way from Thousand Sails City to Okland City, then from Okland to the Raging Flame Plane, magic beasts and the Undead shiver in front of Lord Xiuban, ah, the great Lord Xiuban is the bane of all enemies…"

The Draconic Beastman was shamelessly narrating in great detail. Had it not been for Lin Yun still being near them, he would have also brandished Carnage as he boasted. Everyone's voices overlapped as they made their guesses.

"Damned Monster, kneel to the ground and beg forgiveness to Lord Xiuban!"

"Click…"

A light sound echoed, and to everyone's surprise, the box was unlocked.

Reina stopped, Enderfa also stopped, and Xiuban also couldn't help stopping.

"It's open?" Enderfa was dumbstruck, "What was the password?"

"Let's try again and we will know…" Xiuban straightforwardly closed the box.

"…"

The surroundings went silent.

They all stared at Xiuban.

After a short moment, Enderfa condensed an arm out of his fog and grabbed the Draconic Beastman by his neck. "F*ck, F*ck, you idiot! If the box can't open again, I'll get rid of you!"

"…" Lin Yun's expression was terrible. 'Calm, calm, I must remain calm.' He kept reminding himself, 'Killing a weak child is wrong, yes, deep breaths, deep breaths.' After calming himself down, Lin Yun told Xiuban, "I'll give you a minute to open the box again…"

"I…" The Draconic Beastman looked at Enderfa, then looked at Lin Yun and was scared into tears, "I really don't know what it is…"

"F*ck, think about it carefully!" Enderfa stomped with fury, "The last sentence! The last sentence!"

"Beg forgiveness to Lord Xiuban?"

"Wrong!"

"Kneel to the ground…"

"F*ck, if you can't come up with it, you'll really have to kneel and beg for forgiveness!"

"Eh…" Xiuban was still weeping, "That… Is it… Damned monster?"

"You are the damned…" Enderfa couldn't endure it anymore, anger could be seen on his three faces.

"Click…"

But at this time, a light sound echoed again.

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Chapter 602: Blueprint

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"Damn, it was really damned monster? This is such a shitty password…" Enderfa had an amazed expression.

Lin Yun was also dumbstruck…

But he soon threw these things to the back of his mind. After opening the box, Lin Yun could easily get the things inside. They were blueprints. Lin Yun counted forty-five sheets of paper, each of which was exceptionally complicated, and when assembled, it formed a huge array…

Moreover, Lin Yun couldn't make sense of that array.

What kind of concept was that…?

Lin Yun was a newly advanced Artisan!

An Artisan that could blindly destroy a Dimensional Cloister, yet he couldn't make sense of this huge array! This meant that this huge array had most likely already reached the Heaven Rank!

That's right, a Heaven Rank Array…

Lin Yun looked at the blueprint in shock for no less than a minute before slowly putting it down.

The blueprints were unusually refined. Moreover, every detailed annotation was written using the runes of the Sea Races.

This was somewhat strange…

Besides being strange and concise, the Sea Races' runes weren't that special. They didn't carry frightening power like the Ascian Runes, and they also weren't like the Nesser Runes, which were naturally suited for casting magic. In fact, apart from the Sea Races themselves, few people in Noscent would be willing to use their runes to write anything.

'Could it be that this Heaven Rank blueprint came from the hands of the Sea Races?"

But it was a bit strange…

In the history of Noscent, there had never been any Saint Alchemists among the Sea Races… as far as he knew.

Lin Yun thought about it as he browsed the blueprints. Although he couldn't understand most of it, he still felt the power of that array.

The more he looked, the more alarmed he felt.

This wasn't an ordinary Heaven Rank Array.

Its might was too terrible…

Lin Yun felt that the blueprint in his hands might even be considered high-end within the Heaven Rank.

Maybe only first-rate Saint Alchemists could understand this array.

The difference between a Heaven Rank Array and a True Spirit Array was akin to the difference between Heaven and Earth. Heaven Rank Arrays had already reached the stage where they could alter Laws!

Formidable Heaven Rank Arrays could even draw upon their own Laws!

It was rumored that the greatest Heaven Rank Array could even tamper with a world's foundational Laws!

And even if this Heaven Rank Array wasn't the greatest, it wasn't far behind. Lin Yun managed to decipher a few parts that didn't conform to Laws!

These parts were clearly tampering with Laws…

After looking for half an hour, Lin Yun knew that he simply couldn't figure out any sheets of the blueprint in a short time, even the simplest part.

As he thought of this, Lin Yun was about to put away the blueprints.

On the side, Xiuban was acting like an alchemist, conscientiously looking at the blueprints. When he saw Lin Yun about to put them away, he cautiously pointed at one of them.

"Sir Merlin, didn't we go through there?"

"What do you mean?" Lin Yun didn't understand.

"What you are holding, isn't it a map of the Ghost Ship? You see, here? Isn't that the hold where we met that monster?"

"Map?" Lin Yun froze. He quickly spread the blueprints out again, before organizing them based on the holds they went through.

Lin Yun no longer treated these blueprints as the design of an array. Just as Xiuban Said, it was definitely a map of the Ghost Ship.

Lin Yun now understood.

"Sh*t, it's really the map of the Intrepid!"

Keel, Hold, Deck, Sail, Helm…

Everything fit!

Lin Yun's hands shook… This was a frightening discovery.

This wasn't just the blueprint of a top-notch Heaven Rank Array, it also explained all the materials and the structure of the Intrepid!

Could it be that the Intrepid itself was a Heaven Rank Array?

Enderfa was stunned when he heard this. They were actually on a Heaven Rank Array?

This was frightening!

In fact, Lin Yun suddenly understood many of the puzzling things that had happened. The Spatial Law had most likely been tampered with. Many things that happened here couldn't be understood with his own experience, because they followed the Laws of the Intrepid!

And Lin Yun also realized that he had taken many things for granted. Now that he thought about it, those might have been a lot more complicated. A God's remains couldn't be so strange and unfathomable. Everything had an explanation.

Heaven Rank Array!

Those few words alone could make anything unreasonable become rational.

The more he understood, the more he felt a chill. Lin Yun forced himself to not think about the array and only consider this blueprint as a map of the Intrepid.

Soon, Lin Yun found the hallway he had walked down before, and he also found his current location.

Even if this blueprint could also be considered a map, it was extremely complicated. After a while, Lin Yun massaged his aching eyes.

Captain's Cabin, Kitchen, Warehouse, Crew's Quarters, Slave Work Hold…

After finding these simple areas, he constructed a rough outline of the ship in his mind.

After contemplating for a while, Lin Yun pointed to a part of the map.

"We are here. By going through there and there, we should be able to find the captain's cabin. I think that inside the captain's cabin we can most likely find a way to leave this place. Red Beard wouldn't imprison himself inside this Ghost Ship, would he?"

With a rough plan and a map of the Intrepid, the matter became a lot simpler. It didn't matter if he couldn't figure out the Heaven Rank Array for the time being, as he could always use the map.

Lin Yun barely finished his sentence before an angry and hateful roar was heard.

Xiuban wasn't sleepy at all, while Reina looked somewhat fearful. Enderfa ruthlessly cursed, "Is that damned monster a f*cking Three-Headed Hellhound?"

Lin Yun's eyelids twitched. That monster was chasing them too quickly!

A Three-Headed Hellhound was good at tracking. As long as it caught a scent, it wouldn't let go even if it had to run to the end of the world.

But earlier, Lin Yun had meticulously set up an array to take care of their scent and tracks, even removing any mana fluctuations. He had also destroyed the teleportation array, so even a group of Hellhounds shouldn't be able to catch them.

He truly didn't expect that monster to catch up to them so quickly. He really didn't know how that monster tracked them.

"Run! Or that monster will slowly kill us…" Enderfa was despairing.

That monster's vitality was too unreasonable. As long as they were able to avoid the tentacles, that monster's power wouldn't be that overwhelming.

But once they were grabbed, that monster would keep absorbing everyone's mana, and once they ran out, the end result was easy to guess.

Lin Yun also got angry. After coming to this era, it was the first time he suffered such a disastrous loss. Lich Barton was still in the Book of Death and his mana had yet to completely recover, yet that b*stard still dared to chase them.

'Damn, there is no end to this!'

"Alright, since you don't want to let go, don't blame me for being rude…" Lin Yun clenched his teeth after putting the map away, his face full of killing intent, "Let's leave a big gift for that guy this time!"

After confirming the location of the monster through the sounds and aura, Lin Yun led everyone in the opposite direction.

They kept going through maze-like hallways and found another short-distance teleportation array. After activating it, they arrived on another floor. Lin Yun was like an old sailor on the Intrepid, unhesitantly choosing a path and following it.

They casually reached an array gate.

Lin Yun took out his crystal pen and didn't even think before starting to crack the array. A few seconds later, the array gate was cracked open by Lin Yun.

He had Enderfa and the others go in first before reinforcing that array gate. After less than a minute, the defenses of the array gate had reached a whole new level.

After going through, Lin Yun immediately took out three exquisitely decorated pieces of gold.

When Enderfa saw these three fist-sized pieces of metal, he felt distressed. He opened his mouth to say something, but then ended up remaining mute.

Three fist-sized pieces of Eternal Gold Essence!

This was the best magic material for crafting defensive Magic Tools or armors. The amount of Eternal Gold Essence produced every year in Noscent was pathetically small. This magic metal definitely couldn't be found on the market.

Even a poor Eternal Gold Essence Vein would be enough to make two major forces dispatch Archmages to fight over it!

Under the True Spirit realm, any Magic Tool or armor which had Eternal Gold Essence fused into it, even by an Apprentice Blacksmith, would upgrade it by a rank. Even a True Spirit Magic Tool could see its defense greatly increase after Eternal Gold Essence was incorporated.

If a True Spirit Magic Tool was made mainly out of Eternal Gold Essence, it's defense could only be rated as abnormal.

This was a rarely seen magic material that massively reinforced defense and sturdiness.

But now, Lin Yun was using it to set up an array, and he used three fist-sized lumps of it in order to set up an array that could only be described as crude and extravagant.

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Chapter 603: Hand of Destruction

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Even when knowing that there was a powerful enemy behind them and that it wasn't the time to be reluctant, Enderfa still couldn't help having a pained expression. He looked at Lin Yun like he was a disappointing wastrel.

Lin Yun took two minutes to set up a rough defensive array, and after hesitating for a moment, he took out the first box made of Star Essence. After taking out the key from within, the raw material of the box was added to the array.

The array was simple and crude, and it only had a defensive effect. Even an Apprentice Alchemist would be unwilling to throw a second glance at it… It was simply a disgrace to the field of alchemy.

But there was no time to waste.

After arranging the array, Lin Yun turned and assessed the long and narrow hold.

This hold was different from the others, as cannon-like things were piled up in a mess.

These cannons were completely forged out of magic metal. The small ones were over three meters long and half a meter thick, while the big ones were seven to eight meters long and over a meter thick.

The quantity of runes and arrays carved on top would make one's hair stand on end. Every single area was carved, nothing was wasted.

"You must block the monster when it catches up."

After saying those words, Lin Yun summoned Lagulin and Barton. Lagulin had already thoroughly digested Winchester's soul fire and had advanced to level 37.

It was a pity that Lin Yun only took a glance before focusing his attention on these cannons.

These cannons forged out of magic metals were called Mana Crystal Cannons. They used pure mana crystals or the mana crystals of magic beasts as their source of power.

Long ago, the ancestor of the Dwarves, the Titan Dwarf, had gained inspiration from the Gnomes and crafted this magic weapon of war.

These Mana Crystal Cannons could extract and gather the mana from mana crystals, and the energy gathered would form the purest mana attack. With it, the power of one could take down ten. It was a rough and simple, and even Dragons were unwilling to get hit by it.

Lin Yun knew how abnormal that monster's vitality was. They would be caught sooner or later if the chase continued. Also, after learning that the Intrepid itself was a Heaven Rank Array, Lin Yun could no longer allow himself to be chased by that monster.

It was too dangerous… The Intrepid itself was more dangerous than that monster! What if they triggered something while getting chased?

A Heaven Rank Array!

If they triggered a trap, even if it was just a small part, it would be enough for their group to die ten times.

After looking at the map, Lin Yun made this hold of cannons his most important target!

The Mana Crystal Cannons there would definitely not be trash, and furthermore, it was shown on the plans that this was one of the areas of the Intrepid with great external defenses!

The Mana Crystal Cannons there were definitely the most powerful cannons of the Intrepid, and the ones in the best condition!

Lin Yun took out a level 25 mana crystal and inserted it into the notches of the Mana Crystal Cannons one by one to test whether they were still in good condition.

After checking all of them, he found that they were all broken. However, he discovered a large Mana Crystal Cannon hidden in the back.

Those damaged cannons were all piled together, but a thick cannon barrel could be seen sticking out from them.

Lin Yun's eyes shone.

He summoned a few Rock Puppets and had them toss aside the broken cannons. Soon, a huge Mana Crystal Cannon that was nine meters long and one and a half meters thick was standing in front of them.

The Mana Crystal Cannon was fastened to the hold, with huge cannon platform under it. The Mana Crystal Cannon was completely dark purple, and it was emitting a frightening aura.

Lin Yun only took a quick glance before pouncing over, unhesitantly inserting the level 25 mana crystal into the notch.

Mana started spreading, and the arrays covering the entire Mana Crystal Cannon lit up.

"Holy! It's actually a Hand of Destruction! That large killing tool still works!?"

Lin Yun's eyes turned red as he swallowed in surprise.

Hand of Destruction! A true war magic weapon!

During the peak of the future magic civilization, the main cannons of those formidable magic battleships were Hands of Destruction.

The name Hand of Destruction came from one of the most powerful Gods, the Lord of Destruction.

And the Lord of Destruction's greatest power was supported by the might of one hand!

After all, he was one of the most powerful gods during the Ancient God Era. His power could be ranked among the top five of the 72 Gods. It was even theorized that his power could be counted among the top three.

The Lord of Destruction once used just one hand to erase a city from the face of Noscent during the God Era.

Even after countless years, stories of this feat kept spreading.

As for the power of the Hand of Destruction, it was said to be comparable to the power of one hand of the Lord of Destruction!

Because of this, the Hand of Destruction was the only Mana Crystal Cannon with a name!

At the peak of the magic civilization, when encountering a plane that was difficult to conquer, the mages would only need to send those most powerful magic battleships and show the appearance of the Hand of Destruction. It would make the plane's indigenous lifeforms fall apart without even needing to act.

Lin Yun gently caressed that Hand of Destruction like one would treat a lover.

After a few seconds, Lin Yun took back his and focused, albeit with reluctance. He started cracking the controlling array of the Hand of Destruction.

During the end of the Magic Era, the Hands of Destruction on the formidable magic battleships were also torn off and affixed onto the Shelter Tower, used as one of the main defenses of the tower.

Unfortunately, Lin Yun had never seen a Hand of Destruction in action. During the last few centuries of Noscent, the Hands of Destruction were nothing more than decorations.

They consumed mana crystals like bottomless pits. No one was willing or able to use one.

During those twenty years, Lin Yun had researched those Hands of Destruction.

Could they be used? Yes!

As long as they had mana crystals to power them, anyone could use them.

Unfortunately, in that era where they had to face huge dangers and meditate to squeeze just a pitiful amount of mana from the Netherstorm, based on what Lin Yun knew, not a single person could get the mana crystals required to power up one of them.

When Lin Yun had learnt of the Hands of Destruction, he rushed over to study them. Apart from tearing one open to study how they were made, he was able to learn how to adjust them and how to manipulate them.

Lin Yun's fingers were constantly moving on the control array of the Hand of Destruction. There were over four hundred control commands on the two-meter-long control array, and most of the array was encrypted. Lin Yun had to crack the encryption before he would be able to control this Hand of Destruction.

Holding the crystal pen in hand, he was like a shadow, writing a great many runes to try to break that encryption.

After barely fifteen minutes, a huge shaking came from the entrance.

The people guarding the entrance were instantly startled. Xiuban tightened his grip on Carnage, his aura very unstable as he was fretful and worried.

Enderfa floated a few meters in the air, his three faces carrying a very heavy expression as he roused the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel, ready to cast a wave of spells anytime.

Reina tightened her grip on Heaven's Wrath, glancing at the level 37 Lagulin and recalling the might of the previous owner of Heaven's Wrath, Winchester. After a bit of hesitation, she handed the sword to Lagulin.

Holding the sword, death energy rushed forth and the runes on the sword slightly glowed. It could be seen that the power of the three Runic Spells would clearly be stronger in its hands than in Reina's hands.

"Bang…"

"Bang…"

"Bang…"

After less than a minute, the array gate was burst open. Light shattered as two dozen thick tentacles started rushing in from outside.

As they were under attack, the array that Lin Yun had set up ahead of time was activated. It was a simple and rough Heaven Net Defense, a defensive array that was only at the Great Alchemist level. Even an alchemist that had recently advanced to the Great Alchemist Rank could easily set it up.

The only things that could affect the power of the defensive effect were the materials.

This was also a benefit of this inferior array. It had very few restrictions on what materials could be used.

Lin Yun had extravagantly used three lumps of Eternal Gold Essence and a box made of Star Essence to reinforce this Heaven Net Defense to its peak.

The entrance was covered by a net with golden radiance. The tentacles were forcing their way in, but they were stopped by the Heaven Net Defense.

On the other side, Lin Yun was working faster at cracking the encryption of the Hand of Destruction. He had already cast Sharp Mind and Haste to increase his writing speed.

The crystal pen in his hand had already turned into a shadow, consuming three bottles of ink in the process.

Had it been an ordinary Mana Crystal Cannon, he would have already been done cracking it, but with the increased power of this cannon, he had greater chances of getting rid of that monster, so how could Lin Yun give up?

After five minutes, the Heaven Net Defense was reaching its limit. The golden net was dimming, and black smoke was already slipping through it.

That smoke quickly condensed into a black tentacle and attacked the group.

Xiuban rushed over with a roar as he raised Carnage up, and Lagulin also brandished Heaven's Wrath as the rune representing the Evil Halo shone.

A scarlet, ring-shaped rune appeared under Lagulin's feet. The speed of both Xiuban and Reina was doubled.

With the first tentacle passing through, the battle truly started.

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Chapter 604: Boom!

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Enderfa controlled the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel to send out a wave of fire spells, while Reina cast a large flurry of ice spells.

The puppet's firepower seemed to be the strongest. All its spells were instant, and the lowest ones were at the 5th Rank.

That monster's tentacle burst into pieces when the flood of spells crashed into it.

But at the same time, more and more black smoke got through and condensed into more and more tentacles. Besides Xiuban, the others didn't dare to approach those tentacles.

After taking a bath in God Blood, Xiuban had completely severed his connection to mana, and he had no mana to begin with. The mana sealing and mana absorption effects of the tentacles were ineffective against him.

In the group, Xiuban was the only one that could fight those tentacles in close range, while Reina could only use ice spells.

Even Lagulin could only use Evil Halo to buff everyone, raiding their movement speed and attack speed. He was also slashing with Heaven's Wrath from a distance, sending Undead Slashes over.

Unfortunately, Xiuban truly wasn't a match for them…

Without even putting up any decent resistance, Xiuban was sent flying back with a scream.

When Xiuban got up from the ground, everyone could see three swollen, red bruises on his skin.

"Sir Merlin, faster, we won't be able to hold for long! This monster is fighting its way in!"

Xiuban shouted in fright while brandishing Carnage. Less than twenty tentacles were already so troublesome, and outside the door, not only was there the monster's head, but there was also a large amount of power that still hadn't made its way inside.

Enderfa clenched his teeth, rousing the Spell Wheel to its limit, further depleting the bit of mana that the Elemental Amber had managed to regain.

Reina also turned into her Dragon Shape, casting spells in Draconic. But no matter how many tentacles they annihilated, more would come to take their place.

They couldn't approach, so they could only use long range attacks, greatly limiting their offensive capabilities. This simply wasn't effective.

After more than a dozen minutes, Xiuban spat out blood.

"Sir Merlin, if you don't finish, Xiuban will really be done for…"

Xiuban's voice was full of fear.

Even the simple Xiuban knew that when they could no longer hold off this monster, everyone would die. That monster wasn't like Syudos, who was always just ruthlessly sorting him out.

The battlefield was slowly moving towards Lin Yun. One of Enderfa's faces also turned to look at Lin Yun and saw the sweat on his forehead. Lin Yun had already finished cracking the encryption. His hands were moving on the control plate of the Hand of Destruction at such a speed that it looked as if they were spasming.

"Merlin…"

After a soft call, Enderfa restrained himself and didn't say anything further.

"Sir Merlin… Ah… Save me…" The Draconic Beastman's scream felt mournful.

"Shut, don't disturb Merlin!"

Enderfa gnashed his teeth as he scolded the Draconic Beastman.

At this time, Lin Yun's hand finally stopped and he instantly put a mana crystal in the notch of the Hand of Destruction.

A light shone from the cannon mouth as the Hand of Destruction was fully activated.

Lin Yun controlled it and had it change direction, aiming at the entrance.

"Persevere!" Lin Yun gnashed his teeth as he stared at the entrance. The Heaven Net Defense suddenly split open!

'Faster, a bit faster…'

The Hand of Destruction needed time to shoot. More time was needed for it to gather more power, and this process needed to be controlled by someone.

The puppet was carelessly caught by a tentacle. Reina cast a High Tier Ice Spell to save it, but they had all already been pushed back to the front of the Hand of Destruction.

"Sir Merlin, faster!"

Xiuban was pale. He had bloodstains all over his chest, and his hands were already shaking while holding Carnage.

"Snap!"

A loud sound was heard as the Heaven Net Defense completely snapped.

The monster's huge head squeezed into the three-meter-high entrance. Those eyes made of blazing grey flames only contained anger and hatred.

"Damn rat, I finally found you…"

After shouting, over seventy tentacles rushed in, turning into a black wall of tentacles coming towards them.

"Fall back!" Lin Yun roared. The energy at the end of the cannon suddenly intensified as a glaring white light was emitted from the mouth of the cannon, making it hard for everyone to keep their eyes open!

The powerful mana fluctuation was like a tsunami, raising gales around them. The surging mana fluctuations made even Lin Yun, the controller of the Hand of Destruction, feel like he was drowning, his complexion turning bright red.

Reina, Xiuban, Enderfa, Lagulin, and the puppet…

None of them could look dignified as they threw themselves behind the Hand of Destruction.

"Enjoy the gift I prepared for you," Lin Yun squeezed out. Over a hundred black tentacles were already in the room, but Lin Yun didn't even look at them.

When the tentacles were ten meters away, Lin Yun slammed the one independent rune on top of the cannon.

"Boom!"

A thick, white beam of light shot out of the cannon. Like a holy light piercing through the darkness of the apocalypse, it pierced the wall of tentacles.

The tentacles were like pieces of paper in front of that light, they couldn't even slow it down and only melted away.

Following the light beam, lightning revolved around that laser that seemed akin to sacred fire, sweeping through everything.

All the tentacles turned into smoke, and all the death energy was instantly annihilated.

It didn't just disperse, it was thoroughly annihilated!

Thoroughly erased from this world!

The monster's head had just squeezed out of the entrance and was forced to take the beam head-on. A large part of its body was destroyed, and its miserable scream was cut short.

The lightning revolving around the beam was cleansing everything, annihilating all the tentacles and only leaving half a broken skull behind.

And the only reason even that much remained was the fact that the monster was blown out of the entrance by the explosion, and the indestructible Intrepid's structure resisted half of the light of annihilation.

The light lasted three seconds before vanishing. The monster's half-broken skull let out miserable screams, retreating like the tide.

"You'll see, you'll see, you damn rats, I'll wait for you in this ship's darkest area…"

The light of the Hand of Destruction dimmed.

Lin Yun, Xiuban, and Reina sprawled to the ground. The Ten Thousand Spell Wheel also fell to the ground, and Enderfa nowhere to be found. The puppet was also lying on the ground face-first, trying to get up. Lagulin was covered in black smoke as if illuminated by holy light.

After a while, they all crawled up from the ground. Lin Yun took out a Health Potion, drank half, and then poured the rest in Xiuban's mouth.

"Are you alright?" Lin Yun asked weakly after a few moments.

"I'm fine…" Reina said before barely managing to get up.

"Sir Merlin, I… It looks like I have a problem!" After drinking some of the Health Potion, Xiuban wanted to take advantage of the crisis for himself.

"Shut up…" Lin Yun unhappily scolded.

He then noticed the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel moving. One of Enderfa's heads worriedly looked out, looking like a thief. He then came out of the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel.

"I was scared to death. The monster didn't manage to get rid of me, but I almost died to that Mana Crystal Cannon…" Enderfa floated out, looking panicked. "That power is too frightening…"

"That it is…" Lin Yun still had goosebumps.

Although it was rumored that a Heaven Rank powerhouse had been blown up by a Hand of Destruction, Lin Yun hadn't completely believed it. Everything under the Heaven Rank was mortal, but the Heaven Rank was like a completely different species. No matter how powerful the Hand of Destruction was, in front of the extraordinary power of the Heaven Rank, it shouldn't have that much effect.

But he had now witnessed the power of the Hand of Destruction, and his thoughts had been shaken.

This kind of power could only be described as capable of extinguishing the heavens.

Moreover, it shouldn't be forgotten that this Hand of Destruction was far from being at its peak. After all, a Hand of Destruction at its peak would be using a Heaven Rank mana crystal. The mana crystals he had put in could only allow the Hand of Destruction to display 10% of its power…

If 10% already had such power, then wouldn't the Hand of Destruction at full power easily be able to take out a Heaven Rank?

…

Everyone rested for half an hour. When Lin Yun saw that they all had more or less recovered, he casually cast a Gale spell.

The dust spread around them was dispersed, and the space between the cannon and the entrance was revealed to everyone.

It was a shocking scene.

The originally three-meter-tall entrance was now a hole that was more than twice as tall. The edges were showing signs of burns, as if it had been instantly cauterized by the luminous flames.

The floor there was also burnt black, alongside traces of lightning.

This kind of damage wouldn't have been as notable in other places, but it shouldn't be forgotten that they were on the Intrepid!

The hull of the Intrepid was made out of a God's remains, and unless something on the same level of power was used, it couldn't be damaged!

That monster had been attacking like crazy for such a long time, yet it hadn't been able to make a single crack around the door. Xiuban had used the power of the Three-Headed Gold Dragon Bloodline and was only able to make a thumb-sized hole in the hull.

Enderfa was foolishly staring at this six-meter-wide hole.

Reina's mouth was wide open, and so were her eyes.

That power came from neither an Extraordinary Magic Tool nor a Heaven Rank Powerhouse, but rather something that even a High Mage like Lin Yun could control?

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Chapter 605: Coded Message

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Lin Yun walked to the Hand of Destruction and caressed it for a while, regret smeared across his face.

Unfortunately, that thing couldn't be removed. As the Intrepid's main cannon, it could be said that it was part of the Intrepid. The Intrepid couldn't be damaged, so it could only remain there.

Enderfa recovered, his three faces regretfully looking at the Hand of Destruction. Even when watching Lin Yun gently caressing the Hand of Destruction, he didn't feel like making any jokes.

Suddenly, Lin Yun frowned, apparently recalling something, before quickly taking out a crystal pen and writing in a corner underneath the control panel.

Soon after, Lin Yun reached out to the panel and pulled out a palm-sized drawer.

Inside was a folded blueprint. After he took a glance, Lin Yun's hands shook.

"Sure enough, sure enough, it was hidden in there! The blueprint for the Hand of Destruction was really there…"

The Hand of Destruction's blueprint…

This thing didn't exist even during the end of the Magic Era. It had already been lost in the river of time, and even up until the end of Noscent, no one was able to lay their eyes upon it.

Thus, there had only been thirteen Hands of Destruction at the peak of the Magic Era. This was not because they didn't have the technology, since they had reached the pinnacle of all time, and it was also not because they didn't have materials, considering that they had colonized so many planes and could find all sorts of materials.

It was because they didn't have the blueprints, and the Magic Crystal Cannons designed later didn't reach the power of the Hand of Destruction.

After producing thirteen Magic Crystal Cannons, this blueprint disappeared, and even the creator, the Titan Dwarf, didn't know where the blueprint ended up…

Lin Yun was pleasantly surprised to have found the blueprint of the Hand of Destruction that had been lost for so many years…

This was a real treasure…

With the complete blueprint, many things needed to be supplemented. After returning, he would only need to build one Hand of Destruction in the Flame Demon Fort, and then they wouldn't be afraid of Heaven Rank powerhouses…

As for those under the Heaven Rank, they could only fall to the cannon without even getting to struggle!

Lin Yun happily looked down, but it didn't take long before his expression changed.

"Sh*t!"

Enderfa saw Lin Yun's face and promptly asked, "What's up? Is there a problem? Is that blueprint fake?"

Lin Yun grumbled for a long time before gloomily saying, "The blueprint is genuine, and it's also complete, but… We can't manufacture a Hand of Destruction. The crucial requirement for that thing is the forging talent of those damn Titan Dwarves!"

Enderfa lost interest when he heard that.

Titan Dwarves?

It was unknown when that entire race died out, but the Titan Dwarves hadn't appeared since the end of the 3rd Dynasty. Who knew if they might be living in seclusion in a corner of Noscent or in another plane?

No one could understand this more than Lin Yun. Titan Dwarves were the ancestors of all Dwarven Races. They inherited their forging skills from the Titans, which could be considered at the peak of all races. They developed many unique techniques for forging things.

While crafting the Hands of Destruction, some core components needed to be forged by Titan Dwarves. Without these core components, there would be no Hand of Destruction.

Lin Yun clearly remembered that five millennia later, the Titan Dwarves would end their seclusion and appear in Noscent once again.

Before that, no one ever found a Titan Dwarf. It wasn't that no one tried to, but rather that no one was able to find them.

After five millennia, the Titan Dwarves appeared with their blueprint of the Hand of Destruction and crafted thirteen Hands of Destruction. Unfortunately, that blueprint ended up going missing afterwards. No more of those legendary cannons were ever forged from that point on.

And during the forging of the Shelter Tower, the Titan Dwarves were among the most important participants. They were the ones that installed those thirteen Hands of Destruction atop the Shelter Tower.

Thus, seeing this, Lin Yun immediately gave up on crafting a Hand of Destruction.

But other thoughts appeared in his mind as he looked at the Heaven Rank Puppet.

'Even if I can't craft a Hand of Destruction, can't I craft some sort of an imitation?'

If he forwent the need for the component that had to be crafted by a Titan Dwarf, the Hand of Destruction wouldn't have the power to annihilate Heaven Rank powerhouses.

On a lower scale, its power might be weakened, but it could be attached to the body of the puppet.

Even if it had 1% of the power of the Hand of Destruction, once attached to the body of the Heaven Rank puppet, it would be able to sweep aside anyone under the Heaven Rank.

That's right… This was the best method Lin Yun could think of at the moment.

Only the puppet, which had once reached the Heaven Rank, had enough power to endure the might of that magic war weapon.

Even if it was just an imitation, the basic requirements could only be described as shocking. Only the puppet could satisfy this kind of abnormal load. After all, although the puppet had already been damaged, the mechanical system, weapon system, frame, mana reactor, and other parts were all Heaven Rank.

As for the other puppets…

They could only bear an even worse imitation that would only display half of the power of the Heaven Puppet's imitation. Otherwise, even powerful puppets would fall apart after the cannon fired.

It was unfortunate…

Something not forged by the Titan Dwarf Race could only do so much… Lin Yun decided that after returning, the first thing he would do would be to call Faleau over and have him slowly research this blueprint. In any case, since it wouldn't be a genuine Hand of Destruction, he wouldn't need to spend too much energy on it…

As he thought about it, Lin Yun put the blueprint in his Spatial Ring.

Xiuban, seeing that Lin Yun had finished his business, worriedly asked, "Sir Merlin, shouldn't we hurry up and leave this place? I'm afraid…"

Lin Yun didn't even have time to say anything before Enderfa already scolded Xiuban, "Afraid of what? That monster suffered grievously from the Hand of Destruction. It must be hiding somewhere, weeping. Even if it was ten times more courageous, it wouldn't dare look for trouble again…"

"Forget it, let's not remain there for too long, the Intrepid is full of evil things. We should hurry up and figure out if there is anything worth taking and then escape." Lin Yun started disassembling the Magic Crystal Cannons, taking out every single part, not leaving a single screw behind. These components would be the best parts to use in the manufacture of the imitation Hand of Destruction.

After spending no less than an hour, the group cleaned the hold of its cannons. After taking an inventory of their harvest, Lin Yun couldn't help regretfully looking at the Hand of Destruction before leading everyone out of there.

"Merlin, are we going the wrong way?" After walking a short distance, Enderfa asked doubtfully.

Lin Yun shook his head. "We aren't."

"But there shouldn't be any need to go through here to reach that place?"

Lin Yun silently took out the design of the Intrepid and put it in front of Enderfa. He then pointed at a set of numbers on it and said, "Can't you see, this set of numbers had clearly been added afterward, the ink is completely different from the rest. Moreover…"

"Moreover?"

"Moreover, this set of numbers is completely independent. It has no relation to the array or the blueprint. In fact, I already calculated that this set of numbers was completely meaningless. It looked like someone's mischievous prank…"

"How could that be?" Enderfa snorted.

"That's right, this is impossible. This is the map of the Intrepid, and also the blueprint of a Heaven Rank Array. Countless people would go crazy with greed if they thought they could get their hands on it. How could someone casually write meaningless numbers on it? What's more, the password of that box was "that monster", and an average person simply couldn't open it, so the theory of the mischievous prank doesn't hold…"

"Then… You mean…"

"I'm saying that this set of numbers definitely has some special meaning, or else it wouldn't have been added on top…" Lin Yun paused before adding, "So I did an experiment."

"What experiment?"

"I arranged those numbers to correspond to the alphabet of the Sea Race and got some interesting results…"

"Oh?"

"You see…" Lin Yun pointed out the text he had gotten after arranging the numbers. "I got a sentence."

"If I die, take the things in my room and give it to the captain…" Enderfa read the sentence Lin Yun had pointed out and then exclaimed, "This… This is a coded message!"

"Yes, a coded message hidden within the blueprint of the Intrepid. Now we know why the annotations on the blueprint were written in the language of the Sea Races," Lin Yun said after pointing at the last number. "Furthermore, I spent a lot of time to discover the meaning behind that number. It indicates the location of the cabin, see here?"

"The First Mate's room… The one who left this box is the First Mate of the Intrepid?"

"That's right, the Intrepid's First Mate left this box behind, and left a coded message on the blueprint in case he died, so that if he ever died, people would find something in his room and deliver it to the captain…"

"And you want to find that thing?" Enderfa nodded in understanding, but he then expressed some doubt. "But although that monster was greatly injured by the Hand of Destruction, it had astonishing regeneration. What if something goes wrong when we go to the First Mate's room?"

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Chapter 606: Nautical Chart

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"Who can predict such things…" Lin Yun rolled up the map and put it back into his Spatial Ring, "But think about it, a blueprint representing a Heaven Rank Array, and a coded message saying to deliver something to Red Beard… Don't tell me you aren't curious about it."

Endera remained silent. He was forced to admit that Lin Yun was right, as that thing was definitely very important. It might be related to the Intrepid turning into a Ghost Ship, or it might be related to that monster. Enderfa felt that he wouldn't be able to forgive himself if he missed it.

"Alright…"

Without wasting any time, the group made a beeline for the First Mate's room, ignoring everything else on their way. They would occasionally encounter slaves that had turned into Lesser Undead, but those would be shattered by Xiuban in a few swings.

They soon reached the entrance to the First Mate's door.

The entrance was over six meters tall and had two exquisite hand-carved wooden doors, and even the wood was made of the cores of Tree Spirits. An array gate was enchanted into it, but it was a lot bigger than the previous rooms.

After spending a few minutes cracking the array gate, Lin Yun softly pushed the door open.

He was suddenly startled by the mana fluctuations that he sensed.

What appeared before them was a large area that was half a dozen kilometers in length. It was just like land, but the floor wasn't smooth. There was a small hill, and on the earth, some yellow, dried up weeds could be seen.

On top of that hill was a pitch-black castle.

"That damn First Mate's room is so luxurious! Let alone the land, he even built a castle here, and most likely made out of Obsidian!"

Enderfa smacked his lips. From the declining area in front of them, he could see how extravagant the First Mate had been.

This wasn't the continent, this was the Intrepid… And not only had he brought all this soil here, but the construction materials he had sent over weren't common bricks.

Enderfa didn't need to get closer to know expensive it would be to construct such an environment.

He took a deep breath before looking excited.

The rest didn't matter, because there was mana in the environment around them!

Most of the rooms of the damn Ghost Ship had no mana, and in the few places with mana, it was so sparse that it could only be considered negligible.

They had consumed a large amount of mana after continuous battles, especially after meeting that monster, and they hadn't been able to recover more than half of their mana.

This had made Enderfa feel insecure.

Although there wasn't much mana in this room, it was a lot better than in the other areas.

When he first set foot in that room, Enderfa started greedily rousing the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel to absorb mana in the atmosphere to replenish the Elemental Amber.

Lin Yun kept sending out one Mage Eye after another, as well as Detect Life and Detect Undead spells.

No danger!

Only a few of the most tenacious weeds remained, spreading on the ground like parasites.

"None of the Undead are here, and there are no signs of life. I detected nothing worthy of attention. Obviously, the First Mate knew how to enjoy life. There is no mess left in his room. Everyone, spread out, see if you can find something useful."

Hearing Lin Yun's words, everyone's tense nerves relaxed. Even Reina, this usually expressionless Frost Dragon, looked quite relieved.

No danger, not even a Lesser Undead, and this room had mana flowing within. They just had to find some clues, nothing more. This could be considered the safest task they had faced in the Intrepid.

The First Mate's castle was huge, and as far as they could see, the castle had no defenses. Everything was built based on comfort and luxury.

From the castle entrance, not even an alarm array could be seen. Remains of rotten carpets covered the floor, while lamps enchanted with Light Spells were still there. Everything with metal was already covered by a layer of rust.

The group entered the castle, and they each chose a direction to search for things that had yet to decay, looking for any clues or treasure.

It was specified on the Intrepid's map that the things to be given to Red Beard weren't treasure, but something very important.

They searched one room after the other and found that none of these rooms had any array gates. The doors were made with top-notch magic wood and could still be considered extravagant when compared to those of the higher nobles of a kingdom. But as time passed, the doors had decayed and could barely obstruct them.

Xiuban kicked a door open and only found a pile of dilapidated furniture and metal inside. After searching for a while, he didn't find anything useful.

"Such a poor guy! He appeared well-off from the outside, but not even a gold coin could be found inside," Xiuban mumbled as he left the room, only to see Lin Yun standing in front of him with a dark expression.

"Sir Merlin…"

"Idiot, look at what you have done! F*ck off from this castle, go search the outside."

Xiuban lowered his head, not daring to retort, still not understanding what mistake he had made, but seeing Lin Yun's cold expression, he instantly shivered and promptly answered, "Yes, Sir Merlin, I'll go immediately…"

Xiuban then ran out of the castle, not daring to ask what had happened.

As Xiuban ran out of the castle, the icy Lin Yun turned around, his height increasing and the cold expression disappearing… The clothes on his body shifted and transformed.

Lin Yun's figure disappeared and was replaced by a sneering Draconic Beastman.

"Xiuban" turned to look at the Draconic Beastman that had run out of the castle and sneered mischievously before turning back to search for others.

Lin Yun was searching the top floor of the castle.

With enough ambient mana to recover, he no longer had to drink those smelly Mana Potions. He was controlling eight Mage Eyes to search through the rooms at an astonishing speed.

After a long time, his attention was attracted by a particular room.

He discovered a huge nautical chart after going in and couldn't help staring at it.

This huge nautical chart occupied an entire wall. It was five meters tall and over eight meters wide. It was made using the hide of a level 30, or perhaps higher, sea beast. After so many years, the nautical chart only looked somewhat ancient.

At the edge of the nautical chart was the frontier of the continent, and most of it was Noscent's Endless Sea, and countless islands were marked on it, as well as all kinds of major natural resources.

This location had Eternal Gold Essence, that one had Sea Core Mineral…

The locations of all kinds of shipwrecks, lairs of formidable sea beasts, and dangerous environments…

Everything was marked!

There were also frames made of metal in front of the nautical chart, holding rolls of some areas with detailed marks. These were enlarged and detailed nautical charts, recording relatively precious minerals and treasure troves!

And there were a few chests in the corner, filled with some nautical charts of some areas and maps of islands!

Even with Lin Yun's steady mind, his breathing couldn't help becoming rough.

This was simply a treasure trove of treasure maps!

Where was Noscent's greatest wealth? The knowledgeable ones knew that it was in the dangerous Endless Sea!

The Endless Sea had far more important natural resources and treasures than the continent!

But it was also too dangerous, and most of the wealth was hidden deep beneath the surface. It was ineffective to scout the vast sea. With those tens of thousands of kilometers, there was simply no difference from just scouting the surface.

Even if they passed over a huge ore vein, they had no means of discovering it on the seabed.

The Endless Sea's natural resources and wealth had attracted waves of people since the distant Ancient God Era, but most of them would meet the ends of their days in the Endless Sea.

Even so, it still didn't stop people from being greedy about the Endless Sea's wealth.

Many boats had sunk in the Endless Sea, and just salvaging those shipwrecks would make a lot of people wealthy.

Too many legends had started in the Endless Sea, too many forces had suddenly emerged because of the Endless Sea.

And even so, after countless years, the wealth and natural resources that those pioneers had found in the Endless Sea were barely the tip of the iceberg.

After a few glances, Lin Yun cautiously put these nautical charts in his spatial ring. He was even more meticulous when he took the huge nautical chart off the wall, casting a few preservation spells on it, and even spent time carving four eternal runes specialized in preserving items.

The harvest was too great!

The worth of these few nautical charts, even just a small part of it, could make two kingdoms start a war of extermination to try to get rid of their competitors. Even Heaven Rank Powerhouses would be unable to remain calm in front of these Nautical Charts.

Everyone knew that the resources of the Endless Sea were too great to be estimated, but they all knew of the dangers.

Now, with these nautical charts, the dangers of the Endless Sea would be reduced to an extremely low degree, and even the most time-consuming search could be skipped.

As long as he formed a naval fleet after leaving this place, the bounty of natural resources, shipwrecks, and ore veins would completely fall into his pockets.

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Chapter 607: Diary

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Just one Nautical Chart indicating one of the safest areas would lead to wealth comparable to four or five times what they could obtain in the Raging Flame Plane!

Just how shocking was that…

Now, all that wealth was beckoning to Lin Yun.

Lin Yun was in a great mood after collecting the largest Nautical Chart, he even let out a rare chuckle.

He then left that room.

Soon after, he found a large study, filled with dust. Books were stacked on bookshelves, but Lin Yun could only sigh in regret.

After releasing a small amount of mana to create a breeze, the books ended up reduced to dust.

The average paper had no defensive magic. Had it been outside, with a favorable conservation method, they might have remained in decent state, but this was the Intrepid, the passage of time had already corroded those books until they turned to ashes.

This was the Intrepid after all, and this was the room of Red Beard's First Mate, the books within were inevitably valuable. Unfortunately, they were completely destroyed.

After using a Gale, the dust was sent out of the window. But suddenly, something caught Lin Yun's attention and he immediately rushed to a bookshelf.

That bookshelf originally had seven to eight hundred books, now reduced to dust, but on an ordinary corner of the second shelf, a book with a leather cover was still intact!

Lin Yun slightly frowned and cast a probing spell, and the result of the scouting revealed no anomaly.

This was an ordinary book.

He picked the book up and discovered a very thin secret compartment. After cracking that simple mechanism, he discovered a necklace.

A seemingly ordinary necklace forged out of mithril with an embedded ruby.

Lin Yun's expression instantly changed when he touched that red jewel.

A formidable Ultimate Spell!

That ruby contained a kind of spell that made even Lin Yun fearful!

But the probing spell couldn't detect it!

After checking it closer, he found out that the spell within the ruby was very stable, and there was some sort of obstruction. Let alone extracting, he couldn't even come in contact with it.

Looking at it for a while, Lin Yun frowned and put the necklace down before picking up the leather book. The book's appearance looked very simple, but also very refined. It was thirty centimeters long, and only a simple rune could be seen on its surface. Lin Yun also didn't understand the meaning of that rune.

After opening the first page, a surprised expression appeared on Lin Yun's face.

This was a diary!

"13th day of the Cold Month – I became a sailor today, I don't need to sleep in that dirty slave hold anymore. I also saw the captain…"

Lin Yun flipped a dozen pages recording the trifling life of the diary owner as a sailor.

Lin Yun finally stopped on the 25th page.

"28th day of the Blaze Month – It was originally a good day today, after a month, we finally killed that crafty Heaven Rank sea beast, but who would have thought that something terrifying would appear when that Heaven Rank sea beast died. A huge whirlpool appeared on the surface of the sea. That whirlpool was frightening, we couldn't see its limits. It was as if the entire sea had turned into a whirlpool. It was the first time I saw that. The captain, who had remained calm and composed while dealing with the Heaven Rank sea beast, had become alarmed, ordering us to immediately escape that huge whirlpool."

"We didn't even have time to finish putting the sea beast's corpse on the ship that the captain unhesitantly threw it away. With one look, everyone could see that the captain was utterly terrified. Officer John fell from the boat, and I watched as that terrifying whirlpool swallowed him whole…"

Lin Yun looked at this diary and could feel from the sloppy handwriting how frightened the owner had been, his hand must have been shivering as he wrote.

Huge whirlpool…

Lin Yun immediately recalled the biggest danger mark drawn on that huge Nautical Chart. It was also the symbol of a whirlpool, marked down with a shivering hand. On the precise and detailed Nautical Chart, this mark stuck out like a sore thumb, from this it could be seen that the person must have been extremely frightened when noting it down.

To the point that there was even a huge red "X" on that whirlpool, marking a place even the Intrepid couldn't approach.

After pondering for a short moment, Lin Yun flipped the page.

"29th day of the Blaze Month – Today, I heard that kitchen George died. Looks like he choked on a piece of bread. Serves him right, that damn scoundrel was eating while we were working hard…"

Another page was flipped.

"30th day of the Blaze Month – That foolish Byron, mister 'I'm the nimblest thief' fell to his death from the second floor…"

Lin Yun continued and found a similar story on every single page. Someone would die everyday, and after flipping over twenty pages…

"23th day of the Monsoon Month – Hell, another dead. This is too horrible. A rumor spread through the ship that killing the Heaven Rank sea beast angered a terrifying existence and something evil came aboard. A slave or a lowly sailor would die everyday, but today, an Officer died…"

Lin Yun frowned and quickly flipped the pages, he flipped a good dozen pages containing the same kind of information. The writer transformed from not giving a care at all, to becoming more and more frightened, even discontinuously writing the dates.

Suddenly, Lin Yun stopped, a serious expression on his face as he attentively read this new page. The handwriting on that page was also sloven due to the writer being even more scared.

"18th day of the Frost Month – Everyone is resting. I am going to tidy up the hold… Met something terrifying, with one glance, I couldn't move. It asked me if I wanted to become this ship's most powerful man. How could I believe it, the most powerful man is Captain Red Beard. Then it asked me if I wanted to become the most powerful man under Captain Red Beard…"

"Such a joke, I'm only an ordinary sailor. I was too afraid, so I agreed. I don't want to die, I really don't want to die. It said that it could help me, but the price would be to help it do something later. I could only agree. That damned Officer, had it not been for him making me clean the hold at night, I wouldn't have encountered that thing. That terrifying thing is surely the culprit behind all these deaths. Damn Officer, he definitely wants to harm me, I must kill him…"

Lin Yun didn't find anything interesting in the next few pages, but after flipping eight pages…

"30th day of the Frost Month – Today was the duelling day. I challenged that Officer, and regretted it immediately…"

"I thought I was done for, but I didn't expect to actually kill the Officer. I defeated him and took his position as the new Officer…"

Lin Yun recalled that undying monster as he read to that part.

There was nothing unusual in the next few pages, the owner of that diary started rising up, whether it was in power or in status. The speed at which he was promoted was very fast, it could even be said that Lady Luck was watching over him. If he was overwhelmed during a fight, he would suddenly make a breakthrough.

On the 2nd to last page, the owner of the diary had risen to a high position and had gained Red Beard's trust.

'Could he be a legendary main character?' Lin Yun was stupefied as he saw this. The owner of that diary had the potential of a main character, he could be said to have heaven defying luck, his rise was incredible, as if everything had been laid down for him, just waiting for him to claim that position.

But, when Lin Yun opened that last page, he immediately changed his opinion…

There was only one sentence on that last page, "It came looking for me, it wants me to betray the Captain…"

The rest of the pages remained incomplete, only badly damaged characters could be seen on them.

"I don't want to betray the Captain. I also don't dare to go against it. No good. No good. I have to find a way to handle it. I can't become a puppet. I heard…"

"Eh?" After deciphering these characters, Lin Yun suddenly discovered that a part of the diary seemed to be missing, and it looked like that part have been torn by someone…

'Hold on, what is that…' While putting the diary down, Lin Yun's eyes stopped on a small red mark on the last page.

Lin Yun carefully extended his hand, trying to erase that small red mark, but just as he did that, he knew that something was wrong. This wasn't a small red mark, this was a red hair!

That's right a red hair!

'The remaining part of the diary must have been taken away by Red Beard!'

'That must be it…'

Lin Yun thought about what had been written on the blueprint, "If I die, take the things in my room and give it to the captain…" He could be certain that the First Mate had discovered something related to the monster, and the clues should have been put in the other half of the diary.

Just that Red Beard had taken that part away…

'It looks like we have to visit the Captain's Cabin…'

Lin Yun slowly closed the diary. Just as he was about to leave that study, he noticed Xiuban coming over.

"Xiuban, did you find anything useful?"

Xiuban scratched his head, cautiously answering, "Sir Merlin, I didn't find anything, everything was in ruins…"

Lin Yun shook his head, "Forget it, if you haven't found anything, let's leave this place."

Hearing Lin Yun's words, Xiuban looked curious and asked, "Sir Merlin, have you found anything useful?"

Lin Yun looked at the diary in his hand and casually answered, "I found something."

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Chapter 608: Consider Yourself Lucky

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"What is it, Sir Merlin? Can I take a look?" Curiosity could clearly be seen on Xiuban's face.

Lin Yun thought of something when he heard this and then said, "I found an ordinary necklace, I don't know what it is exactly… Why? You are getting interested in jewelry now?"

Xiuban said with regret, "I just wanted to take a look, only finding an ordinary thing after searching for such a long is such a shame."

"Alright, go and take a look then…" Lin Yun smiled, still holding the diary in his hand while taking a ruby necklace from his pocket and tossing it to the expecting Xiuban.

But suddenly, a strange smile appeared on the Draconic Beastman's face as he caught the necklace. He then turned to run away.

Or at least he tried…

Before the Draconic Beastman could even finish turning, the ruby suddenly exploded, that surging power exploded on Xiuban's chest, sending him flying with a mournful shriek.

Xiuban looked extremely miserable on the floor, his chest had caved in and he was looking at that necklace with shock.

"Sir Merlin, this…"

Lin Yun's expression didn't change, he looked at Xiuban who had fallen on the ground, and with a wave of his hand, six Flame Spears fell down, nailing Xiuban's limbs and his chest to the floor. The spell had been incanted very quickly and the Draconic Staff also appeared in Lin Yun's hands.

Two flaming blue Bursting Flames exploded on Xiuban's body with loud explosions.

Xiuban's body was snapped in two. The originally cautious and cowardly expression had disappeared from his face, replaced by disbelief.

"How did you find out?"

Lin Yun sneered, "I already told you that Xiuban wasn't so courageous. Even I don't know what that necklace is, so how could Xiuban dare touch it?"

Before even finishing his words, Lin Yun cast an Ice Wall behind "Xiuban" while also casting two Fire Dragons from both flanks.

"Xiuban" gnashed his teeth spitting blood as he angrily looked at Lin Yun. He hadn't expected to be discovered twice for the same reason.

A defensive spell was blocking "Xiuban"'s the escape route, while the two Fire Dragons were blocking two of his paths.

"Xiuban" bellowed, his shattered body turning into a phantom as he pounced at Lin Yun.

But the only thing awaiting him was Lin Yun waving his Draconic Staff and releasing a prepared Dimensional Edge.

That ink cyan Wind Blade cut that phantom in two.

The phantom let out a blood-curdling shriek as the slashed part turned into smoke and dissipated while the remaining part charged towards the window, barely resisting a Fire Dragon before jumping down.

An incantation echoed as it jumped out.

Lin Yun dashed to the window and waved the Draconic Staff, casting twelve Flame Spears. The fiery red tips of the spears pursuing relentlessly, up until a fifteen meters large Wyvern flew over from the ground and caught that phantom. As it flapped its wings, Lin Yun made his twelve Flame Spears obstruct his path.

The Wyvern let out a loud shout and sprayed green acidic flames at Lin Yun.

Lin Yun frowned and cast five Ice Walls in a row to block those green acidic flames.

But as expected, those few seconds were enough for that Wyvern to take that phantom a few kilometers away, disappearing from Lin Yun's sight in an instant…

"Damn…" Lin Yun angrily cursed, "Count yourself lucky!"

It hadn't been hard to see through the fake Xiuban, that guy wasn't a good actor, he had too many flaws. Lin Yun had already said that he didn't know what that necklace was, yet that fake Xiuban wanted to see it, the real Xiuban would have never dared to say those words, thinking where he should hide in case it was cursed was more in line with his character.

What's more, with Xiuban's thick skin, whether it was Bursting Flames or Flames Spears, neither could break his thick skin, so how could he end up with his intestines flowing out from a mere few Bursting Flames?

But Lin Yun still didn't understand why that fake Xiuban had come? Was he also looking for something?

'Oh right, there is also that Wyvern…'

That wasn't an ordinary Wyvern, that was a famous Wyvern in the Raging Flame Plane.

Indeed, that Wyvern was the mount of the Raging Flame Emperor!

Lin Yun was still shocked, how could the mount of the Raging Flame Emperor appear in such a place…

Formidable death energy suddenly rose up, and sounds specific to Undead lifeforms echoed…

It was followed by a Dragon Roar. Lin Yun looked out of the window and saw Reina in her Dragon Shape breaking her way out of the castle to fly out.

Behind Reina were over fifty Skeleton Warriors led by a Skeleton Lord.

Enderfa was controlling the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel and chasing behind.

Reina being able to fly meant that the First Mate's cabin wasn't restricted by that Domain's suppression.

But before Lin Yun could use a pair of flaming wings, a sinister roar echoed behind him. An Undead covered in dark aura, and whose face was covered by a helmet, raised his greatsword and slashed at Lin Yun.

Lin Yun's expression changed, his first reaction was to jump off the window.

A dark cross-shaped Aura Slash brushed past him.

'Damn, a Dark Warrior…'

'That damned guy, summoning a bunch of Skeleton Warriors while running away would have been fine, but he actually summoned a Dark Warrior, and a level 38 one at that!'

Dark Warriors were an extremely rare kind of Undead Zombie lifeform, the weakest were level 30! This also meant that Dark Warriors were at least Sword Saints before their deaths, and even after dying, they retained their techniques, and the higher leveled they were, the more powerful they had been during their lives.

This level 38 Dark Warrior must have been a level 39 Sword Saint before his death!

Lin Yun had a poor expression on his face.

'Damn it, a tireless, unafraid of consuming mana, and always at its peak level 38 Dark Warrior, and with the fighting experience of a 9th Rank Sword Saint…'

And there was also a squadron of Skeleton Warriors down there…

This battle wasn't like the others, it was different from when Winchester only had to tie Lin Yun down to win…

That Dark Warrior was leading a squadron of level 30 Skeleton Warriors and a level 35 Skeleton Lord, just based on power, they could suppress Lin Yun's group.

The situation was far from good…

After leaving the castle, Lin Yun immediately landed and used Fire Elemental Incarnation alongside Flame Flashes to escape. Fighting against a Dark Warrior that had the experience and technique of a 9th Rank Sword Saint was courting death.

Xiuban had already joined the fight when he regrouped with Reina and Enderfa.

Xiuban was at the forefront, Carnage pressuring everything as deafening noises echoed. By themselves, the Skeleton Warriors weren't Xiuban's opponents in a duel, but the Skeleton Lord was commanding the Skeleton Warriors, and so far, Xiuban had only shattered one…

Reina fully used her ice magic while fighting in her Dragon Shape.

Enderfa was manipulating the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel to make it rain fire spells.

But even so, they could only slightly suppress these Undeads.

Enderfa's expression distorted when he saw the Dark Warrior chasing Lin Yun, "Damn, Merlin, didn't you say there was no Undeads? Where did that one come from?"

Lin Yun's expression was very unsightly. After grouping up, he released the alchemy puppet to make it a bit easier on everyone.

Lagulin and Barton were also summoned. Lagulin fully used the Evil Halo to support everyone and then started fighting these Skeleton Warriors. As for the Dark Warrior, sending Lagulin and Barton over would be no different from sending snacks.

The Ten Thousand Spell Wheel, the puppet, and Lin Yun with his Draconic Staff, the three of them could be considered mobile magic fortress, with their large amount of spells, they could resist this siege.

But they could only resist, nothing more.

As time passed, more than half of that squadron of Skeleton Warriors was dealt with, but the Dark Warrior had only received a few injuries, the nimble Dark Warrior didn't need to use any technique when faced with that flood of spells with his battle awareness, he only need to pay a small price to carry on.

The cross-shaped Aura Slashes sent by the Dark Warrior made everyone feel pressured…

At this time, the difference between the Death Knight and the Dark Warrior could clearly be seen, although their power was more or less the same, the Dark Warrior used all kinds of opportunities to attack the weak points in their defense.

Everytime Xiuban attacked the Skeleton Lord, a cross-shaped Aura Slash would come over to save it. This was the difference in battle awareness. Death Knights would use pure power, while Dark Warriors had truly inherited their original bodies battle awareness, understanding how to fight at their best with their own power.

After over a dozen minutes, none of the Skeleton Warriors remained. Having lost its troops, the Skeleton Lord's fighting power sharply declined.

And Lagulin decisively cast a Death Summon, using the raw materials of the Skeleton Warriors to raise thirty new Skeleton Warriors to attack the Skeleton Lord.

Level 37 Lagulin, level 35 Barton, Xiuban and those thirty Skeleton Warriors were more than enough to deal with that Skeleton Lord.

But the situation wasn't that optimistic on the other side…

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