Monster Paradise

by Stayrr

800 years ago, 3000 dimensional gates opened across the entire world. In that moment, it was as if 3000 different colored eyes opened across the world as hordes of monsters swarmed out of these gates like tears. Some could destroy city walls with one strike; They had bodies the size of a giant and fed on humans Some latched onto humans, absorbing their bodies’ nutrients and ensla

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Chapter 1271: A Call from the Club

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After sending Buried Heaven off, Lin Huang began playing with the mask in his hands.

He was elated to see this golden mask that was shining under the sunlight.

The most important function of this god sequence relic that was named Thousand Face was to disguise. As long as one's size did not vary too much, there would not be any flaws in the disguise. Moreover, this god sequence relic could even deceive most heavenly god-level powerhouses.

Apart from that, as a god sequence relic, it had a rather great defense, especially for spiritual attacks and detections. It was immune to almost all spiritual attacks under high-level heavenly god-level. Not only that, it could block most Heaven Gods' spiritual detections. As long as he did not encounter any peak-level heavenly god-level powerhouses who mastered Spiritual secret skills or was born with spiritual ability, almost none of them would be able to see through the disguise coming from the mask.

"This is good stuff. With this mask, my activity range in the God Territory would no longer be limited to Shelters under grade-4. I can go to grade-4 and even grade-5 Shelters now. I'm mostly safe as long as I don't step into grade-6 Shelters with peak-level Heavenly Gods as their guardian."

Lin Huang merely played with Thousand Face for a moment, which he then kept it in his storage space. He clicked into the document that Buried Heaven sent him.

It was a document about the Great Heaven Territory. Naturally, the details could not compare with the information that Bloody found on the internet.

This document was close to being the most confidential document in God Territory's top organizations.

Not only were there rough star maps of the Great Heaven Territory, but there were also details about planets that had been explored, including the variety of species that appeared in the Great Heaven Territory. Everything was listed in detail.

"It's been 360,000 years since the Great Heaven Territory has been discovered. It opens every 100 years, so it's been opened for over 3,600 times by now. If 300 people entered every time it was opened, there should be a total of 1.08 million people who had explored it."

"After the exploration of up to a million people, the speculated data says that only less than 1/10 of the Great Heaven Territory has been explored?" Lin Huang was puzzled with this at first.

Theoretically, virtual god-level powerhouses had powerful mobility. With some dimensional tools, one could explore at least tens of planets within a month. Moreover, encountering Great Heaven Territory's local species would allow one to obtain any information about the Great Heaven Territory. The exploration rate should not be this low.

However, he found out the reason as he read further.

"There are so many species in the Great Heaven Territory? Was that guy a fanatic species collector?!"

There were hundreds of thousands of species in the Great Heaven Territory. There were up to ten thousand monsters alone.

Most of the monsters either had some unique bloodline, stunning potential or they were insanely powerful. In a nutshell, the monsters that he kept in the God Territory were not some gentle monsters.

He had caught one or two for a certain monster, and he brought in the entire tribe for some of them.

Since he died, the variety of monsters in the Great Heaven Territory had been reproducing. Throughout the up to a million years, although some tribes were eliminated through time, many tribes had evolved into a population. (The 360,000 years mentioned earlier was the duration since the Great Heaven Territory was discovered, not the duration it existed.)

Among those tribes, some monsters were born to be class-4 (quadruple mutated). Even though some of them were not class-4, they possessed powerful, unique bloodlines, which ability should not be underestimated.

Most of their combat strength was above virtual god-level. There were even True Gods and Heavenly Gods.

Those tribes' territorial range were distributed throughout most of Great Heaven Territory's areas.

Meanwhile, most of the tribes in the Great Heaven Territory were unfriendly to foreigners.

The reason being, the first batch of explorers who went in 360,000 years ago thought there were no powerful monsters in the secret zone. That resulted in them looting resources as they wished and harming the local creatures. It enraged the local tribes. Since then, killing foreigners was considered a glory for the various tribes in the Great Heaven Territory. They perceived the foreigners to be some foreign demons.

Throughout the tens of thousands of years since then, the death rate of the people who went in were 100% every time the Great Heaven Territory was opened. Lesser and lesser participants went in until a survivor escaped from the Great Heaven Territory and it was only then the people found out about the situation inside the Great Heaven Territory.

Later on, the God Territory had been trying to send people in to communicate with the locals in the Great Heaven Territory. The hostility only calmed a little during the past 100,000 years.

However, most tribes were still hostile toward foreigners. Although they would not start a fight as soon as they encounter each other, they would prohibit them from entering and refuse to communicate. The most they accepted was some supply trading.

The slow exploration progress of the Great Heaven Territory was mainly due to those tribes' unwillingness to cooperate and obstruction, causing the prohibition to explore in many places.

Lin Huang finally realized why Buried Heaven lent him Thousand Face.

"He sure is thoughtful! With Thousand Face, I can disguise myself as their local resident and retrieve information that the rest can't. Not only that, under Thousand Face's disguise, I'm almost free to invade anywhere I desire. There's a high chance that even some heavenly god-level guardians among some tribes can't see through my disguise."

Lin Huang proceeded to read further after finding out the reason for the painfully slow exploration.

Using about half an hour, he read through the document carefully. He then spent another ten minutes making sure that he did not miss anything.

He then began to conclude some of the matters that he should take note of.

No.1, apart from the local tribes that he could communicate with, there were dangerous species that existed on some of the planets in the Great Heaven Territory. They could not be communicated with normally, they had intense territorial consciousness and attack instinct. One would easily be attacked as soon as one stepped into the territory of such species.

No.2, there were Bug Tribes in the Great Heaven Territory and the population was unknown. However, the Bug Tribes were also the other tribes' common enemy.

No.3, someone found humans in the Great Heaven Territory, but nobody knew much about the human population in this world.

No.4, there's a certain chance that Great Heaven's inheritance and secret treasures were hidden in some major tribe's territory.

After coming up with the conclusions, Lin Huang compared them with the document. He only turned off the document's projection after making sure that everything was aligned.

As he was going to study deeper into the precautions of the conclusions that he came up with, his communication device vibrated all of a sudden.

"An unidentified number?" Lin Huang was suspicious.

It was an unidentified number that had sent a call request. Theoretically, he only had the communication ring for a couple of days. Nobody should know his number.

"Could it be some advertisement?" With doubts, Lin Huang decided to answer the call.

"Hi, Lin Huang."

Lin Huang could not help but squinted a little as soon as the person greeted. He had his full guard up now.

"Don't worry, I'm the mission issuer from the Club." The voice on the other side of the communication device sounded like it came from a synthesizer.

"Club? How did you guys get this number?" Lin Huang was suspicious.

"We know everything that we want to know," the person on the other side of the communication device gave a boastful answer. "Alright, let's cut to the chase. I have missions for you."

"Can I reject them? I am very busy lately. I remember that you guys said I have the definite freedom of choice when you guys asked me to join back then." Although Lin Huang joined this mysterious organization named Club after passing through the Stairway Tree, he had no sense of belonging to the organization. Since he was going into the Great Heaven Territory, he did not bother to put more onto his plate. Naturally, he chose to decline it directly.

"The two missions that I'm assigning to you are missions in the Great Heaven Territory," the person on the other side spoke directly.

"How do you guys know that I'm going into the Great Heaven Territory? Buried Heaven told me that only he and the seven Blood Sickle members know about this quota that was given to me. Is there a mole among the seven Blood Sickle members?!"

"We know everything that we want to know," the person on the other side gave the same answer that did not seem like an answer.

"Alright then…" Lin Huang was helpless toward such a rascal. He did not bother to beat around the bush with the person and asked, "What's the mission reward?"

"I can only tell you if you accept the missions. All that I can share with you now is that the rewards are handsome, you definitely won't be disappointed."

Lin Huang was finally interested after hearing that.

"What are the missions?"

"The first mission, retrieve the Heavenly Sword's scabbard."

"Second mission, bring a kid named Jin Wu out of the Great Heaven Territory."

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After accepting the Great Heaven Territory's mission, Lin Huang went into closed-door cultivation once again.

He continued cultivating Seamless again during this round of closed-door cultivation.

The reason why he cultivated Seamless was that there would be a direct boost in his abilities with each telekinetic thread he obtained.

Although there was room for improvement for his Sword Dao as well, not only would he have to spend a great amount of time to break through level-6 which was Deity, he would have to find an opportunity for that breakthrough.

Fortunately, the cultivation speed of Seamless had gotten a few folds faster ever since he had ascended to imperial-level rank-9.

Compared to the additional 100 telekinetic threads per hour previously, it was currently 300 threads per hour.

He only cultivated for 12 hours on the first day. Nevertheless, he managed to gain 3,600 telekinetic threads. Hence, he had a total of 58,100 telekinetic threads.

The number of telekinetic threads he had had increased by heaps.

For six consecutive days, Lin Huang did not eat, drink, nor rest as he immersed himself in cultivating Seamless.

By the middle of the night on the sixth day, he had accumulated 100,000 telekinetic threads!

He was at the peak of Seamless' level-6 cultivation.

Lin Huang was finally, completely sure that the legend of Qi Muxiong controlling 108,000 telekinetic threads at the same time was not all that he had mastered.

The reason being, the peak of Seamless' level-6 was 100,000 telekinetic threads. Hence, the limit of the number telekinetic threads would be 300,000 threads once one had gotten to the next level, which was level-7.

Furthermore, according to the memory he had inherited, Qi Muxiong had actually cultivated Seamless to the peak of level-8. Following Seamless' level-8 description, he should have been able to control a million telekinetic threads.

"I'm still very far away from reaching Qi Muxiong's level." Lin Huang could not help but compare himself with Qi Muxiong. "Fortunately, my spirit is powerful enough since I've ascended to imperial-level rank-9. Level-6 isn't my limit."

Lin Huang did not perform a breakthrough right after he got to the peak of level-6. Instead, he rested where he was and ate some snacks. After he was done eating, he slept for a full 12 hours before he sat with his legs crossed again. Then, he adjusted his body to his peak and began constructing the path to Seamless' level-7 in his spirit.

Perhaps there was a great boost in his spirit as the construction went incredibly smoothly. He was completely done in half an hour.

As he employed Divine Telekinesis and began a circulatory cycle, he officially stepped into level-7 of Seamless.

The breakthrough in Seamless gave Lin Huang a clear sense whereby there was a boost in his Divine Telekinesis.

His spirit and Divine Telekinesis were already at the peak of Virtual God rank-9 when he ascended to imperial-level rank-9. This breakthrough had brought Lin Huang's Divine Telekinesis to True God standard.

"With the intensity of my Divine Telekinesis now, I should be able to control god rule telekinetic weapon relics. Although I won't be able to activate their God Rule Powers, the intensity should be enough to surpass ordinary god relics." Lin Huang did not waste any time after checking the changes in his telekinetic power. A short while later, he immersed himself in his spirit and began another round of closed-door cultivation.

The cultivation of level-7 Seamless was slightly slower than that of its level-6. He could only grow 200 telekinetic threads per hour.

However, Lin Huang chose to cultivate without resting. The number of telekinetic threads he had did not stop increasing by 4,800 each day.

Time flew by, and 21 days passed just like that.

Lin Huang only stopped cultivating after he had accumulated 200,000 telekinetic threads.

He did not stop because it was the limit of the number of telekinetic threads, he stopped because the Great Heaven Territory would open in three days.

After he had stopped cultivating, Lin Huang spent less than ten minutes eating some snacks and drinking some water. He then went to sleep.

His sleep went on for almost two nights.

It was one day before he was to go into the Great Heaven Territory when he woke up.

"Sleep sure is refreshing!" Lin Huang had never felt better after waking up from his sleep.

"Now I'll purchase some stuff before going into the secret zone. However, there's something I need to do before that," Lin Huang mumbled to himself as he logged in to Royal's trading page.

After clicking into the telekinetic weapon page, Lin Huang filtered the selection to only god rule relics and sorted the items based on their price from low to high.

Although that was the case, the trading conditions of the first telekinetic weapon that met Lin Huang's caused him to inhale sharply.

"3,200 Divine Crystals! We only accept Divine Crystals or expert-grade god rule sword relics."

"3,200 Divine Crystals means 32 million Divine Stones, and they don't take Divine Stones…"

Although the ratio of Divine Crystals to Divine Stones was 1:10000 based on their value, nobody would be willing to trade Divine Stones for Divine Crystals. Even if someone really needed Divine Stones, they would trade for them in blackmarkets. The ratio was at least 1:13000 or even more.

Lin Huang looked helpless. In order to purchase the earlier two god rule relics, apart from the equipment he had kept for himself, he had sold almost all of his god relics and demigod relics for Divine Stones. He only had some 20 million Divine Stones with him at that moment. He did not even have a single Divine Crystal with him. Even if he was eager to purchase the item, he could not even afford a god rule relic.

Out of curiosity, Lin Huang proceeded to look further down the page.

The number of telekinetic weapons on the page was very little after he had set the filter. There was only a total of 106 items.

The cheapest one cost 3,200 Divine Crystals. However, there were only three items that were priced below 4,000 Divine Crystals. Most of the remaining ones were priced between 4,000 to 7,000 Divine Crystals. The most expensive one was priced at 28,000 Divine Crystals.

Meanwhile, all of the telekinetic weapons on the entire page could either be traded for Divine Crystals or by following other trading conditions. However, none of them allowed the trading of Divine Stones.

Lin Huang thought about it after aborting his plan to purchase a god rule relic. He filtered the page again whereby he included low-grade items. He also changed 'god rule relic' to 'god relic'.

Changes took place on the page immediately.

The sorting settings of the marketplace was the same, and the price of the first telekinetic weapon that appeared was 340,000 Divine Stones.

There was an adequate amount of god telekinetic weapon relics whereby there were a total of 281 items.

Lin Huang glanced through the page and scrolled to the bottom.

The most expensive item cost 1.8 million Divine Stones. However, there was a remark on its trading condition, '20% discount if purchased with Divine Crystals'.

"Expert-grade items are all priced above 800,000. I already have a god telekinetic weapon relic, but I need at least two to three more sets to accumulate enough telekinetic threads. I need at least 2.4 million to purchase them…" Lin Huang did not place the order after thinking through it for a while.

Although he had enough Divine Stones to purchase god telekinetic weapon relics, he thought that it would be a waste. He could activate god rule relics now. Moreover, his enemies would at least be true god-level powerhouses from now on. He would only use the god relics a few times if he were to purchase them.

"It would be great if I could rent them…" Lin Huang's eyes lit up as soon as he mumbled that out loud.

As he projected his contacts page, he soon found a stranger's number he had acquired a month ago. He made a call.

A moment later, the call connected.

"You told me before that I could look for you at any time if I have questions about missions," Lin Huang said directly before the person could speak.

"Tell me," the synthesized voice responded briefly.

"I want three to four sets of god rule telekinetic weapon relics. It would be best if they're the same or of similar models. It's sufficient if the weapons add up to 200,000 to 300,000 pieces in total after being disintegrated," Lin Huang gave his conditions once and for all. He paused for a moment before continuing, "Rent them to me for a month, give them to me in advance, or deduct the cost from my rewards later on.

"With the way how you handle things, there's no need for you to worry about me running away with those god rule relics…"

Lin Huang gave a bunch of details to prevent the person from declining his request. However, the person responded before he was done speaking.

"Sure. Three sets of telekinetic weapons, they'll be your gifts for joining us. I'll send them to you later.

"Anything else?"

"No," Lin Huang was not expecting the person to agree to his conditions so simply. Not only that, but they were going to give them to him as gifts.

The person on the other side hung up after hearing Lin Huang's reply.

When Lin Huang heard that the signal had been cut off from the communication device, it came to his mind that he had not asked how and when he would receive the stuff. The person had not asked for his address as well.

As he was debating whether or not he should send a text to ask him, a message suddenly popped up on his communication device.

"The stuff has been sent, please take note of the items' arrival."

"Already sent? Where did they send it?" Lin Huang looked around left and right. The cultivation room was minimalistic whereby he could see everything in a single glance. Nothing popped up.

"Check your storage space," the stone tablet in Lin Huang's body said to him through voice transmission.

Lin Huang then looked in his storage space. He found three big, golden birds covered in flames flying around. It was as if they were playing in his storage space.

He was stunned to see that. He subsequently realized that they were simulated beasts that had been made from the telekinetic weapons.

"They're of fire attribute, the simulated beasts seem to be phoenixes…" Lin Huang's eyes lit up as he looked at them. Judging by their aura, they're ultimate-grade god rule relics. If I can bring out the God Rule Power in them, together with sufficient Divine Telekinesis, I bet I can kill a ninth-rank True God."

"They gave me three sets of god rule relics without even blinking, so generous!" Lin Huang finally realized that he seemed to have joined a terrific organization.

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Chapter 1273: Four Quotas

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After having got his hands on the three sets of god rule relic telekinetic weapons, Lin Huang purchased some food and water. He was finally done with all of the necessary preparations before he went into the secret zone.

He rested for the night. At approximately eight the next morning, someone knocked on his hotel room door not long after he had finished his breakfast.

Lin Huang knew that the Death Sickle had probably sent someone to pick him up.

A tall lady stood in front of him when he opened the door.

Her legs were so long that they could compare to Yi Yeyu's. Her skin was healthily tanned, and her red hair barely touched her earlobes. If one had to point out any flaws, it was her chest that was almost flat.

Lin Huang was taken aback a little when he saw the lady, it was his first time seeing another human ever since he had come to the great world.

However, the thought merely flashed past his mind. He immediately realized that the person was not human at all but a real Protoss. The human form he was seeing was just the mortal form of the person's three forms.

The lady took a good look at Lin Huang as well.

However, since Lin Huang was covered in the black robe and Thousand Face mask the Buried Heaven had given him, he was shielded from being detected from the outside. Hence, she could not sense anything about him at all.

Since she could not find anything, she did not bother to try. Instead, she spoke directly to confirm his identity.

"Are you Xie Lin?"

"That's me." Lin Huang nodded.

"Master Buried Heaven sent me to pick you up."

"Let's go then." Lin Huang had checked out of the hotel when he was having his breakfast.

The lady nodded and summoned a Dragnet Spider.

The Dragnet Spider was completely white, and it was so much more decent than the one he had seen before. He knew that such spiders came in many colors.

"To the headquarters," the lady ordered. Then, the little white spider waved its front crawls as if it was doing a fancy dance on her palm. Following that, a Dimensional Whirlpool appeared out of thin air.

The little spider then spat two spider webs that clung onto Lin Huang and the lady before they leaped into the Dimensional Whirlpool.

A moment later, when Lin Huang had just managed to stand still, he realized he was standing before a humongous building.

Skyscrapers could be seen around the humongous building when one looked over. There were monsters of all forms traveling in the air, and it was crowded. The hustle and bustle was nothing below a grade-A foothold or more in the human world.

"Follow me." The lady did not even turn her head, and she walked straight toward the humongous building's entrance.

Lin Huang caught up to her immediately.

The duo walked through the door with one in front of the other as they entered the building.

There was a gigantic lobby behind the door. Monsters of all kinds crowded the place, there were strong and weak auras among them.

Lin Huang could clearly sense that many of them were on virtual god-level and true god-level. There were also two auras that terrified him. They were most probably the heavenly god-level powerhouse guards.

However, Lin Huang had not sensed any of them amidst the sea of auras until he had walked through the door.

The lady slowed down as she continued to walk toward the lobby. She turned her head to peep at Lin Huang, she seemed to want to see if he had revealed anything. However, she then looked away after failing to get anything out of him.

"We will meet at meeting room No.1 first."

The lady walked toward the left side of the lobby after saying that.

Lin Huang asked rather curiously when he caught up to her, "Are you one of the participants too?"

"Do I look like one?" The lady stopped walking and turned her head to look at Lin Huang. She asked as she raised her brows.

"You do," Lin Huang was stunned for a second to which he nodded and then responded expressionlessly. He almost forgot that he portrayed Xie Lin as a cold person.

The lady did not bother starting an awkward conversation after hearing Lin Huang had given her such a brief response. She proceeded to walk forward.

Lin Huang thought he would say something wrong if he talked more, so he decided not to speak at all.

The duo passed through the lobby and through a corridor before they finally arrived at meeting room No.1.

The meeting room was small, and it was merely 50 to 60 square meters big. There was a meeting table in the middle of the room.

Apart from Lin Huang and the lady, there was nobody else in the meeting room.

"The other two should arrive by 8:30, let's take a seat first," the lady said as she got herself a seat.

Lin Huang sat down two seats away from her.

The lady then projected her screen and began playing games. She ignored Lin Huang's existence completely.

On the other hand, Lin Huang began looking at the news.

Some ten minutes later, someone pushed open the meeting room door. Lin Huang turned his head to look, it was a young man who was so handsome that he looked flawless. He looked like he was in his early 20s.

"I thought I was the first to arrive, how's it possible that you're here earlier than me, Fallen Star? Don't you always have trouble waking up in the morning?"

"I had a mission this morning." The lady pouted in Lin Huang's direction without lifting her head. She continued playing her games while ignoring the rest.

"Eh, are you the one who got the fourth quota?" The young man seemed to only pay heed to Lin Huang's existence.

He walked toward Lin Huang as if he knew him and pulled a chair over to sit. He began observing Lin Huang from a close distance.

"Aren't you warm, wrapping yourself like that?"

The young man began chatting him up while smiling since he was unable to sense anything from him.

"No."

"Can you just sit still and not disturb anyone, Destiny?" The lady named Fallen Star lifted her head to glare at the young man.

"I'm just curious about him, aren't you?"

"It was Master Buried Heaven who appointed him the quota," Fallen Star responded coldly, "If you have any questions, ask Master Buried Heaven yourself."

Hearing the name Buried Heaven, the young man could not help but withdraw his neck. "I shall keep quiet…"

As soon as the young man finished speaking, two female voices were heard in unison coming from the door. It sounded like two little girls were talking.

"If we're not mistaken, he should be the mysterious man who killed Wine Ant Queen and Spider Empress two months ago."

A lady with two heads walked in as the meeting room's door was pushed open.

The lady with two heads looked around 12 to 13 years old. She wore a white dress.

"Is Twin right about that, sir?" the lady's two mouths asked at the same time as she chuckled.

As the lady gave her name, Lin Huang was sure that they were the participants who were going to join him in the mission, They were the top three on the Black Sickle Leaderboard.

They were Fallen Star, Destiny and Twin.

The three of them were also the outstanding virtual god-level powerhouses who ranked on the top of the Virtual God Leaderboard of the Gods Leaderboard.

Fallen Star ranked No.4 on the Virtual God Leaderboard, while Density ranked No.10. On the other hand, Twin ranked No.17.

"He killed the Wine Ant Queen and Spider Empress?" Fallen Star paused the game she was playing and lifted her head to look at Lin Huang in shock.

"I assume you guys checked the information exchange section even though you guys don't check the forum, am I right?" Twin's left head asked.

However, her right head replied immediately, "The thread on the information exchange section was deleted less than half a day after it was posted. It makes sense that they didn't see it. Also, the thread on the forum was deleted after it was posted for less than two days ago."

"You're talking about the thread on the information exchange section? I saw that, but I didn't click into it after seeing the title." Destiny pouted. "I thought the thread was deleted later on? It proves that it was fake even more."

"The person before us knows the best whether it's real or fake," Twin's both heads said at the same time.

Lin Huang could only nod lightly, seeing that the three of them were looking at him in unison. "I considered killing them, I used some tricks."

A gleam of shock flashed through Fallen Star's eyes hearing that.

Meanwhile, Destiny's face had an expression of shock as he was stunned.

Only the twin sisters who had guessed the truth were rather calm. However, excitement was written on their faces.

The doubt the three of them had was gone since Lin Huang himself had admitted that Buried Heaven was the one who had given him the quota.

The three of them were aware at that moment that the thread had been deleted not because it was fake. Instead, it was to protect the mysterious man before them.

Although Lin Huang had told them that he had used some tricks, the three of them were sure that he was way stronger than them. After all, no matter how many tricks the three of them used, they would not have been able to take the lives of the Bug Queens with the presence of hundreds of millions of Bug Tribe armies.

"Big brother, you're my big brother from now on! You must cover me in the secret zone!" Destiny held onto Lin Huang's arm with an exaggerated expression on his face.

"No matter how close you stay with him, he won't be able to cover you. No two people have ever been teleported to the same place by the Great Heaven Territory," Fallen Star said while pouting.

"It's okay. We can add each other's contacts, so we can keep in touch even after we get out of the Great Heaven Territory," Twin's right head said while smiling. Her left head agreed immediately, "That's right, let's keep in touch!"

Lin Huang did not have the heart to decline Twin's suggestion.

Twin and Destiny added Lin Huang's number immediately. Meanwhile, Fallen Star seemed to be holding onto her dignity whereby she sat still.

After adding both of them, Lin Huang turned his head to look at Fallen Star. "Let's add each other's contacts."

Fallen Star only nodded in agreement then.

A young man appeared in the meeting room without anyone noticing while the four of them were adding each other's contacts.

"It's rather crowded here."

The four of them turned their heads immediately to look at the source of the voice.

"Master Buried Heaven!"

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Chapter 1274: The Opening of the Great Heaven Territory

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"Please sit down," Buried Heaven invited, before taking his place at the head of the table. Lin Huang and the other three resumed their seats as well.

"I assume all of you are acquainted with each other?"

Seeing that they all nodded, Buried Heaven continued, "Then let's talk business."

"All of you should have already gone through the information sent to you on the known facts about the Great Heaven Territory, as well as some precautions that you need to take note of, so I won't waste time repeating it.

"Although your official mission in the Great Heaven Territory this time is to retrieve both the inheritance and the secret treasures, in essence, it's a test of survival. The real mission is for you to return alive. After all, the Great Heaven Territory is extensive; furthermore, nobody knows where the inheritance and the secret treasures are hidden. Whether you manage to retrieve them or not will depend greatly on luck.

"You will be randomly teleported into the Great Heaven Territory. It's highly unlikely that you'll encounter other participants, but we can't entirely rule out the possibility either. There are 300 people taking part in the hunt this time. Most of them are geniuses on the Virtual God Leaderboard; there's also a handful of supreme geniuses who have been secretly trained by the major organizations. We shouldn't underestimate them. If you do run into any of them, please be careful."

At this, Fallen Star and the others could not help glancing in Lin Huang's direction.

"As the teleportation is random, the chances of you being teleported to areas not on the map are fairly high. If you come across some unknown tribes or species, don't attack impulsively…"

Buried Heaven spent a few minutes more emphasizing several other points, before checking the time and standing up.

"It's almost time. I'll take you over there."

He shook his sleeve as he spoke and a little green thumb-sized snake flew out of it, landing on the meeting table.

Ling Huang was given no chance to react. All he had time to notice was that the little snake opened its mouth slightly before it swallowed him up completely—he was helpless to do anything about it.

If one were watching from the sidelines, one would be able to observe Lin Huang and his three companions shrinking rapidly as soon as the little snake opened its mouth. They turned into four tiny specks and were swallowed up.

Once the little black snake had devoured Lin Huang and his companions, it turned and returned to Buried Heaven's sleeve, quick as a flash.1

The next second, Buried Heaven abruptly vanished from the meeting room.

Lin Huang felt a little woozy. After a brief moment of darkness, he felt overcome by another round of dizziness.

Once he recovered his balance enough to stand properly and come to his senses, he realized that he was suspended in a starry sky.

A brawny bruiser of a man, about three meters in height, was standing next to him. The man's head was shiny and completely bald; however, he had a thick beard and was heavily muscled.

Lin Huang was startled for a moment before realizing that this was how Buried Heaven looked like in his videos online. This seemed to have been his public persona in the outside world all the while.

Fallen Star and the other two members of the group were here as well. However, they did not seem at all surprised at Buried Heaven's appearance.

"Buried Heaven, it looks like you've been pretty free lately. You've even got the time to bring participants to the Great Heaven Territory's trial," a voice called suddenly from not too far away.

Only then did Lin Huang notice that their team was not the only one in this space.

There were at least 20 teams around. The person who had hailed Buried Heaven was from the team with the most people—a total of 13 members.

Lin Huang vaguely sensed that this individual seemed to have abilities on par with Buried Heaven, and, like Buried Heaven, was also a leader.

However, this same individual was very handsome. Clad in full golden armor that shone from head to toe, his gaze was coolly arrogant. Lin Huang could not help but mock him secretly.

'Does he think he's Gilgamesh1?'

"You really do talk a lot of nonsense, King Kong," Buried Heaven responded expressionlessly from where he was standing to the side.

Lin Huang's pupils contracted a little when he heard the name King Kong. Although the man's name was the same as the gorilla in the famous movie, this was not what Lin Huang was thinking about.

In the documents that Bloody had given him, there were mentions of this particular individual.

Like Buried Heaven, King Kong was one of the few peak heavenly god-level powerhouses in the God Territory who were closest to becoming Lords.

Despite his name, King Kong was not a combat cultivator specializing in melee weapons—rather, he was a genuine sword cultivator.

Lin Huang recalled very clearly that the organization King Kong belonged to was called God Capital. It was a grade-7 organization founded by a pureblood Protoss Lord.

King Kong was an elder in God Capital, a position that was on par with the few half-step Lords in the organization.

Clearly, this time, exploring the secret zone was important to God Capital as well.

"Sword and saber are irreconcilable. As a sword cultivator, Great Heaven always treated me as his most powerful opponent. It makes perfect sense that I'm here. You though, you're a combat cultivator, so why are you here looking for trouble?"

"I'll come as I please, what are you going to do about it?" Buried Heaven did not bother rising to the bait despite King Kong's needling.

"Hey, there's a new face on your team." King Kong swept a glance over Buried Heaven's group, his gaze stopping on Lin Huang, "He's bundled up securely enough already, do you still need to cast a shield layer around him, brat? All this mystery—don't tell me he's Death Sickle's secret weapon?"

Lin Huang had a shock when he heard this. Only now was he aware that Buried Heaven had secretly cast a layer of protection over him to prevent him from being detected by the Heavenly Gods. Even King Kong had not been able to discover who Lin Huang really was.

"I added a shield to prevent people like yourself from detecting him as and when you please," Buried Heaven retorted, not mincing words.

"Your straightforward character is what I like about you." King Kong did not seem to take offense to this at all. Instead, he said, grinning, "I think we would become great partners if you joined God Capital. We wouldn't have any opponents below Lord level. I don't know what's so good about Death Sickle when there aren't any Lords in the organization…"

"If you want me to join God Capital, that's fine by me. I'll be more than happy to take your place once you die," Buried Heaven interrupted King Kong, scoring a point verbally. This was not the first time King Kong had annoyed him with similar invitations.

"Hehe, I certainly don't want to die. Why don't you help me kill off one of God Capital's elders? You can join and take over his position…" King Kong's brazen suggestion about killing one of his own organization's elders in front of so many people shocked even the 12 God Capital participants behind him.

'What an insane bastard!' Lin Huang mentally labeled King Kong.

The conversation between the pair came to an abrupt end very quickly, thanks to Buried Heaven ignoring King Kong. The entire space finally settled back into its hitherto quiet state.

More and more organizations showed up as the time for the opening of the Great Heaven Territory drew nearer.

Lin Huang noticed that the few teams with a larger quota were grade-7 organizations guarded by Lords. Excluding the leaders, there were more than ten participants per team.

Almost all the other teams had less than five members. Only two teams had five members, while seven other teams, Death Sickle included, had four members. Most of the rest were small teams of two or three people; there were some ten teams that only had one participant each.

Clearly, the Great Heaven Territory's quota for the trial was not so easily obtained.

Everyone continued waiting; it was soon nine in the morning.

Precisely on the stroke of nine, an austere golden metal gate suddenly materialized out of thin air…

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The metal gate was completely golden, its surface covered with mysterious divine patterns.

As the gate materialized fully, the divine patterns on it began to shift and change, looking like little snakes in various positions.

It only took a moment for the divine patterns on the golden gate to alter completely.

Once the divine patterns had stopped changing and the new design was fixed in place, a rumble sounded out of nowhere. At the same time, the gate seemed to be pushed open slowly by a pair of invisible hands, and the sound of heavy objects being dragged over the ground could be heard in the air.

In approximately the time it took for ten breaths, the gate was finally wide open.

Behind the gate, there was nothing but absolute darkness, certainly not the Dimensional Whirlpool that Lin Huang had imagined. The silence was absolute too as if nothing was there.

Just as Lin Huang experienced some doubt, King Kong, the God Capital elder who was standing nearby, spoke up suddenly.

"Let's go in!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the 12 participants from God Capital turned into 12 streams of light and made straight for the gate without hesitation.

Almost simultaneously, the team leaders of the several other lord-level organizations gave their orders.

One by one the participants changed into light streams and charged through the golden door one after another.

Meanwhile, Buried Heaven had yet to give the orders for the Death Sickle team. Lin Huang was not in a hurry either; instead, he observed what was happening at the gate.

As the light streams charged forward, they penetrated the darkness behind the gate and immediately vanished. Their auras could no longer be detected at all.

If not for the faint ripples undulating in the darkness behind the gate, Lin Huang would have never thought the gate possessed any sort of dimensional ability.

Only after all five of the lord-level teams had gone through did Buried Heaven nod at Lin Huang and the others in the Death Sickle team.

"Let's go in."

Without further hesitation, Lin Huang and his three companions turned into four light streams and charged through the gate with the participants of the remaining top grade-6 organizations.

The moment they crossed the threshold, Lin Huang felt as if he had plunged through the surface of water. Immediately, however, his five senses were all cut off. Sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste seemed to have been stripped away in the blink of an eye. Not only was he unable to activate his Divine Telekinesis, but even his sense of time was also obscured.

Lin Huang did not know how much time had passed before a light appeared before him suddenly.

The next instant, his senses and abilities all returned to his body.

He landed slowly on a large expanse of ground with deep fissures running through it.

A check with Divine Telekinesis revealed that this was a barren planet. To be exact, it was a dead planet with absolutely no living creatures.

Not only were there no animals, but there were also no signs of any living plants, insects, or even microorganisms.

However, Lin Huang could not help frowning a little.

This was because he had discovered quite a few vestiges of former habitation on this planet in the form of city ruins. Although the buildings were not tall, they had definitely been places inhabited by some group species.

"All life has been wiped out; even the mines have ceased functioning…" Lin Huang squinted a little. "The Bug Tribe is the only tribe that would do this!

"In other words, this planet that I'm currently standing on was once conquered by Bug Tribes…so there's a definite possibility that I'm currently within the territorial boundaries of a Bug Tribe." This was not good news for Lin Huang.

Heavenly god-level powerhouses existed in the Great Heaven Territory.

If the Bug Tribe army's Bug King or Bug Queen was a heavenly god-level powerhouse, Lin Huang would not be able to survive an encounter with them.

"I hope things aren't as terrible as I imagine…" In a flash, Lin Huang disappeared from where he was standing and reappeared in the middle of a ruined city.

While using Divine Telekinesis to do a close-range sweep of the area, he was also observing his surroundings.

"The hoof prints on the ground were obviously made by Heavy-armored Onyx Bugs; the blade marks on the ruined walls would probably have been made by the Demonic Sword-armed Mantis. The tunnels in the wall show burn marks; Devil Cannon Bugs were probably responsible for that…"

For Lin Huang, who had mastered the galactic hive and accessed the Bug Tribe Queen Mother's memory as well, most Bug Tribes were not unfamiliar to him. A glance was all he needed to ascertain which Bug Tribes had subjugated this particular city.

"Judging by the traces of battle remaining, the Bug Tribes that attacked were at virtual god-level combat strength. In other words, their Bug King or Bug Queen would have only been at the level of a Virtual God. Even if they were True Gods, they were most likely only beginner-stage True Gods." Lin Huang was more than a little relieved to have drawn these conclusions.

"Based on what's left, the extermination of life on this planet probably happened within the last half a year…" At this point in his speculations, Lin Huang could not help but frown again, "Bug Tribes only plunder a planet's resources and its life. They can retrieve any information they need from the planet's living creatures, there's no need for them to steal civilization documents. There should at least be some of those left behind here!"

"All I have to do is to find some civilization documents, and I should be able to confirm where exactly I am. If I'm lucky I might even get a star map right away…"

Lin Huang decided to stay on this dead planet to continue his explorations because he could not identify his location at all. The only thing he knew was that he was nowhere within the exploration zone, so the star maps that Death Sickle provided were no help at all.

If he were to leave now, he might search for a month and not be able to find a second planet with resources.

Furthermore, the Great Heaven Territory was only open to explorers for a month.

As he stood above the ruined city, Lin Huang spread his Divine Telekinesis for a thorough scan. A moment later, his frown deepened and his expression became more and more unpleasant.

While the Divine Telekinesis scan did not give him anything particularly valuable in terms of information, it allowed him to access many scenes that roused his ire.

In a bedroom on the second floor of a two-story building, the pink sheet on the bed was stained with blood. On it was a ruined fabric doll with only half its head intact, also covered in blood.

Someone had clearly been dragged off the bed, as the bloodstains extended from the bed to the ground. The gory trail ended at the doorway in a huge pool of blood.

Lin Huang could almost imagine the scene—a little girl of five or six between a bug beast's jaws, being dragged to the door before being eaten.

The kitchen on the first floor of another three-story building was a shambles. Pots and dishes were overturned and broken on the floor, with traces of dried oil still to be seen on the tiles. That would probably have been soup that was spilled.

Dark blood seeped through the remaining oil stains on the floor.

In a building not far away, the bookshelves in one of the studies had been completely wrecked. The floor was full of torn books and bloodstains.

There was a little photo frame in one of the crevices under the ruined study table. The glass on the frame was broken, but the picture inside was still intact.

It was a photograph showing a family of four.

The man of the house looked like he was in his early 30s. His face was covered with stubble, and a little boy of four or five was sitting on his lap making a funny face. The lady next to him had a gentle smile on her face as she carried a swaddled infant in her arms. The baby was smiling up at its mother.

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Chapter 1276: An Awkward Situation

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This was a planet that had once been inhabited by humans!

Lin Huang furrowed his brow the moment when he saw the photograph.

He had not thought too much about it when he initially noticed that the buildings were styled in the manner of human architecture. This was because most buildings in the God Territory had been inspired by human designs.

Furthermore, none of the previous trial participants had ever come across any human encampments during past explorations of areas in the God Territory.

Although Lin Huang had speculated that there might be humans residing in the Great Heaven Territory, never had he imagined that he would be directly teleported into one such area.

From a Divine Telekinesis scan for the number of ruined buildings that still remained, Lin Huang could roughly estimate that there had been at least three billion people on this planet.

This was close to half of the Earth's population, not to mention countless animals and plants that had been eaten and killed by the Bug Tribes. Not a trace of them remained.

Although this was not Lin Huang's first encounter with the Bug Tribes, it was the first time he truly understood the threat they posed.

However, Lin Huang's thoughts were simultaneously going wild inside his head.

"The inhabitants of this planet were all human; it could very well mean that this was a gathering point for humans. So there's a high probability of humans inhabiting other living planets nearby. Judging from the Bug Tribes' frequent campaigns over the decades and centuries, this war between humans and the Bug Tribes might still be going on in some other planet nearby."

This made it even more imperative for him to find a star map.

After some brief consideration, Lin Huang summoned a Bug Tribe Queen Mother.

As soon as the order was given, a massive number of Bug Tribe armies swarmed forth to cover the entire planet once again.

This time their mission was not to kill but to search for information on the planet's civilization.

Over 100 million bug hordes took merely a couple of minutes to cover every corner of the entire planet.

Some ten minutes later, a Queen Mother in a white dress who looked like a little girl turned her head to speak to Lin Huang.

"We found an underground laboratory that's still functioning. We should be able to find quite a bit of information there."

"Give me the coordinates!" Lin Huang exclaimed hurriedly, "Ask them not to damage anything in there."

A couple of minutes later, Lin Huang and the Queen Mother arrived at the coordinates where the entrance to the underground facility was located.

The great metal door at the entrance had been ripped apart during the war. Lin Huang and the Queen Mother hurried inside.

This underground laboratory had collapsed long ago. However, the Bug Tribe fighters sent by the Queen Mother had cleared a path for them.

Lin Huang led the Queen Mother into the laboratory's control center without encountering any obstacles along the way.

Part of the control center had actually collapsed as well. Fortunately, the machines at the central control unit were not damaged; even the holographic projector had been preserved in its entirety.

The main control unit was huge, like supercomputers on earth. Lin Huang was unable to figure out how to operate it even after staring at the hundreds of buttons on its console for a long time. Feeling helpless, he had no choice but to summon Grimace.

Usually, Lin Huang would get Bloody to handle such tasks whenever she was with him. Now that she was not here, he could only seek help from Grimace, who also possessed Supreme Intelligence.

Once Grimace was summoned, he fell to studying the machine without saying much of anything.

Some ten minutes later, Grimace finally figured out the basics of how to operate the machine.

"We're very lucky that there's still internet access on this planet. What would you like to look for?"

"Information about this planet—the star maps of the surrounding areas, the bigger the coverage and the more detailed, the better. Information about other living planets nearby, and also related information on the war with the Bug Tribes…"

Lin Huang gave Grimace a list of some of the things that he wanted to know most of all.

A 3-D holographic projection appeared in the middle of the room all of a sudden as Grimace operated the machine.

The projection was of a starry sky that Lin Huang was unfamiliar with.

"This machine seems to be connected to the entire star zone's internet. The blinking light on the star map is the planet that we're currently on."

"What do the colors of the labels mean?" Lin Huang immediately asked. He saw that many planets on the star map had been color-coded and marked with various symbols.

"Red means planets that are currently at war; green means living planets inhabited by a single tribe; blue means planets inhabited by other harmless tribes. A red cross means planets that have been destroyed; a black skull means planets that have resident Bug Tribe armies, and a red skull means planets with powerful enemies in residence…"

Lin Huang noticed that the planet that he was currently on had been marked with a red cross. Not only that, but a few dozen planets close by were also marked with red crosses. From afar, the red crosses looked like a sea of red dots.

Looking up in another direction, Lin Huang saw hundreds of black skulls and a couple of red skulls.

"The planet we're on is between the Bug Tribe armies and planets inhabited by Bug Tribes. The only way to return to the safe areas marked by the green dots of light would be to pass through the Bug Tribe armies. This planet has only undergone several hundred years of development; the dimensional portals only support two teleportation points. Both the planets that the dimensional portal connects to are currently war zones. Furthermore, we have to make sure that the dimensional portals still work. Even if they do, we have no way of ascertaining if the dimensional portals between the two teleportation points are in good condition."

"Can you find out the overall ability of the current invading Bug Tribes?" Lin Huang asked quickly.

"The war is led by three high-level Heavenly Gods. There's also a recently elevated Heavenly God Queen Mother from the Bug Tribe. Apart from them, there are three true god-level Queen Mothers, over 20 peak-stage True God Bug Kings and bug guardians. There are eight virtual god-level Queen Mothers…"

"At the moment, the Heavenly Gods have yet to fight; they're just taking a back seat for now. They're on the several red skull-labeled planets on the star map. There are also three true god-level Queen Mothers, peak-stage True God Bug Kings and bug guardians, as well as high-level True God Bug Tribe elites in the areas marked with black skulls. We can't be sure exactly which planets they're on."

"A recently elevated Heavenly God Queen Mother…no wonder the Bug Tribes started a war out of nowhere!" After hearing Grimace's information, Lin Huang, who had a certain understanding of how the Bug Tribe was run internally, immediately realized why war had broken out.

The emergence of a Queen Mother elevated to Heavenly God meant that the entire Bug Tribe could produce heavenly god-level Bug Tribe fighters.

The war was initiated to provide the Heavenly God Queen Mother with better food so she could produce heavenly god-level powerhouses.

Moreover, members of the Bug Tribe could elevate their combat strength and levels through eating. Eating massive amounts of good-quality food could help the Heavenly God Queen Mother to elevate her combat strength further.

However, judging by the information Grimace provided, the war was clearly still in its preliminary to middle stages. It had not yet come to the final stages where the Heavenly Gods and high-level True Gods officially joined the battle.

Even if that were the case, the current situation showed that the Bug Tribe had the upper hand.

"Of the Bug Tribes already in the war zone right now, what's the most powerful Bug Tribe's combat strength? Can you find out?" Lin Huang asked again.

"The Bug Tribe has only sent out intermediate-stage True Gods for the moment. The ones with the highest combat strength are several class-4 sixth-rank True God Bug Kings."

"Quadruple mutated sixth-rank True Gods…" Lin Huang frowned again.

A Bug Tribe with such combat strength was a definite threat to his life. It was quite impossible for him to win even if he used all his trump cards.

His most powerful technique was his God's Figurines' Combat Souls but their combat strength was only at virtual god-level rank-9. At most, their ability was on par with second-rank True God Bug Kings. Even if he were to use the Provisional Combat Strength Upgrade Card, the most he could do would be to elevate three ranks, which was about par ability-wise with that of a fifth-rank True God Bug King.

At true god-level, just one rank made a huge difference in one's abilities.

"It would be a bit of a hassle to bump into those Bug Kings but there's nothing else to be done. The trial only lasts for a month; I can't be wasting my time…" Lin Huang soon came to a decision.

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Chapter 1277: Devil Sword Bug

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After reading through the documents that he needed, Lin Huang got Grimace to filter through all the documents in the entire laboratory and send them to his communication ring. Only then did he leave the underground laboratory.

As he returned to the surface, Lin Huang had the Queen Mother recall the Bug Tribe armies. He then summoned Thunder and hurried to the dimensional portals with Grimace.

Thanks to Thunder's incredible speed, Lin Huang arrived at the coordinates where the dimensional portals were within ten minutes.

"Both dimensional portals look like they're working fine. However, we've no idea if both teleportation points on the other side are functioning." Grimace stared at the dimensional portals for a while before he said to Lin Huang, "I suggest we test them out with something else to see whether the teleportation is successful."

If the dimensional portals on the other sides were damaged or malfunctioning due to some other reason, the teleported items might be sent into some unknown void. They might even be torn apart immediately by the dimensional portals.

Lin Huang thought about it and asked the Queen Mother standing beside him to summon two lowest grade bug beasts and have them step into a portal each.

After putting in sufficient Divine Stones for activation, both dimensional portals were up and running almost

simultaneously. A moment later, the Queen Mother that looked like a little girl turned her head to say to Lin Huang, "One of them died instantly while the other is still alive. However, since it's too far away, I can only sense faintly that it's still alive but nothing else."

Bug Tribe Queen Mothers' sensing range for the Bug Tribe fighters under them far surpassed Divine Telekinesis coverage. This had something to do with the bugs' willpower, as well as the Bug Tribe's physiological structure. However, once out of range, Queen Mothers could only detect whether their fighters were still alive, and nothing more.

"Which was the successful portal?" Lin Huang asked quickly.

"The one on the right."

"We have to also make sure that the teleportation distance and the coordinates are the same," Grimace reminded Lin Huang, lightly tapping his fingers on his walking stick twice.

Only now did it occur to Lin Huang that even though one bug beast had survived, there was a chance it had been teleported to an unknown area.

"Can you sense the distance?" he asked the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother closed her eyes and opened them a moment later. "Approximately 14 light-years away."

Lin Huang projected the star map immediately and looked at the teleportation distance that was marked on the map. "That should be correct. The coordinates on the star map show that the two teleportation points are 11.8 and 14.3 light-years away from this planet that we're currently on. The teleportation point of the dimensional portal on the right is exactly 14.3 light-years."

Grimace cupped his chin and thought for a moment. Suddenly he turned to the Queen Mother and asked by way of confirmation, "You can't get any information at all about that planet?"

The Queen Mother nodded. "The distance is far beyond the limits of my capabilities. I can't send or receive any information, I can only sense whether my heir is still alive."

Grimace raised his brows and looked at Lin Huang. "We only know that particular planet is currently at war based on the documents we retrieved from the laboratory earlier. How many Bug Tribes there are, what their combat strength is, how many powerhouses there are on the human side, and which stage the war is at…we have no information on any of these.

"It's possible that we might encounter a sixth-rank True God Bug King if we were to gatecrash the war. Moreover, judging by the amount of red and black dots on the current star map, the Bug Tribe seems to have the upper hand in this battle. So I suggest that it's best if you teleport yourself there disguised as a member of the Bug Tribe.

"Use your Bug Tribe identity to gain whatever intel you can and remove the disguise when there's a suitable opportunity to come into contact with humans. Then you can fight as a human."

Lin Huang thought about it for a while and decided to take Grimace's suggestion.

"Then I need to look for a humanoid Bug Tribe. Otherwise, it will be difficult to move around."

After a discussion with Queen Mother, Lin Huang finally decided on his disguise —a Devil Sword Bug.

The Devil Sword Bug was a class-3.5, which would be the equivalent of pseudo-mythical level in Monster Card ranking.

Although it was a member of the Bug Tribe, the Devil Sword Bug's form was completely humanoid. Not only was it a biped, but it had no exoskeleton, unlike other Bug Tribe species. Instead, it had muscles similar to that of humans. However, there were obvious differences as well. This particular bug beast species had two sharp swords for arms as if someone had tied a sword onto each arm. The Devil Sword Bug's head was also that of a bug beast, similar to a praying mantis' triangular head.

After disguising himself with Thousand Face and making sure that the Queen Mother and Grimace could not detect any flaws, Lin Huang then began adjusting his combat strength.

To avoid any attention, he adjusted his combat strength to Virtual God rank-3—a mere cosmetic adjustment that did not affect his actual abilities. This was a result of some discussion with Grimace. The reason for such an adjustment was that there were countless Virtual Gods within the invading Bug Tribe. This combat strength was rather low, but it was not the lowest; he would have much more freedom to act compared to a Virtual God rank-1. Even if there was intel accessible only with higher combat strength, he would not attract much attention even if he were to elevate his combat strength by two ranks.

After adjusting his combat strength, Lin Huang asked Grimace, the Queen Mother and Thunder to make sure that his disguise was flawless. He then recalled Grimace, the Queen Mother, and Thunder back into their cards, and stepped into the dimensional portal alone.

A moment later, Lin Huang felt briefly woozy. In the blink of an eye, his surrounding environment around was now completely different from a few minutes ago.

Despite this new environment being as barren as the one before, it did not have the deathly stillness of the previous planet. In fact, Lin Huang could clearly hear the sounds of battle in the distance as violent forces clashed against each other.

The bug beast that had been teleported over earlier was not able to be recalled by the Queen Mother since it was too far away. It was just standing nearby, staring blankly at the dimensional portal since it had not received any orders from the Queen Mother.

It was clearly stunned when it saw Lin Huang and skittered over clumsily as it sensed a familiar aura.

Lin Huang waved and recalled the bug beast back to the hive directly.

Sensing a great deal of Divine Telekinesis nearby, Lin Huang activated his Divine Telekinesis without worrying too much.

Although Lin Huang's Divine Telekinesis intensity was only Virtual God rank-3 on the surface thanks to Thousand Face's disguise, his real detection range was much further.

His Divine Telekinesis range was close to the level of a True God so it did not take him long at all to gauge the situation at hand.

80% of this planet had been conquered by the Bug Tribe. Meanwhile, humans and a few other tribes occupied several major cities. These cities were certain to have powerhouses guarding them. Not only that, but many survivors had also gathered within the cities to steadfastly defend them against the Bug Tribe's attacks.

"Looking at the current war situation, the cities' defenses shouldn't be breached all that soon. However, there's no chance of me getting into human cities under such conditions…"

Lin Huang was happy that the humans were working with other tribes. However, he felt a little troubled at the same time, as this meant that he could not enter the cities.

He made a decision after thinking it through for a moment.

"I can only take one step at a time. In the meantime, I'll look for intel from the Bug Tribe."

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Chapter 1278: The Bug Tribe's Group Chat

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Just as Lin Huang was wondering how to contact other Bug Tribes to retrieve intel, a virtual projection box suddenly popped up in front of him.

'What's that?'

Lin Huang had put away his communication ring earlier to disguise himself as a member of the Bug Tribe; this projection box clearly did not come from there.

Lin Huang took a closer look—the projected content looked rather like a group chat. There were constant new updates on various pieces of information. He was familiar with the language that the group chat was using; they were written in the characters of the Bug Tribe's tongue.

He had mastered the bug language automatically after obtaining the Bug Tribe Queen Mother. It was also one of the functions of his Goldfinger, Xiao Hei, which allowed him to master all Monster Cards' languages and characters automatically.

Lin Huang eyed the projection box doubtfully. Very soon, his triangular head took on a confused expression.

"Is this the Bug Tribe's group chat?"

Although he had obtained Bug Tribe Queen Mothers and many Bug Tribe Monster Cards, this was his first time encountering the Bug Tribe's internal communication system.

The projection box before him was similar to the group chats that humans used back in the gravel world.

New messages kept scrolling up on the group chat; this was apparently a live conversation among different Bug Tribe members.

Lin Huang made up his mind to become an observer and read the conversations coming from all these multiple Bug Tribe members in silence.

"This planet sure is tough. It's been almost a month and we still haven't conquered it!"

"There's nothing that we can do. The few remaining cities all have True Gods guarding them. Not only that, but their ability's also quite powerful. Especially that Nangong guy; I heard he's a human class-4 genius and his combat strength is at sixth-rank True God level. That's on par with a Bug King."

"We can only drain them since we can't defeat them. After all, we outnumber the humans. No matter how powerful that Nangong guy is, once his Divine Power is all drained off, he's finished."

"Judging by our current progress, I think we'll need at least a month to clear this planet completely."

Lin Huang observed quietly for a while and realized that the bug beasts sending out these messages seemed to be of a similar intelligence level. They were completely different from ordinary Bug Tribe fighters.

Just as Lin Huang started to have some doubts, a message popped up suddenly. Unlike the black bug characters in all the previous texts, this one was in red.

"Stop chatting, take charge of your stations and your underlings. The Queen Mother's just given an order—we attack in half an hour!"

The entire group chat became dead silent as soon as the red message popped up.

Lin Huang came to a realization at that point. "No wonder they have high intelligence. I'm guessing these are bug guardians and commanders that are at least triple mutated."

Triple mutated Bug Tribes had intelligence on par with ordinary humans. If that was the case, everything made sense.

"The sender of the red text should be the quadruple mutated Bug King!" Lin Huang was able to make a rough guess at the identity of the bug beast that had sent the text. "I can't believe I accidentally tapped into a high-level group chat."

However, the mention of an attack in half an hour caught Lin Huang's attention.

"Perhaps if I follow along with this attack, I might be able to come into contact with the humans here."

Lin Huang levitated into the air after a moment of contemplation and headed for the Bug Tribe that was nearest to his Divine Telekinesis sense earlier.

He suppressed his flight speed to the level of a rank-3 Virtual God. It took him some ten minutes to finally arrive at the location where he had sensed the Bug Tribe.

Fortunately, Bug Tribe soldiers below the level of guardians and commanders possessed low intelligence. None of them suspected Lin Huang's identity even though they sensed his arrival. Instead, they cleared a path for him since they sensed that he had high combat strength.

This allowed Lin Huang to blend into the Bug Tribe easily. What was even more fortunate was that the entire group was comprised of a mixture of armies. There were hundreds of different Bug Tribes; Lin Huang did not seem out of place when he mingled with everyone.

He was not nervous at all as he was among bug beasts of all forms in the Bug Tribe army.

He glanced around; he sensed no aura that surpassed virtual god-level.

It was a piece of cake for him to annihilate troops of over 10 million Bug Tribe fighters on his own. He would not even need to summon his imperial beasts.

As Lin Huang glanced over the bugs, it did not take him long to notice a human city not far away. It was less than 60 kilometers from where the Bug Tribe army was currently.

Ten minutes passed by in the blink of an eye.

There was a sudden update in the 'group chat' that Lin Huang was observing.

A message in gold text came through.

"Inform the troops we will attack in three minutes!"

"This message is probably from one of the true god-level Queen Mothers!" Lin Huang immediately guessed who had sent the gold texts.

Based on the overall battle situation, each of the three true god-level Queen Mothers was responsible for overseeing the wars in at least a few dozen planets. This meant that their attention would be split between all of these various places.

Despite that, the Queen Mothers coordinated the efforts of the Bug Tribe army confidently and effortlessly.

The Queen Mothers' orders would only go to the Bug Kings leading the troops and the Bug Tribe commanders. They would naturally make the necessary arrangements to realize the Queen Mothers' orders.

A voice sounded in Lin Huang's ears as soon as the Queen Mother sent the message.

"Get ready, we attack in three minutes!"

Seeing that all of the bugs around him were standing up one after the other, Lin Huang realized that the order was not solely directed at him.

'That wasn't voice transmission, so it ought to be the Bug Tribe's message delivery system. The message would be heard by everyone; what a highly efficient technique.'

In less than half an hour of being disguised as a bug, Lin Huang had witnessed two different yet highly efficient communication techniques. This had completely overturned the original assumptions he had made about the Bug Tribe.

Initially, he had thought that most Bug Tribes were of low intelligence. The reason why they were powerful was because of their massive numbers and the fact that they could devour everything. However, if one could infer the whole from a single instance, this meant that the Bug Tribe possessed high intelligence which was on par with that of humans.

Humans had invented communication tools, while the Bug Tribe had invented its own 'group chat'. Humans had come up with voice transmission techniques, while Bug Tribe had their very own message delivery system. Furthermore, their system was much more efficient and detailed than human voice transmission.

Clearly, the Bug Tribe had been continuously learning and evolving.

Lin Huang abandoned his sense of superiority and suppressed his aura to avoid being exposed.

As soon as the three minutes of preparation were up, a gold text appeared in the group chat.

"Charge!"

Almost simultaneously, Lin Huang heard an order in his ears.

"Go!"

As soon as the order came, almost all the Bug Tribe members stopped what they were doing and charged at the nearby city!

Tens upon millions of Bug Tribe armies surged toward the human city like a flood.

Meanwhile, Lin Huang kept a low profile in the great mass of bug beasts and followed the army into the city.

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Chapter 1279: The War Begins

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Tough City was the name of the human city.

Lin Huang only realized that the city wall was much higher than he imagined as he arrived outside the city with the bug beasts.

The city wall was about 100 meters tall. Apart from the fact that it was made up of a tremendous amount of metals and beast bones, many barriers and formations were shielding it.

Even a true god-level powerhouse might not be able to damage it with all of his might.

Lin Huang could almost imagine how much effort was put into this city wall when it was built.

He lifted his head to look above the city wall. Dense human troops were standing neatly. Many of them wore armors of different colors and models. They were not trained soldiers, but they were standing in a neat formation.

All of them were looking at the Bug Tribe armies that were already standing in a formation in all seriousness.

Just when Lin Huang was thinking of how the war would begin, a new order came into his ears.

"Execute a long-distance attack, get ready! Aim your attacks at the targets, which are the humans on the city wall!"

A commotion came among the bugs as soon as the order came.

A moment later, Lin Huang saw a couple of tribe members gathered together.

They were Bug Tribes that were experts in long-distance attacks.

"Defence, set up a formation to protect the long-distance attack tribes!"

Almost at the same time, the Bug Tribes wearing thick armors and shields gathered around the long-distance attack tribes.

As soon as the commotion broke out among the Bug Tribes, the humans on the city wall had taken the initiative to attack.

Lin Huang heard someone shouting on the city wall from far away, "Archers, firearms masters, gunmasters and Element Masters will take the first wave of attack!"

In the next second, Lin Huang saw countless arrows containing Divine Power, bullets and all sorts of elemental skills raining down like a storm.

Lin Huang ran immediately and hid under a Giant Beetle's tummy without hesitation.

To be honest, this wave of attack could not harm him at all.

However, he who had disguised himself as a Bug Tribe had no plan of exposing himself at the moment. He could only use the Giant Beetle as his shield to avoid this wave of attack.

As soon as human's first wave of attack came, the Bug Tribes fought back immediately.

The Flame Cannon Bugs spat gigantic fireballs one after another above the city wall.

The Ice Psybugs consolidated icicles in the air and shot them out with their tails.

Meanwhile, there were Arrow Sting Bugs that looked something like porcupines shot the poisonous stings on their bodies like arrows.

The Bug Tribe's attack techniques were fancy. Even Lin Huang who was hiding under the Giant Beetle thought it was eye-opening.

"I can't believe there are so many tribes among the Bug Tribe to be experts in long-distance attack!"

There were many casualties on the Bug Tribe's side during the first round of battle.

Countless arrows, bullets, cannons, and elemental attacks landed on all sorts of Bug Tribes. Slightly above 70% of them were hit during this round of battle. Many of them whose ability was subpar were eliminated directly. A portion of them was injured from the attacks. Only a minority of them suffered no injuries.

Meanwhile, on the human side, the attack impact that they suffered was nothing minor. However, very few of them were killed during this round of attack.

Most of the Bug Tribes who passed through the high city wall after attacking had their power taken away by all sorts of formations and barriers. Many attacks even vanished before they hit anything. Even if they did hit something, 70% to 80% of impact and speed were taken away, which lost its threat.

The humans were well prepared for this battle.

Lin Huang who was still hiding under the Giant Beetle tummy was secretly relieved when he saw that.

Although it was not the gravel world, the humans in the city were of his kind after all.

A new order came into Lin Huang's ears as the fire went on for some ten minutes from both sides.

"Excluding the long-distance attack group, everyone attacks!"

A commotion went on among the Bug Tribes as the order came. A sea of bug beasts flew into the air and charged above the city wall directly.

Only a minority of bug beasts that were not good in flying chose to charge beneath the city wall.

The Bug King's order had a certain force on the ordinary Bug Tribes, there was no way that they could go against the order. However, Lin Huang was not a real Bug Tribe, but an imposter. Although he received the order too, there was no stress on him.

Seeing the formation waves that appeared faintly above the city wall, Lin Huang knew that this wave of Bug Tribes would be in an unfavorable situation again.

He withdrew his head obediently again and proceeded to hide under the Giant Beetle's tummy. He waited for the Giant Beetle to run with its clumsy, thin legs patiently.

It was not that the Giant Beetles could not fly. They had wings too, but their flight technique was worrying. They could not deviate their directions most of the time as soon as they started flying. No matter what kind of obstacles they encountered, they could only smash into it. Therefore, unless they were running for their lives, the Giant Beetles rarely flap their wings.

As the Giant Beetles were merely one-third on their way, a sea of bug beasts had flown above the city wall.

Just like what Lin Huang expected, the countless bug beasts slowed down from the formations and barriers as they passed above the city wall. They became sitting ducks.

Naturally, the humans on the city wall would not let go of such an opportunity. This time, almost everyone on the city wall attacked. They attacked with all sorts of techniques at the Bug Tribes that were slowed down.

The first wave of Bug Tribe fighters that went first became sitting ducks directly. Almost all of them were killed instantly.

The Bug Tribes at the back reacted immediately when they noticed something was off. However, they did not retreat. Instead, they treated their kind in front as their shields while they proceeded to attack at the city wall.

Although they slowed down significantly, there were so many of them after all. Apart from the major casualties on the first impact, the death rate after that dropped significantly.

Seeing that the Bug Tribe soldiers did not stop approaching, the humans felt the stress on their side.

"Go, squads!"

As the order came from the human's side, up to a hundred human squads charged from above the city wall. The members of the squads were high-level Virtual Gods. They were like arrows shooting into the bug hordes.

Compared to the Bug Tribes being slowed down, up to a hundred human squads seemed to not have been affected by the barriers and formations at all.

While one was advancing and another was dropping, it was like up to a hundred tigers pouncing at the lambs.

The Bug Tribes' stance was messed up instantly. The sitting ducks that were initially charging towards the city wall were killed one after another.

As if up to a hundred whirlpools appeared among the tsunami-like bug hordes, their order was disrupted now.

"Amazing comeback!"

Lin Huang could not help but exclaimed when he saw that.

"The great formation of up to a hundred billion in number the Bug Tribes came up with were disrupted by some 1,000 people like a piece of cake!"

However, Lin Huang could not help but frown under the disguise in the next second. He thought of a problem all of a sudden.

"Now that the battle is so intense, there must be countless True Gods watching. I'm afraid it might be difficult for me to remove my disguise to enter the city. Forget it that the Bug Tribes might find out about me but as soon as humans find me, they would most probably think that I'm a spy for the Bug Tribe. Even if I managed to prove that I'm human, I bet they won't believe me. After all, there were spies controlled by the Bug Tribe before…"

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Chapter 1280: Ridiculous Operation that Came Out of Nowhere

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The attack and defense battle above the city wall went into climax less than three seconds since it began.

The Bug Tribe armies were in a frenzy to pass through the city wall, but they were disrupted by the formations and barriers that the humans had set up beforehand.

As they picked up their pace and attempted to break their defense by force, they were ambushed by the human elite squads.

The over 100 squads were made of high-level Virtual Gods. Each squad was made of 10 to 15 people, they formed mini battle formations. Clearly, they had rehearsed this for a long time. Each battle formation's power was on par with a Virtual God rank-9 expert. Some were even more powerful than that.

Although there were many Bug Tribe fighters, most of them were beginner-stage and intermediate-stage Virtual Gods. There were less than 1/5 high-level Virtual Gods among them.

Under the ambush, the human squads were like a sharp knife dipping into oil, messing up the charging Bug Tribe armies.

The throngs of Bug Tribe fighters were no match for the ambush squad's attacks at all. Before any of their Virtual God rank-9 and true god-level powerhouses made it here, the human battle formations clearly would not stop killing their kinds.

Although they had a great upper hand in their quantity, the Bug Tribe did not get any advantages out of the two consecutive battles.

As the battle was getting intense in the air, the Bug Tribe armies on land had finally arrived beneath the city wall.

At the moment, countless sparks lit up above the city wall all of a sudden. Fireballs fell onto the ground one after another like a meteor shower.

Just when the fireballs exploded as they touched the ground, the ground beneath the city wall lit up all of a sudden. Within a few breaths of time, hundreds of meters around the outer ring of the city wall turned into a sea of fire.

Faint Divine Power and Cursed Power were spreading in the fiery flames. The sea of Bug Tribe fighters was ignited instantly, the flame could not be extinguished.

The bug beasts released devastation shrieks in the flame. As they rolled around in pain, they were then turned into carcasses with no flesh.

"Vampire Fire…"

Even Lin Huang did not expect humans to do that.

The Vampire Fire was a cursed divine skill. The casting of such inhibition skill required Divine Fire from a True God's body and 99 Virtual God's flesh.

Although Lin Huang had no idea of the casting conditions, he knew very well that it was maleficium.

The humans must have sealed the maleficium in the secret skill crystals and buried them underground. They then used a stealth barrier to shield the trap, so that the enemies could not find out about it with Divine Telekinesis.

As soon as the Bug Tribe fell into the trap, they would use fire skill to detonate them.

However, judging by the fire coverage beneath the city wall, the humans buried at least ten secret skill crystals that were sealed with Vampire Fire underground.

Lin Huang almost fell into the trap as it came out of nowhere. Fortunately, his Divine Telekinesis had always been active. He covered his body with Mirror as soon as he sensed the threatening fiery flame on the ground.

Meanwhile, the Giant Beetle that he was hiding under was not as fortunate. Just like the other Bug Tribe fighters around, it was lit instantly and turned into a carcass during the struggle.

In less than 20 breaths of time the Vampire Fire was lit, almost all Bug Tribes that stepped into the fire coverage turned into carcasses.

Fortunately, the Giant Beetle was huge even when it turned into a carcass. It did not expose Lin Huang who was hiding under it.

To avoid any attention, Lin Huang adjusted his aura with Thousand Face to nothingness as he continued to play dead under the Giant Beetle's tummy.

Under the Mirror's shield, the Vampire Fire merely took away a little bit of his Divine Power.

One must say that playing dead gave Lin Huang a better opportunity to observe the entire battleground.

On the ground, the bug beasts that were moving forward stopped due to the Vampire Fire's obstacle. Most of them chose to stand where they were to wait for the flame to extinguish. Meanwhile, a minority of them flew directly to join the battle above the city wall.

Meanwhile, the battle above the city wall was getting more intense.

Although the attacks on the ground were disrupted, the Bug Tribe had finally gotten back to their pace in the battle of the sky.

Many Virtual God rank-9 powerhouses rushed to the areas where the human squads were and stopped the killing coming from the human battle formations. Even some beginner-stage True Gods joined the battle and attacked the human squads.

As soon as Bug Tribe sent their True Gods, the humans too sent theirs to the battlefield to fight the Bug Tribe's True Gods.

Within three minutes the war began, True Gods were sent in. The battle situation on both sides elevated once again!

Lin Huang had been following the battle situation, as well as waiting for the opportunity to come in contact with humans.

As the Vampire Fire had no support of Divine Power, after the first round of impact since they broke out, they extinguished completely in two minutes.

Although the humans wanted the fire to go on a little longer, they were helpless since they could not provide for this divine skill from a distance away.

Since the fire extinguished, the Bug Tribe armies on the ground soon arrived under the city wall.

Lin Huang suppressed his urge to hide under another bug and chose to observe hiding under the Giant Beetle's carcass. The reason being he was unsure whether the humans would have a second round of technique breaking out.

However, the humans seemed to not have prepared anything similar to the Vampire Fire.

The humans did nothing until the bunch of Giant Hammer Bugs began slamming the city gate.

However, looking at the faint, dense formation patterns on the black, metal gate, Lin Huang knew that it might be difficult to break it.

The impact of the tens of Giant Hammer Bugs' attacks was nothing less than meteorites hitting the ground as they came with a sea of Divine Power. However, Lin Huang could only see the faint water wave-like patterns rippled on the barrier after the gate was slammed for up to 10,000 times. There was no crack at all.

Seeing that, the Bug Tribe sent their only three true god-level Giant Hammer Bugs to join in the team to break the city gate. There was finally some progress.

One must know that even though the three true god-level Giant Hammer Bugs were low-level True Gods, their attacks were nothing less than an intermediate-stage True God. Furthermore, their attacks came with powerful penetration and impact. They had an upper hand in breaking a defense compared to an intermediate-stage True God.

However, there were finally some cracks on the formation after the true god-level Giant Hammer Bugs slammed the gate for up to 10,000 times together with the over 30 Giant Hammer Bugs.

"Are they trying to defend by force to buy time?" Lin Huang was rather doubtful.

Although there were hundreds of layers of defense formations and many more that integrated with the city wall, the city gate would break sooner or later if they allowed the Giant Hammer Bugs to attack like that. It was only a matter of time.

Therefore, Lin Huang could not figure out what the humans were planning to do.

Judging by the few rounds of battles earlier, the humans should have a great military adviser planning the entire war, whereby many details were taken into consideration. Theoretically, the city gate being attacked should be included in the planning.

Time passed by on the battlefield.

The battle above the city wall was insanely intense while banging noise came beneath the city wall as the Giant Hammer Bugs slammed the gate continuously.

Initially, the Bug Tribe attempted to send out crawling tribes to crawl over the city wall.

However, not only the humans had splashed some greasy lubricant on the city wall, gravitational formations and other strange barriers were set up to stop any flying, causing the entire city wall to not be able to climb over. It was so thorough that the closer one flew within the areas of the city wall, the more obstacles there were.

It resulted in the Bug Tribe armies on the ground resorting to watching the battle on the ground while waiting for the Giant Hammer Bugs breaking the gate.

Some ten minutes passed in a blink of an eye.

The tens of Giant Hammer Bugs finally broke one-third of the barrier on the gate. Judging by the progress, the Bug Tribe army should be able to break the gate and enter some 20 minutes later.

Suddenly, the gate opened.

Before the Bug Tribe managed to react, tens of squads made of high-level Virtual Gods charged from the gate and began killing the bug beasts on the ground in battle formations.

The tens of squads had the ability more powerful than the up to a hundred squads in the sky. The formation leaders were Virtual God rank-9 powerhouses whereby there were more than 30 people in each squad. The battle formation's power could fight a fair match with a first-rank True God.

As the over 30 squads charged, a muscular hunk of over two meters tall charged too.

He wore a golden armor on his body and a helmet. There was a gigantic black shield on his back.

Lin Huang recognized instantly that the equipment on him was not some ordinary god relics, but a whole set of defense god rule relics. The shield too was a god rule relic.

Judging by the double-layer defense from the two-piece god rule relics, they were expensive.

However, the hunk did not participate in the battle. Instead, he stopped as he arrived at the gate. He turned around with his back facing the Bug Tribe army, took out something from his storage space and pasted them on the gate.

"What is he doing?"

Countless Bug Tribes were confused to see that.

Lin Huang was stunned at first, he could not hold it but laughed out loud when he saw what the hunk pasted on the gate.

It was only natural of him who had learned the divine patterns that it was a stack of formation talismans in the hunk's hand. There were all sorts of defense formation patterns imprinted on them.

The hunk's doing was to restore the defense formations that the Giant Hammer Bugs had damaged on the gate earlier before everyone.

Lin Huang had tears in his eyes from the laugh as he watched the hunk pasted formation talismans on the city gate one after another.

"Who the hell thought of that?! That's some ridiculous operation that I wouldn't be able to come out with even if I racked my brain!"

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Chapter 1281: You Are Too Weak

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The formation of a talisman was a tool commonly used by formation masters. They would imprint formations with Divine Power on the formation talisman beforehand so that they could use it anytime they wanted.

The stack of formation talismans in the hunk's hand were defense formations. There would be an extra layer of defense formation on the city gate each time a talisman was pasted on it.

The hunk was extremely quick. Within a few breaths of time, he had restored most of the one-third damages the Giant Hammer Bugs' attacks had caused.

Even though the Bug Tribe had no idea what the hunk was holding in his hand, they could sense the changes on the defense formations on the city gate.

Within 20 seconds, the person restored the damages that the tens of Giant Hammer Bugs had made for some ten minutes.

Noticing that, the Bug Tribe's upper echelon finally could not hold it back.

A red glow as thin as a hair shot out in the air. It was targeted at the head of the hunk in golden armor who was standing at the city gate.

Not only was this attack extremely fast, but its aura was suppressed to the minimum too.

Just when Lin Huang sensed that with his Divine Telekinesis, the shot had arrived behind the golden-armored hunk. It was less than ten meters away from him.

"Such a quick attack, this is definitely a technique of a fifth or even sixth-rank True God!" Lin Huang could not help but exclaim.

Seeing that the shot was going to hit the back of the golden-armored hunk, another golden glow shot from the other direction of the sky. It drew an arc in the air, which then collided with the red glow that was almost invisible.

The very next second saw a golden spark exploded that drowned the red glow completely. Stunning fireworks of red and gold fell into the big hordes like a meteor shower.

Any of the Bug Tribe fighters that came into contact with the sparks even for a little bit exploded instantly. They turned into carcasses all over the ground.

Lin Huang's eyes lit up when he saw that.

The reason was that he could tell that the counterattack came from a firearms master. He considered himself half a firearms master before.

Ever since he was out in the world, it was his first time encountering such a powerful firearms master.

"A true god-level firearms master?!"

Lin Huang stared at the city gate. He wanted to see how that firearms master looked like.

He then saw a silhouette stepped out of the city gate.

It was a man wearing a red trench coat. He was skinny with short hair as white as snow.

"A fifth-rank True God ambushing a Virtual God, aren't you guys ashamed of yourself?"

The man in the red trench coat looked into a certain direction in the air. There was mockery at the corner of his lips.

A moment later, a commotion came from the air. Tens of Bug Tribe powerhouses revealed themselves.

The leading one was a Bug King that looked 50% to 60% like an ant.

"Nangong Wei, it was you who killed a whole bunch of my virtual god-level Bug Tribe fighters earlier. Now you're mocking us for ambushing you?"

"If you guys didn't ambush us, do you think I would have to show myself in the battle?" The man in a red trench coat who was called Nangong Wei had powerful majesty even though he was facing tens of intermediate-stage true god-level Bug Tribe powerhouses alone.

Meanwhile, Lin Huang was secretly guessing the person's identity. "Judging by the attack earlier, this guy is definitely a sixth-rank True God. Since his last name is Nangong, he's most probably that human class-4 genius that was mentioned in the Bug Tribe group chat earlier."

"Yi Li, if you think that I've mistreated your Bug Tribe members, you can fight me one on one. As long as you agree to that, I definitely won't say no," Nangong Wei smirked slightly while saying that extra loud on purpose.

The Bug King across fell silence for a moment, he dared not respond.

The reason why the Bug King was silent was simple. Although they were both class-4 powerhouses whereby their ability was similar, he was oppressed by Nangong Wei on a certain level.

The Bug King Yi Li was great in close combat, whereby he was an expert in fighting with strength.

Meanwhile, Nangong Wei was a firearms master. Not only was he an expert in long-distance attack, but his movement and speed were also stunningly fast.

It was impossible for Yi Li to fight him one on one.

Yi Li knew very well that he would be killed by Nangong Wei if he was to fight him one on one. He might not even be able to attack Nangong Wei once.

He knew very well that apart from himself, almost none of the bunch of powerhouses around him could survive three minutes with Nangong Wei.

Although the Bug Tribe had the upper hand of quantity, none of the high-level powerhouses that he sent at the moment could fight a fair match with Nangong Wei.

As long as Nangong Wei was here, it was impossible to conquer this city.

Meanwhile, Yi Li had considered draining Nangong Wei of his energy with the number of Bug Tribe members. However, he knew very well that the possibility of executing that was slim. With Nangong Wei's Movement Skill, nobody could make him stay if he wanted to move.

To look at the situation by taking a step back, even if Nangong Wei was forced to leave due to the sea of Bug Tribes, Yi Li and the rest would not feel safe even if they had conquered and stayed in the city.

Without the city tying Nangong Wei down by then, he who had complete mobility would be even more threatening. Yi Li and the rest were worried that they would have their guards up at all times to prevent Nangong Wei from ambushing them secretly.

That was the reason why this city had yet to be conquered after being attacked for so long.

Although Lin Huang had no idea of what the Bug King was thinking about, judging by his silence, the Bug Tribe was fearful of this Nangong Wei.

As the Bug King fell into a moment of silence, the Scorpion Monster next to him spoke seeing the situation.

"Nangong Wei, what makes you think that you're worthy of challenging the Bug King?!"

The Scorpion Monster shook its red tail slightly. It was terrified of Nangong Wei too. He only mustered its courage to say that just to butter the Bug King up.

Nangong Wei looked away from the Bug King and had his eyes on Scorpion Monster now. A glance was all he took to see the red sting at the back of its tail.

"It was you who attacked the Virtual God, am I right?"

"St-Stop being so cocky!" The Scorpion Monster yelled at Nangong Wei ferociously and took a small step back at the same time.

A silver pistol appeared in Nangong Wei's hand. In the next second, a few golden glows shot out of the muzzle.

The golden glows seemed like they defied the law of space whereby they appeared on the Bug King's left directly. They prevented him from saving the Scorpion Monster completely.

The Bug King merely lagged for a second, a golden glow shot by its left shoulder and accelerated.

In the next second, purplish-red blood splashed all over the Bug King's body.

As it turned its head to look left and right, one-third of the Scorpion Monster's upper body was busted. Its head was completely gone.

"You…" The Bug King was enraged, its compound eyes were bloodshot.

Nangong Wei blew on the muzzle and said looking like he did not care, "I'm not cocky, you're too weak."

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Chapter 1282: Battle of the True Gods!

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A gunshot that killed the Scorpion Monster in a second, Nangong Wei's ability terrified the Bug Tribe's high-level powerhouses even more now.

They knew very well of the Scorpion Monster's ability, where it was a fifth-rank True God. On the Bug King's camp, apart from the Bug King itself, Scorpion Monster's combined ability was powerful enough to be ranked top five.

Nangong Wei managed to kill such a powerhouse like a piece of cake. It made sense that the other bug beasts were petrified.

Of course, the Bug King Yi Li knew that Nangong Wei was challenging it on purpose to be killing its underling right before it. However, it would not fall into the trap on its own.

One must know that the Bug King's reputation was just after the Queen Mother among the Bug Tribe. It could say that it was unwilling to take the challenge before for the big picture.

However, now that Nangong Wei threw a cold blanket on it, its reputation would drop drastically if it did not take up the challenge.

Yi Li's compound eyes were bloodshot. It was enraged, but it had yet to lose its mind.

At the moment, the humans' high-level combat strength made their overall ability more powerful in Tough City's battle. If their high-level powerhouses were to fight, it was an unfavorable situation for the Bug Tribe.

However, for the sake of its reputation, Yi Li had to fight.

As it racked its brain, it soon had a plan. It contacted the bunch of Bug Tribe upper echelon secretly with the 'group chat'.

What the Bug King had no idea was that there a human was hiding in the 'group chat'.

Lin Huang was stunned to see the message popping up on the 'group chat' out of nowhere.

The message was written in red, indicating clearly that it came from the Bug King that was being challenged by Nangong Wei at the moment.

"All True Gods get ready to fight! I'll challenge Nangong Wei later, intermediate-stage True Gods will look for the opportunity to fight together and besiege him. When the human True Gods came in for the rescue, beginner-stage True Gods will join in the battle and fight with all of your might!"

"If any of you managed to kill Nangong Wei, seize the opportunity to kill all human True Gods and reap the battlefield. If you failed to kill them within a certain time, wait for my order to retreat."

Lin Huang who was hiding under the Giant Beetle's carcass shook his head while smiling when he saw the message.

He did not think that the Bug Tribe's ambush would be a successful one. It was not that there was anything wrong with the Bug King's plan, but the humans had a smarter military advisor here. It was impossible that they did not put that into consideration.

Lin Huang was even sure that there might be a similar sure-kill plan since Nangong Wei was challenging the Bug King alone.

It was just that his acting skill was too good, making the Bug Tribe think that he was only challenging the Bug King on purpose.

Moreover, there was a possibility that Nangong Wei had challenged the Bug King frequently before. Therefore, the Bug Tribe did not suspect much when this happened.

'A battle of the True Gods…' Lin Huang was secretly elated, 'All True Gods would be minding their own business, nobody should notice me sneaking in.'

He had been looking for the opportunity to blend into the human's camp. Now the opportunity had finally come.

As soon as the message was sent to the Bug Tribe's group chat, the Bug King Yi Li that was in the air had spoken.

"Nangong Wei, I know that you're challenging me on purpose to force me to fight you. I had been unwilling to fight you one on one earlier because you're a firearms master, whereby you would suppress me considering that I'm good in close-distance combat. Furthermore, our ability is similar, it's hard for me to kill you. However, don't you dare think that it's impossible."

"I could tolerate your challenges in the past, but now that you've killed my underling, I must bring justice to Scorpion Monster! No matter how great of a price I would have to pay, I must kill you today to avenge Scorpion Monster!"

The Bug King was standing on high moral ground when he said that. One was to tell the fact that Nangong Wei suppressed him which explained why he was unwilling to fight him before. Another was to avenge his underling to win the reputation of valuing his underlings. On the other hand, he also showed that he would pay the price to kill Nangong Wei, proving that his ability was above him. It would win his reputation back.

As many Bug Tribes in the battlefield were touched by what it said, Nangong Wei threw a cold blanket at it

"So well put! You deserve to be the Bug King! If I didn't kill you today, you should be able to get to lord-level in the future with your flamboyant words alone."

The Bug King Yi Li looked terrible as Nangong Wei exposed him on the spot. Fortunately, its compound eyes were bloody at the moment, hiding all of the expressions on his face.

"Quit your bullsh*t, Nangong Wei. Let's fight!"

Before it was done speaking, the wings behind Yi Li flapped and an after-shadow was created in the air. It was charging at Nangong Wei.

Nangong Wei seemed to have expected the Bug King to launch a sudden attack. Two pistols appeared on each of his hands, it was silver and black.

Some ten golden glows shot out of the silver pistol in his right hand. However, the black pistol in his left hand merely shot out two bullets. They had bloody red glows.

As compared to the golden glows' preciseness and high speed, the red glows were a little slow, but it gave out a more threatening vibe.

It was Nangong Wei's Double Pistol. The black pistol would take care of killing, whereby it was impactful. Meanwhile, the silver pistol was in control of various changes.

Even Lin Huang was stunned as he watched.

He had almost all of his attention on Nangong Wei. It was his first time seeing a true god-level firearms master's ability.

The red bullets shooting out of Nangong Wei's black pistol had little changes, but it had a terrifying impact. Even the Bug King dared not touch it simply.

Meanwhile, the golden bullets that were shot out of the silver pistol were fancy. Lin Huang felt dizzy while watching them.

Not only the golden glows had a variety of changes in speed, but they could also be shot in an arc and they could deviate their route. Some bullets even had special effects.

For instance, temporary Space Seal, Space Warp, accelerations, decelerations, explosions, sparks…

Lin Huang could also speculate roughly that most of the effects from the pistol should not come from Nangong Wei. Instead, they came from the pistol itself.

"How could a god rule relic come with so many Rule Bending Power of different attributes?"

Lin Huang could not understand that.

However, he soon got the answer to the question.

"There are some unique god rule relics that might be able to do that such as Random Rule, Integration Rule, Complex Symbiosis Rule, Engulf Rule, Memory Rule, Clone Rule…"

It was the knowledgeable stone tablet who said that.

"However, such a god rule relic is extremely scarce while it usually costs nothing below a common god sequence relic."

"This guy in red ranks on top even in the great world for his talents and potential in firearms to be able to play so many tricks with a pistol alone," the stone tablet commented.

Lin Huang who initially could not get over being a firearms master as a career was excited when he first saw Nangong Wei showing his techniques. However, seeing those difficult tricks later on, he figured not choosing to be a firearms master back then was the right choice.

"Even though I have Xiao Hei, I would need some three to five years to practice my skills to get to his level. Huh, I should stick to the direct way of combat which is to kill with swinging swords."

Although Lin Huang said that, he was watching the battle between two True Gods with his eyes lit up.

Nangong Wei's gun techniques were too difficult to a half firearms master such as Lin Huang. However, it enlightened him to use his telekinetic weapons on a higher level.

Seamless was merely a technique to increase the number as well as controlling the telekinetic threads. However, it depended more on the powerhouse on how to develop and use it specifically.

"Seems like I must study Qi Muxiong's experiences on telekinesis…"

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Chapter 1283: Sword11

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The battle between the Bug King and Nangong Wei was getting more and more intense in the air.

Just like what the Bug King Yi Li expected in the beginning, Nangong Wei had been treating him like he was playing a kite.

Not only Nangong Wei's gun techniques were amazing, but his body movement and speed were also top-notch.

However, Yi Li was not as weak as the humans had thought it to be. Its speed was nothing slower than Nangong Wei as it flapped its wings rapidly. Although its body movement's agility was nothing like Nangong Wei, it managed to dodge above 90% of Nangong Wei's gun attacks.

Moreover, it was more powerful than Nangong Wei in strength and defensive ability.

That was the reason why Nangong Wei had been unwilling to fight with it in close-range combat.

In reality, the duo's combined ability was on par. It was difficult to determine who was the winner within a short period. However, as their expertise contradicted each other, it might be unfavorable for the Bug King if this went on.

After all, firearms masters were experts in long-distance attacks. The suppression for a combat cultivator that was expert in close-range combat was too much.

As Lin Huang watched the battle secretly, he waited patiently for the chaos to begin.

The battle between Nangong Wei and the Bug King went on for some ten minutes. Suddenly, a Butterfly-winged Monster attacked from the Bug Tribe's side all of a sudden.

It turned out the Butterfly-winged Monster had set up a large, invisible silk web above the clouds the duo was fighting secretly when the Bug King had just started the battle with Nangong Wei.

Seeing that Nangong Wei and Yi Li had stepped into the silk web's coverage, it then activated the trap that it had set up.

Up to 1,000 silks penetrated the clouds and fell from the sky. As if the prison had fallen upon, it intended to seal Nangong Wei's activity space.

The biggest upper hand a firearms master had was a long-distance attack. If he was being restricted in space, he might not perform 70% of what he had. Furthermore, his opponent was the Bug King, a close-range combat powerhouse who was best in fighting in a small space.

If the Butterfly-winged Monster's plan worked, there might be a turn of the table in the battle between Nangong Wei and the Bug King.

Seeing the silk attack that came out of nowhere, nobody could see any emotions on Nangong Wei's face. However, he was retreating rapidly. He wanted to escape out of the prison before the silk web dropped completely.

Lin Huang was secretly worried about Nangong Wei.

"I think he's slightly slow, I don't think he will make it out in time!"

As Nangong Wei was going to be covered in the large silk web, a blood-red sword glow charged above the city wall as if it was going to tear the sky.

Lin Huang could not help but be shocked when he saw the charge of the sword.

The sword had surpassed all sword skills that he had ever seen before. As the blood-red sword glow lit up above the city wall, it pierced through space directly and tore the large web made of 1,000 silks into pieces.

At the same time, a terrifying aura above the city wall suppressed the scene.

Lin Huang could feel clearly that it was the integration of Sword Dao and killing intent. He stared deadly at the source of the aura above the city wall.

However, his vision was blocked by the city wall, he could not see anything.

At the moment, the powerhouse stepped out on his own. He crossed the high city wall.

Lin Huang finally saw the person's face.

It was a man with red hair who looked mediocre. Even his height was merely 1.7m to 1.8m, he was considered short. However, the first thing that Lin Huang noticed was his completely black pupils.

The glance from far away alone gave Lin Huang a feeling that there was a sharp knife lingering his neck. He even felt a faint pain on his skin.

"Is that Sword Dao true meaning? It's so powerful!"

The man stood on the city wall, he lifted his head to look at the direction where many Bug Tribe powerhouses were standing in the air calmly.

Almost at the same time, Bug King Yi Li's enraged voice came from the air.

"Bloody Sword, Sword11! Why are you here?"

"To end this battle of course," the man with red hair looked at Bug King Yi Li expressionlessly.

"You humans sure are cunning!" That voice came from the Bug Tribe's camp.

"I wouldn't attack if that moth didn't interrupt the battle earlier. It was you guys who broke the rule first, so naturally, we don't have to follow the rule too."

What Sword11 said made the Bug Tribe speechless.

The Butterfly-winged Monster glared at Sword11 furiously. Before it managed to say 'I'm not a moth' out loud, it swallowed its words back from Sword11's stare.

It could not offend such a powerful person.

As Lin Huang was doubting who this Sword11 was, the Bug Tribe's 'group chat' had begun a discussion.

"What's happening? Why is Sword11 here? Shouldn't he be in Heavenly Sword City?"

"Even Sword11 is here, there's no way of us winning this battle now."

"Who exactly is this Sword11?" Finally, someone asked what Lin Huang wanted to ask at the moment.

"To put it simply, Sword11 is the most powerful sixth-rank True God human in this star zone!"

"What you said isn't entirely correct, you should remove the word 'human'. He's the most powerful sixth-rank True God in this star zone, there's no other person like him."

"I've heard the Queen Mother mentioned that Sword11 is a human class-5 genius. His talent and quality are on par with our Bug Tribe's class-5 sovereign-grade Bug Queen…"

Lin Huang finally had a preliminary understanding of Sword11 from the conversations in the 'group chat'.

"A powerful sword cultivator who masters the Sword Dao true meaning. He must have deep attainment in the Sword Dao true meaning…"

As a sword cultivator powerhouse who was stepping into the Sword Dao true meaning soon, Lin Huang could feel that Sword11's Sword Dao was much more powerful than his. He must have stepped into the Sword Dao true meaning for a long time.

"Could it be that this guy had obtained the Great Heaven's Sword Dao inheritance…"

However, the thought merely flashed through Lin Huang's head, which he then denied it.

"It shouldn't be. If someone has already taken Great Heaven's inheritance, the Great Heaven Territory would be sealed automatically as it's the land of inheritance or it would be inherited by the heir. It wouldn't be like this, whereby it's open for people to participate in the trial."

"However, judging by Sword11's rumored quality, the possibility of him being chosen to participate in the trial to retrieve the Great Heaven's inheritance should be high. There's a high chance that he might know something about the Great Heaven's inheritance!"

Although Lin Huang speculated that Sword11 knew roughly about the Great Heaven's inheritance, it was a trouble to get him to spill the information.

Sword11 was a sixth-rank True God himself while his ability might be even higher than that. Lin Huang would have to dodge him if he was to encounter such an expert. With his current ability, even if he showed all of his trump cards, he might not escape from his sword alive. After all, the difference in combat strength was way too much.

"Well, I can only take it one step at a time…"

As Lin Huang's thoughts were flying around for a while, he looked troubled as he lifted his head to look at the current situation of the battle in the sky.

Everyone was shocked to see Sword11's attack. Even the Bug King and Nangong Wei who were fighting stopped.

Lin Huang was secretly anxious noticing that the battle was stopping.

'Don't stop, keep fighting. If you guys stopped fighting, how am I supposed to sneak into the city?!'

Fortunately, the silence did not last too long, as a change happened on the battlefield again.

Sword11 spoke again calmly, "Yi Li, you have two options now."

"You either retreat with your armies and this will be the end of everything. You guys don't need to fight me, and I can save some time to get to the next city."

"Or, we can fight now. Of course, I can tell you the result in advance. Every one of you would die here, nobody would leave this place alive."

Sword11 glanced through the bunch of Bug Tribe upper echelons without a change of expression on his face, as if he was telling a fact.

All of the Bug Tribe upper echelons who he glanced through dodged the stare, none of them dared to look into his eyes.

Meanwhile, the Bug King was the only one who glared deadly at Sword11. However, it knew very well that Sword11 could say such things indeed.

"I'll give all of you three minutes to discuss this. Watch the time, I'll take it as you guys are going for the second option if you guys aren't done discussing within three minutes."

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Chapter 1284: Blending into the Battlefield

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Sword11, the legendary class-5 genius, the most powerful person among sixth-rank true god-level powerhouses in the Great Heaven Territory. His appearance caught the Bug Tribe off guard.

He was compelling as soon as he showed himself. The Bug King of the same combat strength was nothing to him at all.

However, everyone who had heard of his name knew that he was worthy of saying such a thing.

With Sword11's talent and potential, he was a class-5 supreme god-level that was on par with Bug Tribe's Bug Queen. He was one in a million even when he was being compared to in the great world crowded with geniuses.

The Bug King Yi Li did not hesitate much as soon as Sword11 spoke. It peeped at its opponent Nangong Wei that it was fighting earlier, it then flapped its wings and retreated from the battlefield.

As soon as Bug King returned to the area where the Bug Tribe upper echelons were, it reported Sword11's arrival immediately. It then began discussing with the other upper echelons that were present.

"What do we do now? If Sword11 is here, we might not be able to kill him even if we were to fight together, let alone there would be Nangong Wei whose ability is on par with me providing long-distance assistance from aside."

The Bug King felt like its head was exploding.

"Don't forget that apart from both of them, there are close to 20 intermediate-stage True Gods in Tough City. The number of their high-level combat strength powerhouses are more than us even before Sword11 came."

"Should we retreat? With Sword11 here, I'm afraid we're just sitting ducks if we fight forcefully."

"Retreat? How am I supposed to report to the superior? Forget it if we failed to conquer and retreat on normal days, Queen Mother ordered a general offensive today. Retreating now would mean defection!"

"So, what do you think we should do? Let them kill us like sitting ducks?!"

As the Bug Tribe was having an intense argument, a message popped up in the 'group chat' all of a sudden.

The message was written in gold.

"The superior has acknowledged the situation with Sword11. The general offensive plan has been set, there's no turning back! Bug King Yi Li, stall Sword11 with the army, support is on the way!"

The upper echelons including Yi Li looked terrible when they saw the message.

"We can't retreat, and we'll have to stall Sword11, are they trying to get us killed?"

"Alright, stop it now. We'll be in trouble if the superior heard our grumble," Yi Li comforted feeling helpless. "Such an arrangement is for the sake of the big picture. They would not ruin the entire battle plan just for the safety of a minor group in the battle."

"Since we can't retreat now, we can only fight. Let us think about the strategies of how to stall longer. Since they said support is on the way, I don't think they're messing with us. We will survive as long as we can until support is here!"

Since Yi Li and the rest had no freedom of choice, they could only use the remaining time to discuss the strategies.

Meanwhile, Lin Huang who was hiding under the Giant Beetle's carcass was secretly laughing. He too saw the message.

"It seems like the Bug Tribe isn't retreating. As soon as Sword11 came in, the current high-level combat strength among the humans in the battle of Tough City is sufficient to suppress the Bug Tribe. However, the Queen Mother's order is to stall Sword11, Yi Li and the rest must be secretly cursing. I wonder what their next plan is."

As Lin Huang was thinking of that, another message popped up on the 'group chat' again.

It was written in red this time, indicating clearly that the message was sent by Bug King Yi Li.

"Inform all members to take my order later, we will launch a general offensive directly! Everyone must participate in the battle enthusiastically, give your all and last until reinforcements come!"

Bug King Yi Li looked at Sword11 from far after sending the message.

"We've made up our mind!"

"So, your choice would be…" Sword11 raised his brows. He realized that the opponent had made their decision before the three-minute that he gave was up.

"Our decision is very simple, there's only one word – Fight!"

As soon as Yi Li was done speaking, it took the lead and charged head-on. It was hard to believe that its target was directed at the most powerful one on the battlefield, which was Sword11.

The over 20 Bug Tribe powerhouses behind it seemed to have charged at the same time.

A sea of bug beasts charged up to the sky, the sun was covered. They were charging above the city wall even more fearlessly now.

Countless bug beasts on the ground were in mania as if they were in the great migration. They dashed toward the city gate. The ground was shaking from the bug horde.

Meanwhile, Sword11 who was on the city wall scoffed. Seeing Bug King Yi Li's arrival with the armies, he did not have the means to retreat at all. He tapped the tip of his toe on the city wall and leaped. He was going after Bug King Yi Li.

Not far away, Nangong Wei did not hesitate at all as he saw what was happening. He ordered with a cold expression.

"Kill!"

As his order came, tens of True Gods led the charge. They went after the Bug Tribe's upper echelons' direction.

Subsequently, a sea of virtual god-level powerhouses charged above the city wall and beneath the city gate. They blended into the bug horde.

Lin Huang knew that the opportunity had come.

Very soon, attacks arrived at the area where he was hiding.

Lin Huang removed his Bug Tribe disguise and changed into a human face. However, he did not remove his disguise completely. Instead of using his real appearance, he used Lin Xie's face.

Of his combat strength, he disguised it into Virtual God rank-3.

After scanning through with Divine Telekinesis for a little while, Lin Huang got out of the bug shell seizing the opportunity. He held a long battle sword and killed a beginner-stage virtual god-level bug beast.

Subsequently, he became one of the members on the battlefield under the sun. He wandered among the bugs 'carefully' as he looked for his hunting target.

Naturally, he was pretending to be careful. After all, his disguised combat strength was merely Virtual God rank-3. He could only hunt for low virtual god-level bugs.

It was not that he did not want to kill more Bug Tribe fighters. Instead, he could only stay low profile at such a time. He had to try his best to not let anyone notice his existence. That was the only way with the highest probability for him to sneak into the city.

He would attract unnecessary attention if he was too eye-catching in his performance. He could not afford to have his identity being investigated.

Lin Huang could seize the opportunity to familiarize himself with his sword skill. He even avoided attacking the bug beasts' crucial parts as much as he could so that he would not kill a bug beast in one hit.

However, a human lady nearby noticed his behavior.

She spoke to him through voice transmission, "Shell-type Bug Tribe has a stunning defense, your way of attack has low efficiency. Their weaknesses are their stomach, waist joint, eyes, mouth, and anus. Attack their weaknesses when you get the chance to do so, at least the efficiency would be a fold higher than what you're doing at the moment."

"Thank you," Lin Huang thanked her. Noticing that the lady was still watching him as she fought, he immediately shoved his sword into the waist joint of a bug beast that he found next to him.

Seeing that Lin Huang killed a couple of bug beasts by attacking their weaknesses, the lady only left at ease and proceeded to look for more hunting targets.

Meanwhile, Lin Huang went back to his initial sword practicing mode.

He followed the battle situation in the sky secretly while he practiced sword.

The battle had just begun for a few minutes, the human powerhouses Sword11 led were suppressing the Bug Tribe's camp all the way.

However, Lin Huang noticed that Bug King Yi Li and the rest were hardly taking the initiative to attack so that they could stall. They were dodging and defending the humans' attacks with all sorts of techniques. They did not even attack once after fighting for a few minutes.

However, what Lin Huang was curious about was that he had a feeling that Sword11 and the rest were not giving their all too. They seemed to be stalling too, it was just that they were more secretive about it.

It had caused the battle to look intense without any effective result. Half an hour later, Sword11 and the rest had only killed three Bug Tribe True Gods.

Although they were trying to survive with all of their might, never had Bug King Yi Li and the rest thought that they could last for half an hour.

'I wonder when will this end if the situation remains the same,' Lin Huang thought to himself secretly.

Some ten minutes had passed, a dimensional stir came on the battlefield all of a sudden.

A Dimensional Whirlpool formed rapidly in the air, causing many on the battlefield to watch.

Lin Huang too was watching the Dimensional Whirlpool while practicing sword.

The black Dimensional Whirlpool merely took three to five seconds to stabilize completely. It was swirling quickly.

A gigantic, pitch-black bug leg stretched out of the whirlpool…

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Chapter 1285: Dead End

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A gigantic pitch-black bug leg stretched out of the whirlpool. The first joint that had just come in was 200 to 300 meters long.

However, the mere stretch of one bug leg joint made the intense threat that Lin Huang was feeling to peak. Even though he had no idea what kind of bug beast that was exactly, the aura alone gave him goosebumps

It only took him a second to realize that he was definitely no match for this powerhouse.

Without much hesitation, Lin Huang used all sorts of large bug beasts' bodies to cover himself. He turned around and headed straight to the city gate's direction.

The battlefield was no longer safe, he was not even sure if Tough City would be safe.

However, he had no other options.

Lin Huang's activity was rather stealthy. Given that most of them present had their attention on the Dimensional Whirlpool that appeared out of nowhere in the sky, almost nobody noticed him.

Meanwhile, the gigantic Bug Tribe that was coming out of the Dimensional Whirlpool at the moment attracted almost everyone's attention.

As Lin Huang arrived at the border of the battlefield just tens of meters away from the city gate, he deviated his direction all of a sudden. He charged at and killed a bug beast that was close to him.

It was not that he did not want to return to the city. It was just that everyone was fighting now, returning to the city would make him a target. He might even be called a coward.

He would have to take strategies into consideration even if he was to leave the battlefield.

As the giant bug beast in the air stretched both of its front legs out in the air, it soon revealed its head.

By then, only did everybody recognized what the bug beast was.

"Titan Bug!"

Lin Huang's pupils shrunk slightly. Such a monster was not on the gravel world's monster guide, but there was information about this bug beast in the documents that Bloody had provided.

In the God Territory, the Shelters below grade-4 only had the abridged version of the species guide. Even a grade-4 Shelter might not necessarily sell the complete version of the species guide. The species guide Bloody obtained was the abridged version. Together with some older versions that she found online and using the monster guide in the gravel world as the blueprint, she came up with a new version herself.

Although this version could not compare with the complete version, it was much informative than the abridged version of the species guide.

There happened to be recordings of Titan Bug.

It was a type of gigantic Bug Tribe monster with powerful defense and terrifying strength.

The conditions to produce this bug beast were extremely strict.

Firstly, the Queen Mother would have to be at least a ninth-rank True God or even on heavenly god-level.

Secondly, the Queen Mother would need a sea of True God carcasses as its reproduction materials.

Thirdly, the reproduction period was painfully long.

Usually, a heavenly god-level Queen Mother could hatch up to 10,000 bug eggs containing true god-level Bug Tribe fighters per second. However, it would take at least a week to produce a true god-level Titan Bug.

In reality, the Titan Bug's rank was not high. It was merely a class-2, which was the equivalence of a double mutated monster. Even its intelligence belonged to the lowest among double mutated monsters.

However, such class-2 bug beasts were born to have true god-level combat strength. It could even reach peak true god-level combat strength the most.

Such a bug beast's ability seemed to be traded completely with its intelligence.

A peak-stage ninth-rank True God Titan Bug could almost fight a first-rank Heavenly God head-on.

Their strength was definitely on par with heavenly god-level powerhouses, its defense was difficult to be broken even for Heavenly Gods.

However, the main function of such a bug beast was mainly to siege.

Their attacks came with a dimensional stir and spatial tear innately. They could tear down all sorts of defense formations and barriers.

If the Giant Hammer Bug's attack was like soft punches on your chest, then Titan Bug's attack would definitely be the punches of a pile driver on your chest.

Lin Huang was immediately speechless when he saw the Titan Bug that revealed its head. He could sense from its aura that this Titan Bug before them definitely has a combat strength of ninth-rank true god-level. Even a Heavenly God might not be able to defend this big guy's attacks.

"With this beast here, Tough City wouldn't be safe. The defense formations and barriers on the city wall might not be able to hold it even for half an hour."

The upper echelons on the human side looked extremely terrible as soon as Titan Bug revealed its head.

Sword11 and Nangong Wei were frowning too. Clearly, they did not expect the Bug Tribe to do this.

"Nangong, take care of the battlefield here. I'll try and see if I can get this guy to return to where it came from!" Almost without hesitation, Sword11's aura skyrocketed on his body.

His sixth-rank True God combat strength broke through to seventh-rank within seconds. As it skyrocketed to the peak of seventh-rank True God, there was no sign of the aura decelerating. Instead, it proceeded to grow. It broke through the seventh-rank True God border and arrived at eighth-rank True God. However, that did not seem like the end. Sword11's aura was still growing. There was finally sign of slowing down when he broke through to ninth-rank true god-level.

Just when his combat strength had broken through to ninth-rank, Sword11 had charged as if he had turned into a ferocious glow before his aura stabilized.

His body was like a lightning shooting in the air, his thunderous sword landed on the Titan Bug's forehead.

Golden sparks exploded immediately. As if the sun had exploded, a glaring golden glow lit up the entire sky. At that moment, even the glow of the stars was covered.

Golden was all that was left in the world in that second, whereby other colors were dimmed.

Lin Huang's eyes were blinded by the glow coming from the sword. As a sword cultivator himself, it made sense that he did not want to miss the battle. However, even Lin Huang had failed to dodge the golden glow that Sword11 charged with the sword.

White was all that he saw before his eyes at the moment. He could not see anything else at all.

Fortunately, most of them on the battlefield were blinded temporarily as well, including the Bug Tribe.

When everyone closed their eyes for their vision to recover, Lin Huang did not suffer any ambush.

However, the battle was still going on in the sky.

Sword11 swung his sword again and again with the vain attempt to force Titan Bug back to where it came from. However, even though he was attacking with all of his might coming from a ninth-rank True God, his attacks merely left white sword trails on the Titan Bug's head. He did not even manage to break its defense.

"Stop wasting your time! The Titan Bugs that Master Queen Mother produced this time has a combat strength of peak ninth-rank True God. Unless a god sequence-level (heavenly god-level) powerhouse that masters god sequence chain fights himself, it's impossible for anyone to break its defense."

"Master Queen Mother has been preparing for this battle for close to two years and produced up to a hundred Titan Bugs of such. Your city isn't the only one that's being attacked by Titan Bug on this planet at the moment."

"You humans only have two Heavenly Gods. It's futile even if the Heavenly Gods participate in the battle themselves! Moreover, the two old guys from you humans should be busy handling our three Heavenly God Bug Kings' attacks…"

A voice came above the Titan Bug's head.

Sword11 looked over, there were two silhouettes standing above. Their aura intensity was nothing below his, they were clearly ninth-rank True Gods.

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Chapter 1286: Sun Slash

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Sword11 attacked with all his might, and in a mere dozen seconds or so, he had unleashed several tens of thousands of slashes. However, not a single one of his slashes penetrated the Titan Bug's defenses. They only left light white marks on the Titan Bug's black armor, and even those white scratches were repaired in an instant.

The Titan Bug even ignored Sword11's existence completely. It looked toward the direction of Tough City in the distance, excitement shining in all eighteen of its pupils.

Within slightly over ten seconds, its body escaped from the Dimensional Whirlpool completely.

Only then did the others see this creature in its entirety. It was as large as a supreme giant, and its eight enormous pitch-black insect legs were almost a thousand meters long. Its body was even larger, making it look like a giant mountain walking on eight gigantic pillars.

It stretched out a leg and stomped on the ground, every stride taking it a kilometer forward. Its steps caused tremendous tremors, as though they were experiencing an earthquake.

After it put its feet onto the ground, the Titan Bug grew even more excited.

The city not too far away looked to it like a parcel waiting to be opened. It especially liked the feeling of tearing open a parcel.

It even began to sprint toward the 'parcel' impatiently.

Sword11 tried his best to stop it, swinging his blade again and again, but it was no use. He could not stop the Titan Bug at all.

The Titan Bug did not even look at him, ignoring him completely.

The pair of ninth-rank True God Bug Tribes atop the Titan Bug did not bother with him either. They just gave Sword11 a jeering grin from high up above.

To the two of them, nothing pleased them more than the powerlessness in Sword11's expression.

Within just four or five seconds, the Titan Bug had crossed the entire battlefield and was pouncing at the Rough City walls.

Just as it was about to reach the wall, a bolt of purple lightning shot out of the city, aimed straight toward the Titan Bug's head. At the same time, there was a colorless ripple from inside the city, sweeping toward the Titan Bug like a wave.

The lightning seemed to have a numbing effect. After making contact with it, the Titan Book shook its head a little.

As for that colorless ripple, it seemed to have a speed-reducing event. Nevertheless, it could only make the Titan Bug pause for an instant, less than 0.1 seconds. Soon, the Titan Bug was back to moving like normal.

After those two attacks, two figures appeared in the sky above the city wall, one after another. They took their places next to Sword11.

One was a muscular man with a full golden beard, his body crawling with electricity.

The other was a woman in a black dress, holding a long white jade flute in her hand.

"The Titan Bug is immune to most energy attacks, and only a tenth of the power of our attacks remain when they land on it. We can't stop it at all!" The lightning man's brows furrowed deeply. He had no idea how to stop the enemy for now.

The woman in the black dress next to him said expressionlessly, "It's immune to my soul attacks too. This monster has reached the god order-level (True God), and I'm afraid only a god sequence-level (True God) powerhouse can kill it."

"We can't protect this city anymore. And not just this city, either. With the Titan Bug around, none of the other cities left in this world have defense formations or barriers strong enough to last more than half an hour. If the cities fall, considering how many bugs there are, not a single person will be able to survive." With those words, the woman in the black dress turned her head and looked at Sword11. "Right now, the wisest thing to do would be to give up on this planet completely and try to transport as many people away as we can before the cities are overrun. Thankfully, we already safely evacuated all of the civilians a few months ago. The only ones left are combatants, and there aren't too many of them. We can evacuate at least 70% of them within half an hour."

In the time it had taken the three of them to discuss this, the Titan Bug had already pounced onto the dimensional portal on the city wall. It opened its mandibles wide and began to chew on the dimensional portal.

Its mandibles looked like they were made of several hundred pairs of giant scissors and pliers. They could jolt several million times in an instant, and as it chewed away, the defense formation and barrier soon shattered, a layer at a time.

In front of the Titan Bug, the city wall was as fragile as an eggshell.

When he saw the Titan Bug devouring the city wall's defenses, Sword11 gripped the hilt of his sword tightly with his right hand.

After a second, he turned around to look at the two people next to him.

"I have a move that might be able to kill this Titan Bug. After that one slash, though, I'll have to leave the rest to you two."

"Don't be a fool, Sword11. Even if you kill this one, there are several dozen others at the other cities. Once the other cities are overrun, this one won't be able to last either." The lightning man did not have to guess to know that Sword11 was referring to a forbidden skill. There was a high chance he would suffer some damage too if he used it, and it might even kill him. The lightning man did not want to see a proud Five-star genius like Sword11 die here.

"I know. I just want to buy us a bit more time so we can send everyone away." Sword11 looked at the lightning man with determination in his eyes. "The remaining 30% are human lives too."

His last sentence silenced the lightning man.

"What are the chances you'll be able to kill this Titan Bug?" asked the woman in black after a short silence.

"About 50%, I guess. I'm not too confident myself. I never used this move before, after all," said Sword11 somewhat uncertainly. "Even if I can't kill it, I should be able to seriously wound it and slow down its destruction of the city."

"What are the repercussions of you using this move?" the girl in black continued to ask.

"I'll definitely use up all my Divine Power, and there's a high chance I'll suffer the recoil, because this move is a lot to take on. I don't know how bad the recoil will be, though." Sword11 smiled helplessly. "I just hope I won't die."

"The way I see it, it's not worth sacrificing a Five-star genius for eighty thousand people," said the woman in black. "But if you insist, I won't stop you. Although I think you're being quite foolish, I also respect your decision."

"Since Xiao Di already said that, it seems like I shouldn't try to stop you anymore either," said the lightning man with a laugh. "Go and do what you must. I'll make sure to drag you back as soon as you're done."

Just then, an amused voice spoke from above the Titan Bug's head.

"Hey, are you three done with your chit chat? If you don't stop soon, we'll have destroyed the entire city wall!"

The Bug Tribe was purposely taunting them. The three of them had been communicating with Divine Telekinesis, so while it seemed like they took some time, only an instant had actually passed. They did not waste any time at all.

"If you're in such a hurry to die, we'll fulfill your wishes!" As soon as the lightning man said that, his body turned into a bolt of lightning that shot out and crashed into one of the Bug Tribes on the Titan Bug's back.

The woman in black looked at the other Bug Tribe and brought her flute to her lips with a smile.

The two of them had chosen a Bug Tribe True God as their opponent, and Sword11 did not waste any time either. With a flash, he appeared right in front of the Titan Bug.

He held his silver battle sword in front of him, one hand on the hilt and the other palm sweeping across the blade. After that, he wiped his dark red blood down the blade, from the hilt all the way to the tip, staining the entire blade with his blood.

The next second, the entire blade turned scorching red, as though it had been heated over a flame.

Sword11's exposed skin was also burning as red as fire right now.

His hands, his neck, his entire head, his eyeballs, and even his hair… He looked like a creature made completely of lava.

Even the air around his body began to heat up. The temperature of the battlefield around him began to rise as well.

Following the simultaneous change in his body, Sword11 gripped the sword hilt with both his hands, but he did not unsheathe his sword. Instead, he continued to gather energy for this one slash.

As Divine Power rapidly surged into his body, the temperature of the blood kept rising, and that fiery red color grew ever brighter.

Within a few short seconds, the entire battlefield grew at least thirty degrees hotter.

Lin Huang felt as though he had been thrown into a sauna. The temperature had been a comfortable twenty degrees earlier, but it had risen to fifty and more in the blink of an eye.

The color of Sword11's body changed alongside that of his blade, but it was clear that the heat emanating from the blade was becoming more and more painful to him. Nevertheless, he held in there.

It was only when the blade and his body were both a piercing golden-red that his blade began to emit golden-red sparks…

Just then, Sword11's eyes spewed golden-red flames as well. Golden-red flakes fell off his hands and face, like scales off a molting snake, floating into the air.

He knew that he had taken this slash as far as he could go.

"Sun Slash!"

With that low holler, Sword11's entire body merged together with the battle sword, turning into a flash of golden-red light that crashed toward the Titan Bug.

That slash finally gave the Titan Bug a feeling of danger. However, it had been too occupied with eating the defense formation earlier, so by the time it sensed the danger, it was already too late to dodge. When it saw the sword gleam cleaving through the sky, it tried to turn its head around in a panic. It tried to avoid this attack coming right at it, but it was already too late.

The golden-red light ripped the void apart and crashed down like a meteor, carrying with it infinite force and fire as it crashed onto the Titan Bug with a boom.

The moment it made contact, the light immediately exploded, and the golden-red explosion of flames was like a giant spear that instantly pierced through heaven and earth alike. The golden-red light shot out in all directions endlessly, illuminating an entire side of the planet.

In that instant, it was not just Tough City. Every creature on the planet felt the temperature rise abruptly to that of a hot summer day.

Not only that, everyone on the battlefields of the five remaining cities on the planet saw a blinding light that outshone even that of the star.

This flash of golden-red light lasted for a good two to three minutes before it finally faded.

As soon as Lin Huang regained the use of his eyes, he saw that the Titan Bug that had been hunkered over the city wall was now completely gone. In the midst of his surprise, he suddenly realized there was a new mountain several kilometers away.

It was only when he looked carefully that he realized the mountain was none other than the Titan Bug that had been camping on the city wall's defense formation.

A third of that Titan Bug's head had vanished completely, and there was even a deep sword cut on its neck. The cut was clearly badly scorched.

"It's been killed?!"

Lin Huang was secretly ecstatic, as were the other humans.

Their visions began to clear, and that was what they saw.

Just as Lin Huang heaved a soft sigh of relief, though, the "dead" Titan Bug lying on the ground suddenly moved again. The missing chunk of its head also began to regenerate at a visible speed…

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Chapter 1287: An Unknown Heavenly God?

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Sword11, who could deal such tremendous damage to the Titan Bug, was now passed out and unable to fight. The lightning man had just sent him back to the city, but when he turned around and went out of the city again, he saw the Titan Bug clambering to its feet. His expression instantly looked extremely pained.

The woman in the black dress was still engaged in a fierce battle with the Bug Tribe, while Nangong Wei and the others were frowning deeply, their expressions darker than the night.

Almost everyone on the humans' side who witnessed this scene felt the clouds return to their hearts.

Lin Huang frowned slightly too, and he racked his brain to come up with a solution.

"If we don't finish this Titan Bug off, all the defense formations and defensive barriers will completely fall apart within half an hour at most. If the defense formations fail, the bug swarm will overrun the entire Tough City. Taking the sheer numbers of the Bug Tribe army into account, Sword11 would be exhausted to death even if he was in peak condition. No one can even survive, much less leave via the dimensional portal."

Lin Huang wanted to sneak into Tough City so he could use the dimensional portal to leave this planet and head to a galaxy with better resources. Now, however, it seemed like his fate was tied to that of Tough City.

"Even if the humans change their plans now and decide to abandon this city, half an hour still won't be enough for a full evacuation.

"The only way out of this now would be to finish this Titan Bug off quickly…

"This bug beast has a defense as high as that of a true god, so there's no way I can kill it using conventional means. I'll have to rely on the effects of Xiao Hei's cards… Of the card types I know now, the only ones that can solve this crisis are the Kill Cards, Seal Cards, and Destruction Cards.

"Also, the Titan Bug is a true god, so only the Grade-4 or golden Grade-3 cards will have any effect on it. Right now, though, I only have Grade-2 and Grade-3 at hand. Even if I exchange them for a designated Kill Card, Seal Card, or Destruction Card, I wouldn't be able to deal it any damage…"

Lin Huang's musings were suddenly interrupted by Xiao Hei.

"A Seal Card's grade has nothing to do with its combat level."

"Huh?" Lin Huang suddenly heard Xiao Hei's voice, and it took him by surprise.

"It's true, most cards have their effects limited by their grade once they have an assigned grade. But a few cards have their own limitations, and even after they are assigned a grade, they still adhere to the initial limitations as opposed to the combat level limitations of that particular grade.

"Seal Cards had a condition to begin with, and that was the rarity of the monster. After these cards are assigned a grade, the only difference is that the rarity levels are further categorized.

"Grade-1 Seal Cards can seal all monsters that are Epic-level (second mutation) and below. Grade-2 Seal Cards can seal all monsters that are Mythical-level (fourth mutation) and below. Grade-3 Seal Cards can seal all monsters that are Supreme God-level (fifth mutation) and below.

"The Titan Bug may be strong, but its rarity is only Epic-level. A Grade-2 Seal Card would suffice."

Lin Huang's eyes lit up at that. He had assumed that he would need a Grade-4 Seal Card to seal the Titan Bug, and he never once thought that a Grade-2 would do the trick.

"I just need one Grade-2 Seal Card?"

He still had more than 11,000 Grade-2 cards that he had not exchanged for Grade-3s. According to the ten-to-one exchange ratio, that meant he could redeem more than 1,100 Seal Cards.

"The Titan Bug would be invincible on the battlefield! No one less than a heavenly god can break through its defenses!"

"Host, you're getting ahead of yourself. This Titan Bug's combat level is way higher than your current limit. Even if you seal it into a monster card, you won't be able to summon and use it for a while.

Xiao Hei rained on Lin Huang's parade again.

Only then did Lin Huang remember that his current abilities limited him to summoning nothing more than virtual god-level imperial monsters. However, he was not bothered, waving his hand as he said, "There's no rush. The limits will be lifted eventually."

His conversation with Xiao Hei really opened his eyes.

Once he exchanged ten Grade-2 cards for a specific Grade-2 Seal Card, Lin Huang manifested the Seal Card on his hand.

The golden card had one corner facing downward, and it floated upright, less than five centimeters above Lin Huang's palm. There, it slowly spun.

The corners of Lin Huang's lips curved, and he stared relentlessly at the Titan Bug.

Of course, no one overheard Lin Huang's little chat with Xiao Hei.

They could not see the Seal Card that had manifested on his hand, either.

Several kilometers away, the Titan Bug got back onto its feet and shook its somewhat dizzy head. Soon, it raised its head, its eighteen eyeballs searching everywhere.

It was looking for the person that had nearly killed it with one hit earlier.

However, Sword11 had long since been sent back to the castellan's residence, courtesy of the lightning man. Right now, Sword11 was lying unconscious on a bed in the guest room.

The Titan Bug did not have x-ray vision, and the city had formations that blocked off one's scent, so naturally the Bug's search amounted to nothing.

However, this also infuriated it, and it turned its gaze back to the direction of Tough City.

It wanted to tear this "parcel" open even more now, if only to vent all its pent-up anger.

A furious roar echoed across the sky, and the Titan Bug lunged forward with its eight giant legs, its eyes red as it rushed toward Tough City.

The lightning man forced his opponent to retreat and morphed into a bolt of lightning, unleashing an attack at the Titan Bug.

Nangong Wei and the others worked hard to fight back their foes as well, taking the chance to attack the Titan Bug in a futile attempt to halt its advances.

The Bug Tribe True Gods who were repelled did not give chase, either. Instead, they savored the lightning man's and everyone else's meaningless efforts, laughing coldly.

Even though the lightning man and the others aimed for the wounds on the Titan Bug's body that had yet to heal completely, it did nothing to stop the Titan Bug from pressing onward.

Within a mere three to four seconds, the Titan Bug had once more pounced onto Tough City's defense formation. It completely ignored the attacks from the lightning man and the others, chomping down on the defense formation once more…

Just then, however, there was a flash of golden light from somewhere.

That golden light rapidly enveloped the Titan Bug, and the Titan Bug immediately put up a fierce struggle, but it was all in vain.

As the golden light sealed the Titan Bug up, the bug's enormous body drastically shank, like a leaky balloon. Within three to five seconds, it had become a microscopic speck of dust that could not be seen by the naked eye. After that, it vanished without a trace.

That peculiar scene left everyone dumbfounded.

"What just happened?"

It was not just the Bug Tribe. The humans were confused too.

More than ten seconds passed, and the Titan Bug did not reappear.

Finally, someone from the human camp finally could not help a loud cheer.

"The Titan Bug is dead! Lord Heavenly God must have helped us!"

With that voice as the starting cue, an uproar soon started among the humans.

On the other hand, the Bug Tribe members were utterly shocked. After all, the Titan Bug had disappeared so eerily.

The Bug King Yi Li returned to his senses and immediately notified the Bug Mother regarding what had just happened.

After a moment, a reply came from the Queen Mother, written in gold.

"This must be the work of an unknown heavenly god. Stop attacking the city right now and retreat! Don't suffer any more losses!"

Once he received the Queen Mother's decree, the Bug King Yi Li informed the entire army without hesitation.

"All Bug Tribe warriors, stop attacking the village and retreat! Retreat to three hundred kilometers away!"

As soon as he issued those orders, the already terrified Bug Tribe warriors immediately turned and ran without even looking back.

When he saw how decisively the Bug Tribe was retreating, Lin Huang had to raise an eyebrow. "To think the shock effect works this well."

With that, he smiled and turned his head to look at the blue card that had just appeared on his left palm.

The front side of the card had a picture depicting none other than the Titan Bug that had just vanished.

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Chapter 1288: The Heavenly God Arrives!

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"Yi Li, tell me exactly what happened at the time."

A golden message appeared in the Bug Tribe's chat group.

"Just now, I saw the Titan Bug pouncing at the city wall, and suddenly there was a flash of golden light that completely enveloped its entire body. After that, it rapidly became smaller. It seemed to try and struggle a little, trying to break out of the golden light, but it never managed to. Finally, it became so small that it just disappeared…"

"Are there any other details? The rest of you, add on if you saw anything else," the golden words continued to say.

"It went more or less as Yi Li said. We were even closer to the Titan Bug, and though we didn't see exactly where that golden light came from, we can tell a general direction. It came from underneath the Titan Bug's body, so there's a high chance it was emitted from the Tough City walls," replied the ninth-rank True God, Polypod King.

"There's one more weird thing, but I don't know if I should say it." The other ninth-rank True God, Mantis King, chimed in as well.

"You can tell me everything, including your guesses and suspicions," replied the golden words.

"Although I saw the golden light envelop the Titan Bug with my own eyes, I did not feel any energy waves from that golden light. I didn't sense a threat, either." The Mantis King shared his feelings.

"Now that you mention it, I don't think I felt any energy then either." Yi Li hurriedly nodded and supported the statement.

"There's nothing odd about that. Logically speaking, if it were a beginner-stage god sequence-level (heavenly god-level) powerhouse, we should be able to clearly feel its energy and the threat it poses. If we can't feel it, that must mean it's very likely an intermediate-stage, or even be a high-level god sequence-level, trying to conceal its energy waves." The Polypod King said nonchalantly, "In order to prevent us from sensing its actual combat level, it's possible that the enemy purposely hid their energy waves.

"Of course, there's another possibility. The Titan Bug could have turned traitor, and perhaps it's putting on a show for us. The golden light that enveloped it could be nothing more than some illumination effect with no practical purpose. However, I feel like the probability of this is close to zero.

"Firstly, the Titan Bug isn't that smart. Secondly, it's not good enough to shrink its body that far. Thirdly, the Titan Bug was born from the Mistress Queen Mother herself, not a second- or third-generation Queen Mother. Its loyalty is undeniable."

The Polypod King sent a whole string of messages, and soon the Queen Mother sent another line of golden words.

"That Titan Bug has cut off communications with me."

The Queen Mother who spoke this time was clearly the heavenly god-level Queen Mother that had given birth to the Titan Bug. Her reason for saying that was also perfectly clear. Only dead Bug Tribes could cut off their connection with their birth Queen Mother.

"I've already reported this incident to the seniors, and Sir Braintipede will be going there shortly to investigate the matter. I've also asked the Bug Kings from the other battlefields to move their Titans over to that one after they take down their respective cities. If that god sequence-level powerhouse is still there, I expect they would attack the other Titans too. When that happens, Sir Braintipede will personally determine how strong our opponent really is.

"The rest of you, stay put for now and wait for Sir Braintipede to arrive before making the necessary arrangements. If there's anything out of place, inform me immediately."

"Understood, Mistress Queen Mother."

The heavenly god-level Queen Mother's words finally put the Bug Kings' hearts at ease.

It did not matter if the enemy had a Heavenly God on their side. Their own Heavenly God would soon arrive there too.

Tough City was now a hubbub of activity.

The Titan Bug's mysterious demise and the Bug Tribe army's sudden retreat was undoubtedly great news.

As for the humans, they had retreated back into the city as well.

Lin Huang mingled in the crowd and successfully slipped inside too.

Inside the city, there was a cacophony of noises. Everyone fancied this a hard-earned victory.

At the same time, Nangong Wei and the other True Gods were gathered in the castellan's residence.

"Old Lightning, how's Sword11?" Nangong Wei asked at the first opportunity he had.

"Old Li said it's nothing to worry too much about. He's mostly exhausted and out of Divine Power, and he suffered some burns, but he didn't sustain any critical damage." The lightning man addressed as Old Lightning said with a laugh, "The kickback from that attack wasn't as serious as he made it sound. He'll be more or less fine after a day of rest or two. Old Li said medicine probably won't work on his burns, though, so he'll have to let that heal slowly on its own."

"Do you know who's behind that Titan Bug's disappearance?" Nangong Wei asked once he was sure that Sword11 was fine.

"I don't, but I know it has to be a god sequence-level (heavenly god-level) powerhouse." Old Lightning raised an eyebrow.

"It wasn't the two lords," said the woman in the black dress, Xiao Di with certainty.

"Could it be the reinforcements the two lords called in?" Old Lightning turned his head to look at Xiao Di.

"I'll ask." With that, Xiao Di continued, "It doesn't matter if they're the lords' reinforcements or not. Either way, we shouldn't dig into this any further. They helped us but refused to reveal themselves, so there must be a reason for that."

"Yeah." Nangong Wei hurriedly nodded. "Let's discuss the retreat.

"The Bug Tribe army has retreated and is now three hundred kilometers away, so this is the best chance for us to retreat. The other four cities aren't as lucky as we are. They still have Titan Bugs around, so they're sure to fall within another twenty minutes or so. Once that happens, we'll be the only city left standing on the entire planet.

"Besides, a Heavenly God joined the battlefield earlier, so the Bug Tribe's Heavenly God would definitely be heading here by now. We don't even know if that unknown Heavenly God will fight again, and even if they will, the Bug Tribe's Heavenly God will just have to stall for time, and Tough City will eventually fall anyway. We can't even hold up against one Bug Tribe army, so don't even think about facing five at once."

"How should we arrange the retreat?" Old Lightning asked without raising any objections.

None of the other True Gods present objected either.

"Old Lightning, Xiao Di, you two lead Sword11 and the other True Gods away as part of the first batch. Once we're certain we're going to retreat, there's no need to fight anymore, so the stronger fighters should leave first. As for those of us here in Tough City, I'll take the rear. After all, I am the castellan."

"Nangong…" Old Lightning wanted to say something, but Nangong Wei cut him off.

"It's decided. The True Gods will leave in the first wave, the high-level Virtual Gods will go second, followed by the mid-level Virtual Gods in the third wave, and lastly the low-level Virtual Gods. Even if we don't make it in time, we should minimize the losses however much we can." After he decided on the retreat order, Nangong Wei looked at Old Lightning and Xiao Di. "I have to stay behind. If I don't, Tough City will descend into chaos."

At those words, Old Lightning went forth and patted Nangong Wei on the shoulder. "You better make it out alive!"

"I'll try my best," Nangong Wei said with a smile.

In the castellan's residence, the True Gods managed to decide on their retreat strategy within minutes, and it was executed just as quickly.

There were not that many True Gods. Old Lightning and the others brought Sword11 with them, leaving via the dimensional portal first.

Once they announced the retreat order, many low-level Virtual Gods immediately felt unhappy. It made them feel like sacrificial lambs.

A few of them even started yelling at the city gates.

Nangong Wei did not silence them by force either, letting them yell as they pleased. All he did was secretly watch them, ensuring that no one was purposely inciting chaos.

On the other hand, Lin Huang could definitely understand why Nangong Wei arranged things this way. Letting the higher-level combatants leave first was the best way to maintain the combat level of humanity as a whole.

Lin Huang wanted to leave this dangerous place as quickly as possible, but after some consideration, he decided not to camouflage his combat level.

He knew very well that Nangong Wei's Telekinesis was spread across the entire city right now, watching over everything in case anything went wrong. If Lin Huang tried anything funny, he would definitely be found out.

All he could do was stay patient and keep waiting.

Time passed, and soon another half an hour had passed. The retreat had reached its third wave, and the mid-level Virtual Gods were leaving, one after another.

At the same time, however, the four Titan Bugs attacking the other four cities had also arrived at the Bug Tribe camp outside Tough City.

At around the same time, someone else arrived at the planet. It was the heavenly god-level Bug Tribe powerhouse— the Braintipede!

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Chapter 1289: Retreat!

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The Braintipede's real body was a centipede as large as a giant, with a blood-red shell and sharp poisonous spikes lining its back.

The species was called the Braintipedes because their eggs had to be hatched in the brains of other creatures. Once they hatched, they would quickly devour the hosts' brain matter, receiving the hosts' memories and life experiences at the same time.

After they matured, the Braintipedes could also release tiny centipede clones that would crawl into the brains of other creatures and live there, turning these creatures into their puppets.

A Braintipede's path to maturity was quite treacherous, so it was practically a miracle for one to reach the heavenly god-level.

The tens of thousands of years he had spent growing under harsh circumstances was also the reason why this one was especially careful and cautious.

When the Queen Mother informed him that an unknown Heavenly God had appeared on this battlefield, the Braintipede immediately abandoned his battle with two human Heavenly Gods and made a beeline for Heavenly Spirit Planet.

As soon as he teleported here, the Braintipede swept the entire planet with his Telekinesis several times, before frowning slightly.

"I don't sense any god sequence-level (heavenly god-level) auras!"

He was cautious by nature, so he turned his head to look at the Ant King Yi Li and the others. "How was the Titan killed? Tell me again in detail."

Yi Li repeated the information he had reported to the Queen Mother, but in even more detail this time.

Upon hearing that, the Braintipede looked at Tough City in the distance and thought it over for a moment. He did not attack immediately; instead, he turned to look at one of the other Titan Bugs, giving it a command.

"You! Go and break down this city's defense formation!"

The Titan Bug did not know how dangerous that would be, so it accepted the order without any objections. It stepped forth boldly and headed right for Tough City.

All the other Bug Tribes looked toward the direction the Titan Bug was heading, staring that way without blinking. They wanted to see if the enemy Heavenly God would attack again.

When the Titan Bug reached within a hundred meters of the city, Tough City began to ring the alarms.

"Titan Bug attack!"

"Titan Bug attack!"

"Titan Bug attack!"

The contents of the alarm made Lin Huang frown slightly despite himself.

A second attack by a Titan Bug meant that the other four cities had already fallen. Even if they were yet to be completely taken over, the cities' defenses must have been broken, at the very least. That was by no means good news.

"Are they testing us by only sending one Titan Bug?"

After he sealed the Titan Bug earlier, the Bug Tribe retreated without hesitation because they suspected that the humans had a Heavenly God who secretly killed it. The fact that they dared to test the waters now gave Lin Huang a good idea about the source of the Bug Tribe's confidence.

"They're probably doing this because the Bug Tribe has a Heavenly God on their side now.

"If there really is a Bug Tribe Heavenly God on the scene now, the only thing I can do is scare him into staying his hand! He probably sent the Titan Bug to test the waters because he's wary. As long as we muddy the waters, he won't dare to attach so easily."

Lin Huang turned around to look at the direction of the dimensional portal. The retreat was in its third wave, and about half of the mid-level Virtual Gods had been sent away. He probably had another dozen or so minutes left to wait until it was his turn.

When the people heard the alarm saying that another Titan Bug was attacking, they began to panic.

Thankfully, Nangong Wei appeared in an instant and unleashed his aura, steadying the entire area.

"Don't panic, everyone. The more you panic, the slower the teleportation will become. The defense formation is at full power right now, and it will take the Titan Bug at least another half an hour to break this formation. That means we have another half an hour, at least…"

Nangong Wei did not tell them the truth.

The truth that the Bug Tribe might have a Heavenly God on the battlefield now…

The truth that the enemy still had four Titan Bugs, and if the four of them worked together, the defense formation would fall apart within seven or eight minutes at the most…

Nevertheless, his lies put most of the people at ease. As for those smart enough to see through his ruse, they also wisely kept their mouths shut.

Saying the truth now would only cause even more panic, and anyone who tried would likely be killed on the spot by Nangong Wei to set an example for the others.

Lin Huang did not say anything either. He just quietly exchanged his cards for a Grade-2 Seal Card. After he mixed into the crowd, he applied a tiny bit of force in his fingers and shattered the card.

The next instant, a flash of golden light lit up in the sky, flying from Tough City and traversing the huge distance almost in an instant. The light enveloped the Titan Bug that had just gotten within a hundred kilometers of Tough City.

The next instant, the Titan Bug wrapped in golden light rapidly shrank, disappearing completely within two to three seconds.

Another Titan Bug had vanished?!

The few remaining sentries in Tough City's watchtowers felt their jaws fall open again at the sight. After a second, they recovered and instantly spread the news back into town.

When the people inside the city heard this news, they could not help a cheer of delight.

They were even starting to believe that a Heavenly God was secretly protecting Tough City.

The line to the dimensional portal had been a little chaotic earlier, but now it was going perfectly smoothly again.

On the other hand, the Bug Tribe reacted completely differently to this development.

Every member of the Bug Tribe who witnessed that scene felt unspeakably shocked, and many of them looked toward the Braintipede.

When most of them looked at the Braintipede, their hearts settled. After all, they had a Heavenly God here too. However, a few of them were wondering if their Heavenly God was any match for the unknown Heavenly God on the humans' side.

The Braintipede's Telekinesis had been locked onto the Titan Bug from the start, and at first, the Braintipede looked rather confused. After a while, however, his expression turned somewhat ugly.

The instant when the golden light enveloped the Titan Bug earlier, he had felt a power repelling his Telekinesis away. After that, it seemed like the Titan Bug's enormous body was shrunk to its absolute limit, until finally it simply disappeared. The Braintipede witnessed the entire process clearly, but he still could not understand how the opponent was doing it.

That eerie process even made him somewhat scared.

The creepier part was he never once felt any hint of energy coming from that power.

"It can't be a high-level Heavenly God, can it?!"

The Braintipede was feeling a little uneasy now.

However, he was not quite willing to give up after just one attempt, especially since there were so many Bug Tribe juniors watching.

After a moment of consideration, he issued a new command after all.

"Send in another one!"

This time, the Braintipede did not only lock his Telekinesis onto the Titan Bug, he even snuck some of his Divine Power into its body.

The Bug Tribe sent out its second Titan Bug, attracting even more attention from within their ranks. Almost everyone was waiting with bated breath to see if the opponent's Heavenly God would make another move.

In Tough City, the alarm rang again, notifying the town about this second Titan Bug attack.

When Lin Huang heard the alarm, he raised a brow.

"Again?! Do they know I'm after Titan Bugs or something?"

He exchanged another ten draws for a Grade-2 Seal Card, shattering it stealthily once more.

There was another flash of golden light from Tough City, and as soon as the light left the constraints of the defense formation, it once more sliced through space and fell over the second Titan Bug. Within an instant, it had enveloped the entire Titan Bug.

Almost at the same time, the Braintipede's targeted Telekinesis and the Divine Power hidden inside the Titan's Body were both repelled right out.

After that, the same process repeated itself.

The Titan Bug, as large as a mountain, shrank into nothing within two to three seconds.

The Braintipede looked even more troubled now. He was almost certain that the attacker was stronger than him, and by a considerable margin too.

After all, he had tested the opponent twice, but he still had no idea how the other side was doing it.

That made him extremely wary.

After a moment of hesitation, he secretly contacted his two heavenly god-level friends and explained what had happened with his scouting.

When they heard his description, the two Bug Tribe Heavenly Gods gave him different responses.

"According to your description, there's a high chance the opponent is a high-level sequence god. Just retreat, and stop provoking them. When you bump into someone like that, just avoid them.

"The fact that you can't sense their energy feels weird to me. If they're really that much stronger than you are, why would they hide their energy waves? I think they might be acting mysterious on purpose, hiding their energy waves using some special means to try and scare you off. I'd suggest you lure them out. If you really can't beat them, you can still run away later.

Those were two completely different suggestions, but the Braintipede gave it some thought and decided that the second one made more sense.

However, he did not intend to throw caution to the winds and lure his opponent out just like that. Instead, he wanted one last test.

The Braintipede turned his head to look at the Titan Bugs again.

Of the two Titan Bugs, he placed one of his centipede clones into one Titan Bug's brain and inserted a portion of his god sequence chain into the other.

Once those arrangements were done, the Braintipede ordered them once more,

"This time, both of you will attack at once!"

Although the two Titan Bugs were not very smart, they saw what had happened to their two 'seniors', so they knew that this was dangerous. However, the Braintipede's orders were absolute, so they had no choice but to jump into it.

The alarms in Tough City rang again soon.

"The Titan Bugs are attacking! This time, there are two of them!"

When he heard that, Lin Huang glanced at the dimensional portal. The mid-level Virtual Gods were still being sent away.

"I thought they would send the bugs one at a time, so I'd be able to buy more time. But now they're sending two at the same time! This should also be the last test. I wonder how the Bug Tribe's Heavenly God will respond."

Lin Huang knew that there were only two Titan Bugs left, but he could not be sure what that Bug Tribe Heavenly God would do after he sealed away these two.

"If he chooses to fight in the end, I'll have to run away with an Escape Card. I just don't know where I'll be randomly sent off too…"

Lin Huang had already planned out his escape route. He did not want to use an Escape Card because its effects were random. If it sent him to the Bug Tribe's home base, he would be in trouble.

Many ideas flashed through his mind, but Lin Huang did not hesitate for long. He exchanged two more Seal Cards anyway.

Glancing at the two golden cards in his hand, he applied a little force with his fingers and shattered these cards as well.

The next second, two flashes of golden light shot out of Tough City and instantly enveloped the two Titan Bugs.

This time, the centipede clone in one Titan Bug's body immediately exploded, and even the Braintipede's god sequence chain in the other one was destroyed without putting up any resistance.

Far away in the Bug Tribe's camp, the Braintipede took both blows at almost the same time, and he spewed two consecutive mouthfuls of blood.

The purple-black blood that he spewed rain down on swathes of Bug Tribe members, and those who had blood on them instantly turned into a puddle of liquid.

The Braintipede raised his head and looked at the direction of Tough City in alarm, issuing his command without hesitation.

"Retreat!"

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Chapter 1290: Golden City

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A glance in the direction of the dimensional portal told him that the mid-level Virtual Gods were not done leaving yet. As a result, Lin Huang's entire body tensed up.

He had already sealed away the last two Titan Bugs, which meant that the Bug Tribe Heavenly God did not have any more pawns to test the waters with. Lin Huang had no idea what he would do next.

Judging by the teleportation rate here at Tough City, it would be at least another five minutes before it was his turn to use the portal.

He had even already prepared a Grade-3 Escape Card. It could get him off Heavenly Spirit Planet, but the location it sent him to would be completely random.

Thankfully, his nerves did not stay taut for long. Soon, the watchtower sent them some shocking news.

The Bug Tribe had retreated!

When he heard that news, Lin Huang was stunned at first, but then he finally heaved a sigh of relief.

The others may not know what had happened, but he knew perfectly well. His gamble had paid off. Perhaps after all his scouting attempts failed, that Bug Tribe Heavenly God finally chose to give up.

However, what he did not know was the rules of the cards had injured the Braintipede and scared the cautious Braintipede off. That was why he chose to retreat without hesitation.

The other humans in Tough City were confused at first, but after a while, some of them began to cheer, and soon cheers reverberated throughout the entire city.

The many low- and mid-level Virtual Gods that had thought they would end up dying with Tough City realized that the danger was over now, and their pent-up emotions finally found release.

Some of them roared and howled, some of them sprinted as fast as they could. Some wept quietly, while others wailed loudly…

Even Nangong Wei heaved a huge sigh of relief. When he decided to stay, he had been determined from the start to die here.

He was also one of the few people who knew that a Bug Tribe Heavenly God had arrived. When he saw the Titan Bugs approaching, one after another, he knew very well that this was just a test. Thankfully, after three rounds of tests, the Bug Tribe Heavenly God chose not to attack after all. Perhaps the enemy was wary of the unknown powerhouse on their side.

Although he was curious to know who the unknown powerhouse who killed those Titan Bugs was, and how strong this person truly was, Nangong Wei wisely chose to let it go.

The fact that the powerhouse helped them secretly meant that they did not want to be known. If Nangong Wei tried to find out by force, there was a chance he might anger this unknown powerhouse instead.

Collecting himself slightly, Nangong Wei looked at the somewhat chaotic scene below and spoke once more.

"The retreat of the Bug Tribe army only means that Tough City is safe for now. However, the appearance of the other four Titan Bugs earlier proves that the other four cities have been defeated. It's only a matter of time before the Bug Tribe comes back.

"I can understand that you're happy we survived this, but I hope you will look at the bigger picture first and retreat in an orderly line. Once we have retreated to somewhere safe, we can let ourselves go then…"

Nangong Wei's words calmed most of the people down, and they lined up again properly.

The few who still wanted to celebrate wildly hurriedly joined the lines again when they saw how everyone else was lining up now.

Lin Huang stood in line, but a part of his consciousness had delved into his internal world.

Amidst the many Monster Cards, there were five new blue-colored Epic-level Monster Cards.

The front side of the card depicted the Titan Bugs that had just vanished from the battlefield.

The combat level of these five cards was simply too high, so they could not be summoned for now.

Lin Huang knew very well that he could lower the five Monster Cards' levels. Once he lowered them down to virtual god-level, he could summon them as usual. However, he refrained.

The reason was very simple. These five Titan Bugs were Epic-level Monster Cards, and their combat level cost the Bug Tribe Queen Mother a great number of ingredients and a ton of energy. That was why they were born so strong. If their combat level was reduced to virtual god-level, they could not be raised to true god-level again, not unless he used an Advance Card to raise them to mythical level.

Lin Huang had his own plans for these five cards.

Once he reached the true god-level, he would summon these five Titan Bugs as soon as he could and advance them all to mythical level.

Epic-level Titan Bugs were already unbelievably powerful. In terms of power and defense alone, they far surpassed most mythical-level monsters. Lin Huang could not quite imagine how strong they could become if he advanced these bug beasts to the mythical level.

Soon enough, it was Lin Huang's turn to take the dimensional portal.

Perhaps it was because he was more relaxed now, but Lin Huang felt like the line was moving much faster than he expected.

He stepped into the dimensional portal with a bunch of others and turned his eye to the distant city walls.

He had only been in Great Heaven Territory for a day, but he had not expected so many things would happen here.

He disguised himself as a Bug Tribe member, joined the battlefield, snuck into a human city, earned five Titan Bug cards, and scared off a Bug Tribe Heavenly God…

There was a high chance he would not return to this planet anymore, and even if he did, this city would certainly look different from how it was now.

With that thought in mind, Lin Huang watched his vision sway. A second later, his surroundings were completely different.

"Welcome back to Golden City, heroes from the battlefield!"

A few stylishly-dressed female greeters stood outside the dimensional portal and shouted in unison.

Golden City was not the name of a city. Instead, it was a planet in the safe zone within the humans' anterior star zone.

Although it was not one of humanity's core territories, it was almost as developed as some of the core planets.

There was only one reason for that. This was where human warriors came to splurge, a heaven of money and opulence.

The entire planet had only one city, and most stores in this city provided entertainment.

There was an entire range of them. No matter what kind of a service you wanted, you could get it as long as you could pay for it.

Women, men, foreign tribes, and even monsters… As long as you could afford it, you can enjoy any services.

Aside from that, this planet had the largest black market in the entire star zine as well.

You could buy just about anything in this black market with the right money. All sorts of equipment, illegal items, information… Everything was there for the taking.

Legend even had it that someone once sold a Bug Tribe Queen Mother on this black market. Of course, it was only a virtual god-level Queen Mother larva.

By the time Lin Hung searched up the information about this planet, more than ten minutes had passed.

The moment he obtained a map, he headed right for Golden City's black market.

He needed a more detailed star map, information about more planets, and even information about the entire Great Heaven Territory in general…

After all, his final aim here in Great Heaven Territory was to earn the Great Heaven inheritance. Even if the chances were slim, he did not intend to just give up on it.

"Sword11 should know more about the Great Heaven inheritance, so if I want to get it, he'll be my biggest clue. Besides, he used the same dimensional portal as I did, so there's a high chance he's in Golden City too. As for how I'm supposed to find him, I'll have to think of something. For the next couple of days, I should just get whatever information I can find…"

He organized his thoughts at the entrance to the black market street, but once he figured it out, he strode right into it.

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Chapter 1291: Torch and Frontier

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The biggest information broker in the Golden City black market was known as Mute Pavillion.

It was called that to show just how well they kept their secret information. It did not matter what information their clients tried to buy or sell; it would never be leaked.

However, Lin Huang had his doubts about Mute Pavillion's secrecy. As an information broker who would sell anything, it was not impossible for them to sell their own clients' confidential information, as long as the price was right.

Since Mute Pavillion was larger than life in both their physical premises and their reputation, Lin Huang found the store without too much trouble.

As soon as he walked through the door, a tall woman in what looked like a qipao greeted him. Lin Huang noticed that the other employees in the store wore something like a "qipao" too, but the colors and designs were different. Each outfit was clearly designed for the wearer, showing off the women's bodies perfectly.

Every employee was young and beautiful, with seductive bodies and natural-born auras. If you placed any one of them on Earth, there would probably be a top-rated entertainment company throwing money at them to try and make them into their signature star.

Lin Huang gave them a glance before pulling his gaze back.

"Good day, sir. May I know if you're here to provide or gather information?"

"Gather," Lin Huang said honestly.

"Please come with me." The woman nodded with a smile and led Lin Huang up to the second floor.

Lin Huang followed behind her, and when he saw the way her body swayed in front of him, he could not help but sigh inwardly.

"This Mute Pavillion sure is wealthy, and it shows. It probably costs a bomb just to train employees like these."

Soon enough, the woman led Lin Huang to the door of a room.

"Room 203 was just vacated. Please go in, sir."

With those words, the woman slowly pulled the door open and lowered her head slightly, waiting for Lin Huang to go inside.

After Lin Huang walked in, the woman slowly closed the door and turned to leave.

Once inside the room, Lin Huang realized that it was bigger than he first expected, and the decor was not mysterious in the slightest either. It just looked like the lobby of a fancy hotel.

The counter was something like a bar counter, and another beautiful woman sat behind it, wearing a short white shirt. As for her lower half, it was obscured by the counter.

"Good day, sir. How may I help you today?"

"Firstly, I want a star map, covering as much land as possible, and the more the detailed, the better. Secondly, I want information on all the main factions and races, as detailed as possible. Thirdly, I want information about the secret zones and ruins. Fourthly, I want personal info on Sword11…"

After spending a considerable amount of Divine Stones, Lin Huang received almost all the information he wanted. The only things he did not ask about was the Great Heaven inheritance and treasure, because he could not be sure what asking about that would get him.

Still, his purchase of information told Lin Huang one thing. Perhaps because the resources were more scarce here, the purchasing power of Divine Stones was higher than in the great worlds. It was about ten times higher here than in the God Territory.

The cheapest god rule relic in the great world cost at least a million Divine Stones, but here in the Great Heaven Territory, prices started at a hundred thousand or so. Even really high-quality expert-grade god rule relics cost no more than three or four million Divine Stones.

As for Divine Crystals, they were so rare that they were not even used as currency here.

After he walked out of Mute Pavillion's main entrance, Lin Huang could immediately sense someone spying on him from the shadows.

His Telekinesis was as strong as a Nine Rotation Virtual God's, and after he merged it with the seventh level, Seamless, it was as strong as a first-rank True God now. Even his soul's sensing ability was much stronger now.

Even so, he could only sense that he was being watched. He could not tell where the gaze was coming from.

Without knowing his observer's motives, Lin Huang calmly left Mute Pavillion. However, he did not immediately leave the black market. Instead, he began to browse the shops.

After he went to a few more shops, he could be a hundred percent sure that those eyes were on him specifically.

After all, the feeling of being watched never once stopped.

That left Lin Huang rather confused. "Ever since I entered the Great Heaven Territory, I don't think I ever offended anyone. No one could possibly know that I scared off the Bug Tribe Heavenly God either. So why on earth are they watching me now?

He did not know their motive nor where they were hiding. Once he was sure that they were targeting him, Lin Huang entered another store and immediately used Thousand Face to put on a disguise before striding out of the shop.

As expected, the feeling of being watched vanished without a trace this time.

A minute later, a tiny lizard crawled into the shop Lin Huang had entered earlier via the walls. Its large green eyes looked around the place before it crawled out of the store again.

On the third floor of a cafe on the black market street, a ponytailed woman's hand froze in mid-air, still holding her teacup. She frowned slightly. "He's gone?!"

After Lin Huang put on a disguise and left the shop, he never felt that gaze on him again.

After all, Thousand Face was the best god sequence relic for disguises. Aside from the strongest Heavenly Gods, no one could see through his disguise at all.

Upon leaving the black market, he took a detour of several hundred kilometers and used Thousand Face to swap between five different identities, all so he could avoid any other unknown eyes on him, even the ones he may not have noticed. Finally, he found a shady hotel that did not require documentation and checked in there.

There were several tens of thousands of shady hotels like that, even more than there were legal hotels. Since there were so many of them, the competition was fierce, and the shady hotels ended up with facilities and services that were no worse than most legal hotels.

After he checked in and entered his room, Lin Huang read through the information he had bought off the black market.

The star map he bought off the black market was much more detailed than the one Bloody had obtained earlier.

This star map encompassed almost all the star zones around humanity. Not only did it contain detailed information about each star zone, it even described many planets in detail.

The star zones depicted in this one star map were larger in area than the places the Protoss had discovered over several hundred thousand years.

When he read the second set of information, Lin Huang raised an eyebrow just a few lines into the document.

"There are four human Heavenly Gods?!"

He continued reading and found out that the humans in the Great Heaven Territory were divided into two factions, led by two Heavenly Gods each.

There were no so-called governments, only the two ultra-powerful human factions.

One was called Torch, and the other Frontier.

Torch believed that humans should preserve the purity of their bloodline, and members of this faction were forbidden from marrying those of other races. Their final aim was to pass down the torch of human civilization down the generations.

Frontier's principles were completely different. They believed that there was no point in maintaining the purity of one's bloodline, and they prioritized survival instead. They encouraged anything that could make them stronger, including starting wars to rob other races of resources, performing genetic surgery, and breeding with powerful bloodlines… In many ways, they explored the frontier of the unknown.

The two factions were extremely ideologically opposed, yet their territories neighbored each other, so there were always conflicts between the two sides.

This area Lin Huang was currently in belonged to Torch.

During Torch's great war with the Bug Tribe this time around, Frontier had been watching coldly from the sidelines. In fact, they should be praised for not stabbing Frontier in the back.

When Lin Huang read the explanation in the file, he was a little exasperated too.

"To think they can end up in a faction war under these circumstances… As I expected of humanity."

Aside from the information on humanity, this file included intel on the other twenty-odd races nearby.

Lin Huang read each of them, one at a time.

The third set told him about the secret zones and ruins.

To Lin Huang's surprise, there were quite a few secret zones and ruins in the Great Heaven Territory. This file alone listed fifty to sixty of them, most of them left behind by peak-level True Gods and some Heavenly Gods after their demise. However, there was no mention of the Great Heaven inheritance or Great Heaven treasure.

Lin Huang even looked at the timings and saw that there were no secret zones or ruins that would open up soon.

After he put down the third file, Lin Huang looked toward the fourth set of info — Sword11's personal information.

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Chapter 1292: Eating Kidney To Help

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Sword11: real name Liu Ren, humanity's number one Sword Dao genius.

Combat level: ninth-rank god order-level (updated after the Bug Tribe War).

He had been training with the sword since his youth. Although he was not talented and did not have a good teacher to guide him, he worked extremely hard.

He only achieved the Sword Dao at 183 years old and broke understood the Sword Dao true meaning at 1561 years old.

Earlier, he had been cultivating the Sword Dao behind closed doors, staying inside for ten years.

Ten years later, he changed his name to Sword11 and began to truly shine. He challenged several of the Top 100 True God sword cultivators in a row and won every battle.

Upon seeing his sword techniques, even the True God sword cultivator Nie Feng praised him for his unbelievable Sword Dao which Nie Feng claimed surpassed his own.

That same year, all the Sword Dao powerhouses recognized him as humanity's number one Sword Dao genius.

After he read Sword11's profile, Lin Huang was even more certain that this man had something to do with the Great Heaven inheritance now. In fact, there was a high chance that he had obtained a part of that inheritance.

The description in the profile said that Sword11 was not very talented at the Sword Dao at all. He only understood the Sword Dao at 183 years old, and it took him almost another 1,400 years to forcefully sharpen that, with nothing more than sheer effort, into the Sword Dao true meaning.

To be honest, Lin Huang respected that man's determination and will. However, he really did not think a man without much talent or potential in the Sword Dao would be able to become such an overpowered sword cultivator just by working hard for a mere ten years.

Lin Huang definitely did not believe that nothing happened in the ten years Sword11 was missing.

"There's definitely something off about that guy. Something must have happened in the ten years he was gone, something others don't know. The name change is pretty strange too…"

Although he was now certain that Sword11 most likely had something to do with the Great Heaven inheritance, Lin Huang still did not have any idea how he should approach Sword11.

Since the black market intel told him that Sword11 was in Golden City now too, Lin Huang spent most of the next two days in his hotel room cultivating Seamless. At the same time, he had the black market keep an eye on Sword11's actions.

Inside the castellan's residence in Golden City, Sword11 finally began to stir slowly.

A bunch of people immediately crowded the room.

"Are you alright, Old Sword?" Old Lightning was the first to rush up and ask him.

"I think I should be fine now. How's Tough City? Did everyone get out alright?" Sword11 asked as soon as he opened his eyes.

"It's alright now, everyone made it out safely." Nangong Wei nodded and then gave him a simple description about how the Titan Bugs were consecutively killed and how the Bug Tribe army had immediately retreated.

Upon hearing that, Sword11 finally relaxed.

They chatted for a while, and then Nangong Wei and the others left, leaving behind only a girl with a ponytail.

"Teacher, I lost the guy you told me to follow." The ponytailed girl bit her lip and reluctantly admitted her failure.

Sword11 had expressly given his disciple this trailing mission before he used that Sun Slash.

"Is he still in Golden City?" Sword11 asked.

"I don't know. Everyone came here using the same dimensional portal two days ago. I saw that he went to the black market, so I followed him, but then I lost him. I think he noticed I was watching him, but I don't know if he just teleported away or used a disguise to slip away," said the ponytailed girl somewhat angrily.

"It's fine. If he's still in Golden City, it won't be hard to find him." Sword11 closed his eyes for a bit, and when he opened them again, the corners of his lips curved a little. "I'll change my clothes and go out for a walk."

"I'll tell the kitchen to make you some breakfast," said the ponytailed girl hurriedly.

"No need. I'll just grab something to eat while I'm out there." Sword11 waved her off.

"Then I'll come with you."

Sword11 laughed and shook his head. "Stay here and practice with your sword, girl. Later I'll check if you've been slacking off these past few days."

"Wha?!" The ponytailed girl clearly did not expect Sword11 to suddenly pull a spot check on her.

Still, she could guess what her teacher meant by going out for a walk. She immediately changed the topic, asking, "Teacher, is there something special about that guy?"

"I don't know, either, so let's find him first."

Over the past few days he had spent in Golden City, Lin Huang did not find out much about Sword11's whereabouts, but he did find a great noodle house close to his hotel.

The noodle house had a very special name too. It was called A Noodle House.

The handmade noodles here were very springy, and there were only eighteen varieties of noodle soups. All of them started broiling at three in the morning, and the shop opened every morning at exactly 6 am. A line would start before seven.

In order to avoid the queue, Lin Huang had been waking up earlier these past two days, and he would be at the stall by around 6.30.

Just as he did the two days before, he was here early today as well.

"Hi, gimme a bowl of beef noodles, semi-spicy, and add a sunny-side-up.

As soon as he said that, someone sat down at the table opposite Lin Huang.

"Eating something spicy so early in the morning? Aren't you afraid you'll upset your stomach?"

Lin Huang raised his head, and his pupils dilated abruptly.

His visitor was not very tall, with average looks, flaming red hair, and black eyes.

It was Sword11!

"Is it a coincidence, or did he find me?!"

Lin Huang could not figure out how Sword11 found him. Since he had been watched earlier, he now looked nothing like his earlier identity, Lin Xie.

However, Sword11 did not attack him immediately, and he did not sense any hostility either, so Lin Huang felt a little relieved.

He pretended not to know who the other man was, smiling as he replied, "I have heavier tastes, and I especially like spicy foods."

"You don't mind if I share your table, do you?" Sword11 asked with a smile.

Lin Huang glanced around and saw that there were two other empty tables, but he did not refuse. "If you like."

"The noodles here really are quite good. I haven't been here for a year now." Sword11 seemed to chat idly as he looked down at the menu. He then shouted at the owner, "Hey, I'll have a bowl of kidney noodles with two portions of kidney and a braised egg."

"You have pretty heavy tastes too," Lin Huang teased with a laugh.

"My waist has been a little sore lately, so I thought some kidney might help." Sword11 chuckled.

After the owner served the noodles, both of them buried their faces into their bowls. The table instantly fell quiet.

The silence was only broken ten minutes later, after Lin Huang finished his noodles and called for the bill.

"It was fate that we met here, so this one's on me."

Sword11 laughed and did not decline. "Alright then, thanks."

Just as Lin Huang paid the bill, Sword11 slurped his last noodle.

He drank two more mouthfuls of soup happily before finally putting down his bowl and looking at Lin Huang with a grin.

"You're wondering how I found you, right?"

Those words told Lin Huang that his cover was blown, so he raised a brow and said,

"Yeah, I was pretty surprised."

"I have a special ability that allows me to sense the Sword Dao in every sword cultivator's body." Sword11 revealed the answer right away. "No matter how you try to disguise yourself, the Sword Dao inside your body won't change."

Now that he knew how he had been found, Lin Huang was not too surprised at it either, and he did not bother harping on that question.

"Actually, I'm more curious to know why you came looking for me."

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Chapter 1293: Swordfiend Abyss

At a Golden City lake garden not too far away from the noodle house.

Two figures strolled around the lake as they chatted.

"This garden hasn't changed too much over all these years. It's probably the least commercialized place in the entire Golden City now. It's been a few years since I was last here," Sword11 introduced the place casually.

"It's pretty good for morning exercises." Lin Huang saw some older men and women beginning their morning exercises here, but there was one more thing he did not say aloud— that this place was even better for plaza dancing.

"You're not a hundred years old yet, are you?" Sword11 asked suddenly.

"Nope." Lin Huang gave a minimal reply without telling Sword11 that he was actually only nineteen.

"To think your Sword Dao is already approaching the true meaning, and you're not even a hundred yet. That's some talent and potential you have there," Sword11 praised him.

"I've been training my sword skills since childhood, but I'm not at all talented. I only understood the level-1 Sword Dao when I was 183, and I was more than 1,500 years old when I got to the level you are now. In terms of actual combat power, though, ten of the me's back then would be no match for you as you are now…"

Lin Huang listened to Sword11's rant quietly without interrupting.

"Then, when I was 1,561 years old, I accidentally stumbled onto some ruins that changed me completely from inside out. After that, my Sword Dao improved tremendously…"

Lin Huang's pupils dilated slightly at that. It was highly likely that Sword11 was talking about the Great Heaven inheritance, he guessed. Finally, he could not hold back anymore, asking,

"You received the inheritance from those ruins?"

"No. I wasn't talented enough." Sword11 just shook his head and smiled bitterly. "Even after my transformation, I was still nowhere near talented enough for that lord."

After Sword11 said that, Lin Huang could now be certain that he was talking about the Great Heaven inheritance.

Sword11's current talent at the Sword Dao was the strongest Lin Huang had seen, aside from his own (and that was because he had a cheat code). Even among the Protoss, this class-4 supreme god-level genius was one in a million.

Lin Huang even suspected that Sword11 might not be weaker than Buried Heaven should their combat levels be equal.

However, even a genius like that said that he was not talented enough to obtain the inheritance.

It was likely that only Great Heaven, a man who conquered an era, could be that picky about his heir.

"Are you telling me this because it has something to do with the reason you came to me, sir?" Lin Huang did not quite understand why Sword11 would tell him all these secrets of his own accord.

"Although I didn't earn his inheritance, I promised that lord I would find him a suitable heir," Sword11 explained at his own pace. "After I left the ruins, I've actually been secretly approaching all sorts of sword cultivating geniuses over all these years, sending them into the ruins to participate in the trials."

"Did anyone succeed?" Lin Huang hurriedly asked.

"No." Sword11 shook his head helplessly. 'Over the past millennia, I've identified thirty-five talented sword cultivators, and not one of them passed the first round."

"No one even passed the first round?!" Lin Huang was quite surprised.

"No one even passed the first round." Sword11 nodded.

"How many rounds are there in total?"

"I don't know that either. At least three or four, I guess." Sword11 shook his head with a laugh.

"Can I ask one more thing? How high is the trial's survival rate?" Lin Huang asked again.

"The death rate is higher than 90%. Out of the thirty-five, only three got out alive," replied Sword11 honestly.

"It's just the first round, but the death rate is already so high?!" That death rate scared even Lin Huang.

"That's right, it's very difficult. The later rounds could be even more challenging."

After a moment's silence, Lin Huang suddenly asked again, "If that inheritance finds an heir, will you get any benefits, sir?"

Lin Huang was actually asking about Sword11's motives. All Sword11 said was that he was helping Great Heaven find an heir because of a request, but of course Lin Huang did not believe that.

Sword11 stopped walking and turned around to look at the pond.

"On one hand, yes, I benefited from that lord. I went from a sword cultivator with barely any talent to a decently talented one after a single transformation. He helped me, so I want to return the favor.

"On the other hand, that lord promised me that he would increase my Sword Dao talent again if I made it work." With that, Sword11 turned around to look at Lin Huang.

Lin Huang nodded slightly. "When do those ruins open?"

"They're always open. You can go in whenever." Sword11's reply took Lin Huang by surprise. "Actually, many people know about that place, but no one really dares to go there because it's extremely dangerous."

"Where is it?!"

"Swordfiend Abyss!"

That name made Lin Huang instinctively narrow his eyes.

He was not unfamiliar with this name. Two days ago, he had read it in the information from the black market. It was a dangerous place at the border between human and Abyssal Tribe territories.

According to the information from the black market, almost no one who entered the Swordfiend Abyss ever made it out alive. There had even been a True God powerhouse who went in to explore and eventually went missing. According to the records, only one person in the entire Great Heaven Territory ever made it out of Heavenly God Abyss alive, and that was a heavenly god-level sword cultivator from a hundred thousand years ago. History books said that after that sword cultivator returned from Heavenly God Abyss, he turned into a world-ending Swordfiend. Eventually, the human Heavenly Gods joined forces with those of other races to kill him.

This contradicted Sword11's words completely.

Sword11 said that aside from him, three others emerged from the Swordfiend Abyss trials alive.

Sword11 seemed to read the suspicion on Lin Huang's expression, so he continued,

"The reason so many powerhouses can't leave Swordfiend Abyss alive is because only sword cultivators can survive in Swordfiend Abyss, and only Sword Dao skills work there. If they're not a sword cultivator, any powerhouse who enters there without the Sword Dao in their bodies would immediately meet extermination at the hands of the entire Swordfiend Abyss.

"That lord's ruins would never be sullied by any powerhouse who doesn't cultivate the sword."

Lin Huang did not say anything more after that.

The two of them walked along the lake, chatting idly like old friends.

Although he could not verify the truth in Sword11's words, at least Lin Huang now had a rough understanding of Swordfiend Abyss.

"If you're interested in these ruins, I can send you more detailed information about Swordfiend Abyss and the trials. However, I only know about the first trial. I don't know a thing about the ones after that," said Sword11 extremely helpfully when they parted.

"Sir, do you know who the powerhouse who left behind that inheritance was?" Lin Huang finally asked that crucial question.

"That powerhouse calls him Great Heaven, but I'm not sure if it's his real name or a title." With Sword11's reply, Lin Huang was absolutely certain now that he was referring to the Great Heaven inheritance.

"Give me some time to think about it. If I really decide to go, I'll contact you, sir." In the end, Lin Huang did not give him any confirmation.

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Chapter 1294: The Dangerous Swordfiend Abyss

After he parted ways with Sword11, Lin Huang immediately made a beeline for the black market.

Lin Huang did not believe everything Sword11 told him.

Sword11 had given two reasons to justify his helping Great Heaven find an heir.

One was to return the favor, and the second was to gain another increase in his potential. Although it sounded logical, Lin Huang still felt like he was hiding something.

There was also the fact that his description of Swordfiend Abyss was completely different from what the black market's intel said. Naturally, the black market information could not be false, so Lin Huang could not tell how much of what Sword11 said was true.

The thing that bothered Lin Huang the most was how Sword11 had not mentioned a thing about how he had changed his name and the ten years of closed-door cultivation. He did not even mention it in passing. If Lin Huang had not read his detailed file from the black market, he might not know that Sword11 was hiding anything at all.

Lin Huang did not want to pry into Sword11's personal matters. He just thought that since they already talked about something as confidential as undergoing a transformation to increase one's talent, there was no need to hide the closed-door cultivation and name change.

Even though there were so many doubts, Lin Huang was nevertheless quite certain that Swordfiend Abyss was indeed the first test to earn the Great Heaven inheritance.

Actually, when Lin Huang first saw the information about Swordfiend Abyss on the star map two days ago, he was already wondering if this place had something to do with Great Heaven.

After all, it stated that even a heavenly god-level powerhouse had gone missing here before. That meant that the person who left this trap there had to be a heavenly god-level powerhouse, at the very least.

Once he added his conversation with Sword11 to that, he grew even more certain of this possibility.

He spent more than ten days walking to the black market, and then Lin Huang entered Mute Pavilion once more.

"I want all the info you have on Swordfiend Abyss."

As soon as he entered the room, Lin Huang went right up to the counter and made his request.

"We only have legends about Swordfiend Abyss, none of it verified. Are you sure you want to purchase that, sir?" reminded the woman in the short-sleeved shirt behind the counter.

If the information was unverified, the employees at Mute Pavillion would warn customers in advance, and the price was much lower as well.

"That's fine, just tell me the price." Lin Huang nodded.

"Since we are unable to verify the truth of the intel regarding Swordfiend Abyss, and since the information isn't confidential, this file will only require ten thousand Divine Stones."

"Done!" Lin Huang paid without hesitation.

"Do you need anything else, sir?"

"Do you have any info about that world-ending Swordfiend who emerged from Swordfiend Abyss alive ten thousand years ago?"

"Yes, but nothing too detailed. After all, too much time has passed since." The woman in the short-sleeved shirt raised her head and looked at Lin Huang before stating the price. "That information costs eight thousand Divine Stones."

"I'll take one." Lin Huang nodded without hesitation.

It was not that he did not want to haggle. He just knew that Mute Pavillion did not entertain that.

After he left Mute Pavillion, Lin Huang did not continue looking around the other stores in the black market. Instead, he bought some food and drinking water at a mart close to his hotel before returning to his room and looking through the information he had just obtained.

The file on Swordfiend Abyss did not have any substantial information regarding Swordfiend Abyss.

However, Lin Huang took out a list of the people who had gone missing in Swordfiend Abyss, as well as a list of people who had appeared to go in and reappear alive.

The latter list had Sword11's name right there, as well as more than ten other names.

As for the list of missing persons, Lin Huang saw that six of them were listed as Heavenly Gods.

A hundred and eighty thousand years ago, a second-rank Heavenly God called Yan Qing became the first Heavenly God in recorded history to enter Swordfiend Abyss. He entered Swordfiend Abyss even before that world-ending Swordfiend did, and he was also the first Heavenly God to go missing in Swordfiend Abyss.

Ten thousand years ago, the next Heavenly God to go missing was Yue Yi, a third-rank Heavenly God. He went into Swordfiend Abyss with a friend of his, Qi Peng, also a Heavenly God. However, Yue Yi went missing, and his companion Qi Peng became something of a household name. He was none other than the Heavenly God who returned from Swordfiend Abyss and became the world-ending Swordfiend, causing a ton of bloodshed and turmoil.

Ninety thousand years ago, a Heavenly God named Shang Tian was the third to go missing in Swordfiend Abyss. He was quite the character as well; in his time, he was one of the top five strongest fighters in the entire Great Heaven Territory. Not only was he a sixth-rank Heavenly God, he was also an uber-powerful sword cultivator.

Eighty thousand years ago, the fourth, fifth, and sixth missing persons came from a trio of Heavenly Gods. All three of them were fifth- or sixth-rank heavenly god-level powerhouses, but such a magnificently-built team was still wiped out upon entering Swordfiend Abyss, and no one heard of them again.

After that, no Heavenly God in the entire Great Heaven Territory dared to approach Swordfiend Abyss again.

"Even sixth-rank heavenly god-level powerhouses die in there. That sure is a dangerous place…" Lin Huang could not stay calm after reading that file.

He had assumed that all the Heavenly Gods who went missing in Swordfiend Abyss were low-rank Heavenly Gods who ventured in on their own. Instead, he found out that not only were there mid- and high-rank Heavenly Gods in their ranks, there were even those who went in groups, only to get wiped out.

After reading all this information, however, Lin Huang was starting to believe some of the things Sword11 said now.

The Great Heaven inheritance was not something anyone who did not use a sword could touch!

Lin Huang spent more than an hour reading all the information, and tens of thousands of thoughts ran through his mind. Soon, though, he collected himself and looked at the intel on that world-ending Swordfiend.

His original name was Qi Peng, and he was a third-rank Heavenly God.

Ten thousand years ago, he was the only human Heavenly God sword cultivator.

Ten thousand years ago, he entered Swordfiend Abyss with his good friend Yue Yi, only to return alone one year later. Upon returning from Swordfiend Abyss, he seemed to go insane, killing swathes for no apparent reason. His combat level also shot up from third-rank to seventh-rank within a few short days, and finally, the humans worked together with the Heavenly Gods from some nearby tribes to kill him…

"He went from third-rank to seventh-rank within a few short days!" That news made Lin Huang's eyes widen.

Bear in mind that Qi Peng was a heavenly god-level powerhouse, which meant that the resources he had to use to increase his rank by one step amounted to astronomical numbers. Theoretically, it took him more than ten times longer to increase his rank than True Gods did!

Besides, if it could make the third-rank Heavenly God Qi Peng lose his mind and turn into a Swordfiend, that must mean that Swordfiend Abyss was not especially kind to sword cultivators either.

After Lin Huang read through Qi Peng's file, he fell into deep thought.

He was wondering if he should take this risk.

On one hand, he was now certain that Swordfiend Abyss was the first step to achieving the Great Heaven inheritance.

On the other hand, the danger posed by Swordfiend Abyss was making him hesitate about joining this test.

Although Lin Huang was usually quite confident in himself, this information made him completely unsure if he could successfully pass the test.

He thought it over for a long time, but eventually he made his decision and contacted Sword11 with a communicator he had bought from the black market.

"I've decided. Send the information over!"

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Chapter 1295: Eat It While It's Hot

Before he received the information about Swordfiend Abyss, Lin Huang had many ideas about what it could entail. After he read the information Sword11 sent over, though, he realized that the contents of the test were far simpler than he had expected. He also understood why sixth-rank Heavenly Gods died there as well, but it somehow made him a tad more confident that he could pass it.

Since he knew that he did not really need to prepare anything before entering Swordfiend Abyss, Lin Huang teleported away from Golden City the very afternoon after he obtained the information.

Swordfiend Abyss was at the border between human and Abyssal Tribe land.

It was actually a battlefield as well, but this was not wartime, so there were not many people on the battlefield. There were only the occasional human and Abyssal Tribe powerhouses hunting each other down.

However, perhaps because Swordfiend Abyss was simply too infamous, it seemed only Virtual Gods ever appeared on this battlefield. True or Heavenly Gods barely ever showed up here at all.

Lin Huang spent a day and a half going through more than twenty dimensional portals before he finally arrived at this battlefield.

As he sprinted down the land, he bumped into a few human Virtual Gods as well, all high-level ones.

Usually, when one encountered a fellow human, most people would choose to invite them into their group and hunt together as a team. However, Lin Huang disguised his battle power to look like he was only a grade-3 Virtual God, so the ones who saw him decided to just ignore him. After all, his combat level was too low, so he would not be able to help them. In fact, they were more worried he would slow them down.

Lin Huang did not know all that. His aim was Swordfiend Abyss, and he was quite glad that no one tried to disturb him. It made his journey smoother.

However, after he sprinted for more than two hours and entered the depths of the battlefield, he finally bumped into a hunter from the Abyssal Tribe.

It was a grade-8 Virtual God abyssal monster that looked like a giant pure-black jellyfish. However, it had several dozen emerald eyeballs.

When it first noticed Lin Huang, the jellyfish monster was ecstatic. It had barely raised its several dozen tentacles, however, before it saw a dark red flash of bloody light slice through the sky.

The next instant, it abruptly froze before its body slumped helplessly. Before its body could even hit the ground, an invisible string tugged at it, and it vanished.

Lin Huang did not even pause, not slowing down for even a fraction as he went right over where the jellyfish monster had just been.

At the same time, a dark red bloody gleam twinkled in the sky, darting into Lin Huang's sleeve.

That was right. Lin Huang had killed this grade-8 virtual god-level abyssal monster with one hit.

He did not even draw his sword, using only a telekinetic flying dagger.

By now, his Telekinesis was as strong as that of a first-rank True God, and he also had the god rule relic-level telekinetic weapon the Club gave him not too long ago. His attack power was strong enough to threaten a first-rank true god-level powerhouse, so what was a mere grade-8 virtual god-level abyssal monster to him?

Perhaps it was because he had entered the depths of the battlefield, but after the jellyfish monster, Lin Huang bumped into five other abyssal hunters over the next three hours. All of them were high-level virtual god-level powerhouses, and there was even one grade-9 virtual god-level.

Nevertheless, Lin Huang killed them all with one hit, with no exceptions.

The combination of his true god-level Telekinesis and the god rule relic-level telekinetic weapon, as well as Lin Huang's decisive attacking style, meant that none of these abyssal monsters could exchange even one blow with him.

Although he did bump into six abyssal monsters in total along the way, Lin Huang never slowed down for even a second throughout the entire time. He still arrived at the entrance to Swordfiend Abyss before sundown.

When he saw the sky over the battlefield turning dark, Lin Huang decided to set up his tent next to the Swordfiend Abyss entrance.

That was right. He wanted to rest.

Although two days of traveling would not affect him too badly, he would still prefer to enter Swordfiend Abyss in his best shape.

That was why he boldly decided to sleep at the Swordfiend Abyss entrance. Before that, he had even planned a nice meal to enjoy. After all, he might not have the time to eat once the trial started.

The compressed tent from the gravel world automatically constructed itself within seconds. Lin Huang spread out a large picnic rug not far from the tent, taking out the food and fire crystal reheater he had prepared beforehand.

At the same time, he summoned Bai.

The moment a black-robed Bai was summoned, he noticed that there were no enemies around, so he looked at Lin Huang in slight confusion.

He was always a man of few words, so he did not ask anything. Nevertheless, his gaze was clearly inquisitive.

Lin Huang took his time putting two hamburgers into the reheater, and he set the timer before sitting down on the picnic rug. Patting the cushion he was sitting on, he smiled at Bai and said, "Have a seat."

Bai did not say anything, sitting down quietly while his eyes explored his surroundings.

When he noticed the bottomless abyss nearby and found that he could not explore Swordfiend Abyss with his telekinesis, he instinctively frowned a little. Although he could not read anything from Swordfiend Abyss, his instincts told him that this was a very dangerous place.

After a moment's silence, he realized that Lin Huang had no intention of explaining, so he finally broke his silence and asked,

"What is this place?"

"That's Swordfiend Abyss down there. I guess you could call it an inheritance land." Lin Huang had been staring at the reheater, but now he finally turned around to smile at Bai. "As for the place we're standing on right now, it's a battlefield for humans and Abyssal Tribes. It's ceasefire for now, though."

"Do you want me to go to the inheritance land with you?" Bai asked.

"No need for that. This is an inheritance land purely for sword cultivators." Lin Huang shook his head. "Stand watch through the night for me. I need to be properly rested.

"Okay." Bai finally understood his job, but after a second, he asked somewhat worriedly, "Why don't you call Killer and those Bug Tribe sword cultivators to go with you?"

"They'll die in there." Lin Huang shook his head.

Bai wanted to ask in detail, but then he heard a "ding" from the heater. Lin Huang hurriedly stood up and took out two sets of hamburgers.

He gave Bai one set before taking another two cups of juice from his space storage and giving one cup to Bai.

This world had burgers and fries but no coke, so he had to replace it with juice.

"Eat it while it's hot. It won't taste good once it's cold." Lin Huang ate the burger he was holding as he took out two sets of fries and put them into the reheater.

It was not Bai's first time eating a burger, but this time his heart was heavy as he ate.

By the time Lin Huang finished everything, Bai was only halfway through his burger.

"This burger doesn't taste as good as the gravel world's, but it's not that bad, is it?" Lin Huang asked with some surprise.

"It's not the burger." Bai shook his head and pointed at the Swordfiend Abyss nearby. "My instincts tell me it's very dangerous down there."

"If it won't work, I'll retreat in time," Lin Huang comforted him with a laugh.

Once Bai was done with his meal, the sky was already completely dark.

Li Huang put away the reheater and looked through the news and forums for a bit. Before nine at night, he stood up and patted Bai on the shoulder, heading toward the tent.

"I'll go to sleep now. I'll be counting on you tonight."

Bai nodded slightly and sat cross-legged on the picnic mat, closing his eyes.

Colorless and formless multipurpose particles rapidly emanated from his body, covering everything within a hundred kilometers of the tent in an instant.

As for Lin Huang, after he closed the tent's entrance, he activated the tent's silent mode and finally lay down, his heart at ease.

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Chapter 1296: The Trial Begins

Lin Huang slept especially well that night, mostly because Bai was watching over the house.

Bai was a grade-8 virtual god-level fighter, but with his current pseudo-mythical-level power, he was practically unrivaled by anyone weaker than a True God.

If a True God did show up, he would sense it within his territory as well, so he did not have to worry.

Nevertheless, he was not disturbed at all that night.

When he woke up the next morning, it was already almost seven o'clock.

Upon emerging from the tent, Lin Huang saw several dozen abyssal monster corpses piled up nearby.

Clearly Bai was careful enough to chase away the humans who approached as opposed to killing them.

"So many Abyssal Tribes approached us?" Lin Huang was quite surprised.

"It just so happens that abyssal monsters show up quite often here," Bai explained. He did not add that it was partly because his territory was too large.

Every Abyssal Tribe that came within a hundred kilometers of the tent was stabbed right through the heart by the blades made of multipurpose particles.

Most of the monsters that accidentally wandered over here died before they even knew what was happening.

Lin Huang took his own sweet time to pack up his tent and keep the beast corpses into his space storage before he took out breakfast for reheating.

After breakfast was reheated, Lin Huang gave Bai a portion this time as well.

"I slept pretty well last night. Thanks for that!"

Bai accepted breakfast and nodded slightly.

The two chatted idly as they ate breakfast.

It was mostly Lin Huang talking and Bai listening, though.

After breakfast, Lin Huang cleaned the place up for a bit before turning Bai back into a card.

Slowly, Lin Huang walked to the edge of the Swordfiend Abyss entrance and looked downward. He could only see twenty to thirty meters below him, and everything beyond that was covered by a layer of clouds. Not only could he not see through it, even his Telekinesis could not penetrate it. There was no way he could tell how deep this Swordfiend Abyss went.

He mused it over for a while before contacting Xiao Hei with his consciousness.

"Theoretically, I'm only an imperial palace-level. If I use a Substitute Card, a grade-2 card should be good enough, right?"

"That's right. As long as you don't gather your Godhead, your combat level will remain transcendent."

"Then I'll take ten grade-2 Substitute Cards." Lin Huang was unexpectedly careful. "Give me two Position Swap Cards too."

He looked at the twelve new cards in his hands and took out a Cloning Card he had exchanged earlier. Shattering it, he summoned a clone of himself.

"Before I return, wait outside Swordfiend Abyss. Try to keep a low profile and not cause trouble. If I encounter a threat I can't escape, I'll swap positions with you."

The clone nodded and sat down cross-legged at the entrance to Swordfiend Abyss.

Lin Huang arranged it this way because he knew that grade-2 and grade-3 Escape Cards may not be able to escape the restrictive laws of the Great Heaven ruins. He could only escape if he had a grade-5 card.

A Position Swap Card would be a different matter, however. It had nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with the user's combat level. After all, its rule allowed the user to swap positions with his clone.

Even if Lin Huang was trapped in a Lord's cage, the currently imperial palace-level Lin Huang still only needed a grade-2 Position Swap Card to get him out of there. He had nothing to worry about in a mere Heavenly God's ruins.

Besides, the biggest advantage of using the Position Swap Card was the fact that it was instantaneous. The moment he used the card, the swap would immediately be completed.

It was only after Lin Huang planned his escape route that he looked back down at Swordfiend Abyss.

"If Sword11 wasn't lying about Swordfiend Abyss, I should be able to pass the first test with relative ease." Having muttered that to himself, Lin Huang leaped off the cliff and into Swordfiend Abyss.

At almost the exact time. It felt like Lin Huang's flight abilities had been completely sealed away. He was falling freely to the bottom of the abyss.

Lin Huang was not too panicky about it, though. Sword11 once mentioned that even Heavenly Gods couldn't fly here once they jumped in.

His body pierced through the clouds and continued to fall rapidly. Lin Huang felt as though he was actually getting faster and faster.

Unlike when parachuting, his fall met no air resistance whatsoever.

Nevertheless, the entire fall did not last that long. Within two to three minutes, Lin Huang could see the ground.

The second before he landed, his body could finally move again.

With a somersault, he planted his feet steadily on the ground. He did not even leave any footsteps on the floor.

Once he steadied his footing at the bottom of Swordfiend Abyss, Lin Huang immediately looked around him.

That was right. He did not just reach his Telekinesis out to scout around.

Sword11 had specially warned him about that.

Lin Huang swept his gaze around him, but all he could see was a valley. There were cliffs that reached into the clouds on either side, but he could not see the peak.

Soon, Lin Huang's gaze was attracted by several dozen corpses lying around not too far away.

All of the bodies looked perfectly intact, and even their expressions were extremely realistic. Some were shocked, others despairing, and some even looked completely normal, as though they had not noticed a thing.

Some of the corpses even emanated an aura that made Lin Huang wary. They had probably been heavenly god-level powerhouses when they were alive.

Sword11 had emphasized that trying to touch these corpses before passing the trial was nothing short of suicide.

Lin Huang quickly looked away from the corpses and turned his gaze to the cliffs instead.

This phase of the trial could be found on those cliff walls.

Just as Sword11 said, the walls were covered with all sorts of slash marks.

Some were casual and half-hearted, leaving scratches as thin as a hair. Some were several meters deep and very clearly carved. Others had engraved poetry there, elegant and graceful, while yet others used the wall as a canvas for their paintings…

These messy-looking scratches and slashes were actually the scariest part of the entire Swordfiend Abyss.

That was because every mark retained the Sword Dao of a sword cultivator.

Those who left those marks ranged from transcendent to ninth-rank Heavenly Gods. The Sword Daos left here also ranged from the lowest nuance level to the highest Sword Dao true meaning. There was even one as strong as the Sword Dao heavenly rule, equivalent to the god rule rank.

If any powerhouses who were not sword cultivators came here, they would instantly trigger all the Sword Daos on the wall. Remember, there were several ultimate ninth-rank heavenly god-level sword cultivators among those who left their marks here. Even if they were not as powerful as Great Heaven back when they were alive, they were not that far away either.

Even if a full-powered Great Heaven himself came here as a sword cultivator, it was quite likely that he would be injured here too. The other powerhouses in the Great Heaven Territory who did not use swords did not stand a chance.

According to the black market information, the strongest Heavenly God to enter Swordfiend Abyss was just the sixth-rank heavenly god-level sword cultivator, Shang Tian.

Lin Huang could practically imagine that powerhouse being instantly killed by countless Sword Daos as soon as he entered Swordfiend Abyss.

In truth, these Sword Daos were also the reason why the bodies in Swordfiend Abyss must not be touched.

Swordfiend Abyss was actually very kind to sword cultivators.

The Sword Dao latent in the marks would only be activated if they actively triggered them with Divine Telekinesis.

Aside from that, Swordfiend Abyss even gave sword cultivators a series of lessons.

Right now, for example, Lin Huang's Divine Telekinesis was not even active yet, but he could already sense which one of the sword marks was emanating the first level of Sword Dao— Nuance…

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Chapter 1297: The First Stage, Nuance

He briefly cast his senses about, and Lin Huang could already feel that there were quite a few Nuance-level Sword Daos. There had to be more than a thousand of them in total.

Lin Huang did not underestimate them in the slightest, though. He knew that any sword marks the ridiculous genius Great Heaven approved of and left as part of his inheritance trial would surely be the product of no ordinary sword cultivator.

According to what Sword11 said earlier, if anyone touched these marks with their Telekinesis, their consciousness would be dragged in by the marks. After that, they would be forced into the sword mark space, where they had to participate in a battle of minds against the Sword Daos in the marks.

If the sword marks contained Sword Dao of the first level, Nuance, you would also only be allowed to use Nuance-level Sword Dao in the sword mark space.

It was only after you defeated all the Nuance-level Sword Daos in the sword marks that he would be able to sense the level-2 Consonance Sword Daos. Similarly, only by defeating all the consonance-level Sword Daos in the sword marks would you be able to sense the third, Illumination-level Sword Daos, and so on.

Of course, you could also choose to follow the trial rules and ignore the hints that you sensed, sending your Telekinesis to any one of the other unemphasized sword marks. If you accidentally triggered a mark with Sword Dao true meaning or heavenly rule, though, an instant death was not impossible.

Since Sword11 had told him the general gist of it, Lin Huang naturally played the game according to the rules.

He swept his eyes across the sword marks he could sense, and soon Lin Huang decided on his target for this first test.

It was a barely-legible sword mark, as thin as a hair.

"This one looks quite weak, so let's try it out and see how tough it is."

Although Lin Huang's Sword Dao was now at the level-6, Deity, he had no intention of underestimating this level-1 Sword Dao test. After all, he was stuck at level-1 for the test too, and he did not know anything about the type of Sword Dao in the mark either.

After he chose his target for the first test, Lin Huang quickly reached his Telekinesis out and touched that hairline sword mark.

The next instant, Lin Huang felt his consciousness sway. When he recovered, he already found himself in a thick forest.

He hurriedly checked the strength of his consciousness projection. Not only was his Sword Dao forced back to level-1 Nuance, even his combat level had been forced back to the first stage of the holy fire-level— white flame-level. Not only that, he could not sense all of the techniques, secret skills, divine abilities, and divine techniques that were unrelated to Sword Dao anymore either.

At the same time, Lin Huang noticed that he was now holding a silver-colored narrow blade, a long sword that was merely a grade-3 relic.

Once he was certain about his current condition, he suddenly received a message in his mind, telling him about the trial's general rules.

He immediately understood. His Sword Dao and combat level had been forced down to match his opponent's standards, and the long sword relic was also automatically created according to his opponent's weapon level and commonly-used weapon. Even the backdrop of the trial was suitable for the owner of the Sword Dao in the mark.

There was only one way to pass this trial, and that was to kill the opponent who manifested in this space.

If the participant was killed by their opponent in this space, their consciousness would crumble and die. There would be a new corpse in Swordfiend Abyss.

If the participant felt like they really could not win, though, they could choose to admit defeat and give up on the test. Of course, that was if they managed to shout, "I admit defeat" first. Once they gave up, the participant would lose the right to proceed with the remaining tests, and they would be teleported out of Swordfiend Abyss.

That was probably how Sword11 managed to survive.

Lin Huang spent a few seconds digesting the rules, and then a figure finally formed slowly about ten meters away from him.

Lin Huang stared at it. It was a petite woman in black with short black hair that reached her ears. Her weapon was a graceful narrow shortsword that did not look even 30cm long.

With just a glance, Lin Huang could tell that this was a speed- or agility-type sword cultivator.

While Lin Huang was observing his opponent, the girl in black was looking at him as well.

Neither of them moved because there was a 5-second protection period before the match began.

5, 4, 3… 1.

As soon as the five-second countdown ended, Lin Huang held his sword up, but before he could even dash forward, the girl in black had already turned and ran, vanishing into the trees with a few leaps.

"Huh?" Lin Huang was confused. "Shouldn't she attack me head-on? This goes too?"

Still, he immediately understood that his opponent's approach was within the rules.

He could not use his Telekinesis, but Lin Huang still had his Sword Territory. That had something to do with Sword Dao, so it was not prohibited.

Nevertheless, the Territory's reach and power were drastically reduced, and now it only had a radius of 1,000 meters.

That was still more than enough for this battle.

Since his opponent was nowhere to be seen, Lin Huang had no choice but to keep his Sword Dao Territory open. He did not have the time to waste on a game of hide-and-seek.

As soon as his Sword Dao Territory was activated, he quickly sensed where that woman was hiding.

She did not go too far. Right now, she was hiding behind the trunk of a large tree in the direction she had earlier run to. She was only fifty or sixty meters away, and was currently watching Lin Huang's every move.

Lin Huang's lips curved slightly and he did not approach her without thinking. Instead, he leaped up and stood on the branch she had been standing on earlier, pretending to be looking for her.

Once he set foot on that branch, however, he felt a sudden sense of danger.

A colorless blade appeared out of nowhere, without any warning whatsoever, slicing right toward Lin Huang's face like a string.

Lin Huang abruptly swung his sword, and the dark red sword gleam instantly tore that blade to shreds.

The opponent's attack was not too strong, but it was very stealthy, and it nearly caught Lin Huang unawares.

Behind the tree, the woman looked a little disappointed that her first attack did not land. At the same time, she did not seem too surprised either. She remained on the same spot and did not move, as though waiting patiently for something.

"A string?" Lin Huang narrowed his eyes slightly. "No, this trial doesn't allow anything but swords… That was a sword gleam!

"Was that string the delayed activation of a sword gleam? That's some impressive sword technique. In other words, she set up several sword gleams I can't see in this distance spanning tens of meters. If I'm not mistaken, she should have a Sword Territory too. If I get within the attacking range of a sword gleam, her Sword Territory would instantly activate the sword gleams to attack me.

"Before she activates them, the sword gleams she sets up are colorless and formless, so I can't destroy them in advance either…" Lin Huang quickly thought of ways to handle this. "Still, for sword skills like this, the sword gleams won't be activated without a certain condition. There has to be an energy point or something that she used to store the energy for these sword gleams. She has to activate that energy point in order to achieve that instantaneous trigger.

"I can't use my Telekinesis to scout around right now, so I can't see the energy point she set up…" Lin Huang soon came up with a solution. "But I don't have to see it. Since it's an easily-triggered energy point, it must be very unstable. I just have to detonate the energy point she set up in advance, and her trick will be all but foiled.

"It doesn't matter how subtly and randomly she hid her energy point. I can destroy it with just one slash!"

A ruthless light shone in Lin Huang's eyes, and his Sword Dao erupted throughout his entire body.

The long silver blade he held began to glow with a blinding red light as he activated his Life Power.

Within seconds, the long sword in his hand seemed to turn into a red sun.

"Is that guy going big from the very beginning?!" The woman in black began to rapidly retreat without hesitation, running desperately away from Lin Huang. She knew that it would be all over for her if she was struck by this move.

When he sensed the woman in black's movements, the corners of Lin Huang's lips curved slightly, and his right hand suddenly swung his sword in the direction the woman was fleeing toward.

With that single swing, a red impact wave poured forth from the blade, drowning his opponent like a tsunami. It cleaved a deep fire-red trench through the forest.

"The participant has passed the first stage, Nuance!"

When he saw that pop-up before his eyes, Lin Huang knew that he had successfully killed his opponent.

One or two seconds after the pop-up, Lin Huang's consciousness returned to his body.

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Chapter 1298

: Level-6 Sword Dao

He had just undergone an intense battle in the sword mark space, but it was actually only a clash of minds. The actual passage of time was completely unlike what he seemed to experience; less than a second had passed in the actual world.

After completing the first match, Lin Huang was in no hurry to choose his second target. Instead, he summarized his experience from the first match.

"As I expected, be it in terms of their Sword Dao or sword skills, my opponents in the sword marks are all the best of their peers. At the very least, they're as strong as four-star geniuses, and they're as talented as the average Protoss.

"The depth of the sword mark should have nothing to do with the opponent's power. It might only be due to the nature of their Sword Dao and their personalities.

"Still, I could clear the first round by bulldozing through my opponent's skills. That means that these trials don't have any battle completion requirements. It doesn't matter what I do as long as I win. I don't have to tailor my solution to my opponent's individual styles.

"Nevertheless, it'll be harder to bulldoze through my opponents as I go on. After all, my Sword Dao and combat level have been forcefully suppressed to match theirs, so we're competing in terms of our Sword Dao mastery, combat experience, and combat mindsets.

"In the battles to follow, it would be best if I could find a solution to every one of my opponents' skills. That's also a way to accumulate combat experience and train my combat thought processes. After all, it's a battle in the consciousness, so even if it takes me a fortnight to win, only an instant would've passed in the world outside. I won't waste any time."

After he sorted everything out, Lin Huang raised his eyes to look at the marks on the wall.

The hairline mark he had passed earlier no longer emanated any hints of a Sword Dao.

He quickly settled on his second target.

It was an extremely deep mark, as though someone had stabbed their sword tip right into the wall. It was at least twenty to thirty centimeters deep.

After he touched it with his Telekinesis, Lin Huang's consciousness was once more pulled into the sword mark space.

This time, Lin Huang's opponent was a man with an extremely sharp aura, as though he was himself an unsheathed sword.

This man attacked with his sword extremely quickly, and he was very good at stabbing too.

This battle lasted for more than half an hour in the sword mark space before Lin Huang managed to kill him.

It was not that the opponent was strong enough to match Lin Huang for half an hour. Lin Huang simply figured that he had quite a few stabbing sword moves too, so he spent most of the battle secretly learning his opponent's Sword Dao techniques.

At the end of the battle, Lin Huang did indeed learn quite a lot. After all, the opponent specialized in this.

That was Lin Huang did in every subsequent match with a Sword Dao that intrigued him. He let his opponent use their sword skills and Sword Dao to the extreme, picking up the bits that suited him.

Thankfully, every time Lin Huang's consciousness returned to his body after every battle, the weariness he felt in his mind would instantly vanish.

This was probably also a special effect that Swordfiend Abyss provided for the participants.

After every match, Lin Huang did not really need to rest for too long, but he still closed his eyes to recover for a while, digesting everything he had learned from the earlier battle before jumping into the next one.

That was why he spent almost four hours to complete the thousand-odd Nuance-level matches.

When he completed the last Nuance trial, Lin Huang vaguely felt as though his Sword Dao had increased just a sliver after a long plateau.

Although the change was extremely minute, it had to be noted that his Sword Dao was at level-6 now. Even an increase that small did not come easy.

He spent another half an hour to close his eyes and digest all he had learned over those thousand-odd fights. Finally, Lin Huang opened his eyes and looked at the level-2 Consonance sword marks.

He swept his gaze across the walls. There were slightly fewer Consonance sword marks than there had been Nuance ones, numbering up to slightly over eight hundred.

Lin Huang randomly chose one and reached his Telekinesis toward it.

The next instant, his consciousness was pulled into the sword mark space once more.

Unlike previously, Lin Huang could feel that suppressed Sword Dao had been unsealed somewhat, but only to the extent of a complete-stage level-2 Consonance cultivator.

Some of the sword skills he could not use during the Nuance level had also been unlocked after his Sword Dao level increased.

Lin Huang could even clearly feel that his sword skills' potency had increased accordingly as well.

With the experience from more than a thousand Nuance-level battles earlier, Lin Huang felt even more comfortable now with the new round of matches.

Just as before, he chose the same slow and steady approach. Whenever he encountered a sword skill that piqued his interest, he would allow his opponent to flaunt all their skills before killing them.

The eight hundred matches there took Lin Huang another three and a half hours.

Actually, the battles did not take him too much time. He spent more time trying to digest the battles afterward.

Nevertheless, the time he spent was worth it.

Upon completing the Consonance trials, Lin Huang could clearly feel his Sword Dao improving again.

For the next stage, level-3 Illumination, there were only slightly over six hundred marks.

For level-4 Oblivion, there were only slightly over four hundred marks.

For level-5 Void Breaker, there were only two hundred and eighty marks.

As the levels increased, it was clear that Great Heaven's criteria grew stricter.

By the time he reached level-5, every one of Lin Huang's battles took over three hours. Some even took more than six hours. On one hand, his opponents grew stronger, but on the other hand, they showed more skills as well, so the battles became even more beneficial to Lin Huang.

Thankfully, it did not matter how long he spent in the sword mark spaces. That had no effect on the passage of time outside.

However, Lin Huang spent more time digesting his post-battle thoughts as well.

The level-5 fights had taken him two days and two nights to digest it all.

After the two days' digestion, Lin Huang could clearly feel his level-6 Sword Dao approaching the final complete stage.

"I'm so close to being a complete-stage Deity!" Lin Huang looked at the remaining sword marks on the wall, his eyes shining. There were a hundred and twenty-one marks there emanating the level-6 aura. "Mu Sword Dao will probably reach the complete stage before I complete the level-6 trials."

Lin Huang was growing ever more ecstatic. He had even temporarily forgotten all about his final aim upon completing these trials, losing himself in the process of the trials themselves.

He looked around at the hundred and twenty-one sword marks, and soon Lin Huang settled on one of them.

It was a line from a poem that said, "This gold-engraved sword in a hilt of jade shall, through the curtains, the night illuminate." (TN: from a patriotic poem by Southern Song poet, Lu You.)

"Interesting. You'll be first, then."

Lin Huang grinned and reached his Telekinesis toward it.

When his body was formed inside the sword mark space, Lin Huang finally felt free of the oppression he suffered earlier.

His Sword Dao was completely unleashed now, and all his sword skills and Sword Dao methods were completely unlocked. Even his combat level was back to the grade-9 imperial-level.

Just as Lin Huang was wondering what kind of an opponent he would face, a pop-up suddenly appeared before him.

"The participant's cultivation route is unique. Despite your being only imperial-level at the moment, the Divine Power in your body is almost equal to that of a destiny-level rank-9 (rank-9 virtual god level). Hence, all the Sword Dao users will have their combat powers adjusted to destiny-level rank-9.

"Alright…" Lin Huang did not have any objections to that.

If the opponent was an imperial palace-level like he was, he would probably kill them all with one slash. It would be even easier than the level-5 fights earlier.

Before this, his power had been restricted to match his opponents', but now it was finally time for the others to stoop to his level instead.

The level-6 Sword Dao Deity was completely unlike the first five levels. There was a huge barrier between them.

Level-6 Sword Dao would only increase evidently when he mastered mythical-level sword skills. Even pseudo-mythical-level sword skills had a limited effect on his improvement.

That was why very few sword cultivators below virtual god-level could reach level-6. Those who were below virtual god-level did not have Divine Power in their bodies, so they could not cultivate mythical-level sword skills.

Of course, that did not mean that it was impossible for sword cultivators below virtual god-level to increase their Sword Dao to level-6. There were powerhouses who mastered enough sword skills below mythical level, after which they grinded a little and slowly broke past the limits of level-5 Sword Dao.

Nevertheless, this method was not possible without mastering almost ten thousand different sword skills.

That went far beyond merely learning the skills. They had to merge them completely and digest these sword skills inside out, until their mastery was so complete that there was nothing else to be done.

That was why there were very few sword cultivators below virtual god level who managed to reach level-6. Even once they reached level-6, it would be nearly impossible for them to improve even further.

Lin Huang had a cheat code on his side, so he could already use Divine Power at imperial palace level. He had also mastered more than ten mythical-level sword skills and several hundred pseudo-mythical-level sword skills.

By now, he had also experienced several thousand battles between sword cultivators in Swordfiend Abyss, and only then did he approach the complete stage of level-6 Sword Dao.

Any other imperial palace-level would not even dream of learning mythical-level sword skills. Even buying a pseudo-mythical-level sword skill that did not require Divine Power to use would probably cost them far more than they could afford.

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Chapter 1299: Level-6 Opponent

When he saw his opponent's body slowly forming, Lin Huang began to observe him.

He was well built and wore a grey robe, looking somewhat like the ancient Chinese people back on Earth. The material of his clothes looked average, so he did not seem wealthy. However, the sword hanging from his waist looked quite valuable indeed.

It was a broad-bladed sword with a hilt that looked like it was made of pure gold carved into beautiful patterns. The sheath was golden-red, and it looked like it was made of high-quality wood as well. There were several dozen pieces of flawless jade stones, each as large as a thumb, dotting the hilt.

"What a fine gold-engraved sword."

The sword he was holding qualified as an expert-grade god relic.

Similarly, the sword that appeared in Lin Huang's hand was of equal quality.

The broad-bladed sword was suitable for slashing, so the opponent should be especially good at slashing. The Sword Dao he emanated had a sharpness to it that proved it. His physical stature implied that he had strength as well, so he would not be bad at close-range fighting…

With just one glance, Lin Huang had a rough idea of what his opponent was like.

While Lin Huang was considering him, the well-built man opposite him was watching him as well.

"Your sword is very strong, but strength doesn't decide the victor. We'll only know after we battle."

They were both level-6 Sword Dao fighters, so the well-built man could clearly sense that Lin Huang was almost at the complete stage.

It was true that he was not as strong in terms of purely their Sword Dao, but there was no fear at all in his expression. Instead, his will to fight seemed even stronger now.

Lin Huang highly approved of the well-built man's words.

If there was not a decisive difference in power between the two sides in this battle, it would actually be quite difficult to determine the eventual winner. It was not impossible for the weak to triumph over the strong, not at all.

Seeing the opponent's rising will to fight, Lin Huang did not underestimate him in the slightest.

He could not use anything other than Sword Dao in this sword mark space, and he was facing a Sword Dao level-6 powerhouse, just like himself. He did not have any absolute advantages here. If he was not careful, he could really lose.

After the five-second preparation phase was over, the two bodies standing ten meters away shot out like lightning at almost exactly the same time. The blood-red sword and golden blade clashed together in an instant.

The instant the gold and red Divine Powers clashed, there was a burst of light that exploded into the sky.

It looked like a golden-red sun that rose in the void.

The clash of Divine Power created an energy that rippled in all directions like waves. Wherever they went, everything the waves touched was reduced to dust.

It was a clash in mid-air, but a deep and enormous crater several dozen kilometers in diameter appeared in the ground, as though a meteor had crashed there.

The high heat generated by the energy clash even pushed the ground to its boiling point. The crater was dark red inside, and all the sand had melted into a crystal that resembled charcoal. The heat contained within could be evidently felt from miles away.

In the air, the clash between swords lasted for only an instant.

A grey figure was sent flying back, crashing into the distant ground in a streak of golden light.

Lin Huang was still stronger overall. After all, he had a terrifying body that was almost as strong as a Tyrant's. In a frontal clash, even the well-built man who was good at close-range combat did not find himself at an advantage.

After a moment, the well-built man crawled out of the crater and spat out two mouthfuls of sand. He shook his right hand, which had nearly shattered, and raised his head to give Lin Huang a smile as he said, "And I thought that I was one of the physically strongest amongst sword cultivators, so a frontal close-range attack would give me an advantage. But it turns out your body is actually monstrously strong."

Lin Huang grinned. "You're no match for me in close-range combat, so why don't you show me your strongest specialty?"

After all, back when Lin Huang obtained the Tyrant Monster Card, he had also received its Robust skill. By now, the Tyrant's Robust skill had been enhanced countless times, and Lin Huang's skill had also been enhanced more times than he could count.

If he put aside the Tyrant's physical multiplier via its other skills and divine ability, Lin Huang was actually the same level as the Tyrant.

There was also the fact that Lin Huang had the Divine Power and Seraphic Speed talents, so he was exceptionally strong and fast as well. It was only natural that he was terrifying at close-range combat.

Before the level-6 stage, the sword mark space considered the fairness of the battles and suppressed Lin Huang's combat level and physical attributes completely. All of his passive buff-type skills were forbidden, so his body, strength, and speed were actually maintained at the same level as his opponents'.

After the level-6 stage was unlocked, however, his opponents' combat level had been adjusted to rank-9 virtual god-level, so all of his own boosting abilities were activated as well. The chains that had been binding Lin Huang were finally undone.

Now, only the active skills aside from Sword Dao techniques were forbidden. Lin Huang's attributes, like his physicality, strength, and speed, were all completely unleashed now. The only things that remained unavailable to him were skills such as his Seraphic Speed space flickering and his Superhuman Strength explosion.

Putting aside his Telekinesis and summoning powers, he was almost at full strength now.

The well-built man was only testing the waters earlier, and now he knew that he did not stand a chance in close-range combat. Hence, he decisively chose to give up on close-range combat.

"In that case, I'll get serious now. My biggest specialty is slashing, so it doesn't matter how strong your body is. As long as you aren't as immovable as god rule powerhouses, there's a chance I'll cleave you in half. "

"Bring it on. I wanna see just how strong your slashes can be!"

Lin Huang gripped the long sword in his hand and grew ever more serious.

The well-built man swung his sword, and a crescent-shaped golden light sprayed out of the blade, slashing toward Lin Huang.

That sword gleam was unbelievably fast, reaching Lin Huang in almost an instant.

"That's so fast!"

Lin Huang's pupils dilated somewhat. With just one slash, his opponent proved that he could walk the talk.

However, Lin Huang was not slow to react either. He held his sword and leaped up, swinging it once as well and slashing forth a blood-colored sword gleam.

Just as the golden crescent was about to slash Lin Huang's body, the blood-red sword gleam surged forth.

The golden and red crescents crashed into each other.

After a loud crash, the two crescents fell apart at almost the same time.

Lin Huang's body was sent flying several dozen meters as well.

As soon as he moved, however, almost a hundred golden crescents came raining down toward him violently.

Some of these slashes were fast while others were slow. Some came straight at him while others curved and flew at Lin Huang from different angles, surrounding him completely.

"You're not too bad!"

Lin Huang was quite pleasantly surprised, his eyes shining even brighter when he saw what his opponent could do.

He swung his long blade again and again, and suddenly it looked like his sword had split into countless shadows, flying toward the golden slashes.

Each shadow easily destroyed one of the slashing sword gleams.

When he saw what Lin Huang was doing, the well-built man was not surprised in the slightest. He held the battle sword with both his hands, staring unblinkingly at the direction Lin Huang was in.

The moment Lin Huang destroyed the final sword gleam, his body instantly disappeared from the spot.

In the air, there was a gigantic golden sword gleam that slowly approached Lin Huang's direction like the coastal line.

Lin Huang could clearly feel that this move had locked onto him. No matter how he tried to dodge, that sword gleam would come right at him and slash him in half at the waist.

The opponent had clearly used his strongest move.

Since he could not evade it, Lin Huang could not be bothered to try.

His wrist twisted abruptly and he bent his arm, holding his sword. When the horizontal sword gleam arrived before him, he finally thrust his sword forth.

The blood-colored sword tip gathered a little red light from the sky and crashed into the golden string.

The next instant, the tidal wave of golden strings simply snapped and fell apart.

At the same time, at the exact spot Lin Huang had pierced with the tip of his sword, a grey figure was forced out and sent flying with the force of that stab.

"Your slash is very powerful. You've almost completely merged with your blade to unleash the ultimate slash, but the largest flaw of this slash is your own body. I just need to attack you, and your slash will amount to nothing."

Lin Huang watched as his opponent crashed into the ground. Instead of giving chase, he simply looked in the direction of the well-built man's fall from way up high.

"Your slash is most advantageous as a mid-close-range attack, and not for fighting at close range. Otherwise, your slash would not be worth it. Don't try to pit your weakness against my strength. You'll only lose horribly like that."

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Chapter 1300: Level-6, Complete!

Thousands and millions of crescent-shaped golden sword gleams attacked from multiple angles and speeds within the void. They assailed Lin Huang menacingly like a storm blown towards him by a raging wind.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of Lin Huang's shadow copies appeared. The long sword in his hand, flashing with the glint of thousands and millions of shadow blades, attacked each crescent-shaped golden sword gleam. Not a single one was left out.

He had not used an avatar skill; the sword mark space did not allow him to use any skills other than Sword Dao. He had relied on extreme agility in speed and a swift blade to create this terrifying effect of shadow copies.

There was a bitter taste in the strong man's mouth as he watched each and every one of his numerous sword gleams being effortlessly countered by Lin Huang.

He knew he had lost.

This battle had been going on for more than ten hours. He had used almost all of his tactics; even the Ten Thousand Blades, the strongest of his techniques, had been utilized many times. He had managed to hurt Lin Huang the first time, but after that, his subsequent attacks barely brushed even the hem of his opponent's garments.

Lin Huang hardly bothered to dodge the attacks. Instead, he swung his sword over and over to eliminate all the assaults directed at him.

"It's been fun battling with you!"

The golden sword gleams disappeared and Lin Huang stood tall and proud in the void. "I'll repay the favor with the sword technique I just acquired."

Lin Huang swung his sword forcefully with his right hand as he spoke.

The next moment, thousands of sword gleams blossomed from the swing, like a sudden explosion of brightly-colored fireworks.

Each sword gleam followed a different path at different speeds, all in myriad different forms.

Some rained down like meteor showers, some were like flashes of electricity, some were magnificent arcs of light, while some were just like monstrous waves…

Every sword gleam had a different form and substance, but they were obviously a level up from the single cut of Ten Thousand Blades which the strong man had demonstrated.

The strong man's eyes gleamed with fascination as he watched.

"Can one really be at this level before attaining Sword Dao true meaning…"

The next moment, those thousands of sword gleams swept toward the strong man at varying speeds and angles, engulfing him completely.

"You've gone the wrong way on your Sword Dao journey. Slashes should be about quality, not quantity. You produced millions of sword gleams, but none of them was equal in power to my one hundred sword gleams."

Lin Huang said this slowly while watching the strong man vanish into the sword gleams. There was no knowing if his opponent had even heard them.

"The participant has passed the first Deity checkpoint!"

His consciousness returned from the sword mark space. Barely a second had passed in the Swordfiend Abyss, but Lin Huang had used around half an hour to completely absorb what he had obtained from this battle.

When he opened his eyes, Lin Huang could feel the Sword Dao in him level up, albeit very faintly.

"As expected, the upgrade from a Level-6 opponent can't compare with the previous one—just one battle and I could feel my Sword Dao level up. Based on this estimation, my Sword Dao will be able to fully attain Level-6 after twenty to thirty battles."

After absorbing all that he had gotten from the first battle, Lin Huang lifted his head once more to look at the remaining 120 sword marks. He quickly chose one of the marks and reached out to it with his Divine Telekinesis.

Lin Huang's second opponent was a strong, vicious sword cultivator proficient in melee attacks. He was also a naturally physically dominant Protoss. Even in human form, he was more than three meters tall.

Most Protoss like him would normally choose to cultivate combat skills, but this fellow had chosen to cultivate sword skills instead. Given his dominant physique, battling him would be like fighting a demon.

It took Lin Huang nearly 15 hours to finally slaughter this opponent as the Protoss' physical abilities were equal to his own.

After this battle, Lin Huang spent another half an hour to absorb what he had gained—some melee tactics that were previously unknown to him.

Practically none of his subsequent battles were easily won.

Almost every match lasted more than ten hours, with a few that went on for more than twenty hours even.

Before attaining Level-6, Lin Huang had purposely allowed his opponents to show off their skills first. Once he had attained Level-6 however, Lin Huang's opponents were powerful enough to go up against him for more than 10 hours, and it was no longer a case of him purposely buying time by allowing his opponents to flaunt their abilities. He even faced some opponents whose Sword Dao was equal to his own. If he did not strategize his fights, it would have been difficult for him to slay his enemies.

As each battle came and went, Lin Huang learned many Sword Dao techniques that were useful in combat. His Sword Dao was in a continuous state of advancement as well.

After his 23rd battle, Lin Huang's Sword Dao finally fully attained Level-6. At this point, his Sword Dao was already at its limits. If he continued to break through, he would attain Sword Dao true meaning.

When he sensed that his Sword Dao had reached its fullness, Lin Huang closed his eyes and sat where he was. He used more than three hours to connect to the Sword Dao's ultimate level before getting up to start the next battle.

Lin Huang was more at ease in his subsequent battles, although each match within the sword mark space still took him no less than ten hours.

Even though his Sword Dao had achieved fullness at all levels, he still took the time to assimilate and absorb everything obtained from his battles. He had also taken the opportunity to bring out the pseudo-mythical-level and mythical level sword techniques that he had not been able to properly cultivate or practice, and use them in combat.

He kept to his usual habit after each battle, closing his eyes to absorb whatever he obtained.

Even though he had achieved completion in his Sword Dao, Lin Huang could vaguely sense that it had not yet reached a bottleneck in advancement. It was just leveling up gradually in an undetectable manner.

Lin Huang spent about three and a half days to complete all 121 matches within Level-6.

The actual battles within the sword mark space took next to no time to complete. The three and a half days were mainly used to absorb his gains.

At the completion of the last match, a push notification finally appeared in the Swordfiend Abyss.

"The participant has passed Deity levels!"

"Congratulations, you have passed the first stage of the Great Heaven inheritance trials!"

Lin Huang was a little startled at the second notification.

Firstly, this was because the Swordfiend Abyss really had turned out to be the first stage of the Great Heaven inheritance.

Second, he had actually passed the stage without attaining enlightenment in Sword Dao true meaning.

After some careful consideration, he could roughly make a guess at the situation. The standard for passing each stage must have something do with the cultivator's battle grade. He was, after all, only imperial-level. It was almost unheard of for someone of imperial-level to actually achieve Level-6 Sword Dao. However, he had successfully passed all levels within Level-6 despite being imperial-level; small wonder that he had obtained approval from Great Heaven.

The push notification in the Swordfiend Abyss only paused for a moment before more information began scrolling past.

"You may choose to stay within the Swordfiend Abyss to advance to the next checkpoint and take part in the trials for the different levels of Sword Dao true meaning. You may also choose to directly advance to the second stage of the Great Heaven inheritance trials."

"As the participant has passed all the trials of the Swordfiend Abyss, you will gain death immunity if you choose to take part in the trials for the different levels of Sword Dao true meaning. If you are killed within the sword mark space, your consciousness will not die but will be returned to your physical body immediately. After you are killed, you will not be allowed to enter the sword mark space a second time."

"Note: From now on, the participant is only allowed to stay in the Swordfiend Abyss for a maximum of three days. Once the three days are up, you will be immediately sent to the second stage of the Great Heaven inheritance."

"Please make your choice. 1. Directly enter the second stage of the Great Heaven inheritance. 2. Stay in the Swordfiend Abyss."

"If no selection has been made within 10 seconds, the selection will default to No.1."

"10, 9, 8…"

The push notification started a countdown. Lin Huang thought quickly and made a swift decision—he would stay in the Swordfiend Abyss.

"Since I have death immunity, why not take the opportunity to find out just how powerful Sword Dao true meaning is?!"

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Chapter 1301: The Slain Lin Huang

Lin Huang looked up at the side of the cliff and realized he could now sense the first level of Sword Dao true meaning.

Lin Huang could vaguely sense indistinct threats from every one of the sword marks, so different each from the other. Almost every mark emanated an impression that it might be fatal to him.

There were a total of 368 of these sword marks, many more than the Sword Dao within Level-6.

"Is this just the first level of Sword Dao? Nearly every sword mark is emanating death threats."

There were three levels of Martial Dao true meaning, the same as Sword Dao, Blade Dao, and Spear Dao.

The first level: True Martial Level.

Sword Dao true meaning that attained True Martial Level meant that one's Sword Dao technique had achieved an extreme breakthrough. Every sword stroke would be equivalent to the True God's God rule.

The second level: True Meaning Level.

The sword force produced by peak Sword Dao true meaning would be almost unstoppable when the wielder faced cultivators at a lower level of Martial Dao true meaning. Within attack range, it would seem as if the sword were everywhere at once. The magnitude of this was equivalent to the descent of a True God's God Territory; the effect could be doubled if it were unleashed within the True God's God Territory.

The third level: True Self Level.

Only when one's skills, concept, and self were unified would Martial Dao true meaning be fully complete. At this level, Martial Dao true meaning would evolve into Martial Dao true self. In theory, the Martial Dao true self would be immune to most attacks. Only those at the same level of Rule Bending Power or those who had achieved Martial Dao true meaning would be able to hurt those who had achieved Martial Dao true self (any Rule Bending Power below the power of ninth-rank True God would basically be free from harm).

If this were a normal battle, Lin Huang would never even consider touching those sword marks once he sensed the threat coming from them.

However, now that he had death immunity, his consciousness would not be scattered within the sword mark space but would be returned immediately to his physical body. This gave Lin Huang the perfect opportunity, as he had always wanted to explore Sword Dao true meaning.

This was not just a simple opportunity for observation but actual combat, which meant he could directly experience how powerful Sword Dao true meaning could be. There was no way Lin Huang wanted to miss out on this.

His gaze swept the surroundings. He could sense faint emanations from the sword marks. It took Lin Huang quite a while to finally settle on the sword mark he felt was least dangerous. This sword mark had actually been emanating deathly threats all this while, but it was just weaker compared to the others. After making his choice, Lin Huang contacted it with his Divine Telekinesis.

The very next moment, he found himself yet again within the sword mark space.

This time, the background was a green field.

Before his opponent materialized, a Swordfiend Abyss push notification popped up.

"As the participant has already passed the official trial, this round of True Martial Level will not be considered part of the official trial. As the participant has a lower Combat Strength, all battle tactics within normal rules are permissible in order for this trial to be fair. For this round of the checkpoint, all Sword Dao Combat Strength will be decreased to the Nine Rotation destiny-level (Nine Rotation Virtual God-level), and only Sword Dao technique is allowed."

Lin Huang could clearly feel parts of his body unseal the moment this push notification appeared. He sent his consciousness deep within him and realized that not only could he use his Sword Dao techniques, but also all his Monster Skills, Secret Skills, divine abilities, and divine skills. Even his telekinetic power was unsealed.

Aside from being unable to use any of his cards, Lin Huang's ability was released 100%.

Lin Huang also noticed that the sword in his hand had turned into a god battle sword relic. There were even god telekinetic weapon relics hidden in his sleeves.

"Once the participant is slain in this unofficial trial, his consciousness will return to his physical body and the participant will not be able to re-enter the sword mark space he has challenged."

Following the second appearance of the push notification, his opponent's body slowly began to materialize nearby.

Lin Huang immediately began observing his opponent.

It was a girl in green, petite and very skinny. She looked extremely delicate and fragile.

This was Lin Huang's first impression of her; he even doubted whether or not she was a sword cultivator.

However, as her form materialized completely, her Sword Dao manifested itself. Lin Huang could finally sense Sword Dao true meaning emanating from her.

The impression Lin Huang got was that his Sword Dao was nothing but a flowing river facing a vast, unfathomably deep ocean.

The girl in green soon turned her attention to Lin Huang. After a moment of eyeing him up and down, she could not help raising an eyebrow.

"You haven't even attained True Martial Level, and you want to challenge me?"

Lin Huang changed tactics and initiated an attack once the five-second safeguard was up.

His form split into hundreds of scattered shadows and charged at the girl in green from different angles.

A corner of the girl's lips curled up, as if in disdain. Only when Lin Huang's hundreds of scattered shadows reached her did she finally draw her sword. All she did was press her thumb against the hilt of her sword; a green light flashed and dissipated. She only drew out a tenth of her sword before returning it to its sheath.

A circle of green sword gleam glimmered in the space like a water ripple and suddenly spread out in all directions. Lin Huang's true form and his hundreds of scattered shadows were suddenly slowed down.

Before he knew it, each shadow quickly disintegrated and a bloody slash appeared on the neck of Lin Huang's true form.

It was as if Lin Huang could see the dark surface of a lake. A green droplet fell onto the lake's surface and the circle of green ripples slowly spread across it under the moonlight. At the same time, he felt a chilling sensation from his neck, and the next thing he knew, his consciousness had fallen into darkness.

The next second, Lin Huang's consciousness had returned to his physical body within the Swordfiend Abyss.

"Can't you even handle one swing from a sword?!"

Recalling the girl in green's attack, Lin Huang suddenly realized he could not even figure out one sword swing, no, make that one-tenth of her sword swing.

The girl was too fast. The circle of sword gleam might have looked like it was gradually spreading out, but in fact, it was happening at blinding speed.

In fact, Lin Huang had not managed to catch a glimpse of his opponent's sword swing nor the spreading of the sword gleam. It was just his Sword Dao sensing this picture, and that was all.

His body did not react fast enough and he was unable to avoid or deflect the attack. He did not even have the opportunity to face off against his opponent. He could only stand there helpless as he was killed.

"Is this really Sword Dao true meaning?! This is just the first level of the Sword Dao true meaning!" Lin Huang found the experience daunting with the mere memory of that swing of the sword.

He closed his eyes and went into deep thought for quite a while. Still, Lin Huang could not figure out any method of blocking that sword swing.

As far as the speed of his sword swing and his movements went, he was merely a slow-crawling snail in his opponent's eyes.

What Lin Huang did not know was that this first opponent he had faced was a wind attribute sword cultivator with exceptional sword speed.

He closed his eyes and ruminated for another ten minutes, but he still could not figure out any way to break down her method. For now, he was forced to let it lie temporarily, and he turned once again toward the wall of the cliff.

His gaze swept across the wall. The sword mark he had previously chosen no longer emanated any signals. He could only sense 367 sword marks, compared to the previous 368.

"I only have three days here. If I want to explore all the Sword Dao within True Martial level, I would only have less than 12 minutes for each battle to reference and observe. I won't be able to crack any of the sword fighting methods in such a short time and it won't help my Sword Dao to achieve any upgrades. I can't waste any time. I need to focus my observations on a battle that would really help me level up my Sword Dao!"

After spending some time doing a bit of simple planning, Lin Huang quickly chose his second sword mark and used his Divine Telekinesis to make the connection.

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Chapter 1302: Celestial Guest

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lin Huang's opponent in the second sword mark space was a man with a cold look on his face.

This man had noticed that Lin Huang was nowhere near approaching the level of Sword Dao true meaning. When the five-second safeguard was up, the man did not even bother to draw his sword. All he did was raise his sheathed weapon expressionlessly and step back slightly within the space.

Lin Huang thought he saw a snow-white sword gleam flare like a lone star in the night sky. The next moment, his brain exploded and all was left on the ground was a headless corpse.

When his consciousness returned to his physical body, Lin Huang closed his eyes and tried to recall the entire battle.

After taking a few minutes to mentally replay the battle over ten times, Lin Huang realized that he could not have avoided that sword slash. No matter how he tried to dodge it or deflect it, the sword always ended up at his head.

"I knew it. Sword Dao true meaning and Sword Dao are just worlds apart." Lin Huang slowly opened his eyes.

Even though he was slain in an instant in both matches, he did not feel defeated at all. Instead, it gave him much more to think about.

"Attacks with Sword Dao true meaning have the same Rule Bending Power as god rule. If I don't master the same rule at the same level of power, it makes sense that I wouldn't be able to defend against it. I wouldn't be able to do much just by using Sword Dao or other skills."

"I've earned the moniker of Godslayer though, and I do have the God-slaying Power within me, which is also considered a type of God Rule Power. If I can better utilize this power, it should be enough to go up against Sword Dao true meaning."

Lin Huang had obtained this God-slaying Power when he had slain the projection of the God Bless organization's Master God. He had not had the opportunity to use this power since then.

"I'll set a short-term goal for myself. For subsequent trials, I'll do everything I can to use my God-slaying Power to counter Sword Dao true meaning!"

Lin Huang closed his eyes to sense the God-slaying Power within him and tried to make adjustments to it. He was delighted to find that the power was usable and took another few minutes to familiarize himself with it. It was only when he could command it with ease that Lin Huang looked up again towards the cliff.

Lin Huang once again reached out with his Divine Telekinesis after choosing his third sword mark.

When he got into the sword mark space, Lin Huang started adjusting his God-slaying power. He did not even have time to check out what his opponent looked like.

After the five-second safeguard was up, the battle sword in Lin Huang's hand was charged with God-slaying Power. He attacked in a flash.

The very next moment, a sword gleam flashed from the sky with blinding speed and sliced Lin Huang in half at the waist.

He was still slain within seconds in his third battle despite using God-slaying Power.

Lin Huang was slightly speechless when his consciousness returned to his body. This time, his opponent did not even bother to give him a chance.

However, Lin Huang refused to admit defeat. He simulated the third battle in his mind numerous times, trying to figure out different strategies to fight back.

When the fourth battle began, Lin Huang chose to attack from a distance using God-slaying Power.

Before Lin Huang's attack could even touch his opponent however, Lin Huang was sliced in half vertically from the head down. His opponent, being of an obsessive-compulsive nature, had cut him into two perfect halves.

Lin Huang became bolder and bolder in his subsequent battles. After every battle, he still took the effort to strategize for his next fight, but he kept being slain immediately the moment he initiated an attack.

Lin Huang was completely overpowered by his opponents in terms of speed, agility, reflexes, and battle consciousness…

Even though his God-slaying Power was no less powerful than Sword Dao true meaning, he could barely even touch the hem of his opponents' garments.

More than 50 battles continued in this manner. Lin Huang was slain almost immediately in different ways over 50 times.

On his 58th match, Lin Huang was adjusting his God-slaying Power when he sensed a frightening aura coming from opposite him.

The aura emanated from a red-haired man. The bloodlust emanating from him was so intense it was almost tangible. He just stood where he was, his aura like a limitless sea of blood that might break into monstrous waves and crush Lin Huang at any moment.

"This man has a terrifying aura, and his sword force, however indistinct, is already materializing. I'm worried he's already halfway to attaining True Meaning Level." Lin Huang's eyes revealed his fear and hesitation. This red-haired fellow might be the strongest opponent he had ever faced in his life. He probably did not even need to use his sword force—just a look and he could slay Lin Huang easily.

When the red-haired man's physical body was fully materialized, he kept his eyes closed, as if he had not noticed Lin Huang at all.

Even after the five-second safeguard was up, it seemed he had no intention of opening his eyes.

Lin Huang did not hesitate and initiated an attack despite his opponent's arrogance.

God-slaying Power engulfed his sword and the blood-red sword gleam cleaved the air apart as it slashed straight toward its target.

The sword gleam had enough force to slay a True God, but it suddenly melted from the red-haired man's sight at a distance of not more than ten meters.

Yes, it did not vanish but melted like snow instantly.

"Hmm?"

The red-haired man, whose eyes were still closed, seemed to sense something. He suddenly opened his eyes and looked toward the place where the sword gleam had been.

"God-slaying Power?"

He finally lifted his gaze in Lin Huang's direction.

Lin Huang did not hesitate at all as he swung his sword again. Thousands of sword gleams flew through the air towards the red-haired man.

Just like the first sword gleam, all of the sword gleams completely melted the moment they came into a particular area in front of the man, just like snow that could never go near the sun.

"Little brat, that isn't how you use God-slaying Power," the red-haired man said unexpectedly to Lin Huang instead of launching a counterattack.

Lin Huang immediately halted his attack and sheathed his sword when he heard those words.

"Senior, you know about God-slaying Power?"

"Of course, I've crossed boundaries and slain Heavenly Gods," the red-haired man said, extending his left hand. Red energy glowed in the middle of his palm and swiftly condensed into a little red bead.

A terrifying aura filled the entire sword mark space.

This was God-slaying Power, but immensely stronger than what Lin Huang possessed. It was on a different level from the God-slaying Power within Lin Huang, almost like comparing a firefly with the bright moon.

"Senior, you have the God-slaying Power as well! How do I utilize it?" Lin Huang quickly asked for pointers as he realized that his opponent meant to provide guidance.

"At the end of the day, the God-slaying Power is a type of God Rule Power. Even though it can be considered distinctive, in fact, it's not too different from other god rules in terms of basics. Do you know what's the difference between God Rule Power and Divine Power?" the red-haired man said slowly.

"God Rule Power can only be utilized only after a true god is enlightened about god rule. That's what I heard about it, but I don't really understand what that means. I don't even know the difference in basic qualities between God Rule Power and Divine Power," Lin Huang answered honestly.

"You said yourself that God Rule Power is a type of Rule Bending Power. What's so difficult to understand about that?" The red-haired man waved his left hand as he finished speaking.

Above his head, his sword force gathered like dark clouds, shifting suddenly. Lightning the color of blood flashed within the clouds; a moment later, bloody rain poured from the skies, which then turned into snowflakes that slowly drifted down…

In a few short moments, there were multiple transformations.

"Rule Bending Power means that lightning will flash if I want it to flash. It will rain if I want it to rain, and it will snow when I want it to snow…my will is the rule." The red-haired man looked at Lin Huang after he finished speaking, and continued, "Wherever my will is, that's where the rule will take effect. No matter how agile one is, or how quick their sword, they will never be faster than my will. This is the root of all power possessed by those on the god-order level."

"My will is the rule…where the will is, that's where the rule will take effect…" Lin Huang mumbled this repeatedly. What the red-haired man said had finally allowed him to understand the meaning of god rule.

"But what should I do to achieve this?" Lin Huang could not help asking.

"Think about it. Why are those at god-order level (True God) able to control the power of god rule with mere willpower?" The red-haired man did not answer Lin Huang's question but countered it with another question.

"Is it because their willpower and god rule have been integrated into one?" Lin Huang answered uncertainly after giving it some thought. He could not think of any other answers.

"You're not that dumb after all," the red-haired man nodded slightly.

"If that's the case, the right way to use this would be to integrate my willpower with the God-slaying Power?" Lin Huang continued with his questions.

"You're showing promise!" The red-haired man broke into a rare smile.

"Allow me to add on a little. Sword Dao true meaning is basically a god rule of Sword Dao."

"This means I just need to fuse my willpower with Sword Dao to achieve a breakthrough to True Meaning Level!" Lin Huang had not expected his opponent to hand him two such generous gifts.

"Thank you for your pointers!" Lin Huang kowtowed to his opponent respectfully.

The red-haired man nodded slightly, "I've already taught you this in theory. Now, let me conduct a practical session with you."

Lin Huang was elated to hear this.

His previous opponents had been too powerful and had not bothered to use him to practice, slaying him the moment he attacked. Now that the red-haired man had offered to practice with him, it was a great opportunity for him to level up.

Lin Huang did not hold back at all, directing wave after wave of attacks toward his opponent.

The red-haired man reduced his menacing aura and held back his abilities in order to show Lin Huang some moves.

He even took the trouble to use sword skills that Lin Huang had been utilizing. This helped Lin Huang to discover his shortcomings by observing how his opponent used those same moves.

With every swing of his sword, Lin Huang was slowly able to improve his control over the God-slaying Power.

It was not just flowing with and utilizing the God-slaying power on the surface, but a deeper level of control over his will. His God-slaying Power slowly began to display its terrifying capabilities.

Level-6 Sword Dao was a Deity level. He had already integrated with his Sword Dao to a certain point, but was still quite a way from achieving a breakthrough.

This round of battle had greatly enhanced that fusion.

Red Hair practiced with him for three full days and three nights.

Lin Huang only set his sword aside when the time limit within the sword mark space had expired and Red Hair's body started to slowly dissipate.

"Senior, can I know your name?" Lin Huang could not help asking right before Red Hair disappeared.

"My name is Celestial Guest. What's your name, little brat?" Red Hair told Lin Huang his name and asked for his in return.

"I'm Lin Huang," Lin Huang replied, giving his real name.

"Lin Huang, remember what I've taught you and claim the inheritance of that old fool, Great Heaven! Even if I won't have the chance to see it happening, I'll still be very happy about it! Hahahaha…" Celestial Guest slowly vanished while still laughing robustly.

With that, Lin Huang's consciousness was pushed out by the sword mark and he returned to his physical body once again.

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