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 1375: Returning To The Great World

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God Territory, Blood Sickle Shelter, Death Sickle headquarters.

A white-haired young man sat in the main seat of the conference room, brows tightly knit. He had preserved an attitude of silence for a while.

Three people including Fallen Star stood before the conference table; they did not dare make a sound.

The three of them had just returned from the Great Heaven Territory, bringing with them the news that Lin Huang had failed to return from there.

"I think that Boss Xie Lin might not necessarily have died in the Great Heaven Territory. He may be still participating in the Great Heaven Trial, so he might not be teleported out at the same time as us." Destiny was Lin Huang's die-hard fan. He firmly believed that Xie Lin would not just die like that. Seeing that the young man sitting in the main seat had not spoken for a long time, he mustered up his courage and spoke his mind.

The white-haired young man looked up and glanced at the three people. "Alright. The three of you may go back first. I know everything that I need to know."

"Yes, Sir Buried Heaven!" The three of them responded and quickly left one after the other.

Buried Heaven did not leave the conference room but looked down at a name in his address book—Xie Lin.

"He initiated the Competitive Trial, defeated the joint forces of Unrivaled God and a few others, took first place in the Trial, obtained the Trial qualifications for the Great Heaven inheritance that no one has activated for more than 300,000 years… You, someone who's produced miracles time and time again, would you really die just like that in the Great Heaven Territory?"

Buried Heaven was not certain whether he was murmuring to himself or Lin Huang.

Half a month passed by quickly.

Everyone in Death Sickle had no doubts that Xie Lin had died in the Great Heaven Territory.

Even Destiny, who had always believed that Lin Huang had not died, no longer brought up the "Xie Lin might still be participating in the Inheritance Trial" excuse.

Buried Heaven, who had his suspicions about whether Lin Huang was still alive or not, also did not hold out any hopes for Xie Lin's survival.

However, early in the morning of this particular day, Buried Heaven was having a meeting with several Gold Sickles when he suddenly received a message from a strange number.

"Iron Fist Shelter, 120 meters from the entrance of the Death Sickle branch, storage cabinet 0613, password 9527. Something that you want is in it."

Buried Heaven just glanced at it briefly, and then his gaze immediately seemed to be glued to the message.

Although this message was not signed and was from an unfamiliar number, Buried Heaven noticed the words "Iron Fist Shelter" immediately.

That was the shelter where Xie Lin accepted the mission involving the Bug Tribe Queen Mother!

In Buried Heaven's mind, his first instinct was that this had been sent by Lin Huang.

This was because not many people had his personal number, aside from a few Blood Sickles and a few Gold Sickles with whom he had good relations, as well as a handful of extremely outstanding juniors such as Xie Lin and Fallen Star.

"The rest of you carry on; I have to deal with something that came up last minute." After he had confirmed that the sender of the message was most probably Xie Lin, Buried Heaven acknowledged the several Gold Sickles that were present before standing up immediately. He summoned a small green snake and teleported away.

In the meeting room, the several Gold Sickles present looked at each other.

This was the first time they had seen Buried Heaven leaving half-way through a meeting.

After a few minutes, Buried Heaven appeared at the front door of the Iron Fist Shelter's Death Sickle branch.

He glanced around and quickly located a locker not very far away.

In a flash, he appeared in front of the locker, his gaze swiftly identifying locker 0613.

Without hesitation, he entered the password provided in the short message.

Once the password was entered, he heard a click and the locker door sprang open automatically.

Inside was a small palm-sized package.

Buried Heaven reached in to retrieve the package, opening it on the spot.

Inside was a small thumb-sized sheet of metal. When he saw the object, Buried Heaven's eyes lit up suddenly.

"You're still alive!"

He had given Lin Huang this piece of metal before the Great Heaven Territory opened. It was meant for recording information about the inheritance.

Buried Heaven stowed the sheet of metal in his storage space. Without hesitation, he summoned the green snake again and disappeared on the spot.

When he reappeared, he had already returned to the Death Sickle headquarters.

Instead of going back to the conference room, however, he went directly to his palace.

Buried Heaven made sure the gates of the god sequence relic palace were securely fastened and all the multiple layers of locks were fully disarmed. Only then did he take out the sheet of black metal he had retrieved earlier and carefully enter Divine Telekinesis into it.

After a brief moment where his eyes were dazzled, he found himself in an unfamiliar starry sky.

He saw an imposing man wielding a sword in one hand. With just one effortless swing of the man's blade, before Buried Heaven's very eyes, the entire galaxy and its myriad stars shook violently.

An instant later, the entire galaxy fractured and disintegrated into two halves, as if someone had sliced a sheet of white paper in half with a sword

Buried Heaven looked down at himself; somehow—he did not know when—he had been sliced apart at the waist without realizing it. As soon as the world went dark in front of his eyes, his consciousness returned to his body.

When his consciousness returned, he was soaked through with cold sweat, gasping laboredly for breath.

"Can this really be achieved at heavenly god-level?!"

Even though Buried Heaven knew that Great Heaven—an unprecedented genius who dominated an entire era—would be stronger than him, he never expected the gap in their abilities to be so astoundingly great.

If he had really encountered Great Heaven, he would have been killed instantly!

Buried Heaven gave a helpless, bitter smile.

Just a casual sweep of the other's blade had rendered him completely defenseless.

It took him quite a while before he calmed down from the shock of the attack earlier.

"You're even able to take over the inheritance of a fellow like this—what kind of monster are you, Xie Lin?"

Lin Huang had long since departed the Iron Fist Shelter.

To avoid being remembered, he had stayed in the Great Heaven Territory for more than half a month and had only just arrived a day ago in the God Territory with 68 Sword Servants.

Since the identity of Xie Lin could no longer be used, he wore the Thousand Face mask and altered his face again for this visit.

He went to the Iron Fist Shelter first thing while the Sword Servants scattered and hid in the other grade-3 or grade-4 Shelters around the Iron Fist Shelter.

Lin Huang contacted Yang Ling once more the minute he arrived at the Iron Fist Shelter. This time he was making a large order—not only did he need to create a new identity for himself, but he also had to create a fake identity for each of the 68 Sword Servants.

Yang Ling was speechless at suddenly receiving such a big order.

After resting in the Iron Fist Shelter for a night, Lin Huang took Sword301 and Sword302 to a grade-4 Shelter and prepared to carry out the next phase of the plan.

Including his time in the Great Heaven Territory, he had been away from the gravel world for almost half a year. Improving his abilities was becoming a much more pressing matter.

Lin Huang's combat strength had been stagnant at grade-9 Imperial-level; he did not feel that he had reached the critical point even after so long.

Initially, he had no idea what to do. However, after accepting the Great Heaven inheritance, Lin Huang had finally found a solution to the problem.

It was not that Great Heaven's inheritance memories contained a similar situation; it was the way Great Heaven dealt with problems that allowed Lin Huang to find an answer.

Since he had not arrived at the critical point for a breakthrough after so long, he would continue to refine more Godheads until the critical point could be sensed!

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Chapter 1376: The Mysterious Club

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Three days later, Lin Huang got a brand-new fake identity.

He was not the only one; all the 68 Sword Servants also had new identities in the God Territory.

Since the Sword Servants had long since exhausted their various cultivation resources, Lin Huang let them register as reserve members at different branches of Death Sickle.

The main reason for him choosing Death Sickle was that among the major organizations, they were the most accommodating and had the least rules. As far as generosity in promotion channels and resource rewards went, they were also one of the top choices.

Another important reason was that the secret zones and ruins in the great world with slightly more abundant resources were basically all occupied by major organizations. There were also many high-level secret zones and ruins that were jointly monopolized by the top organizations.

If they did not join any of the organizations and ran about the great world as independent adventurers instead, Lin Huang and the Sword Servants would not be eligible to enter 90% of the secret zones and ruins.

Once they had joined an organization, they would also be eligible to participate in its internal transactions. If they wanted to buy something, the price would be much cheaper compared to the prices in the black market.

It was precisely for these reasons that the first formal command Lin Huang gave to the numerous Sword Servants was to join Death Sickle and obtain as many resources as possible without exposing their true abilities.

After all, if a lot of virtual god-level newcomers appeared whose strength was comparable to Unrivaled God, it would surely attract the attention of Death Sickle's upper levels.

As for how to keep their true abilities hidden, Lin Huang advised them not to accept tasks that were too difficult.

As for Lin Huang himself, he had not been idle for these three days. He had collected a lot of information about secret zones and ruins.

Apart from preparing for his hunt for Godheads, he was also preparing to hunt for True Gods after his elevation to virtual god-level.

Three days passed by. Lin Huang's new identity was named Huang Lin, which was a homophonic of his name in reverse.

However, less than three minutes after he put on his new identity ring, a message prompt suddenly sounded.

Lin Huang had not had the time to enter the number of any of his contacts. Nobody except Yang Ling could possibly know this new identity's number.

Thinking that the message might have been sent by Yang Ling, Lin Huang quickly opened the message to check it.

However, one glance at the message contents and his eyebrows knit together in a frown.

"Congratulations on your success in obtaining the Great Heaven inheritance. By the way, how are you doing with the two missions in Great Heaven Territory?"

The message came from a sender named "The Club".

Looking at the message, Lin Huang's first reaction was that his fake identity had been betrayed by Yang Ling. Yang Ling was likely to be a member of the Club.

However, when Lin Huang thought about it carefully, Yang Ling was considered his friend. Based on his character, if he were really a member of the Club, Yang Ling would have at least greeted Lin Huang if he wanted to reveal his identity.

After a moment of thought, Lin Huang sent a message to Yang Ling.

"Do you know about the Club?"

After a moment, Yang Ling replied within seconds.

"Their people contacted me some time ago and invited me to join them, but I refused. Why? They're in contact with you?"

"They just sent a message to my new number. It's been less than three minutes since I put on the communication ring…"

After Lin Huang had sent this message, Yang Ling was quiet for a while. After some time, a video call came through.

Lin Huang noticed that this video call was a little special. It had the words "encrypted communication" written on it in red capital letters.

He pressed the answer button without any hesitation.

In the video call, Yang Ling wore a white shirt on his upper torso, which made him look very neat.

Although he was still thin, his face was a lot more ruddy, and he looked much healthier than when he had been in the gravel world.

"How much do you know about the Club?" Lin Huang asked immediately when Yang Ling appeared on the call.

"I don't have much information about this organization. It should be a fairly new one. I haven't heard of it before. It's highly likely that it was established after I went to the gravel world.

"A few days after I returned to the great world, they approached me and wanted to invite me to join them, but I refused.

"I started investigating them. It took almost a month, but there was not much progress. I only found the bare minimum of information.

"At present, the only thing that I know is that this is an organization formed by various super-geniuses. In this organization, there are not only travelers but also reincarnated beings and reborn beings…"

"Reincarnated beings? The kind in Infinite Worlds-style novels like God Room?" Lin Huang's eyes widened. (TN: "Infinite Worlds" is a genre in which one must experience multiple worlds one after the other in order to achieve a goal. This genre originated with the Chinese web novel "Infinite Horror" which was introduced in 2007. Its popularity triggered a large number of follow-up novels, one of which is "God Room".)

"Something like that." Yang Ling nodded.

"Regenerated beings, as in reincarnation?" Lin Huang asked again.

"Yes." Yang Ling nodded again.

"Do these people truly exist?" Lin Huang had some doubts.

"They do; I used to know several regenerated beings in the past. Being regenerated isn't that difficult in and of itself either. As for reincarnated beings, I've encountered them once. It's just that their God Room has a different name, and its function is more powerful than in the novel."

"There really are reincarnated beings…" Lin Huang had not expected this at all. "I thought that was only something novels made up."

"We can all reasonably exist as travelers; why should their existence be a surprise?" Yang Ling's expression looked as if that made all the sense in the world.

"Well, what you said makes sense," Lin Huang could find no way to refute this statement.

"Even if these people do exist though, how did the Club find them?" Lin Huang wondered about this; he did not really understand how it worked.

"I don't know the specifics, but my guess is that their founder, or one of the founders, has the ability to identify our abilities or our treasures. They may not even need to be in contact with us or see us. As long as we fulfill a specific triggering circumstance they've set, they will be able to discern our identity over a long distance and ignore any disguises."

Yang Ling's speculations caused Lin Huang to fall silent for some time.

He thought about it for a while and finally had to admit that Yang Ling's theories were most likely correct.

"As for how they obtained your new number, I suspect it may also be related to their ability to identify us," Yang Ling continued, "I would never disclose any of my customers' information. You ought to be very clear about this by now.

"That's all the information I've managed to find on the Club. I wasn't able to achieve a breakthrough in the follow-up investigation later—plus, I had things that needed to get done so I didn't continue wasting further time on it," Yang Ling explained, spreading out his hands.

Lin Huang was silent for a moment. He was wondering whether or not to tell Yang Ling that he had joined the Club, but in the end, he decided to keep that information to himself.

After he ended the call with Yang Ling, Lin Huang stared at the strange number on the communication page for some time before he replied to the message.

"I've retrieved the scabbard of the Heavenly Sword. But I'd like to know—what do you intend to do with it?"

Lin Huang did not deny that he found the child named "Jin Wu"; he simply did not mention it at all

"If we can repair it, then we'll repair it. If we can't repair it, we will absorb it," the other party replied within seconds. They did not seem to treat this as a secret.

Upon seeing this answer, Lin Huang knit his brows together in a frown. They sounded a bit like the Raiders.

"I have another question. What is the relationship between the Club and the Raiders?" Lin Huang asked directly.

After this message was sent, it took about three or four seconds before the other party replied.

"In a nutshell, it can be considered a hostile relationship."

At this reply, Lin Huang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

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Chapter 1377: Transaction

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The enemy of the enemy was considered a friend. After ascertaining the relationship between the Club and the Raiders, Lin Huang decided to trade the Heavenly Sword's scabbard with the Club.

The scabbard had been completely destroyed. Yin Yin had also said that it was already of no use to her and Lin Huang was free to dispose of it at will.

For Lin Huang, this object served only two purposes—it could be traded or Xiao Hei could absorb it as material.

Considering the degree of damage to the scabbard, even if it were given to Xiao Hei to absorb, it would not make much of a difference.

Therefore, the course of action which would yield the most benefits was naturally to trade it in at the Club in exchange for other useful resources.

Early the next morning, Lin Huang put on Thousand Face and ate breakfast with his new identity, after which he took Sword301 and Sword302 and appeared in a café.

This kind of coffee shop in the God Territory was quite obviously copied from the human world.

This was a coffee shop in name, but in reality, there were all kinds of drinks, most of them sweet. There were very few who came here for the coffee; most people ordered sweet drinks.

When he heard Lin Huang ordering a cup of black coffee in addition to two cups of sweet drinks, the proprietor looked at him rather oddly. He also specifically made a point of emphasizing to Lin Huang, "Sir, there is no sugar added."

When some of the nearby customers heard this, they could not help glancing at Lin Huang.

Lin Huang and the two Sword Servants sat under an umbrella in the open air for a while. By the time Lin Huang had finished his drink, it was already almost nine o'clock.

A figure suddenly appeared by the table where the three of them sat. "Do you mind if I sit here?"

At the voice, all three people, including Lin Huang, were stunned for a moment. None of them had sensed the other party's approach at all.

Lin Huang immediately looked up at the newcomer. The individual in question was a young man who looked like he was about 27 or 28 years old. He was tall and thin, clad in a black suit and a fedora, and had a dark red walking stick in his right hand.

Lin Huang's senses did not pick up any energy fluctuation emanating from within the man. It was as if this stranger were just an ordinary person.

The expressions of the two Sword Servants were also rather odd as they studied the man in the suit.

One had to be aware that the two Sword Servants had both been heavenly god-level powerhouses previously. Even though their combat strength was now restricted to the level of Virtual God rank-9, if they happened to meet another powerhouse who was also at heavenly god-level, it was not difficult for them to determine their opponent's approximate combat strength even if the other person's aura remained concealed. However, the person standing in front of them was no different from an ordinary person.

Even so, neither Lin Huang nor the two Sword Servants regarded the other party as just an ordinary person.

This stranger had appeared without warning at just the right time and he had requested to sit with them when there was an empty table beside theirs. This confirmed that he was the one they would be conducting this transaction with.

"Please sit down."

After seating himself with a smile, the man in the suit glanced at the two Sword Servants. He took off his hat, revealing a head of short black hair, and smiled at Lin Huang.

"Huang Lin, right? You can call me Solid Ebony."

This was obviously not the other party's real name—however, he had also addressed Lin Huang by the pseudonym he had acquired just recently.

"Hello," Lin Huang nodded and greeted him.

"May I see the condition of the goods first?" After briefly introducing himself, Solid Ebony got straight down to business without any additional small talk.

"Here?" Lin Huang raised an eyebrow and looked at the other party with an odd expression.

Solid Ebony smiled and nodded. "Relax, other people can't see or listen in on what's going on here."

Only after the other party mentioned this did Lin Huang notice that he could no longer sense the aura of the two Sword Servants.

Both of them were sitting next to him at the table, so close that he could have reached out and touched them. However, they seemed to be just two illusory projections.

He sent a mental transmission to the two of them; neither responded.

"What did you do to them?" Lin Huang's brows furrowed slightly.

"I didn't do anything; it's just simple space-time isolation," Solid Ebony finished and added, "We are the ones who are isolated, they are okay. Can we carry out our transaction now, with peace of mind?"

Solid Ebony managing to do this without Lin Huang being aware of it was something completely beyond Lin Huang's comprehension.

However, once he had ascertained how powerful the other was, Lin Huang actually felt relieved.

Without further hesitation, he brought out the scabbard.

When he saw the completely charred and broken scabbard, the expression on Solid Ebony's face finally displayed emotions other than a smile.

Lin Huang recognized the look on the other's face—the man was stunned and speechless.

"It's been destroyed to this extent…" Solid Ebony sighed helplessly.

He only needed a glance to confirm the object was genuine, but the degree of damage was far beyond anything he had expected.

"I can't do anything about that, it was already like this when I got it." Lin Huang shrugged helplessly.

"That raptor really went all in…" Solid Ebony muttered in a low voice.

"Maybe take a closer look?" Lin Huang handed the scabbard over to Solid Ebony. He was not worried that the other would grab it and run off.

Solid Ebony hesitated for a moment, but he did finally take the two broken chunks of carbonized material.

After a careful inspection, he sighed, "It's totally destroyed; it can only be used as material now…"

Putting the scabbard on the table, Solid Ebony looked up at Lin Huang.

"This scabbard definitely can't be repaired, even its spirit has dissipated. Apart from absorbing it as material, I can't think of any further uses for it. What's your selling price?"

"What is Senior willing to pay?" Lin Huang was reluctant to give an initial offer as he had no idea of the current market rates for Goldfingers.

Solid Ebony thought about it for a moment. "You're a newcomer and I wouldn't feel good about taking advantage of you. I'll bear the loss and trade it for a God Weapon."

"A God Weapon?" Lin Huang looked puzzled.

Solid Ebony noticed Lin Huang's uncertainty.

"A God Weapon is a type of tool which possesses the quality of being able to develop alongside its users. If one is a sword cultivator, one could visualize it as a sword. When its sword-form is fully matured and settled, it can sustain the user's power entirely without any losses, operating as an extension of your body like a bone that has grown within you since childhood.

"In addition to this symbiotic nature, the God Weapon also has development potential. It will be affected by the energy intensity within the host's body. When the host body's energy intensity increases, the power of the God Weapon and its sustaining capacity will elevate as well. You can start using it now all the way up to lord-level or even longer, without changing weapons.

"Based on just value alone, a God Weapon is no less powerful than a Dao Weapon used by a Lord."

"What about in terms of price?" Lin Huang brought the discussion back to the main point.

"Uh… It takes a certain amount of time to nurture, so in terms of price, a God Weapon will be cheaper than a Dao Weapon," Solid Ebony froze for a moment, but he answered honestly regardless.

"Apart from ordinary weapons, what else can be visualized? Can a God Weapon be used as armor? How about as a telekinetic weapon?" Lin Huang asked again.

"Battle armor and telekinetic weapons are possible. But if you're thinking about equipment with complex structures such as warships or palaces, then that won't be possible."

"Since this is the case… ten God Weapons," Lin Huang bluntly quoted the price that he wanted.

"This is daylight robbery! You're also a traveler—you should know that even if this scabbard is used as material, it's also only of limited use to a Goldfinger's advancement," Solid Ebony rejected Lin Huang's offer outright, "Three weapons, that's my bottom line!"

"Eight weapons!" Lin Huang negotiated.

"Five. That's the highest price that I'll tolerate!" Solid Ebony amended his highest offer from earlier.

"Six weapons!" Lin Huang negotiated once more.

"Deal!" Solid Ebony slammed his hand on the table happily.

"Huh?" Lin Huang was stunned for a moment at this. "Why do I feel like I'm losing money on this?"

"If I didn't take pity on you because you're a newcomer, no one would barter six God Weapons in exchange for such material," Solid Ebony said brusquely; it was uncertain whether he was happy or figuratively bleeding at the moment.

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Chapter 1378: God Weapon

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"Before the official transaction, please take a look at this information on God Weapons. If you find it acceptable, we will trade. If it's unacceptable to you, I will see if there are any other suitable items for the transaction."

Solid Ebony projected a set of complete information about God Weapons which described in detail their advantages and disadvantages, as well as how to activate them and the skills required to use them.

Lin Huang used Divine Telekinesis and scanned the information. He read through it quickly and finally obtained a general understanding of God Weapons.

Theoretically, as Solid Ebony had mentioned, a God Weapon could indeed be upgraded to a Dao Weapon or an even higher level.

However, this item had a considerable flaw. If it was nurtured under normal circumstances, it would develop very slowly.

However, it had a characteristic that could make up for this defect to some extent.

This was its symbiotic nature.

A God Weapon's symbiotic nature allowed it to develop with its host as if it were part of the host's body. An increase in the host's combat strength would cause the God Weapon to synchronously transform as well.

Therefore, the best time to activate a God Weapon was at virtual god-level. Any earlier would be no use anyway because only Divine Power could activate it.

However, if the host elevated to higher than virtual god-level, then the God Weapon would stay in a restricted state after being activated, losing its ability to synchronously transform. It could only be slowly nurtured within the body until it had fully adapted to the host. Only then would it be fully activated and have its symbiotic nature restored.

The higher the combat strength, the longer the nurturing period for the God Weapon. That was why this sort of item was completely useless for powerhouses at heavenly god-level or lord-level. It was better to earn more money to buy equipment rather than taking the time to nurture a God Weapon.

As for the God Weapon's two advantages—its development potential and the ability to sustain energy within the body without loss—most people ignored them after seeing how long the nurturing period was.

Another reason why many people gave up on God Weapons was that the development of the God Weapon depended entirely on the development of the host.

If the host could not elevate to the level of a Lord, then the God Weapon within them could only be used at heavenly god-level as a god sequence relic. If the host could not even break through to heavenly god-level, then the God Weapon could only be used at true god-level as a god rule relic.

Although the market price for God Weapons was not as high as the Dao Weapons used by Lords, it was still comparable to the most expensive god sequence relics.

Not many people could afford to spend that kind of money, and even if they could, they would still weigh the options on whether it was worth spending such an amount on their juniors at home.

Aside from that, the symbiotic nature of the God Weapon also had a small flaw—bonding.

Once the God Weapon was activated, only the host could use it. It could not be traded or inherited.

Even if one wanted to sell it for resources, unfortunately, it could not be done.

The God Weapon would neither recognize an owner nor accept any energy input other than that of the host. Moreover, it could be recalled by the host anytime, anywhere. Even if the host did not actively recall it, beyond a certain distance, the God Weapon would automatically return to the host's body.

In a nutshell, if one had spent money to buy a God Weapon, it was equivalent to throwing water away. The money spent would never come back.

Even if the host wanted to pass the God Weapon down to their own flesh-and-blood heir after death, that would be impossible because after the host died, the God Weapon would automatically die as well.

After reading through all the advantages and disadvantages, Lin Huang bowed his head and thought about it for only three to five seconds before he made a decision. "Let's trade!"

In his view, the God Weapon's shortcomings would not affect him.

He was very certain that as someone who owned a Goldfinger, it was only a matter of time before he elevated to lord-level.

Therefore, this was the equivalent of pre-ordering several lord-level Dao Weapons in advance.

Moreover, he could activate the God Weapons perfectly on his own without having to spend much time to nurture it. His combat strength had yet to reach virtual god-level, but he had Divine Power within him and could directly activate the God Weapons at any time.

As for the bonding, Lin Huang had no intention of selling equipment with development potential like this. He merely felt some slight regret that it could not be inherited.

"If it were someone else, it would be hard to say, but this transaction is definitely profitable for you," Solid Ebony laughed and said, "You can activate them immediately after bringing it home. You don't need to spend time nurturing them at all. Just let the God Weapons follow you as you advance in combat strength.

"Moreover, you've obtained the Great Heaven inheritance, which is enough to show that you have the qualifications to elevate to lord-level. By then all six God Weapons will have advanced to become Dao Weapons and their value will no longer less than that of a complete Goldfinger."

"Senior, you think too highly of me. Right now I just want to elevate to virtual god-level as soon as possible." Lin Huang smiled modestly.

Being praised by a possible lord-level senior who said that Lin Huang had the potential to advance to lord-level made Lin Huang very happy in his heart, although he also knew that the compliment from the other party was based on the desire to facilitate a transaction.

The two chatted a little more and Solid Ebony finally took out the six God Weapons.

The inactive God Weapons looked like silver liquid metal spheres about as big as a thumb.

The six metal balls were suspended above Solid Ebony's palm, just like six silver drops of water, each quietly and slowly rotating without interfering with the others.

Lin Huang did not waste time in any more niceties and immediately passed the two blackened pieces of carbonized scabbard to Solid Ebony.

Solid Ebony flicked his fingers and the six God Weapon metal spheres lined themselves up in orderly fashion as if they were alive, slowly floating until they were in front of Lin Huang. They formed a circle and began slowly rotating around, using the center point of the circle as an axis.

When Lin Huang reached out to receive the silver metal spheres, both broken pieces of the charred, carbonized scabbard also flew up on their own and into Solid Ebony's hands. He did not check them further but put them away.

Lin Huang checked the God Weapons in his hand and confirmed that there was nothing wrong before putting them away. Solid Ebony waited patiently on one side and said nothing.

After the transaction was completed, the two chatted for a while.

Solid Ebony took the initiative to ask for Lin Huang's contact information.

"Leave me a way to get in touch with you. You can contact me in the future if you have any Goldfingers that you don't want. Also, if you run into any trouble, I can help you if I have the time. It's not free, however; you will have to pay for it."

Lin Huang did not refuse; accumulating more contacts was never a bad thing.

After exchanging contact information, Solid Ebony did not linger on and disappeared immediately after saying goodbye.

Just as Lin Huang watched him vanish, he sensed the auras of the two Sword Servants. Quickly, he looked toward Sword301 and Sword302.

"Lord Swordmaster, what's wrong? Is there something on my face?" Sword302 asked, baffled.

"Just now after the man in the suit arrived, both of you felt nothing out of the ordinary?" Lin Huang asked.

"What man in a suit?" Sword302 looked puzzled.

Beside her, Sword301 also looked puzzled.

"Just now a man in a black suit came over here…" Before Lin Huang finished speaking, he suddenly remembered something and quickly dived into his space storage to check.

After a moment, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Six small silver spheres floated quietly within the space storage.

Fortunately, the God Weapons were not fake…

"A man in a black suit? I didn't see him." Sword301 shook his head.

"Forget about it." Lin Huang waved his hand. Both the Sword Servants' memories of Solid Ebony seemed to have been erased. There was no point in saying anything more.

He glanced at the time, preparing to get up and leave, but he was stunned after seeing what time it was.

"Nine o'clock sharp?!"

He remembered very clearly that his transaction with Solid Ebony took at least 20 minutes, but it was still nine o'clock, fixed at the point in time when he had just met the other man.

That was to say, during the twenty-plus minute transaction between the two of them, there had been no time flow in the outside world, at least for the twenty minutes that Lin Huang had been able to sense.

"Is this the effect of space-time isolation…" Lin Huang suddenly remembered the phrase Solid Ebony had used—"It's just simple space-time isolation… We are the ones who are isolated."

In other words, not only did the two Sword Servants not remember Solid Ebony's arrival, they did not even realize that Lin Huang had been missing for more than twenty minutes.

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Chapter 1379: Senior, You Are Such A Nice Person

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Lin Huang had already thought about how he would distribute the six God Weapons.

One would be molded into a war sword, one into battle armor, and one into a set of telekinetic weapons.

The three remaining weapons he would leave to Lin Xin.

As to how far Lin Xin could nurture the God Weapons, he did not harbor any great expectations. Anyway, these were the three extras that he had. Even if they were only cultivated to the level of god rule relics, he would not be distressed. As long as his own three weapons were nurtured into Dao Weapons, he would have profited considerably from his deal with Solid Ebony.

In the room, Lin Huang took out three God Weapon metal spheres and placed them in front of him.

Activating a God Weapon was actually very simple. The host only needed to infuse it with a certain amount of Divine Power and the weapon would go into a state of semi-activation. It would then tap into the source of Divine Power on its own and actively absorb the Divine Power within the host.

This process usually lasted two or three days.

After the God Weapon had completely absorbed Divine Power to the point of saturation, the host could then begin to mold the God Weapon.

One only had to use one's mind to communicate with the God Weapon to mold it into the required form, which was simpler than molding clay figures.

Molding clay figurines still required the use of one's hands; molding a God Weapon only required mental communication for it to transform into whatever its host wanted.

Only after successful molding would the God Weapon be considered as having become an actual concrete object.

Once the God Weapon possessed a concrete form, the final step was to establish a deep connection between itself and the host.

The host needed to give certain authorizations to the God Weapon so that the host and the God Weapon could be linked in divine ability, divine skills, and other skillsets.

For example, after a sword cultivator obtained a God Weapon in the form of a sword, they would link their God Weapon with their Sword Dao as well as various sword skills along with any Rule Bending Powers related to said skills, with Elemental Enlightenment, and so on.

Lin Huang was clear about this. The first object that he was going to activate was a battle sword.

He took a God Weapon and put it in his palm, quickly beginning to infuse Divine Power into it.

The dark red Divine Power flowed continuously into the silver metal sphere in Lin Huang's palm, connected to the sphere by hundreds upon thousands of gaseous strands.

This process lasted for less than three minutes and the silver metal sphere gradually became the same dark red as the Divine Power within Lin Huang's body.

The moment the color of the metal sphere became the same color as Lin Huang's infusion of Divine Power, the God Weapon suddenly lifted away from Lin Huang's palm, turned into a dark red stream of light, and flowed into Lin Huang's chest.

Lin Huang immediately sent his consciousness into his body. He wanted to see what happened during the process of God Weapon activation.

After the dark red stream of light entered Lin Huang's body, it quickly made its way into the Imperial Palace of his inner world.

After it flew around the Imperial Palace, it collided with one of the Life Wheels.

Lin Huang waited for a while and realized that the aura of the God Weapon was becoming weaker and weaker until finally, it became still.

The whole process took only ten seconds.

"What's going on? Why has it suddenly gone inert? Shouldn't it be automatically absorbing Divine Power like crazy?"

The situation happening within Lin Huang's body was obviously different from what had been described in the information he had been given.

If it were not for the fact that he could sense the God Weapon was still there, Lin Huang would have wondered if the Divine Fire in the Life Wheel had burned it up.

After he had waited for a while and confirmed that the God Weapon had become inert, Lin Huang had no choice but to withdraw his consciousness from his inner world.

"What happened? Did I make a mistake?"

With this uncertainty in mind, Lin Huang picked up the second God Weapon metal sphere.

He was going to try again.

This time, he was even more careful.

He became very cautious about even the infusion of Divine Power. After a few minutes, the second metal sphere also turned into a dark red stream of light and went straight into his inner world.

Then… it also picked a Life Wheel and burrowed into it.

After a while, exactly like the previous one, all movement ceased.

Lin Huang was speechless.

"Did Solid Ebony sell me fake goods?!"

He was beginning to suspect that there was a problem with the God Weapons that Solid Ebony had sold to him.

With this skeptical attitude, he decided to try one last time.

After confirming once again that he had done nothing wrong in the previous two steps, Lin Huang picked up the third God Weapon metal sphere.

He repeated the same steps and did exactly what he did before.

After a while, he still got the same results.

The third metal ball also went inert in the third Life Wheel.

After he failed to activate the God Weapons three times in a row, Lin Huang could not help but send a message to Solid Ebony.

"Senior Solid Ebony, I just tried to activate the God Weapons. I tried three times and failed."

As soon as he sent his message, Solid Ebony sent through a video call request.

After the call connected, Solid Ebony said immediately, "Logically speaking, at your level of combat strength, it's impossible for the God Weapons not to activate. Tell me about your activation process in detail and let me see if I can identify what the problem is."

"I infused Divine Power into the God Weapon and in about three minutes or so, it automatically went into my body as a stream of light. After that…" Lin Huang described the whole process in detail.

"There's no problem in the initial stages, it's normal for God Weapons to enter Life Wheels. After all, your Life Wheel is the source of the Divine Power within the body. But based on what you've described, the state of the God Weapon after it entered the Life Wheel is actually its restricted state."

"This sort of stillness means it's in a restricted state?" Upon hearing what Solid Ebony had to say, Lin Huang suddenly realized something.

"The information says that if the host's combat strength is at true god-level or above true god-level, the God Weapon will be restricted. If there's Divine Fire within the body, does that mean activation won't work either?"

"Of course it won't work. If there is Divine Fire in your body, then the Divine Power in your body will naturally be filtered by the Divine Fire. It is different from the Divine Power of a Virtual God.

"This is given in the information because when ordinary people ignite Divine Fire, their combat strength will naturally elevate to true god-level. The person who wrote the material may not have expected a situation in which someone has ignited Divine Fire but has not yet elevated to true god-level.

"To be precise, the God Weapon cannot directly detect the level of the host's combat strength. It senses this through the progress of energy within the host's body.

"Regardless of whether it is rank-1 or rank-9, as long as there is no Divine Fire within the body, the Divine Power of a Virtual God will not be filtered and transformed by the Divine Fire. It is classified as the most basic Divine Power. The primitive form of a God Weapon can only directly absorb this sort of basic Divine Power. If we classify it according to Divine Power ranking, this basic Divine Power is also known as primary Divine Power.

"After being filtered by the Divine Fire within a True God's body, however, the Divine Power undergoes a fundamental change. According to Divine Power ranking, it is classified as a mid-level Divine Power. Although you are not a True God, you have Divine Fire in your body which also filters your Divine Power. This means that your Divine Power is also mid-level Divine Power.

"Divine Power that is mid-level and above cannot directly be absorbed by the God Weapon."

"So for now I can only nurture my God Weapons and wait for them to adapt to the mid-level Divine Power within my body?" Lin Huang looked helpless. He had not expected that he would make such a mistake. He had initially quite happily thought that he could directly activate the God Weapons.

"There really is no other way…" Solid Ebony shook his head after a moment. "However, you can ask around the Club—maybe someone's Goldfinger might have the ability to aid in advancing God Weapons, then you can directly elevate your God Weapons to the second stage. If you can find someone who has this ability, I can come forward to help you negotiate the price. After all, I also have a certain responsibility in this matter."

The suggestion that Solid Ebony put forward made Lin Huang's eyes light up.

A single item advancement card could solve his problem.

"Let me compensate you with another God Weapon. Although it was unintentional, I still inadvertently cheated you. But I only have this last one on hand; I don't have any more." After a moment of silence, Solid Ebony took the initiative to offer Lin Huang some compensation.

Lin Huang was stunned when he heard that; he then nodded hurriedly. "Senior, you are such a nice person!"

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Chapter 1380: Come, Let's Go For Supper!

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After he ended his video call with Solid Ebony and confirmed that the problem was not with the God Weapons but himself, Lin Huang once again sent his consciousness into his inner world.

He sent a probing thread of telekinesis into the Life Wheel and retrieved a God Weapon metal sphere. He realized that although the sphere had turned a dark red color, it had lost all of the previous liveliness and fallen into an inert state.

"There is no way a primitive God Weapon can absorb a true god's mid-level Divine Power. If I elevate you to rank-2, that should work," Lin Huang murmured to himself as he held the dark red metal sphere between two fingers.

"Xiao Hei, redeem an item advancement card!"

Lin Huang did not hesitate at all; once he had an idea, he acted on it. "Let's try one first and see if it works."

As soon as he finished speaking, a golden card materialized in his hand.

After Lin Huang crumbled the card between his fingers, the item advancement card transformed into a golden stream of light that flowed into the thumb-sized God Weapon.

After a while, the initially inert dark red metal sphere suddenly lit up as if it were being heated to a higher temperature, and began to shine as red as magma.

Its aura, which had hitherto been dormant to the point of almost dying out entirely, began to rise sharply at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Time ticked past; Lin Huang stared mesmerized at the transformations occurring in the metal sphere.

In the beginning, the sphere changed from dark red to bright red. Its color became more and more dazzlingly bright until finally, it was almost like a small sun and difficult to look at directly.

The whole process lasted for about three hours, and the color of the little sun hanging in the air finally began to gradually fade.

It took about ten more minutes before the red glow completely dissipated, revealing the form of the God Weapon.

The God Weapon, now elevated to rank-2, was no longer in its previous sphere form—it looked more like a dark red cloud.

To be precise, it looked like a living cloud.

It was in the void, its shape changing randomly like a thick mist.

Lin Huang carefully used his consciousness to touch it and found that its shape was completely malleable. There were no obstacles at all as if the object were part of his palm.

By controlling the cloud, he changed it into several different forms one after the other. After he had familiarized himself with how to manipulate it, Lin Huang began the phase of carefully controlling and molding the cloud into the shape he desired.

"The sword that I want needs to be able to utilize rapid speed, force-type, and ultimate dao-types simultaneously, so the form must be able to alter itself. Also, it needs to be able to withstand the force from Sword Dao true meaning, various types of God Rule Power, and any influx of Elemental Enlightenment…"

One by one, the requirements for the blueprint were added. The dark red cloud elongated under constant turbulence. It took more than half an hour before the cloud ceased its roiling, having finally formed a concrete object.

Lin Huang was dumbfounded when he saw the final result.

What materialized in front of his eyes was merely a dark red sword hilt.

There was absolutely no blade to be seen!

"What happened? Did I ask for too much and cause the actualization to fail?"

Nursing some doubts, Lin Huang reached out and took hold of the sword hilt.

Amid the uncertainty in his mind, the front half of the hilt began altering rapidly, forming a narrow silver blade.

"This is…" Lin Huang made a random swing with the weapon. A faint sword gleam flashed out at extreme, almost ultimate speed.

As he observed this, he vaguely sensed something.

The next moment, the blade suddenly transformed again—this time, into a massive sword.

Lin Huang made yet another swing with the blade. The sword gleam was unparalleled to where Lin Huang vaguely felt that his power had slightly increased.

"So that's what it is!" Lin Huang had finally figured out how to use this weapon. "It's not that there's no blade—it's that the blade can change according to what I want.

"I only need to have a rough outline in mind, then it will automatically complete my idea and form the most suitable blade according to the energy pathways."

Lin Huang had not expected that the final God Weapon would turn out like this.

He had originally thought that having two or three changes of form were enough, but it had never occurred to him that the God Weapon would surprise him in such an unexpected but good way.

After taking some time to wield his new sword and play around with it, Lin Huang nodded in satisfaction.

"Every time the blade materializes, it looks like a turbulent cloud. I'll name you Nebula then."

After he had named his God Weapon war sword, Lin Huang thought for a moment, then transformed it into a more commonly seen war sword.

"In future, I'll just keep it in this initial form; no need to let others know I have a sword that can change its form arbitrarily. Anyway, even if the form changes in battle, others can only see two or three different forms at most."

After returning the sword to the Life Wheel, Lin Huang retrieved the two remaining God Weapon metal spheres.

After considering for a moment, he took out one of his three remaining God Weapons.

"The God Weapon that Solid Ebony gave me as compensation should be available in two days. If I leave three for Lin Xin, I can use another one to build a piece of soul equipment…"

After infusing Divine Power into the God Weapon that he had just brought out, the fourth God Weapon quickly fell into an inert state like the previous three.

Lin Huang crushed three item advancement cards and three golden streams of light flowed into the three metal spheres in front of him.

More than three hours passed by very quickly; the three God Weapons completed their advancement at almost the same time.

Lin Huang divided his consciousness into three parts, taking hold of each of the God Weapons separately and started a new round of molding.

For his battle armor, Lin Huang mainly needed physical defenses, but he still added a soul defense function as well.

As for the telekinetic weapon, Lin Huang's requirements were variable because the number of his telekinetic threads was constantly increasing. He also had specific requirements for the various combinations of telekinetic weapons.

There was also the newly added last piece of soul equipment. Lin Huang's idea was to craft it into an item with multiple functions which increased soul strength, possessed soul defenses, and could disguise soul aura…

The battle armor took less than 20 minutes to form and was the first to take concrete shape.

After that, it took almost an hour for the soul equipment to be ready.

The telekinetic weapon took the longest—Lin Huang needed about two hours to form it into a concrete object.

By the time the last piece of God Weapon was finally formed, it was already dark outside.

After staring at God Weapons almost all day, Lin Huang felt weary in both body and soul.

"At least it's all done!"

Although he was very tired, Lin Huang was very happy.

The four God Weapons had not only been successfully activated, but they had also been elevated to rank-2 right away as a result of the item advancement cards.

A rank-2 God Weapon was not only capable of absorbing a True God's mid-level Divine Power, it could also carry within it and utilize God Rule Power, Elemental Enlightenment, and Sword Dao true meaning. It was already the equivalent of a God Rule Weapon.

Moreover, it was a God Rule Weapon tailored for himself!

"The full set of equipment is ready. I can bring these God Weapons with me for practice today when I go out to hunt for Godheads!" Lin Huang could not wait to try out his God Weapons. However, as soon as he looked up, he saw that the sky outside the window was completely dark. He glanced at the time; it was seven o'clock in the evening. Only then did he realized that he had been busy all day.

Hearing a growl from his stomach, Lin Huang immediately put aside his plans to test the equipment and called the two Sword Servants.

"Qu Hao, Ran Xia, come! Let's go for supper!"

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Chapter 1381: Spending Money That You Made

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Ice Blue Shelter was a grade-4 shelter.

The guardian here was a female ice dragon, whose combat strength had been maintained at ninth-rank true god-level for many years.

Although Ace Star, the headquarters of the shelter, was covered in ice all year round, it was much more prosperous compared to ordinary shelters.

There was no reason other than within the jurisdiction of the shelter lay an ancient battlefield ruin—Frost Territory.

In fact, most of the planets within jurisdiction of the Ice Blue Shelter were covered by ice and snow, which was mainly an effect of the frost aura that emanated from this ruin.

Although Ace Star experienced winter all year round, the largest market on the planet was bustling almost every day.

Light snow was falling from the sky, the market was gaily decorated, pedestrians wearing thick clothes stood shoulder to shoulder, and the vendor cries from various shops were endless.

Looking at the lively scene before him, Lin Huang felt like he had returned to Winter City in the gravel world for Chinese New Year.

"I wonder how Xin Er is now…" he could not help murmuring, "And Xiao Xuan…"

Lin Huang walked through the streets of the market with the two Sword Servants. The three of them also did what the locals did and wore thick padded jackets, not because they were cold, but to avoid unnecessary attention.

Because a large number of residents in Ice Blue Shelter were non-cultivators, they had to wear thick clothing to keep themselves warm in such severe cold weather.

Although cultivators were not afraid of the cold, if they did not wear winter clothing they would easily attract the attention of ordinary residents. Therefore, most cultivators who came here dressed like the locals.

Of course, there were also some cultivators who did not care if they were noticed by the ordinary people living in the shelter and still chose to wear thin clothes.

Lin Huang glanced around the market and noticed three individuals in unlined garments; one of them was a female cultivator in a short skirt.

Cultivators naturally did not see anything wrong with this but a few ordinary residents in the market murmured in undertones.

"It's so cold out, isn't that girl cold, wearing stockings?"

"She's a woman—for the sake of beauty, what's the cold to them?"

"Why do I feel that she really isn't cold…"

Sword302 heard that and could not help glancing at Sword301 beside her.

This girl had originally also been reluctant to change her clothes when she arrived. She had only done so after Lin Huang had brought it up.

When she noticed the direction of Sword301's gaze, Sword302 turned her head and glared at him.

To ease his embarrassment, Sword301 cleared his throat and turned to Lin Huang to ask, "Lord Swordmaster, are there any special places in this market?"

"Nothing special, it's just a regular market," Lin Huang explained with a smile, "The Frost Territory will only be officially opened in two days; we can take a short break during this time."

"Frost City? The name of this ruin seems rather familiar…" Sword302 seemed to have remembered something.

"I know this ruin. This is a fragment left over from an ancient battlefield. It's said to be the debris remaining from a battle between two lord-level powerhouses who specialized in frost attributes. There are a large number of frost spirits in it. I've been there before one million years ago or so, but I don't remember seeing a shelter nearby. When I entered this ruin previously, its surroundings were desolate with no planets capable of sustaining life at all…"

"Ice Blue Shelter was established only 30,000 years ago. Ace Star within the shelter and several other planets around it were all transformed into livable planets by the sky dragon named Ice Blue," explained Lin Huang, who had read up on the information about Ice Blue Shelter.

"Ahh, so that's what happened…" Sword301 understood then.

"Do you have any other memories of this ruin?" Lin Huang asked Sword301 quickly.

Although he had already done his homework in advance and purchased information about the Frost Territory in the black market, Lin Huang still wanted to hear whether Sword301 had any noteworthy information.

"I don't remember much about this ruin. I just remember that it was completely accessible at that time, and it could be entered by anyone below lord-level. I was a Heavenly God at the time. Before my turn, many heavenly god-level powerhouses had already gone in. From what I can remember, there does not seem to be anything particularly valuable in there. I only remember that there were heavenly god-level frost spirits; I even hunted down two of them." Sword301 thought about it and gave his answer.

Sword302's reply had little reference value for Lin Huang. He was too lazy to continue asking. "This ruin is now exclusively occupied by the Combat God Temple. To prevent the depletion of resources, the Lord of the Combat God Temple probably set some prohibitions in place. Now entry is restricted to those at heavenly god-level.

"Every sixty years, the Combat God Temple is opened internally for two months at a time. It is opened to the public once every 120 years, and only for one month at a time. During this period of accessibility, all organization members above grade-5 can use their identity tokens to enter or exit. Organization members grade-5 and below must submit an application to the Combat God Temple; they are only allowed to enter once their application has been approved.

"That's why I urged the two of you to complete the reserve missions from Death Sickle over the last few days and get the Black Sickle identity tokens. Because the Combat God Temple only recognizes official identity tokens, it makes no difference if it is grade-6 or grade-7 organizations—even for those who are Combat God Temple members, they will not be able to enter this ruin with the identity token of a reserve."

"Lord Swordmaster, do you have any missions for us when we enter the ruins?" Sword301 asked again.

"Both your missions are very simple—you will hunt monsters and obtain resources." Lin Huang glanced at the two of them. "Although you are both under a state of restriction and your combat strength is affected by me, you don't need resources to cultivate, but you do need money for your daily expenses.

"In the future, you will be responsible for your own expenses when you are back in the great world. You don't need to tell me how many monsters you've hunted and how much money you sold them for. You can spend as much as you earn." Lin Huang's position on the Sword Servants was to let them fend for themselves. After all, it was unrealistic for him to support hundreds of Heavenly Gods on his own.

"If you really want to talk about specific missions… during your hunt, please observe whether there are Virtual God rank-9 level-4 monsters. If there are, don't kill them, just let me know."

"You mean, you want to hunt alone?" Sword302 asked immediately.

"That won't do! At least one of us must follow you to ensure your safety," Sword301 protested immediately.

"It's not that you aren't aware of my capabilities. In your current state, you won't be of any use to me for enemies that I can't cope with. It's better that we hunt on our own so that everyone can get the maximum benefits from any resources."

Seeing the two Sword Servants had more to say, Lin Huang continued.

"You two can follow me if you wish. But I need to set a rule—after the two of you exit the ruin this time, I won't pay a single penny for either of you. You have to pay for meals and hotels. Whoever earns the money can spend it. You are not allowed to borrow from anyone! If I find out anyone is borrowing money, I will send them back to the Great Heaven Territory!"

"Then let's hunt separately…" Sword302 immediately changed her attitude after hearing what Lin Huang had to say.

"Alright. After all, we have increased the financial burden on Lord Swordmaster these past few days…" Sword301 also gave up the fight.

"Relax, we don't need to stay a full month in the ruins this time. I only need to hunt for a few Godheads. If it happens quickly, three or two days will be enough; if it's slow, one week should be sufficient too. When I'm done, I'll contact you both and we'll leave together." Lin Huang smiled and patted Sword301 on the shoulder.

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Chapter 1382: The Frost Territory

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Two days later, a large number of participants gathered at the entrance of the Frost Territory first thing in the morning.

Because it was only opened to the public once every 120 years, even if the trial quota was 8,000 people, the number of applicants always exceeded the quota considerably.

Of the 8,000 places available, excluding members of the Combat God Temple and other members of the grade-6 and grade-7 organizations, usually, about 5,000 of the remaining application slots would be left.

Of the remaining 5,000 application slots, more than 80% were occupied by grade-4 and grade-5 organizations, with very limited places left for organizations of grade-3 and below.

Lin Huang and the two Sword Servants were members of the top grade-6 organization, Death Sickle, and had the privilege of directly entering the Frost Territory. They did not need to line up to apply.

Despite arriving early at around 8 o'clock in the morning, the entrance area to the Frost Territory was already full of people.

Lin Huang even saw quite a few familiar faces.

Divine Clapnet's Forbidden Lamella, Xeno's Frontier, Precious Treasure Pavilion's Departed Feather, and Death Sickle's Fallen Star…

Destiny and Twin were not there to represent Death Sickle.

However, someone in a black robe standing beside Fallen Star caught his attention. The individual was slender and Lin Huang could not tell whether they were a man or a woman. All he could vaguely see was a masked face under the brim of a hat.

When he looked at the person in the black robe, the individual in question also looked right back at him, and the blood-red lips on the mask pulled up slightly in an upturned arc.

"They're smiling?!"

Lin Huang could clearly sense that the other party's eyes were on him. What was even stranger was that the other party was obviously wearing a mask to fully hide their facial features, but he could see that they were smiling.

"Is that fellow Virtuoso?" Lin Huang took a rough guess based on some of the rumors he had heard before in Death Sickle.

Virtuoso was the first name on Death Sickle's White Sickle Leaderboard. He had participated in more than 700 assassinations and never failed a single one. Death Sickle guarded his personal information extremely well and there were practically no leaks to the public.

Lin Huang even suspected that in the eyes of Death Sickle's seven Blood Sickles, Virtuoso's value ranked higher than that of Buried Heaven.

There was also a rumor within Death Sickle that Virtuoso might be the grade-5 genius of legend.

Before he entered the Great Heaven Territory, Lin Huang would have envied anyone who might be a grade-5 genius of legend. Right now, however, he felt nothing whatsoever.

Currently, under his command, he had Sword1 to Sword12 who were all grade-5 geniuses—fully twelve people in all.

Ignoring Virtuoso's stare, Lin Huang walked towards the Death Sickle camp with the two Sword Servants.

His identity was now Huang Lin. He looked completely different thanks to Thousand Face's disguising ability. With so many Black Sickles from Death Sickle present, he was not worried that an acquaintance might recognize him.

The Gold Sickle leader merely glanced at the tokens that the three held and let them pass. All three of them stood at the end of the camp and waited patiently for the ruins to be opened.

A large number of grade-6 and grade-7 organizations had come this time; there were around a hundred people or so from Death Sickle alone.

Of the several grade-7 organizations, the Combat God Temple had sent the least people—less than 200. The biggest number of participants from the remaining grade-7 organizations was 300 people. It was not that the Combat God Temple had set a quota restriction for them, but the organizations themselves had set a limit of 300 members to curb bad behavior.

After all, these organizations also had access to many exclusive ruins and secret realms; it was not that they absolutely had to enter the Frost Territory. If they did not leave something for the organizations under grade-6, that would undoubtedly lead to a public outcry.

The members of the grade-6 and grade-7 organizations were all very calm.

The camp of the organizations under grade-5 was much more lively—after all, they rarely participated in such events.

"The girl who walked over to the Death Sickle team just now has really long legs—looks like they'd be about two meters right?!"

"What's the use of her long legs? Is she as good-looking as Miss Fallen Star? Is she as capable as Miss Fallen Star? Our Miss Fallen Star is the fourth-ranked super genius on the Virtual God leaderboard! She's a rare woman with beauty and brains!"

"If you're talking about looks, I still think the angel lady from the Precious Treasure Pavilion is good-looking. Look at all the pairs of small wings on her back, they look so cute. I wonder how they would feel to the touch…"

At around 8:30 in the morning, the number of participants at the entrance to the Frost Territory had exceeded 10,000 people.

The total quota was only 8,000 places, but every time the ruin was opened, it was never certain how many people would show up from the grade-6 and grade-7 organizations. Therefore, the Combat God Temple would always reserve 1,000 places each time, and the remaining 7,000 were reserved for the grade-1 to grade-5 organizations.

If the total number of participating individuals from the grade-6 and grade-7 organizations was less than 1,000 or exactly 1,000, then the 7,000 people who successfully registered could enter the site. However, this situation had never happened. Generally speaking, the number of participants from the grade-6 and grade-7 organizations usually added up to about 3,000 people. Therefore, out of the 7,000 application slots, usually, only about 5,000 people were eligible to participate in the trial.

At close to nine o'clock, the person-in-charge from the Combat God Temple finally arrived.

It was a majestic, well-built man in golden armor.

Many people on the scene recognized him as soon as he arrived.

To Lin Huang, this person was no stranger. Previously when he was putting together information on the God Territory, he also had a simple collection of data on the several top organizations.

This person-in-charge from the Combat God Temple was named Gao Xiong; he was a pure-blood Protoss. His combat strength had reached the pinnacle of the ninth-rank heavenly god-level. His ability ranked fourth among the Heavenly Gods in the God Territory, almost on par with Buried Heaven.

It could be said that in the great world, this fellow was one of the strongest people below lord-level.

"In terms of ability, how does he rank among the Sword Servants?" Lin Huang asked the two Sword Servants beside him with some curiosity.

For his inquiry, he utilized the message transmission system used between swordmaster and Sword Servant; it was not possible for anyone to eavesdrop.

"A lot stronger than the both of us, but not as good as the seniors above Sword12," Sword302 spoke first.

Sword301 next to her added, "If you only judge in terms of aura, it's similar to the strength of Sword25's aura. This person's ability is estimated to be between that of Sword20 and Sword30."

After hearing this Lin Huang nodded silently. To him, Gao Xiong's ability being ranked under Sword 12's was a given. After all, Sword12 was a grade-5 genius, which was comparable to the Bug Tribe Queen Mother.

His real intention in asking the two Sword Servants this question was not to find out Gao Xiong's true ability but to find out how strong his Sword Servants had been in their heyday. Gao Xiong was merely a reference point.

Now he could confirm that as long as he had full control over the Great Heaven Territory, the abilities of the Sword Servants under his command would return to their peak state. It was enough to build a top grade-6 organization.

Gao Xiong of the Combat God Temple was also an impatient person. As soon as he arrived, he delivered a few simple sentences, then opened the entrance to the site.

The first round of entrants from the five major grade-7 organizations—God Capital, Divine Clapnet, Xeno, Precious Treasure Pavilion, and the Combat God Temple—took up almost 1,000 or so slots.

After that, it was the turn of the grade-6 organizations such as Death Sickle. A total of twelve grade-6 organizations made up the second round of entrants, occupying more than 2,000 places.

The remaining organizations—grade-5, grade-4, grade-3 and below—entered in order, and used up the remaining 5,000 places.

After closing the entrance to the ruin, Gao Xiong closed his eyes and sat down cross-legged. He did not even look at the remaining two thousand people.

After a group of staff in the Combat God Temple comforted some young people who failed to enter the trial, the heads of the organizations quickly dispersed, taking their members with them…

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Chapter 1383: What's The Condition For Advancement?

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After he passed through the dimensional portal, Lin Huang was briefly dazzled but his senses quickly returned to normal.

Lifting his eyes to look around, all he could see was a pure white world.

An endless field of snow stretched as far as the eye could see. No one knew how many years this place had been covered with frost.

The sky above was gray and misty. A light snow drifted toward the ground.

With a cold wind blowing at him directly, Lin Huang felt chilly even though he possessed Divine Fire within him.

"The temperature in this place is already close to absolute zero…"

Looking around, Lin Huang did not notice other participants. It was clear that he was the only one who had been teleported to this area.

Using Divine Telekinesis to probe his surroundings, Lin Huang frowned slightly after a while.

This particular set of ruins severely limited the probing abilities of Divine Telekinesis. Even though the power of his Divine Telekinesis was comparable to that of a True God, the probing radius had been restricted to about 100 kilometers.

"Since my Divine Telekinesis perception has been restricted, it looks like I'll have to employ other methods to find prey." As he thought about it, Lin Huang had already retrieved a Monster Card.

Once the card had been crumbled, a bald humanoid robotic man more than three meters tall quickly materialized in front of Lin Huang.

This time, the object of Lin Huang's summons was the mechanical-type Warlord.

"First, check if there are any high-rank virtual god-level monsters nearby."

After Bloody's departure, Lin Huang had handed over any exploration work to Warlord. As it turned out, Warlord was very competent at these jobs.

Warlord received the command and quickly released many snowflake-like mechanical bugs that mingled with the real snow and drifted away in all directions.

The mechanical bugs that Warlord released could disguise themselves in any form necessary and did not give off any life fluctuations. They could easily deceive most cultivators in the great world who were one level higher.

At Warlord's current Virtual God rank-8 combat strength, the mechanical bugs could escape being detected by the Divine Telekinesis of most individuals below eighth-rank True God-level.

Of course, it was still possible for a small number of cultivators with remarkable Divine Telekinesis abilities or extraordinary perception in other areas to uncover these mechanical bugs.

Almost an hour later, the mechanical bugs sent feedback on the preliminary results of the exploration. Warlord automatically generated a small-scale map and projected it.

This map covered almost three thousand kilometers of the surrounding area.

"The white dots are beginner-stage and intermediate-stage virtual god-level monsters. The yellow dots are high-level Virtual Gods, and the Virtual God rank-9s are the blinking yellow dots. The red dots are true god-level monsters; the darker the color, the stronger the aura."

"What about these green dots?" Lin Huang asked as he pointed at a green dot on the map.

"These are the participants."

"Alright, plan the best hunting route then."

Lin Huang had barely finished speaking before a white line quickly connected a large number of yellow dots on the map.

"If we take this route, we can kill 76% of the high-level Virtual Gods on this map without doubling back," Warlord explained.

"Then let's follow this route." Lin Huang nodded slightly.

After they had determined the hunting route, the two of them set off without any hesitation, hurrying in the direction of the first target.

After about three minutes, the two found the first target—a Frost Fox.

The Frost Fox looked like a snow-white fox, but it was much larger than the foxes on Earth. Not including its three long furry tails, it was usually about three meters in length.

This kind of mutated monster cultivated Frost Element divine abilities; cold places were their favorite habitat.

Not only did they possess terrifying speed, but the strength of their claws and fangs was no less than that of a god relic. They could also form ice armor over their bodies and had amazing defensive abilities.

In addition to using melee strategies, they also utilized Frost Element techniques that allowed them to engage in long-range attacks and assist in combat.

It could be said that Frost Foxes were very well-rounded opponents.

The combat strength of this particular Frost Fox was only at Virtual God rank-7, but in terms of overall ability, it would take a lot of effort even if an ordinary Virtual God rank-9 wanted to hunt it.

However, the Frost Fox was unfortunate enough to encounter Lin Huang.

The creature had barely growled a warning before its head was instantly penetrated by a silver gleam.

Almost in the next second, the silver gleam shot backward, circled Lin Huang, and fell into his palm.

It was a silver flying dagger thick as two fingers.

Lin Huang played with the weapon in his hand for a moment and nodded in satisfaction. "This was unexpectedly handy!"

The flying dagger was one of the telekinetic weapons that Lin Huang had formed from his God Weapons.

This was the first time he had tried it out in actual combat; it was much easier to use than he had expected.

Lin Huang walked over to the corpse of the Frost Fox, skillfully retrieved an ice crystal-like white Godhead, and easily stored the beast's corpse into his space storage.

After tossing the Godhead into the Divine Fire of his inner world, Lin Huang frowned.

"It's still unable to absorb anything…"

Just like on previous occasions, the Life Palace refused to absorb the energy from the Godhead.

In the beginning, Lin Huang had thought that this refusal to absorb energy was because his combat strength had improved too rapidly and he lacked a solid foundation. However, it had been a few months since he had advanced to grade-9 Imperial-level but his Life Palace was still in a saturated state, refusing to absorb the Godhead's energy.

Although the Life Palace seemed to be completely saturated, Lin Huang could clearly sense that his Life Palace was not yet complete.

Lin Huang had also considered that perhaps the Life Palace refused to absorb the Godhead's energy because there were special advancement conditions that had to be fulfilled before it could be fully completed.

This time he had deliberately taken things into his own hands instead of directly purchasing the Godhead refinement, just to see if the advancement condition was that he had to kill the monster himself and obtain the Godhead. However, it seemed that this was not one of the conditions for advancement.

He stood where he was for a while and thought about it before turning his head toward Warlord and saying, "Modify the route; Virtual God rank-7s can be removed from the hunting targets."

Although Warlord did not know what happened, he still immediately did as he was asked. The yellow dots on the map instantly reduced by more than half.

The new route was also plotted in the next second.

After five to six minutes, Lin Huang and Warlord arrived at the location of the second hunting target.

This Virtual God rank-8 monster was an Ox Devil.

With a height of more than five meters, it was covered with fur that was several times thicker than that of an ordinary Ox Devil. The four magma-like scarlet eyes on its head stared at Lin Huang who had intruded into its territory.

A second later, however, a silver gleam flashed through the void. Before the Ox Devil could react, the silver gleam penetrated its forehead.

The light in the four scarlet eyes of the Ox Devil faded quickly as if there was no electricity. Its huge body crashed to the ground.

It was another instant kill!

Lin Huang possessed Divine Telekinesis that was as powerful as that of a True God, plus a telekinetic flying dagger that was comparable to a god sequence relic. Even without the addition of God Rule Power and Elemental Enlightenment, this was enough for him to easily kill all cultivators below true god-level.

After spending a few seconds to retrieve the Godhead from the Ox Devil. Lin Huang once again tossed the new Godhead into his inner world.

After a while, he frowned once more.

"It's still not working…"

"Warlord, modify the route again. Remove the Virtual God rank-8s and only keep the Virtual God rank-9s!"

Warlord projected the map again a moment later.

The route had changed again, but now, out of the initial several dozen yellow dots, only four were left…

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Chapter 1384: Lin Huang's Guess

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Looking at the four flashing yellow dots left on the map, Lin Huang's expression was not relaxed at all.

He still had no clue what the conditions for advancing his Life Palace might be.

"Let's go; we'll head to the nearest dot first."

Although he had absolutely no clue, he still intended to continue with his line of thought, screening and excluding each of the possibilities.

This time, his target was further away; it took Lin Huang and Warlord more than ten minutes before they finally reached its location.

This third intended target was a humanoid Frost Zombie.

This monster looked a little like a very hairy savage with a height of seven or eight meters. What it might have been in its previous life, Lin Huang could not tell. However, he was able to verify that this Frost Zombie was undead. To be exact, it was a Virtual God rank-9 undead.

Sensing the intruder's aura, the Frost Zombie lifted its head to stare in Lin Huang and Warlord's direction. It roared furiously and its aura blazed up like ferocious flames. Its aura was obviously much more powerful than that of an ordinary Virtual God rank-9.

"The strength of this aura… mythical-level?" Lin Huang could not help but raise his eyebrows upon sensing the Frost Zombie's aura.

He was barely surprised—after all, he had seen far too many mythical-level creatures.

The blazing flames of the Frost Zombie's aura quickly peaked; bending its knees slightly, it leaped high into the air toward Lin Huang.

The next moment, however, Lin Huang shook the cuff of his sleeve slightly and another silver gleam flew toward the sky.

The gleam shot toward the Frost Zombie's forehead at an even higher speed, penetrating it without any observable resistance.

The Frost Zombie did not have time to dodge at all as the telekinetic flying dagger pierced through its brain and out its skull again. Its leaping figure quickly smashed onto the ice, raising a cloud of mist.

Lin Huang stared at the mist-obscured area, however, and frowned.

"It's not dead?"

The vital points of some types of undead were not the same as those of ordinary monsters. Normally, the head was a vital organ for most monsters. However, despite its head having been shattered, the Frost Zombie in front of Lin Huang showed no signs of its aura weakening. Obviously, its head was not one of its vital points.

From within the cloud of mist, the Frost Zombie howled in fury, sounding even more aggressive than before.

Clearly, Lin Huang's earlier attack had angered it.

"It doesn't seem to be very clever." As soon as Lin Huang finished speaking, the Divine Telekinesis-controlled flying dagger that had penetrated through Frost Zombie's head circled around, flew backward, and shot through the cloud of mist.

Almost at the same time, the Frost Zombie's roaring abruptly ceased.

After a while, Lin Huang's figure slowly descended to the ground.

Within the mist-covered area, he quickly saw the corpse of the Frost Zombie where it had tumbled to the ground. There was a clear wound on the left side of its chest cavity where its heart was—this was the result of the second attack.

The creature's life force was rapidly fading.

Lin Huang was expressionless. After he withdrew the flying dagger, he quickly retrieved the Godhead from the Frost Zombie.

As he tossed the Godhead into his inner world, Lin Huang also sent his consciousness into his body simultaneously.

This ice-blue Godhead took a long time to melt within the flames of the Divine Fire.

However, Lin Huang did not need to wait for it to be completely refined. He merely had to wait for a wisp of Godhead energy to be extracted, which he then infused into his Life Palace.

This time, the Life Palace did not reject the infusion of Godhead energy, accepting it instead.

Lin Huang, who had not expected anything to happen, was rather ecstatic after seeing this.

However, he quickly calmed down.

"So the Life Palace can only absorb rank-9 Godheads—or is there something special about this particular one?"

A few months ago when he had first elevated to grade-9 Imperial-level, he had felt that his imperial-level was not yet complete. At that time, he tried one by one with rank-1 to rank-9 Godheads, but the Life Palace refused to absorb any of them.

Right now the Life Palace was willing to absorb this rank-9 Godhead. He was still uncertain what screening criteria the Life Palace used, however.

After a moment of thought, Lin Huang returned his consciousness to his body.

"Let's go find the next one!"

After he had stowed the Frost Zombie in his storage space, Lin Huang and Warlord headed straight in the direction of the second Virtual God rank-9 monster.

After about six or seven minutes, the two of them located their fourth target.

This time, the object of their attention was a Snow Raven.

This was a species of white Corvidae, diminutive in size and only slightly larger than the palm of an adult.

Although it was not large, the combat strength of these creatures was by no means weak. Their speed was greater than 90% of monsters of the same rank. They were also proficient in psychic attack esoteric arts and were highly skilled at combined psychic attack techniques with Ice Elements. If they encountered weak opponents, they could even freeze their opponent's souls directly with their gaze.

Sensing Lin Huang and Warlord's arrival, the Snow Raven immediately uttered a loud cry.

A torrent of psychic shock waves rippled swiftly outward like an invisible wave of water, engulfing Lin Huang and Warlord.

Both of them allowed the psychic shock waves to penetrate through their bodies as if nothing had happened.

For Lin Huang, he was able to completely resist a move like this.

His soul strength was comparable to that of a True God, and he was almost completely immune to all forms of psychic attacks at virtual god-level, not to mention this was only a Legendary-level Snow Raven.

As for Warlord, he was a mechanical type. He did not even have a soul in the conventional sense, so he was naturally immune to all forms of psychic attacks.

Lin Huang did not make any large gestures either; a silver gleam shot out from his cuff and into the open beak of the Snow Raven, exiting the creature's skull with no obstacles at all.

After killing the Snow Raven, Lin Huang quickly retrieved its Godhead and tossed it into his inner world.

After a while, he frowned again.

"It's not absorbing now?"

The Snow Raven's Godhead was also a Virtual God rank-9 Godhead, but the Life Palace rejected it entirely.

However, the energy from the Frost Zombie's Godhead was accepted by the Life Palace.

"They are all rank-9 Godheads—one was absorbed, but the other was not…" Lin Huang stood where he was and carefully analyzed the possible reasons. "Is it because the Frost Zombie Godhead is class-4, and the Snow Raven Godhead is class-3? "

He thought back carefully. After he had elevated to grade-9 Imperial-level, he had tried to continue refining Godheads. In the end, he had tried Godheads from rank-1 to rank-9 one by one, and the Life Palace had still refused to absorb the Godhead energy. However, he seemed to recall that all the Godheads he had used at that time were from class-3 Legendary-level monsters—none of the Godheads were from class-4 Legendary-level monsters.

"So the Life Palace didn't accept the Godhead energy previously because the class of the Godhead was insufficiently advanced?" Lin Huang's eyes gradually brightened; he felt that he might have hit upon the truth.

"Warlord, are there any class-4 Legendary-level monsters in the remaining two hunting targets?" He immediately turned his head and asked Warlord.

"There is a frost spirit that should be class-4."

"Let's go! We'll hunt for that ice spirit right away!" Lin Huang could not wait to verify his guess.

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Chapter 1385: Grade-10 Imperial Level!

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Frost Giants were a race of frost spirits birthed from ice and snow.

As newborns, they were already at virtual god-level with white crystalline bodies. When they reached maturity, they could reach over a hundred meters in height and would be elevated to true god-level; their bodies also would turn ice-blue in color.

This type of monster was an innate class-4 mythical-level elemental demon. Its defensive capabilities were extremely powerful; if placed among mythical-level creatures of the same class, it would still manage to be in the top ranks. Strength-wise it was not weak either—among the same class of mythical-level beings it was considered to be of a superior level. Apart from this, it also possessed extremely strong healing abilities and was able to draw moisture from the air to regenerate its own body.

Another difficult issue was that this particular creature did not have any vital parts. To be precise, its vital part was an object called the Heart of Ice, concealed deep within its body. However, this object was not an actual heart, nor was it hidden within the chest cavity like a human heart.

A Frost Giant's Heart of Ice could be located in any part of their bodies, and every Frost Giant might have a different location for it. The Heart of Ice might grow on the sole of the foot, or even at the back of the head.

Lin Huang's hunting target this time around was a Frost Giant on the cusp of maturity whose combat strength was only at the level of a Virtual God rank-9.

Once he was close to the vicinity of his intended target, Lin Huang could already see the monster from a distance; it was almost a hundred meters tall.

The Frost Giant's torso seemed to be forged from chunks of rock that were clear as ice crystals.

One look at the creature's head and the state of its physical body, and Lin Huang already knew that virtual god-level cultivators of the same level as this monster would not dare to provoke it.

If one did not have a god rule relic to hand, it might be difficult to breach the monster's defenses, what more when it possessed such extremely strong regenerative powers.

However, for Lin Huang, hunting this fellow was not a difficult task.

Before the Frost Giant could cause trouble, Lin Huang had already initiated his attack from far away

This time, he was a little more careful.

Around a hundred telekinetic flying daggers shot forth from his sleeve, each of them boosted with the Fire Elemental God Rule Power—Tattooed Demon.

Tattooed Demon's black flame enveloped every single one of the flying daggers; they looked like comets blazing black fire across the heavens.

In just one second, these daggers practically turned the mythical-level Frost Giant's massive, nigh-indestructible body into a sieve.

Blazing with black fire, each of the flying daggers cut easily through the monster's defenses as if slicing through a thin sheet of paper. They pierced through its front, exiting from its back as if its indestructible protective measures were mere decoration.

It seemed easy enough for Lin Huang to penetrate the Frost Giant's defenses, but only he knew that if this previous attack had not been boosted by God Rule Power, there would be practically no way for him to pierce through this Frost Giant's body.

However, even though Lin Huang's attack had punctured the Frost Giant into what amounted to a sieve, it still showed no signs of giving up the ghost—in fact, its life force did not weaken in the slightest.

"The attack didn't hit the Heart of Ice…" Lin Huang did a quick Divine Telekinesis sweep and discovered the problem immediately.

The next instant, the hundred telekinetic flying daggers circled back for a return attack, once more piercing straight through the Frost Giant's body.

Without giving the creature a chance to regenerate, the daggers stabbed through it yet again and the puncture wounds on its body doubled in the blink of an eye.

"I still haven't managed to hit its vital part yet?" Lin Huang's brow lofted as he sensed that the Frost Giant's aura was still not weakening.

Once more, the hundred daggers shot forth and penetrated the Frost Giant's body…

Only on this third round did Lin Huang sense that one of the flying daggers had hit something. Seizing the advantage, he used a thread of Divine Telekinesis to tug the object out from within the Frost Giant.

The minute the object detached itself from the Frost Giant's body, Lin Huang very clearly sensed that the monster's aura was rapidly getting weaker.

It was only after Lin Huang had used Divine Telekinesis to drag the object in front of him that he realized that it was a white crystal about the size of a normal person's fist.

The entire crystal was translucent; its surface looked as if it were wreathed in a ring of white mist that gave off an icy aura.

This object was clearly the Frost Giant's Heart of Ice.

Once the Heart of Ice had been detached, the Frost Giant's life force was completely extinguished in a matter of seconds. Its body thudded onto the ground, transforming into a small ice hill.

Lin Huang merely gave the Heart of Ice in front of him a cursory glance before stowing it away in his storage space. After that, one stride brought him to the "ice hill", where he retrieved the Godhead from the Frost Giant's corpse.

After tossing the Godhead into the Divine Fire of his inner world, Lin Huang waited, full of anticipation, for the results of this round's experiment.

The minute the Divine Fire had refined a small thread of Godhead energy, Lin Huang impatiently maneuvered this wisp to the Life Palace and infused it in.

The pale white Godhead with its icy aura drifted in front of the Life Palace, then flowed easily into it without encountering any resistance.

At the sight of this, Lin Huang's eyes shone.

"The Life Palace absorbed it! My guess was right after all!"

The Life Palace had accepted the energy from the Godhead a second time, allowing Lin Huang to confirm his previous theory—the Life Palace would only absorb energy from class-4 Godheads!

After months without a clue about a method of advancement, Lin Huang had finally found the way to go about it.

He was utterly ecstatic.

"Warlord, there's no need to target any of the other virtual god-level monsters anymore. Just hone in on Legendary-level Virtual God rank-9s and that will do."

Upon receiving his orders, Warlord immediately directed his mechanical bugs to begin a new round of selection.

In the blink of an eye, four days passed by.

Lin Huang used four full days but was only able to hunt down nine Legendary-level Virtual God rank-9 creatures.

In actual fact, the total amount of combat time added up to less than three minutes; he and Warlord did not spend that long hurrying on the road either. The majority of their time was taken up by waiting.

Although the number of Virtual Gods in these ruins was not small, there were not that many Virtual God rank-9s. As for Legendary-level ones, there were even fewer of them.

Within those four days, Warlord's several hundred thousand mechanical bugs could only find nine Legendary-level Virtual God rank-9 monsters.

However, Lin Huang was not idle either while waiting; he was constantly stoking the Divine Fire to expedite the refining of the Godheads.

After four days, the first rank-9 Godhead was fully refined at last.

Once the Life Palace had completely absorbed the energy from the first Godhead, Lin Huang sensed a slight boost in his combat strength, which had been stagnant for months.

Seeing that waiting for Warlord's reports every day was really too boring, Lin Huang went into complete seclusion and invested himself body and soul into the refining of the Godheads.

Warlord remained by Lin Huang, guarding him while still directing the mechanical bugs to continue searching for Legendary-level Virtual God rank-9 monsters.

Twenty-four days passed by just like that.

On the last two days that the ruins were pen, Lin Huang gradually opened his eyes.

In these twenty-four days, he had refined eight godheads. After using all of his might to expedite the Divine Fire's progress, it took only around three days or so to refine a single Godhead. So far all nine Godheads within his body had been completely refined.

Lin Huang could also finally sense very clearly that his Life Palace was now satiated. Not only that, but his own combat strength had once more been boosted up a rank. His original grade-9 Imperial level was now elevated to an unheard-of grade-10 Imperial level.

"Finally it's complete! After this, I'll elevate to virtual god-level!" Lin Huang's eyes sparkled.

He already knew how to go about facilitating his breakthrough to virtual god-level.

"Warlord, you can stop searching for Virtual God rank-9s now; it's not necessary anymore. The ruins will be accessible for two more days—within these two days, concentrate entirely on locating coordinates for beginner-stage True Gods. We'll go on a final round of hunting!"

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Chapter 1386: Hunting True Gods!

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To be considered a True God, one had to have ignited Divine Fire and also have achieved an understanding of the existence of God Rule Power or Elemental Enlightenment.

Because Divine Power within the body was refined by the Divine Fire, the quality of Divine Power possessed by true god-level powerhouses far outstripped that of Virtual Gods. Once that was combined with God Rule Power and Elemental Enlightenment, it became an irrefutable universal truth.

Therefore, a Virtual God challenging a True God would be as hard as scaling the heavens.

Apart from a very few peak virtual god-level genius powerhouses who had mastered God Rule Powers or Elemental Enlightenment and could, therefore, challenge True Gods, other Virtual Gods would not stand a chance of winning an encounter with a True God.

Lin Huang dared to challenge True Gods for a very simple reason.

He also had Divine Fire within him; once his Divine Power had been refined by the Divine Fire, it was comparable in quality to that of a first-rank True God. Besides, he had also mastered many God Rule Powers and Elemental Enlightenments, and he was adept in Sword Dao true meaning.

Even though his combat strength was only at grade-10 Imperial-level, in every other aspect, he was by no means inferior to a low-rank True God.

After elevating to grade-10 Imperial-level, the first thing Lin Huang did was to begin hunting for True Gods.

There were still two days left for both the trial and for the period of accessibility to the Frost Territory; he wanted to take advantage of these final two days to elevate to virtual god-level as soon as possible.

It was a good thing that Warlord had listed down true god-level monsters as well during his search for virtual god-level ones. At the time, the reason for this was to avoid those areas as much as possible—who knew that the information would turn out to be so useful right now.

In less than a second Warlord had plotted out the best hunting route based on the low-rank True Gods on the list.

After less than ten minutes, Lin Huang located his first true god-level prey.

This was a Portly Snowman, which looked utterly adorable and even rather cute.

However, the truth was that it was a true god-level frost spirit, and its powers were not to be taken lightly.

It stood around five meters tall. In appearance, it was like the snowmen that children would build on snowy days, except that it had two legs and was considerably larger.

Portly Snowmen were adept in the use of Frost Elemental Enlightenment, particularly arcane attacks. Because they were frost spirits, they were able to utilize a great many Frost Elemental techniques at will without the need for a cool-down period.

However, while they were experts in offensive techniques, techniques were not the only thing they were extremely proficient in.

The truth was, all Portly Snowmen were equipped with terrifying defenses. These defenses were not like rigid those of the Frost Giants; rather, the Snowmen's bodies were capable of absorbing a substantial amount of physical and energy attacks, thereby minimizing the actual damage to themselves as much as possible.

Besides this, Portly Snowmen were like the Frost Giants—also equipped with considerable strength. Among monsters of the same level, the Portly Snowmen's strength was considered to be of a superior standard.

If any poor soul naively assumed that the Snowmen were only expert in offensive techniques and not in close-quarter combat, they would die very horribly indeed.

Looking down at the Portly Snowman below from high up in the sky, Lin Huang knew that the other had been aware of his presence from early on.

Portly Snowmen might not have aggressive tendencies but it did not mean that they were not territorial.

This particular Portly Snowman had not immediately attacked Lin Huang and Warlord when they had encroached into its territory, partly because it sensed that both the intruders were not yet at true god-level and they did not present a very great threat. Another reason was that the Snowman had determined both the newcomers were merely passing through and had not come specifically to hunt it down. This also had to do with the fact that Lin Huang had not immediately displayed any violent intentions.

However, the intruders had now closed the distance to the point where they appeared directly in the Snowman's line of sight. This proximity immediately stirred the Portly Snowman's territorial guarding instincts. It reassessed the two newcomers' intentions and confirmed that the pair were heading straight for it.

Once it had ascertained that Lin Huang and Warlord were intruders, the Portly Snowman's initial adorable demeanor suddenly underwent a change. Its eyes turned blood-red as if scarlet ink had been dripped onto them. Its smiling lips lifted high, its wide mouth dominating half its face and opening to reveal a maw full of sharp crystalline teeth.

The Snowman's body expanded considerably as well; in less than the time it took for a breath, it had grown to over ten meters tall.

Although he had seen the descriptions of Portly Snowmen quite some time ago in the monster guide, Lin Huang was still rather shocked now that he was personally witnessing the Snowman's transformation up close.

"I wonder if those people on the Internet who keep fussing every day about wanting to have a Portly Snowman as a pet would still want to do so after seeing this," he muttered with a tinge of dark humor.

The minute he finished speaking, he discovered that a pale white mist was starting to coalesce around his body and he could clearly feel that the temperature of the air was plummeting rapidly.

"Not even a greeting and it's already making a move?" Lin Huang spat out a curse, but his hands did not slow down their movements in the least.

A dark red sword hilt appeared in Lin Huang's palm out of thin air. A second later, a thick, wide silver blade rapidly materialized into being.

The blade sliced through the air. Gale-force winds howled continuously and the mist surrounding Lin Huang's body dispelled in an instant. The temperature of the air—which had plummeted so rapidly earlier—quickly rose again.

In fact, the white mist that the Portly Snowman had generated just now was a type of Frost Elemental Enlightenment divine skill—Frost Wave.

This particular divine skill appeared in the form of a mist that could rapidly lower the temperature of an entire area to slow down an enemy's movements.

If the enemy lingered within the Frost Wave for too long, they might even be frozen into an ice statue.

However, this recent attack of Lin Huang's had been imbued with Wind Elemental Enlightenment. It immediately dispelled the Frost Wave and got him out of his predicament.

Upon seeing its attack being dispelled so easily, the Portly Snowman was stunned for a moment.

From what it had sensed previously, the auras of these two tiny things were not yet at true god-level and were no match for its power.

It had originally thought that the Frost Wave would finish off both the intruders and turn them into ice statues.

It had certainly not expected that in one move they would dispel an attack imbued with Frost Elemental Enlightenment.

The Portly Snowman's brief moment of being stunned gave Lin Huang an opening, however.

As this was his first encounter with a true god-level opponent, Lin Huang did not dare to act recklessly. Now that he had found a weak point in his opponent's defenses, naturally, he would not let this chance slip by so easily.

In an instant the shape of his sword blade changed, becoming long and narrow. The next second, a sword gleam streaked across the heavens like a blood-red electric arc.

The Portly Snowman several hundred meters away did not even have time to react before it was decapitated by the blade.

Lin Huang had not held back anything in this attack; he had combined Sword Dao true meaning with Lightning Element—Instant Flash, the Fire Elemental God Rule Power—Tattooed Demon, and God-slaying Power.

With the amplification effect of four Rule Bending Powers combined, one attack was sufficient to snuff out the Portly Snowman's life.

Before the Snowman's head could tumble to the ground, the monster's aura had already completely dissipated.

Its massive corpse rapidly crumbled into a gigantic pile of snow.

Lin Huang had not expected to be able to kill a first-rank True God; this caused him inexplicable delight.

This was the first time that he had killed a True God on his own; it was also the first time that he sensed just how powerful he was at present.

"I was able to kill a first-rank True God so easily; I don't know whether the upper limit of my abilities is at second-rank or third-rank…"

After spending a few minutes to retrieve the Divine Fire from within the Portly Snowman's corpse, Lin Huang tossed it into his inner world.

Once the white Divine Fire entered Lin Huang's inner world, it transformed into a stream of light that flowed into one of the Life Wheels. To be more precise, it flowed into one of the Life Lamps and began slowly integrating with the dark-red Divine Fire within the Lamp.

"Given this current speed, it will take almost a month to fully integrate…"

Based on what he sensed of the Divine Fire's integration speed, Lin Huang could roughly determine how long a full integration would take.

He swept a glance over the nine Life Wheels; it became increasingly clear what steps he should take next…

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Chapter 1387: Ten Divine Fires

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After successfully hunting down the Portly Snowman, the second true god-level prey that Lin Huang selected was a second-rank Storm Eagle.

The Storm Eagle was a monster that cultivated Wind Elemental Enlightenment as its main specialization, with supplemental cultivation in Frost and Lightning Elemental Enlightenment.

This sort of monster possessed speed that was considered top-tier even among other monsters of the same level. Besides that, its attack method was also quite swift and fierce.

It used Wind Elemental Enlightenment to create a Wind Blade that was reinforced with Frost Elemental Enlightenment. Then, it boosted the blade with Lightning Elemental Enlightenment—Rapid Speed. With three Enlightenments compounded like this, even a third-rank True God would do well to dodge the blade's cutting edge.

For this fight, Lin Huang fully relied on telekinetic weapons to face his enemy. He used his telekinetic flying daggers to counter the Storm Eagle's Wind Blade.

The telekinetic flying daggers clashed repeatedly against the Storm Eagle's incessant Wind Blade, which was supported by its three Elemental Enlightenments.

This face-off, torrential as a storm, lasted for more than half an hour before Lin Huang ended the fight with some reluctance.

Even though the Storm Eagle was strong, it had only mastered three types of Elemental Enlightenments, which made it far inferior to Lin Huang.

Lin Huang had engaged in a fierce battle with the Storm Eagle for half an hour only because he saw it creating the Wind Blade and he itched to go up against it. He also wanted to test out his newly-acquired telekinetic flying daggers; therefore, he had dragged things out for a little longer.

After killing the Storm Eagle, Lin Huang immediately extracted the Divine Fire from its body.

However, when he placed the Divine Fire in his inner world, he realized that this Divine Fire did not flow into any of his Life Wheels. It just went into a corner of his inner world, slowly withdrew its flames, stopped releasing energy, and turned into a lump of tinder.

"What's going on?"

When he saw what happened, Lin Huang was surprised.

Previously, the Divine Fire of the Portly Snowman had not only flowed into the Life Wheel of its own accord once it entered his inner world, but it had also been easily accepted by the Life Wheel.

However, the Storm Eagle's Divine Fire became inert once it entered his inner world.

Puzzled, Lin Huang took control of the lump of Divine Fire tinder and tried throwing it into a Life Wheel. However, once the tinder got near the Life Wheel, the Life Wheel's blood-red flames started acting up, repelling the tinder.

Lin Huang tried this with all ten Life Wheels, one by one, but all ten reacted in the same way.

"What sort of devilish tricks are you trying to pull here?"

Lin Huang was left speechless. Nonetheless, after he thought about it again, he had a vague guess as to why the Life Palace might have rejected the Divine Fire.

"Warlord, make a slight alteration to the route. Let's find another first-rank True God."

About seven or eight minutes later, Lin Huang and Warlord found their third true god-level hunting target.

The target this time was a White Lynx. It was a mutated monster, and its combat strength was only at the level of a first-rank True God.

This monster possessed high explosive power and agility, as well as being skilled in covert kills and sneak attacks. Nevertheless, it had no chance of displaying its skills in front of Lin Huang, as the telekinetic flying daggers shot through the air and took it down from a distance.

After killing the White Lynx with ease, Lin Huang once again extracted the Divine Fire from within its body and put it inside his own inner world.

After entering his inner world, the Divine Fire transformed into a stream of light and promptly flowed into the second Life Wheel without any difficulties.

When he saw that, Lin Huang basically had his speculations confirmed.

"So it only accepts the Divine Fire of a first-rank True God?

"Warlord, find the third-rank True God nearest to us right now."

To verify his speculations, Lin Huang was prepared to continue testing through trial and error.

After a few minutes, both of them found their fourth true god-level prey, which was also the strongest opponent Lin Huang had ever encountered in his life.

This third-rank True God monster was a Golden Ursine.

The Golden Ursine was considered top-level even among monsters of the same rank in terms of strength or defense, and its close-combat strength was enough to directly challenge a third-rank true god-level combat cultivator powerhouse.

Lin Huang itched to have a go. This time, instead of using his telekinetic flying daggers, he raised his battle sword for a close-combat confrontation.

Without holding back any of his power, he unleashed force-type completely!

Six Rule Bending Powers compounded together – Superhuman Strength, God-slaying Power, Lightning Enlightenment—Lightning God, Heaven's Punishment, Fire Enlightenment—Tattooed Demon, and Fire Enlightenment—Hell. Even after boosting all of this with Sword Dao true meaning, it still took him a full hour before he finally took down the Golden Ursine.

"Killing a third-rank True God is pretty much the limit of my abilities…" This fight allowed Lin Huang to make a rough assessment of the upper limit of his own abilities.

After extracting the Divine Fire from within the Golden Ursine's body, Lin Huang once again tossed it into his inner world.

As with the Divine Fire of the Storm Eagle from before, this Divine Fire also soon fell still and regressed into tinder form.

All ten Life Wheels refused to absorb this Divine Fire, just like before.

After stowing the corpse of the Golden Ursine into his storage space, Lin Huang turned around to face Warlord.

"Warlord, help me find another first-rank monster again."

A few minutes later, both of them quickly found their fourth True God-level prey (TN: This appears to be a typo on the author's part; it should be the fifth one, but we have opted to translate it as it is). This time, it was another first-rank True God.

After killing it, Lin Huang retrieved its Divine Fire.

As Lin Huang watched, the Divine Fire was accepted by the third Life Wheel without a hitch.

Lin Huang was, therefore, able to confirm his speculation from before by one hundred percent—his Life Wheels only accepted first-rank Divine Fires.

"Warlord, let's change our route. We'll hunt down first-rank monsters first!"

For the next hour, using Warlord's route as a guide, Lin Huang hunted down his prey—seven first-rank true god-level monsters.

Without exception, all seven Divine Fires were accepted by the seven remaining Life Wheels with no difficulty at all.

When the tenth Life Wheel accepted the tenth Divine Fire, Lin Huang distinctly felt as if there were a minuscule change in the grade-10 Imperial-level within him.

He even had a vague feeling that as long as the ten first-rank Divine Fires in his body could integrate fully with the Divine Fires in his Life Lamps, he might advance to virtual god-level.

"Looks like all I can do is wait patiently for around a month…" Lin Huang sensed the integration speed of the Divine Fires in his body and made a rough estimation.

Shooting a glance at the time projected, he got ready to continue his race against the clock.

"Warlord, help me plan a new route. Exclude all first-rank monsters from our hunting targets. From now on, we're only hunting second and third-ranks!"

Warlord immediately nodded and went to work.

As a Mechanical type, he did not possess human emotions like joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness. Therefore, he did not have any complaints about Lin Huang constantly changing their route.

Over the next day and a half, Lin Huang kept running between second and third-rank True God targets according to the route that Warlord had marked out, killing them one after another.

When he encountered a second-rank, he had no problem killing them in an instant. However, when he met a third-rank, a fierce battle would unfold that usually lasted anywhere between half an hour to two hours.

A low-level True God would generally have mastered more than ten types of Rule Bending Powers.

Based solely on the number of Rule Bending Powers one had mastered, Lin Huang would surpass an average third-rank True God, but only to a certain extent. The disparity in their overall strength was actually not that great.

This was why he was especially willing to use these third-rank monsters as practice for his combat skills.

If he encountered a power type, he would directly confront them using force-type.

When he encountered a speed type, he would use rapid speed sword skill against his opponent.

The last two days in the Frost Territory went by in a flash.

Within these last two days, Lin Huang had hunted down a total of more than sixty low-level True Gods. Among them were 10 first-ranks, 28 second-ranks, and 23 third-ranks.

Apart from the first-rank Divine Fires that had all been absorbed, the other Divine Fires inside his inner world regressed to tinder, waiting to be rekindled…

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Chapter 1388: Elevation to Virtual God-Level!

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Once they had been teleported out from the Frost Territory, all the participants gathered at the entrance to the dimensional portal once again.

Out of eight thousand participants, more than seven thousand had returned. The survival rate had exceeded 90%, which was already very high.

Lin Huang glanced over; once again he saw many familiar faces. He also saw the two Sword Servants.

When Sword301 and Sword302 saw Lin Huang, they immediately approached him and used the telepathic bond between swordmaster and Sword Servants to communicate.

"Lord Swordmaster!"

"The two of you don't look too bad, it seems you've profited a lot from this ruin," Lin Huang laughed and teased them.

"We teamed up and hunted for some true god-level monsters. We had a better haul than expected," Sword302 finished and asked Lin Huang somewhat uncertainly, "Lord Swordmaster's aura seems to have gotten stronger but your combat strength hasn't broken through to virtual god-level yet, has it?"

The reason she asked this was because if Lin Huang had broken through to virtual god-level, as his Sword Servants, their combat strength would have been elevated to true god-level. However, as of now their combat strength remained fixed at Virtual God rank-9 without any change.

"Hmm, I did improve a little. It shouldn't take long to advance to virtual god-level." Lin Huang nodded slightly and did not explain in any further detail.

As they were chatting, a figure glided over to them noiselessly.

Lin Huang turned his head and looked at the newcomer, who was wearing a black robe and a white mask on their face. It was obviously Virtuoso, who was ranked first on Death Sickle's White Sickle Leaderboard.

"I'm Virtuoso, might I make your acquaintance?" Virtuoso initiated the conversation, addressing his words to Lin Huang.

Their voice sounded gender-neutral, which made it impossible to distinguish whether the speaker was male or female.

Only now at such close range did Lin Huang noticed that the mask Virtuoso wore was a simple white one made of some unknown material. Except for two red smears where the mouth was located, there were no eyeholes even.

Through the mask, it was impossible to make out any expression on the other's face.

Lin Huang even suspected that it might have been an illusion when he saw the red lips curve up on the mask a month ago.

"Hello, I'm Huang Lin." Although he was somewhat doubtful about the other's purpose in striking up a conversation first, Lin Huang still gave his pseudonym with a smile.

"We are all fellow members of Death Sickle. I noticed that the three of you looked relatively unfamiliar, so I wanted to come over and get acquainted," Virtuoso explained.

Despite saying this, Virtuoso seemed to have no intention of conversing with the two Sword Servants at all; he just glanced at them briefly.

"We just joined recently," Lin Huang said with a smile.

"Good luck, I'm optimistic about you guys." After Virtuoso finished speaking, they clapped Lin Huang on the shoulder and turned away.

'What does Virtuoso want? Just to come over and say hello?' Lin Huang could not understand what the other was trying to do.

Before, he had registered with Death Sickle as Xie Lin and had never had any interaction with Virtuoso beyond seeing their name on the White Sickle Leaderboard.

Lin Huang had made his appearance using the identity of Huang Lin, a cultivator who had come into contact with Death Sickle for the first time. Even Fallen Star and the rest could not recognize him.

Therefore, Virtuoso taking the initiative to come by and say hello puzzled him greatly.

He naturally knew that the other party had not come over because the three of them looked unfamiliar.

The Black Sickle members in Death Sickle numbered at least one million and the estimated number of those Virtuoso knew were very few. If he approached every member that he was unfamiliar with, he would have been exhausted.

Moreover, Fallen Star and the rest had accidentally revealed at one point that Virtuoso was an aloof, reticent person who basically ignored all the other members in Death Sickle.

Virtuoso's move to initiate a conversation was also inconsistent with his image in Death Sickle.

Virtuoso's behavior puzzled not only Lin Huang but Fallen Star and the others as well, who had noticed and could not help but glance in Lin Huang's direction.

After this small incident, the participants of the major organizations quickly dispersed.

Lin Huang also returned to the Iron Fist Shelter with both the Sword Servants.

The instant he got to the hotel, Lin Huang took out a storage ring and tossed it to Sword301.

"This is my haul from the Frost Territory. In addition to the beast corpses, there is also loot from the monsters' private possessions. Please help me sort it out."

Sword301 took a look at the ring and was stunned for a moment. "Lord Swordmaster, you hunted down these third-rank True Gods yourself?"

"Yes, is there a problem?"

"No, nothing…" Sword301 quickly shook his head.

As of now, he and Sword302 had access to nine types of Rule Bending Power, but since the strength of their Divine Power was only at the level of a Virtual God, their overall ability was only equivalent to that of second-rank True Gods.

The monsters that both of them hunted together were basically second-rank true god-level prey. When they encountered third-rank monsters, they had no choice but to detour around them.

However, Lin Huang had hunted over twenty third-rank true god-level monsters on his own.

After he had handed the corpses and the rest of his loot to the two Sword Servants for sorting out, Lin Huang rented a top-tier cultivating room in the hotel and entered closed-door cultivation to begin integrating Divine Fire in earnest.

As time passed, the ten first-rank Divine Fires and the dark red Divine Fire within Lin Huang's body slowly integrated day by day.

The color of the Divine Fire also changed daily.

As he watched the progress bar for the integration process going up every day, Lin Huang looked forward all the more to the transformation of his ability after he elevated to virtual god-level.

Twenty-eight days passed just like that. In all ten golden Life Wheels, the integration of Divine Fire was completed in less than ten minutes.

The initial dark red Divine Fire became fiery red, like a blazing piece of coal.

The very second the Divine Fire completed integrating, the ten Life Wheels moved at almost the same time and flew out of the Life Palace right away.

After leaving the Life Palace, all ten Life Wheels surrounded the Life Palace and began spinning wildly. Red Divine Fire surged out from them like a river and spurted toward the Life Palace.

In the blink of an eye, the entire Life Palace was engulfed by an endless sea of flame. No trace of it could be seen.

"Is this… condensing the Godhead?"

The scene in front of him had occurred entirely on its own once the integration of Divine Fire was completed. Lin Huang had no control over it at all; he could only observe from the sidelines as it happened.

The process of condensing the Godhead had begun; Lin Huang patiently waited to one side.

This time, the surge of Divine Fire lasted for ten days.

Lin Huang's Life Palace finally collapsed completely, transforming into points of starlight.

Another ten days later, after being immersed in Divine Fire, these countless points of starlight gradually condensed into a black crystal the size of a thumb. A mysterious blood-red divine pattern was faintly visible on the crystal's surface.

It was not until the Godhead was completely condensed that the Life Wheels stopped spurting Divine Fire. They turned into ten streams of light that submerged themselves into the Godhead.

Once the Godhead had been established, rings of Divine Power immediately spread out in all directions and into every corner of Lin Huang's body.

At this moment, Lin Huang felt every cell in his body undergoing a violent metamorphosis, even down to the particles of his soul.

This transformation took three days and three nights to be fully completed.

When Lin Huang opened his eyes again, he felt as if he had been reborn.

"Finally, I have advanced to virtual god-level!"

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"Host: Lin Huang"

"Gender: Male"

"Age: 20"

"Combat Strength: Virtual God-level (rank-1)"

"Title: Godslayer"

"Goldfinger: Xiao Hei, Stone Tablet, Eternity Fire, Yin Yin"

"Integration Item: Origin God's Heart, One Page Sword Scripture, Galactic Hive, God Weapon, Great Heaven Palace (Initial Integration)…"

"Life Palace: Monster Paradise"

"Inheritance: Great Heaven, Sword2, Sword8, Sword10, Sorcerer Goddess…"

"Divine Ability: Substitute, Golden Cicada…"

"God Rule: Superhuman Strength, Seraphic Speed, God-slaying Power"

"Elemental Enlightenment: Instant Flash, Sun Shadow, Heavenly Roc, Traceless, Lightning God, Heaven's Punishment, Tattooed Demon, Hell"

"Sword Dao: True Meaning Level (Possesses Sword Heart, Sword Spirit)"

"Sword Skills: 200,000 types"

"Minor: The Twisted Fate Scripture, Seamless…"

"Monster Skills: Divine Telekinesis, Divine Regeneration, Holy Power, Elemental Immunity, Leech Pods, Absolute Control, Divine Purification Light, Revival, Immortal Warrior Body, Vampire Particles, Divine Strength, Divine Defense, Lightning Lord, Dark Mirror, Doll forbidden skill, Punishment, Divine Witchcraft, Knight, Integration, Mechanical Building, Mechanical Recovery, Evil Blood Substitute, Divine Disguise, Demon Flame, Hellish Fire, Abyssal Fire, Lightning God, Phoenix."

"Summon Authority: Activated (Supreme God-level)"

"Available Number of Summons: 50"

"Remarks: Not too bad"

Upon checking his personal panel, Lin Huang was fairly satisfied.

After elevating to virtual god-level, not only had the upper limits of the mythical-level imperial monsters' combat strength been unlocked to true god-level (the imperial monsters' combat strength was not directly advanced to true god-level), but the available number of summons had also increased from the original 30 to 50.

This meant that as soon as Bai and the rest were able to elevate their combat strength to true god-level, he could summon fifty true god-level imperial monsters at the same time to fight for him. This was not even including the quota for the hive limit.

In addition to the increase in the upper limit of the imperial monsters' combat strength, the upper limit of the Sword Servants' combat strength had also been unsealed. The sixty-eight Sword Servants, including Sword301, had their combat power unsealed right away to first-rank true god-level.

The changes in the imperial monsters and Sword Servants were all within Lin Huang's expectations.

What surprised him more were the changes brought about after the Monster Paradise Territory had officially evolved into God Territory.

"God Territory: Monster Paradise"

"God Territory's Territorial Range: Radius of 10,000 kilometers from the God Territory possessor (potential to grow)"

"God Territory Ability 1: Within the God Territory's territorial range, the dead summoning beast's soul will return to the God Territory with its body reconstructed with Divine Power and revived. Those that have broken soul will have their broken soul pieces recalled and recovered."

"Ability Restriction 1: Each summoning beast can only be revived 100 times within 24 hours. Their soul will disintegrate when it surpasses 100 times and they won't be able to return to the God Territory (potential to grow)"

"Ability Restriction 2: Each summoning beast can only have their soul recovered 12 times within 24 hours. Their soul will disintegrate if it surpasses 12 times and they won't be able to return to the God Territory (potential to grow)"

"Derivative Ability: If the God Territory possessor is dead within the coverage range, he can choose to use a summoning beast to substitute death. The summoning beast that is chosen as the substitute won't be able to be summoned within 24 hours (potential to grow)"

"Remarks: The God Territory possessor can only be substituted for death 12 times within 24 hours. He can only be substitute 5 times if his soul disintegrated (potential to grow)"

"God Territory Ability 2: Within the God Territory's territorial range, the God Territory possessor and his summoning beasts would have a 12 fold boost on their strength, speed, and spirit. The other summoning beasts would have a 50% drop on their strength, speed, and spirit (potential to grow)."

"Remark 1: The God Territory possessor can turn off the boost and undermining effect as he wishes."

"Remark 2: The weakening ability of the God Territory is not effective for life entities that exceed the God Territory possessor's level by one level or more."

"God Territory Ability 3: Within the effective range of the God Territory, the God Territory possessor can freely borrow any skills from all monsters within the effective range of the God Territory."

"Remark 1: The borrowing of monster skills already possessed by the God Territory possessor is invalid and will not result in a compound effect."

"Remark 2: Within 24 hours, the God Territory possessor's number of Monster Skill spaces will temporarily double and the maximum number of borrowed skills must not exceed the God Territory possessor's number of Monster Skill authorities. (If he originally has 50 skill spaces, he can borrow up to 50 more skills.)"

The territorial range of the God Territory was much larger than the previous territorial range of the Life Palace. The number of revivals of the summoned beasts, the number of soul repairs, the number of substitutions, and the increase in the ability of the summoned beasts had all been significantly elevated.

After checking his personal information, Lin Huang sensed the changes in his body again. He could clearly feel his physical strength, his spirit strength, and his Divine Telekinesis strength; even the Divine Fire had transformed in its nature.

Before it was only comparable to the level of a first-rank True God, but now it had almost elevated to the level of a third-rank True God.

He carefully checked his body and took another look at the date. Lin Huang did not plan on ending his closed-door cultivation; instead, he turned his attention to the pile of second-rank tinder in his inner world.

"My foundation has been securely laid. It shouldn't be a problem to advance to Virtual God rank-3 in no time at all. According to the current speed of my Divine Fire integration, it will take me about eighty days to advance to Virtual God rank-3. There are only three and a half months left of the year before I have to return to the gravel world. After that, it won't be possible to continue to improve my combat strength for the short term. I can use this time to strengthen my cultivation."

After he had confirmed that there would be no problems in continuing to advance, Lin Huang did not hesitate. Taking out ten lumps of second-rank Divine Fire tinder, he inserted them into ten Life Wheels respectively.

This time, the Life Wheels did not refuse the tinder but accepted them right away.

The ten lumps of tinder sank into the ten Life Lamps. Under the stimulation of the Divine Fire, they quickly activated and began to burn again in just a few seconds.

Lin Huang closed his eyes to focus and started a new round of Divine Fire integration.

Another month passed by in a flash; by the end of it, the ten lumps of second-rank tinder had been completely integrated. This time, the shape and color of the Divine Fire in Lin Huang's body did not change much but the Divine Power it released was obviously much stronger than before.

Once the integration of Divine Fire was complete, the ten Life Wheels oscillated again and detached themselves from the Godhead.

The Life Wheels formed a circle on the periphery of the Godhead. Once again they spurted out Divine Fire and started a new round of refining.

Time went by and another ten days passed. The Life Wheels stopped spurting Divine Fire and the Godhead had also completed a new cycle of refining.

Lin Huang was now officially elevated to Virtual God rank-2!

He checked his physical condition and looked at the date, before once more turning his attention to the lumps of third-rank Divine Fire tinder in his inner world. Very soon he began a new round of cultivation…

After forty days, Lin Huang had successfully advanced to Virtual God rank-3.

This closed-door cultivation lasted more than four months.

Lin Huang broke through three minor levels one after the other from grade-10 Imperial-level and successfully advanced to Virtual God rank-3.

At this time, there was only less than a month left before the end of the one-year period that had been agreed upon…

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Chapter 1390: The Young Princess of the Nephilic Judge Tribe

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The next time Lin Huang stepped out of the cultivation room and saw Sword301 and Sword302 again, the two of them were already third-rank True Gods.

When the swordmaster's combat strength increased, it would in turn automatically unlock their Sword Servants' combat power.

The two Sword Servants were overjoyed when they saw Lin Huang coming out of the room.

"Congratulations, Lord Swordmaster, for advancing three levels in just four short months!"

When Lin Huang previously obtained the Great Heaven inheritance, he had already proven his Sword Dao potential and convinced many Sword Servants. Now, his terrifying cultivation speed had made the Sword Servants hold even more reverence for Lin Huang as a swordmaster.

"You've both worked hard these past few months." Lin Huang nodded slightly.

The two of them had waited for Lin Huang for more than four months, and they had to constantly keep an eye out for movement around the cultivation room to prevent Lin Huang from being disturbed. It was indeed a very boring job.

"Has there been any news lately?"

"Nothing major. There've only been two pieces of news that have become hot topics in the past few months. The first is that the Nephilic Judge Tribe has publicly re-acknowledged a young princess who had previously been estranged. The second is that this young princess of the Nephilic Judge Tribe has leveled up to true god-level," Sword302 said as he pursed his lips, "The Nephilic Judge Tribe has a very low fertility rate and has had difficulty in producing a pure-blooded descendant even after thousands of years. This young princess is probably someone's secret illegitimate child…"

"A young princess of the Nephilic Judge Tribe…" The first thought that came to Lin Huang's mind was Kylie. "Are there any pictures of this young princess?"

Sword302 was stunned at Lin Huang's words, then projected the news information with a playful look in her eyes.

Lin Huang was speechless once he saw the projection.

It really was Kylie!

In the projection, Kylie radiated sheer heroic spirit in her armor of interwoven purple and gold. The mask on her face had also been removed, revealing her beautiful face.

Seeing that Lin Huang was stunned for a long time, the playful expression on Sword302's face deepened. "If Lord Swordmaster is interested in this princess, then once our influence has been established, we can directly visit them to propose marriage.

"However, ever since this young princess's true face was revealed, many Pure Blood Protoss tribes have been flocking to the doors of the Nephilic Judge Tribe over the last few months. From what I've heard, there are more than twenty fine pure-blooded young men from the Angel Tribe who are on the suitors' list to ask for her hand in marriage."

"I thought the people of the Angel Tribe were genderless?" Lin Huang raised an eyebrow.

"They don't have a fixed gender, but they can modify their gender to suit their needs," Sword301 could not help interjecting when he heard this.

"The competition is fierce, Lord Swordmaster…" Sword302 laughed as she teased.

"Kylie is actually my partner. She's just temporarily separated from me due to certain reasons." Lin Huang nonchalantly shot a glance toward Sword302.

"Huh?" Sword302 was shocked.

However, Lin Huang was unwilling to explain any further. Instead, he continued to search for information and news about Kylie.

It had taken Kylie more than half a year to finally be recognized by the Nephilic Judges. Apart from the time required for identity verification, the majority of her time was actually spent on the road.

For one thing, this was because the core zone was extremely far away and the journey was very long. For another, the core zone was not accessible to just anyone. Bloody and Kylie must have spent a lot of time trying to obtain permission to enter.

There were not many descriptions of Bloody within the available data. Lin Huang saw several articles mentioning that young Princess Kylie had a beautiful close female friend, but that was all. There were no recorded images of Bloody, nor was there any information about her.

"That's very like Bloody…" Bloody had always been low-key and cautious. Although there was no information on her, Lin Huang was almost certain that this mysterious best friend of Kylie's had to be Bloody.

It was about four months ago that Kylie had retraced her origins, which was just a few days after Lin Huang went into closed-door cultivation.

In the past few months, Bloody and Kylie had probably been borrowing resources from the God Territory core zone to investigate the route for returning to the gravel world.

Although the God Territory was a vast land, several months should have been enough time to find the star map in Qi Muxiong's memory if they compared the star maps one by one.

Since there was still no news from Bloody and Kylie, it was very likely that the star map in Qi Muxiong's memory that contained the route back to the gravel world was not in the God Territory.

"I hope we can find that star zone quickly, though. There's only less than a month left till the end of the appointed one-year period…" Lin Huang was a little anxious, but there was nothing else he could do other than being restless.

With Kylie's current status, it was definitely easier for her to obtain resources for star maps compared to him. In this regard, he could not be of much help.

Shaking his head to rid his mind of distracting thoughts, Lin Huang summoned Warlord.

Seeing Warlord appear out of nowhere, the two Sword Servants were so shocked they immediately fell into their fighting stances.

"This is Warlord. He's my imperial monster, as well as my partner," Lin Huang quickly explained to avoid any accidental injuries.

The two Sword Servants were taken aback when they heard that and immediately relaxed from their fighting stance.

Sword302 seemed to have thought of something, and could not help asking, "So, the young princess of the Nephilic Judge Tribe…"

Lin Huang nodded slightly, saying nothing more.

The two Sword Servants glanced at each other, and both saw the astonishment in each other's eyes.

"Warlord, help me check if there are any open ruins or secret zones in the God Territory, the kind we can easily go in and out of. It would be best if the monsters there are at true god-level combat strength…"

Warlord began to search on the Internet immediately.

"Lord Swordmaster, will we be entering ruins again?" Sword301 asked.

"It's mainly for them to enter," Lin Huang pointed at Warlord, "We're just going for a round of hunting."

After Lin Huang's combat strength was elevated, Warlord and the other imperial monsters were still stuck at Virtual God rank-9. To further advance to true god-level, they had to rely on themselves to hunt for Divine Fire tinder and ignite the Divine Fires within their own bodies.

Kylie's elevation to true god-level was due in part to her advancement to virtual god-level because of Lin Huang. Then, after increasing the upper limit of her combat strength, she had hunted for Divine Fire tinder and ignited her Divine Fires.

Lin Huang's current plan was to release all the imperial monsters, let them hunt freely, and have them advance to true god-level as soon as possible.

As for himself, he was preparing to hunt down a great deal of Divine Fire tinder that was above third-rank, then wait until he returned to the gravel world before slowly refining them.

The reason he chose a secret zone ruin that he could easily get in and out of was that he wanted to be able to leave immediately before the end of the appointed one-year period.

In less than three seconds, Warlord had found a ruin that met Lin Huang's requirements.

"There is a ruin that specifically meets your requirements, but there is a small problem.

"The ruins of Lust are a pre-existing set of ruins located on the border between the God Territory and the Abyss. In these ruins, there are a large number of Abyssal creatures as well as dark creatures that have been tainted by Abyssal energy. Usually, only virtual god-level and true god-level monsters roam around on the land within the outer perimeter, while heavenly god-level monsters are to be found within the inner perimeter…"

"So, what's this small problem?" Lin Huang raised an eyebrow.

"Not many people from the God Territory go to these ruins to train. More than 90% of those who train there are members of the Abyssal Tribe," Warlord finished speaking and looked up at Lin Huang.

"We'll go to this one. If we encounter any members of the Abyssal Tribe, kill the ones that you can defeat, and just run away from those that you can't," Lin Huang made the final call without any hesitation.

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Chapter 1391: Something's About To Happen!

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"I've taken Bai and the others into the ruins of Lust, and we will return to the God Territory in about roughly three days before the one-year period is up. As for the star map, leave a message if there is any news. I'll reply as soon as I see it."

After leaving this message for both Bloody and Kylie respectively, Lin Huang took the two Sword Servants and went straight to the site of the ruins of Lust.

The ruins of Lust were completely accessible to the public.

To prevent the invasion of Abyssal creatures, a Lord of the God Territory had set a barrier at the entrance and exit to prevent all cultivators with the aura of an Abyssal from entering or leaving.

The entrance and exit of the ruins were also guarded by two ninth-rank True Gods.

The two guardians of this place were alternately appointed by the grade-6 and grade-7 organizations.

Each time, two different organizations would arrange for one person from each respective organization to serve as a guardian, and each guardian would be on duty for ten years. Of course, this job came with high remuneration, so many cultivators would take the initiative to apply to be guardians.

After Lin Huang and the two Sword Servants registered outside the entrance, they stepped through into the ruins.

"I don't know where this junior is from; he's only a Virtual God rank-3, and still has the audacity to come to the ruins of Lust?" One of the guardians said as he saw the three of them entering the ruins.

"He even brought two true god-level bodyguards with him. He must be the descendent of a pure-blood clan." The other guardian discerned the relationship between the three with just a glance. "It's no wonder the pure-blood clans haven't produced a decent junior for so many years. Every one of them brings along bodyguards when they come to train. If they encounter any danger, the bodyguards protect them. What sort of results can such training produce?"

"I know right? Unrivaled God, who is now the number one on the Virtual God Leaderboard—everyone knows he isn't a pure-blood. Even if he isn't a pure-blood though, he's still a young master in the Xeno organization. His father is a Heavenly God, and his family is more powerful than most pure-blood clans, but he never brings along any bodyguards. He joined the Combat God Temple at a young age, carried out countless conquests at virtual god-level, and made a name for himself. Is there anyone in the entire God Territory who doesn't know Unrivaled God's name now?!"

Of course, Lin Huang—who had already stepped into the secret zone—could not hear the conversation between the two guardians anymore.

However, even if he had overheard them, he would probably have been too lazy to argue with them. At most he would have just laughed.

As far as the phrase "I beat up Unrivaled God and plundered more than a dozen Sword Dao inheritances from him" went, he probably would not have said it aloud, even though this incident really had happened.

After entering the ruins, Lin Huang used Divine Telekinesis and quickly swept the surrounding area to confirm that there were no participants nearby. He then summoned all the mythical-level imperial monsters.

Bai, who was pseudo-mythical-level, was present along with Lancelot, Killer, Evil Dominator, Charcoal, Tyrant, Grimace, Thunder, Bloody Robe, Malachian Fiend, Imp, Witch, Eclipse Boa, Death Knight, Fallen Knight, Warlord, Herculean King, Bing Wang, and Dark Crescent Snake (2 of them), who were all mythical-level.

Apart from these creatures, the Bug Tribe Queen Mothers (4 of them), Multi-eyed Worms (2 of them), Superbrain Worms (2 of them), Golden Bugs (2 of them), and Bug Servant Busby from the hive were all summoned.

Seeing more than 30 imperial monsters being summoned at the same time, Sword301 and Sword302 were so stunned that they were speechless for a while.

This was the first time that they had seen someone who could control so many imperial monsters at once.

What surprised them even more was that so many were from the Bug Tribe.

Moreover, both of them could sense from the auras that almost all of the imperial monsters summoned by Lin Huang were of mythical-level rank-4.

The two also sensed that Bai was different and could not help looking at him a few more times.

"You should have already sensed that the upper limit of your combat strength has been increased; this is because my combat strength has increased to Virtual God rank-3.

"My purpose in summoning all of you is very simple—that is, to let all of you hunt in these ruins as much as you want and advance to true god-level as fast as possible.

"We will be here for a maximum of 23 days. It seems like a lot of time, but these ruins greatly restrict exploration methods such as Divine Telekinesis. To some extent, this also increases the difficulty of everyone's hunt. However, after the 23-day deadline, I hope to see all of you successfully elevated to true god-level.

"Next, you will form your own teams. I suggest that it's best to have two or three people per group; you can then divide combat roles and match them to your members…"

After a few minutes, all the imperial monsters had divided themselves into groups. Bai and the others formed ten teams while the remaining four Queen Mothers of the Bug Tribe formed a large army with the hive and seven mythical-level bugs.

Lin Huang was a little surprised at the Bug Tribe's choice, but he did not stop them.

After they had received the monster distribution map and information on the ruins from Lin Huang, the eleven teams quickly chose a direction respectively and left.

After he watched all the imperial monsters leave, Lin Huang looked in the direction where the Bug Tribe had gone and muttered, "Something's about to happen!"

He stood there for a while, then turned around and hurried away from the Bug Tribe's direction, taking the two Sword Servants with him.

After arriving at the distribution area of the true god-level monsters, Lin Huang quickly parted ways with the two Sword Servants.

Sword301 and Sword302 had indeed felt extremely constrained in the past few months, and this time they agreed to the individual hunting proposed by Lin Huang without any objections.

Lin Huang himself quickly went deep into the hunting area and hurried towards the fourth-rank true god-level distribution area described on the map.

The monster distribution map provided by the God Territory was not very detailed, but the locations and approximate areas of monsters of different combat levels were marked.

About an hour after he entered the ruins, Lin Huang finally arrived at his destination. It took him another half an hour to finally find the first prey that was suitable for him—a White-Faced Ghost.

White-Faced Ghosts were a type of evil spirit.

This type of monster was three to five meters tall and looked like a large and slender ghost. It wore a pure white mask and floated in the air.

Lin Huang did not bother to confront the opponent head-on this time. With a flick of his cuff, hundreds of telekinetic flying daggers shot out. Boosted by Seraphic Speed God Rule, Lighting Element's Instant Flash, Traceless, Light Element's Sun Shadow, Wind Element's Heavenly Roc, and the Elemental Enlightenment of several rapid speed sword skills, the telekinetic flying daggers instantly penetrated the body of the White-Faced Ghost, practically turning it into a sieve.

Although the White-Faced Ghost had discovered Lin Huang a while ago, it had no time to react at all before being pierced through by hundreds of telekinetic flying daggers.

After killing the White-Faced Ghost, Lin Huang extracted its Divine Fire. He was so proficient in this that he was able to do it in one go.

Now that the hunt for his first prey was complete, he did not linger but turned around and hurried away in search of his second target.

At the same time that Lin Huang started his hunting journey, Bai and the other imperial monsters had not been idle. Each of them entered the True God area to search for suitable hunting targets.

Only the Bug Tribe was slightly different. The four Queen Mothers stayed in the virtual god-level area along with the hive and several mythical-level bugs.

After that, all four Queen Mother opened the hive's entrance and released the entire Bug Tribe army of several hundred million fighters…

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Chapter 1392: The Last Day

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Twenty days passed by in a flash. Once he saw that the number of sixth-rank Divine Tinder pieces stored in his inner world had finally reached ten, Lin Huang exhaled a long breath.

In the past twenty days, he had not been idle for even a moment; he had been running around the True God area on the outer perimeter of the ruins, searching for prey that was suitable for him.

In fact, every time he located a target, the battle did not last a long time. The handful of short battles were all straightforward with instant kills, and took less than a second, while the longest battle only lasted less than two hours.

Most of his time was spent traveling, avoiding high-rank True Gods, and searching for suitable targets.

"There are still three days left, I wonder how Bai and the others are doing…" At this point, Lin Huang finally had time to think about matters other than hunting. "There are also the Bug Tribe Queen Mothers…"

He had a vague feeling that the four Queen Mothers with the hive might have been up to something.

What Lin Huang did not know was that his premonition had been spot-on.

The four Bug Tribe Queen Mothers had quietly slaughtered all the Virtual Gods on the outer perimeter of the ruins of Lust three days ago. They had brought more than ten Bug Tribe battleships and a massive new Bug Tribe army into the low-rank True God territory.

After the Bug Tribe army entered the True God area, they did not immediately make a move. Instead, they quietly assassinated a few nearby Abyssal True Gods, then garrisoned the hive and the battleship.

In the three days that followed, spies were sent out to probe for detailed information about the distribution of monsters in the True God area.

Just as Lin Huang was about to finish his own hunt, the Bug Tribe spies finally returned with a complete map of the True God area and its monster information.

After the spy shared the information, a Superbrain Worm spoke up.

"The True God area is much more dangerous than the previous Virtual God area. The distribution of low, medium and high-rank True Gods is also much more mixed. If we send out a large army to hunt, even if it's only to hunt low-rank True Gods, it may alarm the medium or high-rank monsters. However, with our current strength, if we encounter a True God higher than low-rank, our chances of winning are low even if we use the worm wave attack. Therefore, my suggestion is that we should divide into teams and covertly slaughter them!"

"If we don't send out the hive army, there are only eleven of us capable of hunting True Gods. We can only assemble five teams at most. Furthermore, now there are only three days left in the hunting period given by the master. Covert killing will be very ineffective !" A Queen Mother frowned slightly.

The other three Queen Mothers also nodded, agreeing with what she said.

"We have more than eleven people who can participate in the hunt. Those among the pseudo-mythical-level bug guardians which have control and assisting capabilities can join our team. They can be responsible for restraining our prey so that we can complete the hunt more smoothly.

"Besides, we can also join forces with Bai and others. They have completed the task assigned by the master and successfully advanced to true god-level. However, they have not stopped hunting; we can send pseudo-mythical-level bug guardians with control and assisting capabilities to team up with them and hunt. They might also be able to obtain some commissions from them."

The second Superbrain Worm quickly put forward his idea.

"The worm wave attack is not entirely unusable. If an area is full of low-rank prey, we can also use the worm wave attack to handle things quickly, as long as we don't alarm any powerhouses beyond third-rank."

After it listened to what the second Superbrain Worm had to say, the first Superbrain Worm's tentacles rippled with excitement. "The first two days must be more low-key, but on the last day, we can do something big…"

"Alright, we'll go according to what you've suggested. Both of you spend a few minutes discussing the details, then we can proceed directly according to the plan." A Queen Mother nodded.

The remaining three Queen Mothers also raised no objections.

A few minutes later, Bai and Grimace had just joined forces to hunt a second-rank True God when a bug soldier flew over at great speed.

"A little bug is coming, do you want to kill it?" Grimace grinned maliciously.

Bai glanced blandly at Grimace before asked the insect soldier expressionlessly, "Is there any news from the hive?"

The probing insect soldier took one look at Grimace and shrank into its body slightly; it had to force its tone to remain calm.

"The four Queen Mothers hope to reach strategic cooperation with both esteemed masters. The hive will send control and assisting Virtual God rank-9 bug guardians to hunt together with the esteemed masters to assist in your hunt. We have also obtained all the maps and monster information for the entire True God area and this information can be shared with both esteemed masters…"

"We don't mind the information, but forget about teaming up. I don't want anyone to disturb the beautiful time between me and Xiao Baibai…" Grimace squinted and grinned.

However, before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Bai.

"We can team up. Send someone to join us as soon as possible."

"Even with me here, you still want others along? Huh, what a heartless man!" Grimace displayed a "sorrowful" expression.

Bai ignored Grimace's talking to himself.

The insect soldier did not dare not raise its head the whole time until he got Bai's confirmation. It nodded quickly, then turned, and left hurriedly.

After about half an hour, Bai and his ten teams all welcomed the Bug Tribe reinforcements. All the bug guardians on the team had been matched for the best combinations, based on the two Superbrain Worms' analysis of the existing structure of the ten teams. Almost every team had different abilities and varying numbers of bug guardians. The smallest group was matched with five bug guardians, while the largest had eleven.

As for the Bug Tribe itself, the eleven members were also divided into four teams. Each of the four Queen Mothers led a team and they also had with them several pseudo-mythical-level bug guardians.

A new round of hunting soon began. With the assistance of the bug guardians, the hunting efficiency of these teams was significantly higher.

A few of the teams even started to try and hunt third-rank True Gods.

Right as the imperial monsters were busy hunting second-rank and third-rank True Gods, Lin Huang had already started round upon round of sixth-rank True God hunting.

Time passed, and another two days went by.

The Queen Mother and other mythical ranked bugs had successively advanced to true god-level, along with more than one hundred pseudo-mythical-level bug guardians who had participated in the hunt.

Bai, Tyrant, and the others had already elevated to true god-level more than 20 days ago and now they had almost advanced to second-rank.

The few teams that up till then had only dared to hunt second-rank monsters had also started hunting third-rank monsters one after the other.

Among them all, Bai and Grimace's team was the boldest; they started to try hunting fourth-rank monsters.

When the last day arrived, the Bug Tribe went completely wild.

The four Queen Mothers each carried the imprint of the hive, opened the main entrance of the hive in four different areas, and began to release a massive army of bugs.

The bug army instantly swept through nearly one-third of the entire True God area…

This mad hunt only lasted less than an hour before the local medium and high-rank monsters began to notice anything unusual.

The Bug Tribe spies, who had been monitoring the movement of all major areas, immediately notified the four Queen Mothers, who did not hesitate to order the withdrawal of their troops.

In less than five minutes, the massive Bug Tribe army disappeared from the ruins and returned to the hive.

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Chapter 1393: Demonic Buddhist Holy Son

Lin Huang was hunting a sixth-rank True God when a message suddenly came from the hive, sent through directly by the Queen Mother.

He was rather surprised but did not check it immediately. Instead, he continued to fight his prey.

About half an hour later after he had killed and dealt with his target, he clicked on the message sent by the hive.

"Retrieve the hive and the other imperial monsters as soon as possible! Leave the ruins!"

Upon seeing this message, Lin Huang was first taken aback; after that, he suddenly reacted. "What did you do?"

"We launched the bug horde, activated the Bug Tribe battleship, and practically wiped out all the low-rank True Gods," the Queen Mother replied within seconds.

"(o)…" Lin Huang was stunned.

"Other monsters in the True God area have already begun to notice this state of affairs. Now we are hiding in the hive with our massive army. However, the news has most likely spread throughout the entire True God area and there is a possibility that large-scale uprisings will occur at the ruins. It's not just the Bug Tribe, but all the participants who will be affected and become targets of revenge for these local monsters." It was a Superbrain Worm that said this.

"This is still not the worst state of affairs. In the worst-case scenario, the heavenly god-levels in the inner perimeter may also be alarmed and enter the outer perimeter to stop us…" Another Superbrain Worm added.

The words of the two Superbrain Worms made Lin Huang realize the seriousness of the situation. He immediately contacted the two Sword Servants using their telepathic bond.

"A situation has come up. Give me your coordinates, both of you; I'll find a suitable meeting point. Stop hunting immediately and get there as fast as you can."

After notifying the two Sword Servants, Lin Huang immediately contacted all the imperial monsters.

"Everyone, stop hunting immediately! Pack up all the spoils of the hunt at once. After one minute, I will return everyone to card status!"

Right after he notified the imperial monsters, Sword301 and Sword302 sent their coordinates over at the same time.

Lin Huang glanced at their coordinates and his own, then roughly calculated a meeting point nearest to all three of them. He then sent the coordinates to the two Sword Servants.

"Stop whatever you're doing and hurry to the rendezvous! If you encounter monsters on the way that you can kill immediately, do it—detour if you can't. Don't waste time tangling with them. Once you get to the meeting point, if I'm not there yet, look for a hiding place nearby and conceal yourselves so monsters can't find you."

After sending the message, Lin Huang immediately turned his attention again to the imperial monsters. One by one, he returned all the imperial monsters to their cards and also retrieved the hive and the Bug Tribe.

Once he had taken care of his worries about possible impending consequences, Lin Huang sprinted towards the coordinates he and the two Sword Servants had agreed upon.

Less than ten minutes after he had set out, he suddenly sensed that a beam of Divine Telekinesis was locked on his body, and an aura was approaching at rapid speed.

Lin Huang ignored this, fully unleashing Seraphic Speed God Rule and rapid speed sword skill Elemental Enlightenment. His figure transformed into a flash of red lightning and he accelerated out of the other's Divine Telekinesis sensing range.

With his current combat strength in addition to the various rapid speed sword skills he had mastered, his long-distance flight speed was no lower than that of an ordinary sixth-rank True God. If it was in actual combat which required short-range bursts and shifts, his advantage was even more obvious, to the point of surpassing most sixth-rank True Gods.

Only after spending a few minutes to get out of the Divine Telekinesis lock did Lin Huang breathe a sigh of relief. Suddenly two Divine Telekinesis beams swept over and locked onto him once more.

"From the looks of things, these abyssal monsters have already begun searching for the participants…" Lin Huang immediately realized that it was not a coincidence that he had been discovered earlier; all the abyssal monsters were using Divine Telekinesis to search for participants.

At this point, he could not help frowning slightly, not because he was being hunted, but because he knew that Sword301 and Sword302 were also likely to have encountered the same thing as he had.

Moreover, he harbored even greater worries in mind.

After he had accelerated out of range of the two abyssal monsters' Divine Telekinesis probe, Lin Huang pressed the Thousand Face mask on his face with one hand. The aura of his entire body changed drastically in less than a second and his figure turned into a human-like Abyssal evil spirit type.

Once he had used Thousand Face to disguise himself as an Abyssal creature, Lin Huang quickened his pace and hastened toward the coordinates agreed upon.

For the next half an hour, Lin Huang had a smooth journey. Even if Divine Telekinesis swept over him every two or three minutes, it just lingered for a while before quickly moving away, apparently treating him as an Abyssal.

It took more than half an hour to arrive at the designated coordinates. Lin Huang sat on a boulder to wait patiently for the arrival of the two Sword Servants.

He knew that both of them must have had a much harder time than himself.

After about half an hour, Sword301 and Sword302 arrived on the heels of each other, less than three minutes apart.

Seeing that both of them had arrived safely, Lin Huang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The two of them were stunned when they first saw Lin Huang. At first glance, they did not recognize him.

Lin Huang took the initiative to greet them, removing Thousand Face. The two of them then lifted the concealment they had used to hide themselves.

Now that Sword302 and Sword301 had arrived, Lin Huang did not waste time in idle talk. He immediately summoned the dimensional portal and pulled the two of them into it.

When he first entered the ruins, he had already used the dimensional portal to set the coordinates to the entrance and exit.

The minute they stepped out of the portal, Lin Huang's hair stood on end as a dangerous aura assaulted his senses. Without even thinking about it he dragged the two Sword Servants with him and darted away immediately.

A black gleam hit the spot where the three of them had just stepped out from and bombarded the dimensional portal, which instantly turned into powder.

Hundreds of meters away, Lin Huang looked warily at the person who had launched the assault.

The other party was dressed in a snow-white monk's robe, facing Lin Huang in profile. Although he was bald, Lin Huang had never seen a person who pulled off a bald head so beautifully. The half of his face that could be seen was so perfect that one could not spot any flaws.

At first glance, Lin Huang was taken aback when he saw his opponent. This was because the other party looked like a human youth, and the aura he exuded was also that of a peaceful Buddhist cultivator.

"Your reaction's not too bad!" The corners of the lips on the visible half of the face quirked up and the figure turned around slowly.

Once the other had turned fully to face him and the other side of his face became visible, Lin Huang's pupils contracted slightly.

"A Demonic Buddhist Holy Son!"

According to legend, the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son was a type of evil spirit. They were originally ancient high-level Buddhist cultivators with extremely in-depth Buddhist knowledge who had been transformed after being polluted by Abyssal energy.

The horror of this particular type of evil spirit was that they retained the memory and wisdom of their Buddhist cultivation, and their talent and potential were comparable to top-tier Abyssal creatures. Moreover, the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son's innate rank was at least a fourth and a half-rank Pseudo-supreme God-level; they could even directly be at fifth-rank supreme god-level.

The most recognizable thing about the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son was that half of their faces were that of the perfect monk, while the other half was rotted and deformed, contaminated by Abyssal energy.

The right half of the face of the white-robed "monk" before Lin Huang looked like a deformity that had been soaked and stained with black sewage. It was even surrounded by a thick black mist…

At this moment, the monk was completely different from the time when only half his face was visible earlier and his whole being exuded an extremely ominous aura.

"A ninth-rank True God-level Demonic Buddhist Holy Son!" Lin Huang's expression was unprecedentedly weighty.

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Chapter 1394: Encountering A Strong Enemy

Seeing the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son guarding the way in and out of the ruins, Lin Huang's state of mind was anything but relaxed.

Before this he had been worried that someone might be guarding the entrance and exit point at the ruins; the scenario that he feared the most had still come to pass. Moreover, it was worse than he had previously imagined.

Among the Abyssal creatures, the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son's abilities were at the peak of those at the same level of combat strength.

If this had been just an ordinary ninth-rank True God, Lin Huang would not have worried at all because he had a Provisional Combat Strength Upgrade Card at hand. This would be enough to raise his ability to ninth-rank True God-level.

However, the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son in front of him might be at ninth-rank True God-level, but his ability might not be far from that of a Heavenly God.

Facing a powerful enemy like never before, Lin Huang frantically went through countermeasures in his head.

Right now though, the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son did not make a move to attack, instead asking Lin Huang and the others, "Have you seen the Bug Tribe in these ruins?"

"No," Lin Huang denied without a second thought.

The Demonic Buddhist Holy Son quirked his lips again. "You are lying.

"Little black-haired brother, you denied my question too quickly. Almost without thinking, you gave a negative answer.

"If you really haven't seen the Bug Tribe, when this humble monk brought up this question, you should have had some doubts and would have taken a moment before answering. You would definitely be uncertain in your mind as to why I asked such a question. You would also be curious as to why the Bug Tribe would appear in this Abyssal ruin. However, you did not show any doubts, as if you knew that the Bug Tribe was here…

"Therefore this humble monk infers that you've either seen the Bug Tribe in these ruins… or you're in league with them!"

Lin Huang thought about it for a moment, then played along with the other's line of thought and gave a new response.

"Alright, I admit that we've seen the Bug Tribe. I denied it before because I just don't want to get involved in any matters between you and them.

"As for your second inference, it's complete nonsense. When have you ever seen the Protoss fraternizing with Bug Tribe creatures?"

The Demonic Buddhist Holy Son thought about it for a moment and then spoke again, "Very well, this humble monk will take it that you're telling the truth this time.

"Among the three of you, whoever first provides information on the Bug Tribe, this humble monk can let them go free. As for the other two, my humble self can only apologize."

Lin Huang had initially thought to avoid conflict as best as he could, so he had lied and distanced the three of them from the Bug Tribe. However, the attitude of the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son was already very obvious from his words. Whether or not the three of them had any connection to the Bug Tribe, he did not intend to let them go.

Although he said that he would let one person leave, he was unlikely to keep his promise in the end. He was probably only saying this just to fish for useful information.

Now that he had ascertained his opponent's attitude, Lin Huang knew that this particular battle was inevitable.

He used the telepathic bond to stealthily communicate with the two Sword Servants.

"Both of you exit the battlefield. I'll delay him while you two find an appropriate moment to leave the ruins as fast as you can!"

"Lord Swordmaster, I am afraid that his ability is already very near heavenly god-level…" Sword301 was not at ease with the thought of leaving Lin Huang alone.

"I have the means to save my life and get away. If you don't leave, not only will that not help, but it will also encumber me." Lin Huang was not worried about whether he himself could escape; he was worried that the two Sword Servants would be killed.

After all, there was a huge gap between the combat strength of a third-rank and a ninth-rank, and the Sword Servants' abilities were restricted. In Sword301 and Sword302's current state, if they were to face the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son, they would be instantly killed. There was no other way around it.

Only after the pair had successfully escaped would he be able to find a way to get out of the battle without being encumbered.

Although they were not comfortable leaving their Sword Master behind to face a powerhouse like the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son, the two Sword Servants also knew that what Lin Huang said was true. The two of them would only be a burden to him.

Both Sword Servants had no choice but to obey Lin Huang's instructions.

The telepathic bond was considered a conscious level of communication. It seemed as if they had been talking for a while, but in fact, only a moment had passed.

Once he had persuaded the two Sword Servants, Lin Huang finally turned his full attention to the enemy before him.

Three Provisional Combat Strength Upgrade Cards quietly appeared in his hand. He moved two fingers slightly and crushed all three cards. They turned into three golden gleams invisible to bystanders and sank into his body.

The next instant, his combat strength began to soar!

Virtual God rank-4!

Virtual God rank-5!

Virtual God rank-6!

Previously, when he was at Virtual God rank-3, his abilities were sufficient for hunting most sixth-rank True Gods. Now that his combat strength had soared again by three minor levels, his abilities had also elevated to the level of a ninth-rank True God.

The Demonic Buddhist Holy Son could not discern Lin Huang's true combat strength beneath Thousand Face's disguise. He merely thought that Lin Huang had advanced from third-rank True God-level to sixth-rank True God-level in one breath, and could faintly sense the danger emanating from Lin Huang.

This sense of danger not only forestalled any desire he had to retreat, but it also excited him.

"You're just a mere sixth-rank but you can appear as a threat to me—your abilities are very good indeed. I wonder how long this kind of temporarily improved combat strength can last?"

"It'll sustain until the end of this battle!" Lin Huang gripped the bladeless sword hilt in his right hand. The blade quickly condensed into form, transforming into a long, narrow blood-colored sword.

"That sword isn't too bad either. Looks like you have status and position in the God Territory. What I like most is hunting geniuses like you—reading your minds, exploring your secrets…"

While the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son was speaking, Lin Huang had already boosted the God Rule Power and Elemental Enlightenment on the blade to the maximum.

He transformed into a bolt of red lightning and attacked instantly!

This move was the fastest he had pulled in his entire life.

Boosted by Seraphic Speed and various rapid speed sword skill Enlightenments, the long narrow sword was as fast as actual lightning flashing across the sky. At practically the very moment the attack was made, the weapon was already in front of the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son.

Just as the point of Lin Huang's sword drew close and was about to impale his head, the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son suddenly made a sweeping gesture through the void with one hand and unleashed countless scattered shadows. Despite moving last, he pointed a finger even before Lin Huang could complete his action.

The golden fingertip instantly intercepted the blood-red sword point's advance.

The sensation Lin Huang felt in his hand was as if his sword point had run up against a shield of the same standard as his blade, blocking all his moves.

"Your speed is alright, but it's nowhere near the peak of true god-level."

After this evaluation, the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son flicked his finger and the tip of it tapped against the blood-red sword point.

At that moment, Lin Huang felt only a massive amount of force coming from the point of his blade, and the weapon nearly flew out of his hand. The arm of his sword-wielding right hand turned numb and his entire figure was suddenly sent flying away.

"So strong!"

In this first head-on confrontation, Lin Huang was finally fully aware of the strength of his opponent.

"At your sixth-rank combat strength, having this sort of ability is really not bad at all. With this, you can still fight when you meet an ordinary ninth-rank, but it's not enough when you meet the ultimate powerhouses of the ninth-rank.

"Your level of Sword Dao true meaning, as well as the number of God Rules and Elemental Enlightenments that you've mastered still have a lot of room for improvement.

"However, it's a pity you won't have a chance like this to improve further…"

Before he had finished speaking, the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son's figure disappeared on the spot and reappeared less than ten meters before Lin Huang.

As he waved his hands 'slowly', it seemed as though he grew thousands of arms in an instant. Layer upon layer of arms transformed into waves and shot forward.

Endless golden palm shadows swelled upon the wind. At first, they were just the size of a normal palm, but they expanded several times whenever they surged forward. By the time they were about to reach Lin Huang, the golden palm shadows covering the sky had already blotted out the heavens and Lin Huang's figure was completely swallowed up in an instant…

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Chapter 1395: What Did You Do To Me?!

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The golden palms that blotted out the heavens instantly enveloped the entire space, cutting off all Lin Huang's avenues of retreat like a cage.

This move by the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son finally made Lin Huang thoroughly aware of the actual gap between himself and true god-level at its peak.

"Is this the ability of a peak-level True God?!"

The Demonic Buddhist Holy Son's attack seemed to be just a simple push of the palm, but Lin Huang knew that in reality there were at least twenty God Rule Powers and Elemental Enlightenments compounded within that one move.

The God Rules and Elemental Enlightenments that he had currently mastered totaled to less than twenty kinds—this was the gap.

In addition to compounding Rule Bending Powers, the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son's move had almost reached the ideal state of equilibrium in all aspects, such as power and speed. The way he used and matched the various Rule Bending Powers had reached the point of perfection.

With just this one attack, Lin Huang could roughly gauge that the ability of the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son in front of him was already at heavenly god-level, and it was more than just a bit stronger than his current self.

Originally he had assumed that once he had elevated to Virtual God rank-6, his ability would be comparable to a Virtual God rank-9, so he should be able to deal with his opponent. Now it appeared that he entirely underestimated the other's ability and overestimated his own.

Lin Huang frowned as he watched the giant golden palms completely enclose the entire area.

"A very wide range of attack with no blind spots at all; the entire area is a prison with nowhere to escape…" He frantically ran through countermeasures in his head. "However, an attack like this with an extensive range usually has a flaw in terms of partial energy dispersion… …"

The next instant, the sword in his hand turned into thousands of blood-red thunderbolts, and the ends of the thunderbolts repeatedly bombarded the same point—the gap between the two golden palms.

In just the blink of an eye, the blood-red sword point repeatedly assaulted the same spot thousands of times.

Cobweb-like hairline fissures soon began to appear in the gap. As the number of Lin Huang's attacks increased, the number of fissures also increased, the fissures themselves becoming larger and larger.

Just when the golden palms filling the sky were about to press down on Lin Huang, the point that he had been repeatedly attacking finally gave way.

In an instant, a hole seemed to appear in the golden dome of the sky; the countless golden palms that blotted out the heavens crumbled like an avalanche.

Before the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son could complete his attack, Lin Huang burst out from the hole in a flash.

"Breaking the surface with points—you've played a very good hand," the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son smiled and praised Lin Huang, "I originally thought that one move would settle you, but it seems like I've underestimated you."

"I've also slightly underestimated you. I thought that most Demonic Buddhist Holy Sons were four and a half-ranked Pseudo-supreme Gods, but I didn't expect to be lucky enough to run into a fifth-rank Supreme God." Lin Huang remained incomparably calm. An extra card quietly appeared in his hand as they spoke.

"I admire your self-deprecating spirit very much." The Demonic Buddhist Holy Son looked condescendingly at Lin Huang.

"I'm not laughing at myself." Lin Huang smiled and shook his head. "I said I was lucky because I could finally have a Supreme God-level imperial monster…"

He had barely finished speaking when he crushed the card in his hand.

The card turned into little invisible points of starlight and surged towards the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son.

The Demonic Buddhist Holy Son had not sensed the starlight assault. As he was wondering what Lin Huang meant by these words, the points of starlight had already penetrated directly between his brows.

The next instant, the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son suddenly realized that he could no longer move his body. At the same time, his body, strong as that of a Heavenly God, began to disintegrate into a golden glow at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"What did you do to me?!" Seeing this extraordinary scenario unfolding, the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son finally panicked.

No matter how hard he struggled, he could not move his body at all. He could only watch his body disintegrate inch by inch.

"I didn't do anything; I just used a little trick to make you my imperial monster." By the time Lin Huang finished speaking, the body of the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son had disintegrated to almost nothing.

A moment later, the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son disintegrated completely, turning into little golden points of light, and condensing into a golden card in Lin Huang's palm.

The Seal Card had taken effect!

After Lin Huang had elevated to virtual god-level, the upper limit of Xiao Hei's card pool was also automatically elevated to four stars. As long as he hunted True Gods, he would get a four-star card draw chance. He had just quietly exchanged this for a four-star Seal Card.

The four-star Seal Card could seal monsters whose rarity was Supreme God-level and below. Although there was a definite chance of the seal failing, this time the seal was successful.

In fact, after only one exchange in combat, Lin Huang knew very well that he could not battle the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son. His opponent would crush him whether it was in terms of combat level or Rule Bending Powers.

It was a miracle that he had escaped unscathed the first time they exchanged blows.

If he continued to fight, Lin Huang did not think that he would be able to sustain that kind of luck. Given the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son's IQ, he would not have made the mistake of underestimating his opponent a second time.

So, Lin Huang decisively dismissed the idea of continuing to battle him and had quietly crushed the Seal Card.

Seeing that the golden card in his hand had completely formed, Lin Huang could not help checking its detailed information.

"Monster Card: Unnamed"

"Rarity: Supreme God"

"Monster Name: Demonic Buddhist Holy Son"

"Type of Monster: Evil Spirit Type/Multi-faced Tribe"

"Combat Level: Third-rank True God (Ninth-rank True God)]

"Major: Buddhism"

"Major Skills: Two-Faced Demonic Buddhist, Demonic Buddhists in One…"

"Minor Skill: Vajrapani Buddha Body…"

"God Rule: Unlimited Buddha Light, Devil's Bite…"

"Elemental Enlightenment: Sky Flash, Vajra…"

"Summon Authority: Activated"

"Card Remarks: Cultivate with full force!"

Seeing the hundreds of skills densely packed in the skill slot of the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son, and that he was proficient in more than 30 kinds of Rule Bending Power, Lin Huang was a little dazzled. Just a cursory glance and he was envious of the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son's many skills.

However, Lin Huang did not look at the card in detail; he just glanced over it in general then stored it back into his inner world and contacted the two Sword Servants.

Sword301 and Sword302 had noticed that the battle on Lin Huang's side had halted suddenly, but the two of them had no idea what had happened.

Amid their worries about Lin Huang's safety, Lin Huang's message came through and the two of them immediately returned to the entrance and exit of the ruins.

When she realized that the Demonic Buddhist Holy Son had vanished without a trace, Sword302 could not help asking, "Where did that fellow from just now go?"

"I've dealt with him already," Lin Huang had no intention of explaining any further than that.

Although he gave no specific explanation, when the two Sword Servants heard his words, their brains filled in a great many of the gaps and their gaze toward Lin Huang became even more full of respect.

"Let's go. If we don't leave, there will be Abyssal creatures coming to block our path." As soon as Lin Huang finished speaking, he took the lead and stepped out from the ruins.

The two Sword Servants immediately followed him and exited the ruins together.

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Chapter 1396: Kylie's Bad News

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"We found Qi Muxiong's star map. The star zone is located at one of the intersections of the Protoss and Abyssal tribes. The coordinate is marked with a red aperture on the attached star map. But in regards to the specific location of the dimensional gateway, we need you to compare and find it yourself through inheritance memory…"

After he came out of the ruins of Lust, the first instance when Lin Huang returned to the Iron Fist Shelter with the two Sword Servants, he saw the message sent by Bloody.

The message was sent a week ago, but he had spent more than 20 days in the ruins of Lust where the communication signal was completely isolated. As he made his return to the God Territory, the communication signal returned to normal. The messages that were unsent for a long time were also transmitted.

"I will wait for you in the coordinate star zone, but Kylie can't come back with us this time…"

After he read the contents of the message, Lin Huang could not help but frown slightly.

According to Bloody's description, after Kylie became the princess of the Nephilic Judge Tribe, she received almost all the attention from the entire Protoss. This was because the Nephilic Judge Tribe was one of the few tribes with the greatest power in the God Territory, except for a few tribes guarded by the Lord. Moreover, the number of members and the fertility rate of this tribe was extremely low. When Kylie appeared, she became the jewel of the entire tribe.

Therefore, Kylie had naturally become the marriage target of many big tribes.

As long as marriage was reached, it meant that the entire tribe had a relationship with the Nephilic Judge Tribe.

Even within the Nephilic Judge Tribe, some high-level officials were tempted to marry Kylie for themselves and gain more rights to speak within the tribe.

In honesty, Kylie had no intention of returning to the tribe. Her main purpose of returning to the Nephilic Judge Tribe was to obtain the intelligence of the Nephilic Judge Tribe and to explore the location of Qi Muxiong's star map.

However, now that this task was completed, she could not get away, which was also the drawback of returning to the Nephilic Judge Tribe.

Bloody had analyzed the pros and cons of this whole thing in the beginning, but this was the fastest and most effective way to complete the task that Lin Huang had given them. The inability to escape the tribe had also been expected by the two. After all, the number of members of the Nephilic Judge Tribe was scarce. To prevent the loss of members, the Nephilic Judge Tribe had a rule that members were not allowed to leave the headquarters of the tribe alone if they were not in the heavenly god-level.

Now, as the little princess of the Nephilic Judge Tribe, Kylie had two ninth-rank True God Limit powerhouse guards with her everywhere she went. This was why Bloody and Kylie had hardly contacted Lin Huang in the past few months.

This was even true within the tribe headquarters. If Kylie dared to leave the tribe headquarters, there would definitely be Heavenly Gods following her. It would be then inconvenient for her to do anything at that point.

Thus, Bloody simply let Kylie stay in the Nephilic Judge Tribe. He planned to return to the gravel world with Lin Huang alone.

After he read Bloody's message, Lin Huang thought about it for a while and replied.

"I am still a little uneasy about leaving Kylie alone in the Nephilic Judge Tribe. After all, it is uncertain how long we will return to the gravel world this time. If it is only for a short while, the world invasion may happen in one or two months. If it takes a longer time, it may have to wait two or three years. If it is only a few months, the problem is not a big one, but based on Kylie's current situation, if we are to stay in the gravel world for a few years, there will be too many unpredictable changes in God Territory.

"If you stay with her, you can deal with anything that comes and help her out. If you are not there, she may not be able to cope with any changes in the Nephilic Judge Tribe.

"I think it's best if you stay with Kylie. I can go back to the gravel world by myself. When I solve the matter in the gravel world, I will contact you as soon as I return to the great world."

After the message was sent, Bloody replied with another message a few seconds later.

"I have considered what you said, but are you sure you don't need me to go back to the gravel world with you?"

Lin Huang thought about it for a while and soon replied to the message again.

"I can take care of myself in the gravel world. If I really encounter something that I can't handle, it doesn't make much difference whether you are there or not. Kylie needs you more here. You can help her solve many problems that she can't solve herself. You can be of far more use by staying in God Territory rather than going back to the gravel world with me."

"Okay then, I'll stay with Kylie." Bloody was clear about where he was needed more.

However, inevitably, she was a little worried about whether Lin Huang could handle the upcoming crisis in the gravel world.

"Regarding the world invasion, we have also inquired about some news. Generally, when a high-rank world invades the gravel world, they will use special methods to suppress the world will, stabilize the space gateway, and make the True God descend. In the state where the world is suppressed, not only can the low-rank True Gods pass through the space gateway, but even some of the True Gods of the medium and high-rank can directly descend their true self. The ones with the strongest combat strength may even descend to the ninth-rank True God powerhouse.

"If you are not confident in dealing with the high-rank True Gods, I can find a way to let the Nephilic Judge Tribe intervene. With Kylie's relationship with them, asking the ninth-rank True Gods for help should not be a big problem.

"But there are also pros and cons to the matter of asking them for help. The downside is that the coordinates of the gravel world will be exposed to the Nephilic Judge Tribe and even the more powerful organizations in God Territory. As the top organization of God Territory, the Nephilic Judge Tribe's every move is under watchful eyes. Once they intervene, the news will unavoidably be out.

"Based on common sense, the other organizations in God Territory are not likely to covet our gravel world. However, it cannot be completely ruled out that there is something special in our gravel world that will cause the lord god-level powerhouses to covet it. Once this low-probability possibility occurs, the Nephilic Judge Tribe can only choose to compromise and may even give in. They will not betray a Lord for a gravel world, because it is not worth…"

After reading Kylie's long message, Lin Huang quickly replied.

"As long as I don't come across any Heavenly Gods, I should be able to cope."

After communicating with Bloody, Lin Huang immediately clicked on the attachment of Bloody's message and checked the star map.

The attachment sent by Bloody was the star map and information that she and Kylie had obtained from the Nephilic Judge Tribe.

Lin Huang took a glance at it and confirmed the part of the star map that was circled in red. The distribution of the astrology was exactly the same as that of Qi Muxiong's memory in his brain.

He immediately zoomed in on the star map to check the specific location of the dimensional gateway. After a short while, he followed Qi Muxiong's memory and found the corresponding area.

"It should be in this small galaxy…" He marked the approximate location of the dimensional gateway.

After finding the dimensional gateway to return to the gravel world, Lin Huang knew that his journey to the great world was about to end.

"Qu Hao, inform all the Sword Servants. Everyone should return to the Iron Fist Shelter by the end of the day."

Sword301 nodded immediately. "I will let them know."

"Lord swordmaster, are we leaving the great world?" Sword302 hurriedly asked.

"I have to return to the gravel world to deal with something." Lin Huang nodded slightly. "Great world, we will be back sooner or later!"

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Chapter 1397: The Final Three Days

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The gravel world.

It was early spring, and the temperature in the Emperor City had begun to warm up gradually. People took off their heavy winter clothes and began to regain their former vitality.

In the early morning, the sun rose and the sky was an azure color, clear and cloudless as if it had been freshly washed.

Sunlight poured onto skin, permeating with a touch of warmth.

Mrs. Fatty's Soup Dumplings was opened early as usual.

There were not that many guests at around six in the morning. Brother Fatty and Mrs. Fatty were busy with their respective work, but they would chat with old guests from time to time.

Not long after, a short-haired young girl and a dark-skinned youth walked toward Mrs. Fatty's Soup Dumplings.

"Little Xin and Xiao Mo are here. Both of you please have a seat. The dumplings are not cooked yet. Brother Fatty will bring them to you later when they're ready!" Mrs. Fatty greeted enthusiastically. She did not even ask the two of them what they wanted to eat as she had perfectly memorized the usual orders of regular customers like them.

"It's okay, Mrs. Fatty, we see that you're busy. We're not in a hurry," Lin Xin responded with a smile.

"Little Xin, why did you come so early today?" Brother Fatty asked with a smile as he worked.

"I had a bit of insomnia yesterday. After sleeping for a little while, it was already bright, and I couldn't fall back asleep after waking up, so I dragged Brother Xiao Mo with me to have breakfast," Lin Xin explained with a smile.

"Young people like you are always staying up late without taking care of your bodies. Listen to Mrs. Fatty, as long as you don't stay up too late and rest early, you definitely won't have insomnia." Mrs. Fatty took the initiative to give some advice based on her own experience. "When I was young, your Brother Fatty and I were busy until midnight. We burned the midnight oil too many times, and I couldn't sleep well later on…"

"What do you mean that you can't sleep well? You sleep like a little pig every day once you hit the sack…" Brother Fatty quietly said as he pulled the rug under Mrs. Fatty's feet.

"What did you say?!" They immediately glared at each other once Mrs. Fatty heard what he said.

"I said I always sleep well. I sleep like a little pig every day once I hit the sack," Brother Fatty shrunk back and immediately corrected his words.

"What do you mean 'little pig'! You're a giant hog! Your snoring can shake the whole bed!" Mrs. Fatty ruthlessly causticized her husband.

"Okay, okay, I'm a giant hog, and you're a little fairy. You weigh four taels, and you have a pair of wings. A gust of wind can make you soar into the sky, okay?" Brother Fatty laughed as he ranted on.

"Brother Fatty, your rhymes are not bad. You can join a rapping show."

Listening to the couple's daily bickering, the customers could not help but laugh.

Seeing that the expression on Lin Xin's face had finally relaxed a little, Xiao Mo finally opened his mouth.

"Don't worry, His Majesty will be fine."

"But there are only three days left until the appointed one-year period, and there is still no news from my brother…" Lin Xin furrowed her eyebrows and shook her head slightly.

"The one-year period is only a general timeline. If he's being delayed by something, it's normal for him to be late by a few days," Xiao Mo helped Lin Huang explain.

"What I'm worried about now is if he can't come back on time due to some trouble. After all, he's in the great world. Not only are there Virtual Gods and True Gods there, but there are also heavenly god-level powerhouses." Lin Xin expressed her worries.

"You're thinking too much. Bloody is by His Majesty's side. If he really were to encounter any problems, Bloody will definitely help him out. I think even if they were to fail to return by the appointed one-year period, it'll be more likely that they haven't found a way back and not because they've encountered an enemy," Xiao Mo voiced his guess.

The two chatted for some time. After a while, Brother Fatty carried a few trays of dumplings and brought them over with a smile.

"Enjoy your food. There's still more if this is not enough."

"Thank you, Brother Fatty!"

Right before nine in the morning, the long table of the Dynasty's conference room in the Emperor City was fully occupied.

The good-looking young man seated in the first seat was, to everyone's surprise, Lin Huang's teacher–Mr. Fu.

Huang Baiyu and Huang Haoyang were seated on either side of Mr. Fu.

Huang Tianfu, Huang Wunan, Huang Tufu, and the other virtual god-level Dukes were seated on either side of the conference table in an orderly fashion.

At exactly nine o'clock, the meeting officially began.

Huang Tianfu was the first to open his mouth, "There are only three more days left until His Majesty's promised one-year period. Regardless of whether His Majesty can return as scheduled or not, we should still push forward with the follow-up preparations.

"If His Majesty returns as planned without a hitch, then all will be good. However, if His Majesty is not able to return as scheduled, then the Union Government, Hunter Association, and other similar forces will surely get some ideas. Sooner or later, they'll join forces to put pressure on us from the Dynasty to gain more rights to explore the wastelands and ruins…

"Today's meeting, for one, is to prepare for matters related to the return of His Majesty. However, it is also necessary to work out the follow-up plans to deal with the Union Government, Hunter Association, and other forces…"

Before three in the afternoon, all sixty-six Sword Servants, except for Sword301 and Sword302, returned one after another.

Lin Huang opened the portal to the Great Heaven Palace and sent all sixty-eight Sword Servants back to the Great Heaven Palace before embarking on the journey to return alone.

In the great world, hundreds of star zones stretched across the border area between the God Territory and the Abyssal Tribe. Most of the star zone borders had been blocked by the Lords of both sides to prevent members of the other tribe from entering their territory.

Only five battlefield regions had not been completely blocked off and were regions that both sides could enter.

The ruins of Lust that Lin Huang had just been to were one of those.

However, the space gateway in Qi Muxiong's memory was located in another battlefield called the Undead Dimension.

The Undead Dimension was actually a battlefield for the Protoss and the Abyssal Tribe since the beginning of time and was currently one of the oldest battlefields to exist in the God Territory.

According to rumors, this battlefield was originally a prosperous area with many stars. However, the area was destroyed during a battle between two Lords and it had since become a piece of wasteland.

Besides that, there was something else that was special about the Undead Dimension. Living beings that died in the Undead Dimension would automatically turn into an undead or the undying species. They would survive in their new life forms. It is said that this attribute was also due to the influence of the remaining aura left behind by the two Lords after their battle.

Due to a lack of resources as well as the remoteness of the location, not many people from the God Territory would come here to hunt except during a war. Therefore, there were very few teleportation points that were connected to this place.

Lin Huang spent a full day and a half on the road before finally arriving at this battlefield.

After registering at the entrance of the battlefield, he stepped into the battlefield without hesitation.

After entering, Lin Huang noticed that the scene in front of him was starting to become familiar. Many of the stars quickly overlapped with the image in Qi Muxiong's memory.

Lin Huang followed the route in his memory, and it took him about a day and a night to finally locate the dimensional gateway.

After summoning Warlord to release a probing robot and successfully completing the exploration, Lin Huang then retrieved Warlord back into his card form and went through the dimensional gateway…

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Chapter 1398: The Return

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After he came out of the dimensional gateway, Lin Huang clearly felt the difference between the gravel world and the great world.

Perhaps it was because his own world's rules were incomplete. The sense of restraint of the various rules of the gravel world was much weaker than that of the great world. It gave Lin Huang a faint sense of illusion that he was invincible there.

He could clearly sense that the gravel world's space was more fragile. He even had a feeling that he could easily tear the space of this world as soon as he swung his sword.

After he took a little time to feel the changes in the environment, he extended his Divine Telekinesis and probed the surrounding environment.

Lin Huang could not help but raise his brows after a simple sweep of Divine Telekinesis.

"This is the third floor of the Abyss Brink?!"

He had been to the third floor of the Abyss Brink more than once before and had collected information such as maps and monster distribution from this floor. Now that he had returned after a year, he immediately recognized what place it was after a simple probe of Divine Telekinesis.

Just as Lin Huang recognized that this was the third floor of the Abyss Brink, suddenly, there was a wave of spatial fluctuation behind him.

He turned his head and looked behind him. An arm was stretched out of the dimensional gateway, the one that he had just passed through.

After a while, the owner of the arm poked out half of its head strenuously.

It was a huge human-like undead. When it saw Lin Huang, it opened its mouth wide and showed his mouth that was full of yellow and black teeth.

Its mouth was large enough to swallow Lin Huang in one bite.

However, Lin Huang did not have the slightest expression of fear on his face. He turned around and looked at the monster. He did not make a move but patiently waited for it to get out of the gateway.

Based on its aura, this monster's strength was at the level of a first-rank True God.

Due to the hindrance of the world will of the gravel world, the process of getting out of the dimensional gateway was relatively difficult.

In fact, if this gateway had not just been opened by Lin Huang, this monster would not be able to get through. It would not even realize the existence of this dimensional gateway.

Lin Huang had not made a move to kill the monster, but rather, he was waiting patiently for the opponent to come out of the gateway completely.

To him, a complete corpse of a True God was more valuable than an arm and half of his head.

However, what Lin Huang did not know was that the barrier that he broke when he went through the dimensional gateway had already alarmed the Union Government.

The undead that was trying to get through the dimensional gateway further caused the Union Government's alarm to ring loudly.

At the Agency EA headquarters of the Union Government, the head of agency, Guan Zhong was sweating profusely.

He just got the news from Mr. Fu, who set up the barrier, that there was a problem with one of the barriers on the third floor of the Abyss Brink. A powerful existence had passed through the dimensional gateway and more living entities were now trying to pass through.

"Notify the guardians of the Abyss Brink that crack barrier No. 018 is completely destroyed. It is suspected that a powerful existence has passed the space dimensional gateway. Let them notify all the participants in the Abyss Brink at once and ask them to evacuate!

"Issue a gold emergency mission to all members of the Union Government on the third floor of the Abyss Brink. Notify them to head to the crack barrier area No. 018, check on the specifics of the situation, and report on the information that they've found! However, you must explain the situation to them. This mission is very likely to be life-threatening, so it is not compulsory, it's voluntarily-based. If they cannot bear the consequences of death, tell them to not take the mission.

"Also, notify the Hunter Association, Dynasty, and other cooperative forces. Inform them of the destruction of crack barrier No. 018. Ask them to send people to assist in the investigation…"

Lin Huang sat close to the space crack and patiently waited for the huge undead to come out.

When the big guy was almost halfway out, Lin Huang suddenly turned his head and looked in another direction. He sensed that there was an aura approaching extremely quickly.

He swept through with Divine Telekinesis. The other party was a young man who had just been advanced to the imperial-level. He recognized that the other party was a member of the Union Government because he was wearing the uniform of the Union Government military department. He was dressed upright as if he had just changed into the clothes.

"Is he coming toward my direction at this time because the barrier was destroyed?" Lin Huang immediately realized that he had destroyed the barrier set by Mr. Fu and other Virtual Gods when he passed through the dimensional gateway. This might have made the Union Government mistakenly think that a monster of the great world had passed through the dimensional gateway.

"I should say hello to the teacher…" Lin Huang reluctantly shook his head. "Forget it, since someone from the Union Government is coming over, I'll just explain it."

About seven or eight minutes later, the young man in military uniform finally arrived at the scene.

When he saw Lin Huang, he was obviously taken aback because he had not sensed Lin Huang's presence.

However, after seeing Lin Huang's face, he clearly recognized this man to be Lin Huang.

"Lin Renhuang?!"

"Hmm." Lin Huang nodded slightly.

After confirming Lin Huang's identity, the young man in uniform then looked at the space crack and saw that the undead had more than half of its body out of the gateway. He had cold sweat all over his body.

"This undead… is a True God?!"

If it was not a true god-level powerhouse, transmitting over would not be such a laborious process.

"First-rank True God." Lin Huang nodded.

After he received Lin Huang's confirmation, the young man in uniform was unable to calm down. "Your Majesty, before it gets out, let's quickly notify the Virtual Gods of the major organizations to come and attack it from all sides!"

"It doesn't need to be so troublesome." Lin Huang shook his head.

"Do you have another way?" the young man in uniform asked quickly.

"Yes." Lin Huang nodded calmly.

"What is the solution?"

"When he comes out completely, I will kill him." Lin Huang's method was simple and violent.

"Uh…" The young man in uniform was completely speechless.

He naturally did not think that Lin Huang's ability was enough to kill a True God. Seeing that Lin Huang was indifferent to calling for reinforcements, he took out a communicator and dialed a number.

It took about ten seconds before the number was connected.

Lin Huang saw that the video projection turned out to be an acquaintance.

"Sir head of agency, I am now in the space crack No. 018. The space crack barrier has been destroyed, and there is a true god-level undead that is trying to pass through. Please inform the virtual god-levels of all major organizations to encircle and attack it from all sides…"

"It doesn't need to be so troublesome." Lin Huang stood in front of the camera. "Guan Zhong, long time no see. I didn't expect that the first acquaintance that I see upon returning to the gravel world would be you."

"Lin… Lin Renhuang?" Guan Zhong was taken aback when Lin Huang suddenly appeared in the camera.

"This dimensional gateway was opened when I returned just now. I will solve the problems that arise, so no need to trouble others." Lin Huang explained with a smile.

"But isn't that undead a True God? Your Majesty, are you sure you can deal with it?" Guan Zhong asked with some uncertainty. If someone else had said this, he might think that the other person was crazy. However, it was Lin Huang who had said this, so he was just a little uncertain.

After all, he knew that Lin Huang had the power to kill a Virtual God more than a year ago. Now that he had gone to the great world, his ability was not without the possibility of skyrocketing.

"It's only a first-rank True God. I have killed no fewer than ten." Lin Huang nodded calmly.

This sentence caused an internal uproar for Guan Zhongxin. He did not think that Lin Huang was exaggerating.

'How far has his ability grown? He has killed more than ten True Gods…"

After he hung up the call, Guan Zhong reported the news of Lin Huang's return and the invasion of the True God without any hesitation.

In the Abyss Brink, the young man in uniform looked at the black screen and was speechless for a while.

He did not expect that his plan to call for reinforcements would be terminated by Lin Huang.

"Your Majesty, have you really killed a True God?" He still had doubts about Lin Huang's ability.

"In total, I've killed around hundreds of them." Lin Huang nodded.

From the first to the sixth-rank, the number of True Gods that he had killed did indeed exceed one hundred.

However, in the eyes of the young man in uniform, those words seemed more like bragging. What made him even more depressed was that Guan Zhong had believed in Lin Huang's bragging.

"Then why not make a move now before he gets out?" The young man in uniform desperately wanted to see if Lin Huang really had the ability to kill a True God.

"A complete corpse is more valuable." Lin Huang gave his explanation.

"Let's stop talking about this. Let's talk about something else." To prevent the other party from continuing to entangle this topic, Lin Huang took the initiative to change the topic. "The communicator that you just used can communicate outside the Abyss Brink. How does that work?"

"This new communicator is used for cross-border transmission through a mid-end information storage and transmission equipment. It only needs a transfer device to be set up at the entrance and exit of the secret zone or the ruins. I don't understand the specific principles to it."

"Second question, why do you have to wear a military uniform when you are participating in a trial? You are dressed so modestly?"

"Agency EA issued a mission to investigate, saying that the danger is extremely high, and it is very likely to lead to death, so I specially put on a military uniform before coming. If it really comes to death, I would rather die in this uniform!"

"The third question, single or married…?"

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Chapter 1399: Someone Come And Get Me

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After he watched Lin Huang leave, Qi Hong's mind was still bewildered.

A few minutes ago, His Majesty was still casually chatting with him about anything and everything, completely ignoring the threat posed by the True God monster that was in front of them.

However, at the moment when the true god-level undead completely emerged from the dimensional gateway, a red dot appeared between the eyebrows of the monster with a terrifying aura. Its huge body then fell to the ground, disrupting the dust on the ground.

From beginning to end, His Majesty did not seem to have made any moves. He had not even moved from where he stood.

After that, Lin Huang walked over to put the corpse away. He then walked to the cliff to squeeze out the complicated handprints and re-sealed the space crack. The whole process took less than a minute.

Even until Lin Huang said bye to Qi Hong before he left, Qi Hong had yet to fully recover.

When he had fully recovered, Lin Huang had already disappeared without a trace.

"Does this world really have such a powerful existence? He could even kill a True God within seconds…"

Still reeling in from shock, Qi Hong contacted the head of the Agency EA again.

"Qi Hong, how is it?" Seeing that his subordinate from EA3 was dialing his number again, Guan Zhong knew that the matter had probably been resolved.

"His Majesty has killed the undead and repaired the space crack." Qi Hong immediately mentioned the result of the matter.

Guan Zhong was silent for a moment before asking, "Is there a record of the battle?"

"No." Qi Hong helplessly shook his head.

In the video projection, Guan Zhong frowned and was about to ask why Qi Hong did not make a record when Qi Hong continued speaking, "It was an instant kill. I didn't even see him make a move or see him move at all when that undead died…"

When he heard that, Guan Zhong's lips trembled slightly. He took a deep breath and said to Qi Hong, "Let's put your trial on pause temporarily. Come back and write a report on the whole thing. What did Lin Huang do? What did he say to you? Everything must be recorded without omission. The report will be sent to me before 4:30 this afternoon!"

After he hung up the call with his subordinate, Guan Zhong, who was sat at his desk, rubbed his temples. His eyes were full of fatigue and anxiety.

"I'm not too sure if Lin Huang's return this time is a good thing or a bad thing…"

Although he had tried his best to overestimate Lin Huang's ability, the actual ability that Lin Huang displayed still surprised him.

Even the first-rank undead stuck in the dimensional gateway just now was considered a powerful existence unmatched in the gravel world. To expel this monster, it was estimated that all the Virtual Gods in the entire gravel world needed to be assembled.

However, Lin Huang had achieved an instant kill, which meant that Lin Huang's true ability was at least that of a third-rank or even stronger.

In the gravel world, this kind of ability meant that Lin Huang was invincible!

He sat on the chair and calmed down for a little. Guan Zhong then clicked on the communication page and scanned the contacts one by one. He finally landed on 'Chairman Jiang Shan'.

When they received the notice from the Union Government, the virtual god-level upper management of the Hunter Association, Dynasty, and other organizations quickly entered a state of combat readiness and gathered all the powerhouses of the virtual god-level.

In the conference hall of Dynasty, all the virtual god-levels were gathered. They were prepared to discuss the matter of the Abyss Brink when the Union Government notified them of another news.

"The invader has been killed. The space crack in the Abyss Brink has also been repaired…"

"What's the situation? What in the name of the Union Government?" Huang Tufu directly expressed his dissatisfaction. "More than ten minutes ago, he said that the invader's ability may be astonishing and asked us to assemble the Virtual Gods. He directed for us to get ready to form a joint army at any time to conquer the invaders of the Abyss Brink. Now that we are all assembled, he suddenly says that the invaders have been killed. Is he playing us?!"

"Under normal circumstances, the Union Government would not shoot at random. Their intelligence is reviewed by Agency EA. Besides, the first-ever person who sealed the space crack is me. I also sensed that the barrier was broken. The presence of an intruder should not be false news. But what happened later is only known by the Union Government." Mr. Fu had not expected the crisis to be resolved this way.

"What is even more strange is that the Union Government has no explanation for the crisis that was resolved. Only a notice was sent, which seems like they are deliberately hiding something." Huang Tianfu's instinct was very accurate.

The other forces had a similar feeling when they received the second notice. They were all baffled with the unexplained notice of the Union Government.

The Union Government had a hard time talking about it. They could not explain that it was Lin Huang who had dealt with the invaders of the true god-level. That would only strengthen the prestige of Dynasty and Lin Huang.

Therefore, they only sent a notice to others without any further explanation.

When Lin Huang came out of the Abyss Brink, he was about to summon the dimensional portal to return directly to Emperor City, but he found that the dimensional portal could not be summoned.

He then remembered that the dimensional portal with the coordinates of the Emperor City had been destroyed by the Demon Buddhist Holy Son not long ago.

Before he left the gravel world, he had only kept this portal.

Standing at the entrance of the Abyss Brink, Lin Huang was speechless. "It seems that I can only call Tianfu and the others to come to get me. If I were to take the long-distance dimensional portal by myself, it will probably take me ten days to half a month. "

After all, Emperor City was once the territory of the dark organizations. There were not many external long-distance dimensional portals connected to it. If he were to return to Emperor City from the Abyss Brink through the long-distance dimensional portal, it was estimated that it would take a lot of such portals for him to reach his destination.

After he thought about it for a moment, Lin Huang changed into the Emperor's Heart Ring of the gravel world, clicked on the communication page, found the name 'Huang Tianfu', and clicked on it.

After a while, the video projection was connected.

Not only Huang Tianfu, but Mr. Fu and the others were all there. Almost everyone in the meeting room came over.

"Your Majesty?!"

"You are all here." Lin Huang smiled and waved to everyone. "Teacher, you are here too."

"Apprentice, are you back in the gravel world?" Mr. Fu felt a little strange. "Why didn't you come back to Emperor City directly?"

"Uh…" The expression on Lin Huang's face was a bit embarrassed. He had not expected so many people to be there as soon as the video was connected. "My portal was destroyed. I called Tianfu to ask him to come to get me. I didn't expect all of you to be here as well."

"I'll come to get you. Where are you?" Mr. Fu took the initiative and said.

"I'm outside of the Abyss Brink now." Lin Huang finished speaking and moved the camera of the video to reveal the entrance of the Abyss Brink behind him.

"You are in the Abyss Brink?" The expressions on the faces of Mr. Fu, Huang Tianfu, and others turned a little strange.

"Yes, I just came out of the third floor." Lin Huang nodded.

"The space barrier that I set up, were you the one who destroyed it?" After he heard Lin Huang talk about the third floor of the Abyss Brink, Mr. Fu immediately realized that the so-called intruder might have been Lin Huang.

"It was me, but I have re-sealed it." Lin Huang was a little helpless. He knew that the Union Government had communicated the news.

"Were there other monsters that passed through with you?" Mr. Fu asked.

"There was an undead, but I also resolved it."

After listening to Lin Huang's explanation, everyone in Dynasty understood why the Union Government had issued such a notice without any explanation.

"I'll come to get you. We'll talk once you're back." Before he hung up the video call, Mr. Fu had already summoned the dimensional portal and stepped into it

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Chapter 1400: His Majesty's Return

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As soon as Lin Huang hung up the call, there was a spatial fluctuation not far away. He looked up, and Mr. Fu stepped out of the portal with a smile on his face.

"Teacher!"

After seeing Mr. Fu again after a year, he felt like it was as though he was seeing his relative.

"Kid, you don't seem like you've changed much. Seems like you got a little firmer…" Mr. Fu looked at Lin Huang up and down carefully. "I can't see through the intensity of this aura though…"

"I used something to cover my aura. My actual combat level is only Virtual God rank-3." With Mr. Fu, Lin Huang had nothing to hide. Besides, his combat level was not a secret that could not be shared.

"Not only did you break through the virtual god-level in one year, but you've also been promoted to rank-3. The progress of this kind of cultivation is already very fast." Mr. Fu was envious of Lin Huang's cultivation speed.

"Teacher, your aura has become more stable, and it seems like you look younger than a year ago." Lin Huang also noticed that Mr. Fu's condition was better compared to a year ago. One year of recuperation had completely stabilized his Virtual God rank-9 combat strength, and he even made little progress.

"Well, with our relationship as master and apprentice, we are not outsiders, so we don't have to flatter each other." Mr. Fu smiled and shook his head. "Let's go back first and talk about it when we get to Emperor City."

After he had finished speaking, he pulled Lin Huang and stepped into the portal again.

A moment later, there was a wave of spatial fluctuation in the conference room No. 1 of the Dynasty headquarters.

Then, two figures stepped out from the portal.

When they saw Lin Huang, everyone in the meeting room stood up.

Lin Huang glanced around, smiled, and nodded. "Let's sit down."

Huang Baiyu and Huang Haoyang, who were sitting on both sides of Mr. Fu, immediately moved their chairs to the side. Huang Tianfu and the others also moved back. It was only then did everyone take their seats.

After Lin Huang and Mr. Fu took their seats, Lin Huang asked Huang Tianfu in surprise, "Why are there so many people today? What's happened?"

"It's regarding the matter of you destroying the space crack barrier. When it was discovered that the barrier was broken, the Union Government panicked and immediately notified the cooperative forces. They asked us to convene the virtual god-levels as quickly as possible, saying that we would jointly kill the invaders." Mr. Fu, who was on the side, explained.

"Well, I'm sorry for the trouble that I've caused." Lin Huang was a little dumbfounded. He had not expected the Union Government to be so sensitive.

"Then, while everyone is here today, let's have a meeting together. After all, I have been away for a year. Let's talk briefly about what has happened this year." Lin Huang went straight to work.

"After Your Majesty left, our general direction has always been in accordance with the one-year plan left by Your Majesty. There is basically no change except for some adjustments based on actual conditions.

"This year, the cooperation between all organizations and us has been deepening. The trading market and mission zone that we have established have fully developed and become the world's largest trading market and mission zone. Through the efforts that Dynasty has put into this year, we have secured the position of the sixth giant.

"In the past, we were all doing our own thing in the exploration of the ruins and wastelands. In recent months, for some ruins and wastelands, the Union Government, the Hunter Association, Misery, and the heretics have all had joint explorations with us…

"Although there are some organizations secretly searching for the news of the return of Your Majesty, there is basically no actual action being taken. This year, everyone as a whole is still abiding by the rules of the game. Occasionally, individuals who break the rules appear, and we deal with them in the first instance…

"Due to the richness of resources, the number of god relics owned by the major organizations has increased to a certain extent. Many demigods have been promoted to the virtual god-level through Mr. Fu. The number of virtual god-levels of the major organizations has also increased.

"Also, several imperial-levels were successfully promoted to virtual god-level due to the influence of the ancient era cultivation practices. Both the Union Government and the Hunter Association have begun to promote the ancient cultivation practices on a large scale internally…"

As he listened to Huang Tianfu's report for the year, Huang Wunan, who was next to him, would add explanations from time to time. Lin Huang now knew about the various things that had happened this year.

"You guys did a good job, much better than I expected." Lin Huang nodded in satisfaction. "After I return, there is no need to change the general direction. Just follow the plan from before."

The reason why the general direction would not be changed was that the general direction had originally been set by Bloody. Now that Bloody was not there, Lin Huang did not intend to make any changes.

Although he still had Supreme Intelligence's Grimace as his apprentice, Lin Huang would rather not change his plan as he felt horrified when he thought about letting Grimace provide an idea.

"The invasion crisis may come at any time, so we still can't relax. Try to improve your own ability in all aspects before the crisis really hits, even if it's just enhancing your life-saving ability…"

"I have been in the God Territory of the great world for a year, and there are many powerhouses with solid abilities. The virtual god-level is only the starting point for cultivation. In the God Territory of the great world, the virtual god-level can only guard grade-1 and grade-2 Shelters. Only high-level Virtual Gods are qualified to guard grade-2 Shelters. There are even many guardians of grade-2 Shelters who are Virtual God rank-9s. As for the high-rank grade-3 Shelters, the guardians must be at least at true god-level…"

Lin Huang's description of the great world immediately commanded the full attention of everyone present.

"In grade-5 and grade-6 organizations, the virtual god-level can only act as the outermost member, and some even only have the qualifications to become a reserve member…"

"Your Majesty, above the True God, is there really a stronger heavenly god-level powerhouse?" A Duke could not help asking when Lin Huang was drinking and resting.

"Of course there are Heavenly Gods. Even in the great world, heavenly god-level can be considered powerhouses. The guardians of the grade-5 Shelter and the leaders of the grade-5 organizations are basically Heavenly Gods. For organizations without any heavenly god-levels, the Shelter and the rating of the organization can't reach grade-5. As for the grade-6 organizations, the leader is basically the peak-stage of Heavenly Gods, and they may even be an ultimate powerhouse who has reached half-step Lord."

"As for the higher-rank Lords, they are definitely the peak-stage powerhouses in the great world. Protoss is one of the most powerful races in the great world, but the number of Lords in the entire God Territory is only about seven people…"

Lin Huang only gave a simple explanation, but everyone's heart was already surging.

This meeting lasted almost two hours. Except for Huang Tianfu who introduced the changes in the gravel world this year, the rest of the time was basically Lin Huang's QA time.

Regarding the great world, the people of Dynasty had too many questions and curiosities.

Finally, after encountering Lin Huang who had returned from the great world, all kinds of weird questions naturally emerged.

Lin Huang was patient and answered all the questions that he could answer.

Later, it was Huang Tianfu who really could not stand it anymore, so he stopped everyone's questions and urged for the meeting to end. If they kept on asking, this meeting may not end at all.

This may also be the first meeting since the establishment of the Dynasty where everyone was reluctant to leave…

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Chapter 1401: Lin Xin's Bottleneck

"Brother…"

Just as Lin Huang came out of the meeting room, he ran into Lin Xin who was standing there at the door.

Naturally, he knew that more than an hour ago Lin Xin had already been waiting here; he guessed that Huang Tianfu and the others had leaked the news of his return.

He had been unable to get away from the meeting room. Lin Xin had also not barged in to disturb the meeting in session; she had continued waiting outside.

Now that he was seeing Lin Xin again, Lin Huang noticed that her combat level was already at the utmost limits of imperial-level and the intensity of her aura was infinitely approaching virtual god-level.

"I haven't seen you in a year and you've grown taller again." Lin Huang smiled, reached out, and touched Lin Xin's head.

A year ago, Lin Xin was just over 1.6 meters tall. One year later, she was already close to 1.7 meters. Her shoulder-length hair was tied up in a ponytail and the naivete in her face had also faded a great deal. She had blossomed into a tall, slim, graceful young lady.

Lin Xin did not say anything; tears kept welling up in her eyes.

"Look, I didn't say anything, why are you crying?" Lin Huang smiled and looked at Lin Xin. After a year of not seeing her, this girl's personality seemed much more stable; she had obviously experienced many things in this period.

"I'm not crying!" Lin Xin covered her eyes with her palm, surreptitiously wiping away the tears.

Her tears were gone but her eyes were still red.

"Fine, you're not crying. It doesn't count as crying until the tears fall to the ground," Lin Huang said as he handed her a pack of tissue.

Lin Xin reached out and took the tissues, wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes. Only then did she look up at Lin Huang once more.

"Brother, I hope you've been well for the past year."

Although she was outside the meeting room, she had not been able to hear what was going on in the meeting room because there had been a barrier. She had merely used her cognitive processes to infer that there were many powerhouses in the great world, and Lin Huang must have suffered a lot since he had left with combat strength below virtual god-level.

"It wasn't too bad." Lin Huang shook his head. "Although there are many powerhouses in the great world, I'm not one to simply make enemies for no reason. In fact, most of my time was spent on boring cultivation and running around. There weren't many dramatic encounters. It's not a novel where the protagonist will be hunted down for various reasons wherever he goes.

"On the contrary, you give the impression of having changed a lot this year. Not only have you reached the limits of your imperial-level, but your Sword Dao has also advanced to level-5… Well, it doesn't seem like you've been lazy in your Sword Dao cultivation. I don't know how your firearms cultivation has been going though."

"I haven't been lazy in my firearms cultivation either, alright?" Lin Xin said crossly, "I'm ranked on the Firearms Master Leaderboard."

"Oh, let me take a look." Lin Huang pulled up the leaderboard in front of him right away as he spoke. After a glance at it, his expression betrayed some astonishment.

Impressively, Lin Xin's name was ranked first among the imperial-level firearm masters.

Lin Xin, who had been secretly observing Lin Huang's expression, looked smug as she saw the astonishment on her brother's face.

"Huh, not bad, you're number one. Looks like you definitely didn't slack off," Lin Huang praised her with a smile.

"I can't break through to virtual god-level so I can only spend my time practicing gun fighting techniques and sword skills," Lin Xin muttered in a low voice.

"Can't break through to virtual god-level?" Lin Huang was stunned to hear that. "Don't you advance your combat levels by eating life crystals? If you go according to this method of advancement, in theory, you only need to replace the life crystal with something containing Divine Power, such as Divine Stones and Divine Crystals."

"No, I've tried both Divine Stones and Divine Crystals, and there's absolutely no response." Lin Xin shook her head helplessly. "Mr. Fu asked me to try hunting virtual god-level monsters so I did that as well, but there was no response either after the hunt."

"A situation like yours obviously means there are special conditions for advancement…" Lin Huang frowned slightly and thought for a moment. "Have you tried eating a Godhead?"

"Eating a Godhead?!" Lin Xin's eyes widened when she heard that. "Don't they say that even a True God would find it hard to destroy a Godhead? Can this sort of thing really be eaten?"

"Normally cultivators don't eat life crystals either, but you've eaten who knows how many of them like peanuts," Lin Huang could not help grumbling, "If you don't want to try it, we'll think of something else instead."

"Then…let's give it a try," Lin Xin hesitated for a moment but nodded.

Lin Huang randomly retrieved a Virtual God rank-1 Godhead from his storage space and handed it to Lin Xin.

Lin Xin took the Godhead, her expression rather odd.

This Godhead was completely red with a few black striations. It looked a bit like a gem.

Lin Xin brought the Godhead in front of her and studied it for a while, then she closed her eyes and stuffed it into her mouth.

"If you can't bite into it then don't force yourself, and don't swallow it directly," Lin Huang hurriedly added.

He noticed the current expression on Lin Xin's face was even odder. "You said that a little too late; it's already slid down."

"…" Lin Huang was speechless. "Don't you feel like you're choking?"

"No, the texture's a bit like pudding. It immediately melted once I put it in my mouth and I accidentally swallowed it."

"What pudding… I can't even bite into this thing." A virtual god-level Godhead could be said to be the hardest thing within a Virtual God's body, harder than even god relics. Even if it was just a Virtual God rank-1, the Godhead in the body was so strong it could only be damaged by Rule Bending Power. For ordinary cultivators, it was naturally inedible.

That was why when Lin Xin described the Godhead's texture as pudding-like, Lin Huang found it hard to imagine.

"Do you feel anything at all? Or do you have to spend some time refining?" Seeing that Lin Xin did not look as if she had eaten something unclean, Lin Huang asked again.

"It really seems to be working!" Lin Xin sent her consciousness into her inner world for a moment before responding. "The Godhead automatically disintegrated in my inner world. Not only is there a lot of Divine Power surging from it, but it's also leaving behind a lot of inheritance memories. One Godhead doesn't seem to be enough though…"

As soon as Lin Xin finished speaking, Lin Huang, who was standing to one side, immediately grabbed a handful of Virtual God rank-1 Godheads and brought them out.

"These Godheads ought to satiate you; it just depends on many you can eat."

Lin Xin took the entire batch of Godheads, tossed them into her mouth one by one, and swallowed them quickly as if she were eating jelly beans.

She ate nine Godheads in a row before she stopped.

"It seems like it won't be much longer. I can feel that the Divine Power within me is at saturation point; I need to go home and begin closed-door cultivation!"

After she finished speaking, she handed the remaining Godheads back to Lin Huang.

"Hold onto them yourself—what if you need them later?" Lin Huang did not take the Godheads; instead, he handed his sister a storage ring. "In addition to the rank-1 to rank-9 Virtual God Godheads in here, there are also some Divine Crystals. Go ahead and use them first for now."

"Thank you, Brother!" After Lin Xin had thanked Lin Huang, she turned with a trace of urgency and departed in a great hurry.

She could not wait to advance to virtual god-level.

'This girl—her constitution is really enviable.' As he watched Lin Xin departing, Lin Huang could not help sighing in his heart, 'I want to have this kind of constitution. Not only could I have eaten my way to lord level, but I would also definitely have already eaten my way to heavenly god-level!'

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Chapter 1402: Two Hundred And Sixty-Eight Sword Servants

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After the meeting, Lin Huang was seen on his way back to the Emperor Palace, so the news of Emperor Lin's return spread like wildfire. Even secretly taken photos were posted on the Dynasty internal forum, becoming the hottest news of the day.

Just as Lin Huang arrived at the entrance of the Emperor Palace, he found that a figure was already waiting at the gates.

"Xiao Mo? How come you're here?"

"I've just received the news so I knew that you're back. I figured you would definitely return to the Emperor Palace, so I just waited here." Immediately after Xiao Mo saw the news on the forum, he had gone to wait at the gates of the Emperor Palace at once.

"Come on, we'll chat inside," Lin Huang said as he pushed open the doors of the Palace and walked into the depths of the main hall with Xiao Mo.

"You've changed quite a lot within this one year. Your combat strength is already at Virtual God rank-3 level and your aura is also a lot more stable. You've probably done a fair bit of actual combat training, right?" Lin Huang commented by way of greeting as they walked.

"This year I spent more than half the time in the deep sea area of the Peaceful Ocean." Xiao Mo nodded slightly. "But it's been a bit difficult to advance after rank-3; there are too few monsters above rank-3 in the gravel world."

"When this crisis is resolved, you can go to the great world with me. Over there, virtual god-level is just the starting point."

"That's what I planned." Xiao Mo nodded.

The two went into the depths of the main hall. After they sat down, Lin Huang looked at Xiao Mo with a serious expression. "Is there any particular reason why you came looking for me?"

Xiao Mo was silent for a moment. It seemed as if he was sorting out what he wanted to say; only after that did he speak.

"Ever since I advanced to virtual god-level eleven months ago, all I have to do is fall asleep and I'll have strange dreams," Xiao Mo said and paused. He glanced at Lin Huang before continuing, "The contents of my dreams are all related to the Crow God."

Lin Huang frowned slightly. "Do you remember any concrete specifics of your dreams?"

"The scenes in the dreams are very fragmented and messy. But I saw the Crow God's will projection on the Peaceful Ocean. He appears to be planning something."

"Are you certain it's the Crow God's will projection?" Lin Huang had his doubts about this because he had personally seen the Crow God's will projection disappear during battle.

"I'm pretty sure it is. Although he occupies a human body, his aura is far too familiar to me." Xiao Mo, who had once existed as a Crow Spirit, was naturally familiar with the aura of the Crow God.

"I did actually see the Crow God's will projection vanish with my own eyes at the time, but I can't completely rule out that he played a hand with Golden Cicada Molting." After Lin Huang considered things for a while, he felt there might be a possibility that the Crow God's will was still alive. "So you spent the better part of the year in the Peaceful Ocean to try and find him?"

"Yes. For one thing, it's to verify whether or not my dreams were true. For another, I also want to dispose of him in case he causes even more problems. I've also considered the fact that I've advanced to virtual god-level and resources are limited in the gravel world. Even if his combat level is higher than mine, it can't be that much higher. If I can't beat him, I can always escape. Also, I only have to ascertain that he really is alive; there's no need for me to face him head-on alone. I can absolutely ask Huang Tianfu for some virtual god-level helpers and join forces to kill him!"

Xiao Mo was afraid that if his dreams were just dreams and had nothing to do with reality, hastily asking for backup from Huang Tianfu would be rather awkward. Therefore he thought that he would first locate the Crow God's will projection, confirm that he still existed, and then obtain reinforcements.

"You probably didn't find him, did you?" Lin Huang guessed.

"No…" Xiao Mo shook his head, "I suspect that he might be able to spy on my movements in reverse. In the past six months I've located at least seven or eight sea areas in the Peaceful Ocean that are extremely similar to my dreams—but after searching according to what I saw in them, I never once managed to find him."

"If you can see him, it's very likely that he can see you too. After all, you used to be a Crow Spirit. For some reason, it is possible to have this kind of spiritual two-way connection with the Crow God."

Although Xiao Mo did not have concrete evidence to prove that whatever had happened in his dreams was real, Lin Huang still believed that the lad might have established a certain special connection with the Crow God.

"How about this—I'll get a few people to go with you to the Peaceful Ocean and they'll help you solve this matter of the Crow God." Lin Huang felt that it was time to release the Sword Servants.

"But what if my dreams are just dreams and have nothing to do with reality—won't they have gone all the way for nothing?" Xiao Mo was still a little embarrassed.

"It's okay, if it ends up being nothing, they can consider it a holiday," Lin Huang said and summoned all the two hundred and sixty-eight Sword Servants within the scope of his authorization.

After elevating to virtual god-level, his control authorization over the Sword Servants had also increased—now he could summon all the Swords Servants ranked after the number one hundred.

When he saw more than two hundred individuals appearing at the same time, Xiao Mo was taken aback at first. Once he sensed the terrifying aura of the group, however, the expression on his face instantly turned to one of shock.

All of the two hundred and sixty-eight Swords Servants were affected in combat strength by Lin Huang; their actual combat abilities were now at third-rank true god-level. Even if their auras were not openly displayed, it was enough to shock all the virtual god-level powerhouses.

"Lord Swordmaster!"

Once all the Swords Servants had been summoned, they greeted Lin Huang in unison immediately.

"This is the gravel world which has incomplete rules. The highest combat strength that can be accommodated here is only Virtual God rank-9. If you want to move around freely, you'll have to temporarily seal your combat strength at Virtual God rank-9.

"If you don't want to stay in the gravel world, you can also return to the Great Heaven Territory first. Once I return to the great world, I'll summon you again."

After Lin Huang finished speaking, not a single person mentioned returning to the Great Heaven Territory. They all sat down one by one and sealed their combat strength.

These two hundred Swords Servants—Swords101 to 300—had just left the Great Heaven Territory for the first time in hundreds of thousands of years. Now that they had been released, naturally, they wanted to stay longer and take in more of what was outside the Great Heaven Territory.

As for the other sixty-eight people—Sword301 and the rest—although they had been released in the God Territory previously, they had stayed for less than a month. They were also much more curious about the gravel world that they were about to explore.

Since the gravel world had rule restrictions, even if their combat strength was sealed at Virtual God rank-9, they were still top-tier in terms of combat strength. So, without any hesitation, everyone sealed their abilities right away.

"These people are…" Only after hearing that everyone was going to seal themselves at Virtual God rank-9 did Xiao Mo realize that these two hundred over people were True Gods.

"They are members of the organization that I established in the great world," Lin Huang briefly explained, "Although the organization has not been officially established yet."

"They are all True Gods?" Even though he was seeing it with his own eyes, Xiao Mo still felt slightly incredulous.

"They are all True Gods." Lin Huang nodded.

It did not take long for the Sword Servants to complete the sealing of their abilities, keeping their combat levels at Virtual God rank-9. The faint, ever-present sense of rejection from this world that they felt from before had finally faded.

"Who among you is good at tracking and investigation?" Lin Huang asked the group of Sword Servants in front of him.

As soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen people raised their hands one after the other.

"Alright then, it will be the twelve of you. Take a trip to the Peaceful Ocean with Xiao Mo and take care of this issue with the Crow God," Lin Huang glanced at the others as he spoke, "In this gravel world, I have two organizations under my command. One is called Dynasty and the other is called Misery. I would like to have another twenty people remain here to temporarily join these two groups, ten per organization. Those who join will be treated as highest-level guest officials and they will also be able to voluntarily participate in the high-level meetings of both organizations…"

Before Lin Huang could even finish speaking, a large number of Swords Servants raised their hands immediately.

He glanced over the assembly; at least more than 80% of Swords Servants had raised their hands at the first instance.

"Sword101, Sword102, both of you select a team of ten people each. Pay attention to how their abilities match."

It took less than two minutes for the two Sword Servants to quickly form two teams.

"The rest of you will be led by Sword 103 as the team leader. In this gravel world, form a Sword Alliance.

"The mission that I entrust to all of you is this—to find people with a talent for Sword Dao in the gravel world. Get them to join the Sword Alliance and train them into powerful sword cultivators!"

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Chapter 1403: Old Friends

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The formation of the Sword Alliance was not simply a whim that had suddenly occurred to Lin Huang.

The long-term plan that Bloody had drawn up included cultivating talented young geniuses as an inherent part of it.

However, the suggestion that Bloody had put forward at the time was to let Dynasty and Misery recruit more young blood.

Lin Huang had also not yet become heir to the Great Heaven inheritance.

Now that he had obtained the Great Heaven inheritance along with the support of several hundred Sword Servants, he saw this as an opportunity to do something for sword cultivation and train up even more excellent Sword Dao cultivators.

This was how the idea of imitating Great Heaven and forming a pure sword cultivator organization had emerged.

However, unlike Great Heaven who directly recruited powerful sword cultivators as his subordinates, Lin Huang hoped that he could do more. He aimed to train more sword cultivators from the grassroots, and discover more sword cultivator talents and geniuses.

Of course, he had not given up the idea of training up other non-sword cultivator novices. Neither Dynasty nor Misery had stopped recruiting newcomers.

In all honesty, when they heard that Lin Huang was about to form a Sword Alliance, almost all the Sword Servants' eyes lit up. They had not expected Lin Huang and Great Heaven to have similar visions; in fact, the new swordmaster cast his sights even further.

After he had arranged Xiao Mo's affairs and where all the Sword Servants would go, Lin Huang contacted Huang Tianfu again to tell him about the Sword Servants taking up residence, and then asked for a portal.

Although Huang Tianfu was rather astonished by the Sword Servants settling in, he did not raise any objections.

After receiving the portal from Huang Tianfu, Lin Huang immediately led a team of ten Sword Servants across the portal threshold and appeared at the Misery headquarters.

Over on Misery's side, Zhi Ji and the others had known about the news of Lin Huang's return from very early on.

They were not surprised that Lin Huang had appeared. It was only that the ten Sword Servants were all unfamiliar faces and each of them had an astonishing aura, which made it difficult for everyone in Misery to ignore their existence.

"Zhi Ji, summon all the Red Robes for a meeting in conference room No. 1!"

Lin Huang finished speaking and walked toward the meeting room right away with the ten Sword Servants.

Zhi Ji let the other Red Robes hurry to catch up while he began contacting the other Red Robes one by one.

Ten minutes later, all fifteen Red Robes from Misery had arrived.

However, when the Red Robes saw that there were ten unfamiliar faces in the conference room, they vaguely anticipated that Lin Huang might be making a big move this time.

"From today onward, these ten individuals will be official guests of Misery, enjoying the same privileges and authority of the Red Robes." Lin Huang gestured to the ten Sword Servants standing behind him.

It was not hard for Zhi Ji and the others to sense that these ten individuals were all Virtual God rank-9s. With fellows at this level of combat strength joining Misery, the organization's overall abilities would naturally be greatly improved. However, the Red Robes also harbored a great many worries within their hearts. They were afraid that Lin Huang was planting these ten people within the organization to remove the current Red Robes from power.

"You don't need to arrange positions for them. If the ten of them need anything, do cooperate as much as possible on Misery's side," Lin Huang finished speaking, turned his head, and said to the ten Sword Servants, "The formal meeting will begin next. The ten of you can stay if you want to sit in. If you don't want to, you're free to do whatever you want."

After hearing Lin Huang's latter comment, many Bloody Robes, including Zhi Ji, were secretly relieved.

They had originally assumed that Lin Huang had brought these ten individuals along to take the place of the existing Bloody Robes and slowly remove the current upper levels from power.

However, not only had he not arrange for any positions for the newcomers, but they also had the choice to listen in on the meeting or not, which proved that Lin Huang really did not intend for these ten people to take over Misery.

As several Sword Servants got up and left, the initially weighty atmosphere in the meeting room lightened up considerably.

"Zhi Ji, tell me about Misery's expansion over the last year…"

Lin Huang very quickly brought up the main topic of the meeting.

The meeting with Misery ended after more than half an hour.

Unlike the people of Dynasty, the people of Misery were also curious about Lin Huang's trip to the great world but no one ventured to ask about it.

Lin Huang only spoke briefly about what he had seen and heard in the great world, emphasizing that "virtual god-level is only the starting point of cultivation".

After setting down the next stage of development for Misery, Lin Huang left the ten Sword Servants behind and returned to Emperor City on his own.

As soon as he returned to Emperor City, his communicator suddenly began vibrating.

When he pulled up the communication web page, it was a group message from a social media platform. The sender was Yi Zheng and he had tagged Lin Huang.

This group was a small one established by Lin Huang before he left the gravel world. Basically, all his friends were in it.

Not only were Fatty, Yi Zheng, and Leng Yuexin in it, but Chan Dou, Liu Ming, Xiao Mo, and the rest were part of the group as well.

As soon as he clicked on the message to read it, Yizheng sent one sentence, "Are you back?!"

After that, Yi Yeyu and Li Lang immediately followed up with a question mark emoji.

"What's the situation? Brother Zheng, what news did you get?" Chubby Yin Hangyi asked in a text message.

After some thought, Lin Huang guessed that Yi Zheng must have received the news from the Union Government. After all, his family was in the upper levels of the Union Government's military department.

Since this sort of thing would come out sooner or later, Lin Huang did not bother covering it up and directly replied to the message in the group.

"I'm back."

As soon as his message was sent, the group immediately bubbled over with questions.

"Are there many powerhouses in the great world?"

"How have you been in the great world this past year?"

Many of their questions were about the great world.

When Lin Huang saw the situation, he simply clicked on the video chat.

Everyone there also joined in the group video chat.

"I haven't seen all of you in a year, I hope everyone is doing well," Lin Huang greeted everyone first.

"You're also aware you haven't seen us in a year and you won't even say hello to us when you come back," Li Lang laughed and teased Lin Huang.

"I was busy. I haven't been back for a year and there's a ton of stuff to take care of on Dynasty's side. I've been busy all day and I've only just stopped to rest," Lin Huang explained with a smile.

"If everyone is free in the next two days, let's find a time to meet up. However, I may only be able to spare a day or two. After the next couple of days, I'll be preparing to go into closed-door cultivation. I won't be able to come out for at least three months."

"Let's fix it for the next two days then; I'm preparing to go into closed-door cultivation too." The speaker was Chan Dou, who hardly ever sent a message in the group.

"More and more I'm beginning to feel that I won't be able to catch up with both of you in my lifetime. I'll just wait for a good reincarnation in my next life at this rate." Seeing that Lin Huang and Chan Dou could not go 3 sentences without talking about cultivation, Li Lang almost wanted to give up on his efforts.

The most terrifying kind of person in this world was—a hard-working prodigy.

Lin Huang and Zen Dou were undoubtedly such individuals.

"Reincarnation is also a skill. Just because you want to reincarnate into a good person doesn't mean that you'll be able to do so," Fatty said with a smile.

"Fatty, how's your store's business coming along?" Lin Huang immediately asked when he saw Fatty speaking.

"Fatty's business is doing extremely well. It's almost becoming a Dynasty cafeteria; we can't even get a place in the queue when we come to eat," Yi Yeyu joked with a smile.

"Didn't I reserve seats for all of you? When did I ever let you all queue up?" Fatty demanded, aggrieved.

At this point, Leng Yuexin's video feed finally connected.

"It's good that you're back. Let me know when you've fixed when to meet. I can't chat much today, I have training later."

"Alright, go do what you need to do. We'll let you know later on," Lin Huang greeted.

Leng Yuexin nodded and disconnected the call after that.

Everyone continued idly chatting with each other for a while before Yi Zheng finally set the time of the gathering.

"We'll set the meeting for tomorrow then. See you at Fatty's restaurant in Emperor City at nine o'clock tomorrow morning."

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Chapter 1404: A Gathering Over A Meal

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Fatty had opened his restaurant near Dynasty's headquarters in Emperor City. Due to his relationship with Lin Huang, its location was fairly superior. It was practically the best location in Emperor City and Dynasty had never collected a single penny for rental.

People from Dynasty often patronized Fatty's restaurant because of his culinary skills. Fatty also did not collect life crystals as payment for meals; he let Dynasty provide a batch of ingredients every week.

He might have opened this restaurant, but he had not given up on his dream of being a food hunter. Instead, he now realized this dream in a different way.

Fatty no longer hunted for ingredients on his own but obtained them through the people of Dynasty. He was only responsible for preparing the ingredients and turning them into culinary dishes.

Contrary to expectations, this manner of cooperation with the people of Dynasty had improved his cooking skills extremely quickly and his earnings were quite considerable.

His restaurant was often visited by cultivators and his menu basically consisted of specialty ingredients that only food hunters could prepare properly.

The profit in life crystals after one of these meals was equivalent to a few months' income for other restaurants.

There were even many ordinary people who had heard that the owner of this restaurant was a food hunter. They would patronize the place out of admiration, wishing to try the fabled culinary skills of the food hunters of legend.

This had also led to long queues in the restaurant every day before nine o'clock in the morning. It should be noted that Fatty did not serve breakfast at his restaurant.

However, on this day, Fatty arrived at his shop around eight o'clock in the morning.

Seeing that there was already a line at the door, he smiled and brought out a sign that read 'Temporarily Closed'.

"My apologies dear patrons, we are closed today. I have booked the space to entertain some friends." Before the people waiting in line could complain, he continued, "If you are in line now, you are eligible for a 50% discount coupon from the waiter over there. With this coupon, you can enjoy the one-time privilege of a priority seating at any time within this year."

The people who originally had complaints immediately simmered down and quickly went to the waiter to obtain their coupons.

Not only were they getting a 50% discount, but they also had priority seating privileges—which meant that the next time they came to the restaurant, they would not need to line up as they were doing now.

After seeing to the customers in the queue, Fatty brought out the decorations that he bought last night and assigned a few waiters to decorate the shop.

By the time they were done setting up, it was almost nine o'clock.

Yi Zheng and the others arrived one after the other.

When Lin Huang arrived, everyone was already there except for Leng Yuexin and Chan Dou.

"Where are Xiao Mo and Lin Xin?" Seeing that Lin Huang had come alone, Yi Yeyu asked in some curiosity.

"Xiao Mo is on a mission, Xin Er is in closed-door cultivation."

Lin Huang glanced at Yi Zheng and his sister. He noted that the two had not changed much; they were still the same, but their combat levels had advanced significantly.

"It seems that both you siblings haven't slacked off this year; the two of you have advanced to imperial-level."

"This year, our cultivation speed has improved a lot. Also, with so many people to compete against in the Heaven Alliance, we dare not relax." Yi Zheng shook his head and smiled. After using the Flawless Card, his inherent genius talent and potential had immediately elevated to the level of a super genius. Naturally, he had worked even harder at cultivation after that.

As for Yi Yeyu, she was bidding fair to outstrip her older brother in terms of talent and potential, to the point that her abilities were comparable to the level of the Five Princes, including Chan Dou. Not long after Lin Huang left the gravel world, she had also joined the Heaven Alliance under Yi Zheng's recommendation. After that, she had become the Heaven Alliance's main protégé. In the Genius Union, she was even named one of the Three Goddesses by a large number of male cultivators there. Some time ago, when she broke through to imperial-level and left the Genius Union, many fans even held a farewell party for her at the Stairway Tree.

Of course, Lin Huang did not know about these matters.

Since advancing to imperial-level, he had hardly paid any attention to the affairs of the Genius Union, let alone after he had left the gravel world for a year.

"Indeed, competition makes people more motivated. I initially used Brother Chan as my ideal and worked hard toward that."

Before Lin Huang came along, the Five Princes were the five insurmountable obstacles for everyone in the Genius Union. At that time, Lin Huang also worked hard toward his goal of becoming like Chan Dou, who was one of the Five Princes.

However, Lin Huang had ended the rule of the Five Princes later on through his own prowess and became the unprecedented Genius Emperor of the entire Genius Union. (He had always used the name "Lin Xie" within the Union.)

After chatting for a bit with Yi Zheng and his sister, Lin Huang quickly turned his attention to Li Lang.

Unlike Yi Zheng and his sister, the changes in Li Lang were considerable. In the previous video call, Lin Huang had noticed that the lad had a buzz cut, but now that he was face-to-face with Li Lang, he realized that his friend's aura was a lot steadier.

"Are you losing your hair or something?" Lin Huang teased him, laughing.

"You're the one who's losing hair! What's wrong with your eyes? It's obviously just shaved short," Li Lang retorted in annoyance.

"I think you didn't get a buzz cut; you want to become a monk."

As soon as Lin Huang said this, Yi Yeyu and Yi Zheng hurriedly sent him some pointed looks.

Lin Huang knew right away that he had said the wrong thing, but did not quite understand what had happened.

At this time, Senior Brother Liu Ming took the initiative to defuse the situation.

"All right, stop teasing him about his hair. Why not pick a less sensitive subject, hmm?"

"It's okay, it's nothing that can't be disclosed. It's over anyway." Li Lang waved his hand and smiled. "It's just a breakup, that's all."

"Huh?" Only then did Lin Huang understand why Li Lang had not yet broken through to imperial-level. The lad had spent his time conducting a love affair.

"I don't know who has been posting this message in the group every day for several months—'There will always be sudden encounters and unexpected joys in this world. Of course, there will also be unexpected goodbyes and unrelenting exits'. What an inexplicable saying," Yi Yeyu grumbled on the side.

Beside her, Yi Zheng hurriedly gave his sister a swat and shook his head at her.

"Why not put your efforts into cultivation? The great world is full of beautiful women. The sooner you advance to virtual god-level, the sooner you'll get to go to the great world—isn't that a good thing?" Lin Huang smiled and patted Li Lang on the shoulder.

Lin Huang did not ask for any further details about Li Lang's situation, but turned to look at his Senior Brother Liu Ming.

Liu Ming's current combat strength had reached the peak of imperial-level purple gold-rank, and he was only one step away from virtual god-level.

"Senior Brother's combat strength has improved considerably this year."

"All thanks to you. After that day, my cultivation talent and potential improved substantially. Initially, I thought that as I got older, the cultivation path would become more and more difficult to follow, but I didn't expect that my speed of cultivation this year would be even much faster than when I was young." The elevation of Liu Ming's talent was naturally the effect of Lin Huang's Flawless Card. He already had a solid foundation; after the advancement of his potential, not only had his combat strength soared, but his ability had as well.

"How's the preparation going for your advancement to virtual god-level? Have you targeted a monster?"

"I've found one; my preparations are almost complete too. I plan to make a move next week!" Liu Ming had planned it all out from early on.

"Do you need any help? I'll ask Tianfu to find some people for you."

"I'd already contacted Huang Tianfu before you came back. The members of the team are all ready to go."

"That's good." Initially, Lin Huang was worried that Liu Ming would be resistant to hunting in a team, but now it seemed that he had over-thought things.

As the few of them chatted, Leng Yuexin and Chan Dou arrived at the scene almost simultaneously at nine o'clock sharp.

Lin Huang noticed that Leng Yuexin's combat strength had also elevated to imperial-level. It was already at imperial-level crimson gold-rank even, which was a little higher than Yi Zheng and his sister.

As for Chan Dou, he had already advanced to virtual god-level. Although he was only at rank-1, his aura was very stable. Moreover, Lin Huang was also very aware that this fellow's true abilities were definitely far beyond Virtual God rank-1.

Once everyone had arrived, Fatty began serving up the food.

Everyone chatted while eating and drinking, and the topic soon came around to Lin Huang.

"Lin Huang, what rank is your current combat strength at?" It was Chan Dou who asked this question.

Chan Dou was also at virtual god-level but he could not sense how strong Lin Huang's aura was at all. However, he was very sure that Lin Huang must have advanced to virtual god-level.

When the other people at the table heard this, they all quietened down, obviously very curious about Lin Huang's current combat level.

"Currently it's at rank-3."

There was no need for Lin Huang to conceal his combat strength in front of this group of friends. Given that there was too big a gap between his actual ability and his combat level, even if any outsiders knew about his actual combat level, it would not affect him much.

"Rank-3…" Chan Dou frowned when he heard Lin Huang's answer. "How much do you know about the invaders who want to attack the gravel world?"

"I don't know much. The area corresponding to the space rift is a battlefield between the territory of the Protoss and the Abyssal Tribes. That battlefield is completely accessible; anyone can enter it." Lin Huang had also asked Bloody the same question, but she had not managed to discover who these intruders might be in the course of her investigations. "Anyway, we can't openly investigate this matter. The more people who know about it, the more likely that the coordinates of the gravel world will be revealed—which means it's more likely to come to the attention of the Heavenly Gods or even the Lords."

"We don't know who the enemy is. We also don't know anything about their combat levels or even how many of them there are. A battle like this is really hard to fight." Chan Dou looked helpless.

"The only thing we can do right now is to improve our own abilities as much as possible!" Lin Huang put forward the only viable countermeasure.

"Alright, today is a gathering of friends—we won't bring up such heavy topics any more. Let's talk about other things…" Liu Ming hurriedly smoothed the matter over.

As the topic shifted direction to something much more light-hearted, everyone at the dining table soon fell back into a lively, joyous state of mind, and the gathering of friends finally resumed the original intention of their meetup.

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The meal with old friends lasted until late into the night.

Although Fatty was the head chef, he only prepared a few dishes before he handed over the kitchen to a hired chef and joined in the chitchat.

Lin Huang had also obtained a general understanding of everyone's situation this year.

Leng Yuexin had also entered the Genius Union right after Yi Zheng and his sister. However, she had joined the Hong Alliance instead. Since she had used the Flawless Card, her talent and potential were not in any way below Yi Yeyu. Since Yi Zheng and his sister had joined the Heaven Alliance, the Hong Alliance had immediately made Leng Yuexin their main protégé for training.

Like Yi Yeyu, Leng Yuexin also rose rapidly in the ranks, becoming one of the Three Goddesses of the Genius Union.

After the Five Princes and the Genius Emperor, Leng Yuexin and Yi Yeyu took the position of two of the Three Queens.

Although Yi Zheng and the other super geniuses were not weak in their abilities, they were still slightly inferior to the Three Queens.

However, the Three Queens did not maintain their name for very long.

Among the Three Queens, Leng Yuexin took the lead and broke through to imperial-level, leaving the Genius Union. Yi Yeyu followed hot on her heels, breaking through to imperial-level after half a month, and leaving the Genius Union as well.

Lin Huang had not expected that the two women would have such fruitful experiences this year.

Apart from the two ladies, everyone else also seemed to have experienced a lot over the last year.

Chan Dou had traveled in search of his memories during this time, cultivating as well. It might have been the follow-up effects of using a Flawless Card in addition to the aid of familiar scenes, but the memories that he had previously lost were now over 90% recovered.

He had even taken the initiative to visit old friends such as Tan Lang and Shen Tao.

Chan Dou also mentioned something strange. The Bug Master named Li Jia had gone missing. He appeared to have vanished without a trace after leaving the Genius Union.

Senior Brother Liu Ming's progress this year was similar to that of Xiao Mo. He had either been hunting monsters or retreating into closed-door cultivation, so his combat strength had soared.

Not only had his combat strength advanced to imperial-level purple gold-rank, but the increase in his Sword Dao had also improved dramatically. He had now reached the limit of level-6 and was half a step away from achieving Sword Dao true meaning.

With his current ability, he would be able to put up a fight even if he encountered a Virtual God rank-1.

Fatty opened his restaurant this year; cooking every day made him happy beyond belief.

With the help of the people in Dynasty, his increase in combat strength and business was smooth sailing—not only that, his life was greatly enriched. Apart from being a little busy, there was nothing else wrong with him.

However, the strange thing was that despite being so busy every day, he had not lost any weight at all.

In comparison, Li Lang probably spent his year more leisurely than the rest.

After using the Flawless Card, his talent and potential had also reached that of a super genius, but his combat level was only at immortal-level rank-7, which was far removed from Yi Zheng. Obviously, his mind had not been very focused on cultivating.

After some small talk, Lin Huang learned that Li Lang had fallen for a girl, but right from the start she had not been very interested in him.

To win this girl's heart, he had changed a lot this year.

The girl had said that she did not like men who wore fancy clothes so he had thrown away all of his clothes from before. The girl had also said that she liked buzz cuts, so he had shaved his hair…

Every day, he would shower various attentions on the object of his affections to try and win her favor. This lasted for a few months but she had finally dumped him regardless.

For around six months after that Li Lang had been in a state of dejection. He slept until at least noon every day, sometimes even until the next night. All along, he had been something of a neat freak but now he gave up completely on keeping his house clean. His bed sheets would be slept on for months without being changed and he did not care when the fruits in the refrigerator were all rotten…

In the end, Yizheng and the others could not take it anymore and forcibly dragged him out of the house…

His state of mind had only just returned to normal over the last two months.

As far as this kind of personal emotional issues were concerned, Lin Huang did not feel it was right for him to express his opinion, so he could only provide a few words of comfort. He encouraged Li Lang to devote himself to cultivation and keep himself busy so that he would not think too much.

By the time everyone left Fatty's restaurant, it was almost the wee hours of the morning.

Lin Huang was slightly intoxicated from drinking a lot of wine, so he fell asleep until the next morning.

He had just woken up at around nine in the morning when Mr. Fu sent him a message.

"Let's have breakfast together and catch up while we're at it."

Lin Huang freshened up quickly and headed out immediately.

When Lin Huang arrived at Mrs. Fatty's Soup Dumplings, Mr. Fu, hair up in a small ponytail, was already seated at an open-air table. When he saw Lin Huang, he waved at him.

Lin Huang immediately sat opposite Mr. Fu.

"Now that you're back this time, do you think their dumplings are more delicious?" Mr. Fu asked with a smile.

"Now that you've mentioned it, it does seem that they are." Lin Huang was stunned for a moment after Mr. Fu's words, recalling the taste of the dumplings from before. In comparison, they really did taste better. "I thought it was because I hadn't come back for a year and I'd finally gotten to eat them again."

"I taught the couple a few little tricks," Mr. Fu explained with a smile.

"Oh, so that's why."

For a top food hunter like Mr. Fu, optimizing the preparation of common ingredients was a piece of cake

"After all, I do come here to eat occasionally. They had some flaws in their previous preparation processes so there were always some small regrets whenever I ate their dumplings." Mr. Fu did not make concessions in his expectations of excellence when it came to food.

The two chatted for a while, then Brother Fatty came with the dumplings.

"Mr. Fu, if the dumplings need any further improvement, please do let me know again."

Mr. Fu picked up a dumpling and tasted a mouthful, then nodded, "Using ordinary ingredients to achieve such a result is already the peak of culinary standards. It seems that both of you have been hard at work practicing the method that I've taught you."

"The main thing is that sir teaches well!" Brother Fatty hastened to flatter Mr. Fu, "I'll get back to what I'm doing so I won't bother you."

After Brother Fatty had left, Lin Huang and Mr. Fu both ate the dumplings quietly.

In no time at all, after eating two small steamers of dumplings, Mr. Fu put down his chopstick and set a soundproof barrier around the table.

"At the meeting the day before yesterday, you didn't elaborate on any information about the invaders. Were you really not able to investigate this properly, or did you deliberately not bring it up?"

Lin Huang also put down his chopsticks and fell silent for a moment before he spoke again.

"It's true that I was not able to investigate it properly, but I also concealed some information."

"Can you tell me now?" Mr. Fu asked, staring intently at Lin Huang.

"Previously, we've always thought that the world rules of the gravel world are incomplete, and the strength of the dimensional gateway is limited. We assumed that even if the gateway was fully open, at most only low-rank True Gods could come through.

"In fact, this is not the case. When the great world invades the gravel world and its incomplete rules, it will suppress the world will through special means and strengthen the space tunnel. The maximum limit for transmitted combat strength can be increased to ninth-rank true god-level…"

When he heard that, Mr. Fu's right hand trembled slightly, and his brows creased in a tight frown.

"You're saying that when the time comes, there will be not only low-rank True Gods but also middle and high-rank ones? There might even be peak-stage ninth-rank True Gods?!"

Lin Huang nodded helplessly.

"Then what should we do now? At present, we have no True Gods at all. Even with the ten Virtual God rank-9s that you brought back, at most, they can only conduct battle formations against the low-rank True Gods. Battle formations are useless if we encounter middle-rank True Gods, much less the high-ranks."

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"I brought back more than ten people; there are two-hundred and sixty-eight of them in total. They are not actually Virtual God rank-9s, but True Gods. However, their abilities are currently sealed."

"Two hundred and sixty-eight True Gods?" Mr. Fu's eyes brightened slightly. "What rank?"

"Currently they're all third-rank."

"Their combat strength is a bit low…" Mr. Fu could not help sighing, "However, it's better than nothing."

"Teacher, you don't have to worry too much; there's always a solution. Instead of worrying about what hasn't happened yet, it is better to focus on the matters at hand. I didn't tell Tianfu and Zhi Ji about this matter because I was also afraid that they were under too much pressure and the news might cause their mental health to suffer a breakdown."

"You're definitely right to handle things this way," Mr. Fu agreed after hearing what Lin Huang had to say, "If our enemies are only low-rank True Gods, everyone will feel that if we work hard, we might win. But if they find out that our enemies are high-rank True Gods, I am afraid that many people will immediately give up on resistance because they can't see any hopes of winning."

"I won't say anything about this, don't worry."

"What are your plans after this?" Mr. Fu asked again.

"I'm going into closed-door cultivation to enhance my combat strength!"

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Chapter 1406: Closed-Door Cultivation

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After breakfasting with Mr. Fu, Lin Huang returned to the Emperor Palace and immediately notified Huang Tianfu, Zhi Ji, and the Sword Servants that he was going into closed-door cultivation.

Once that was done, he immediately initiated the barrier around the Emperor Palace, entered closed-door cultivation, and began refining the Divine Fire in his body full-force.

Within half a day of Lin Huang's retreat into closed-door cultivation, the news of His Majesty's return filtered out from within Dynasty's inner circle.

For a while, this stirred up a heated discussion on social networking platforms.

After all, a year ago, Lin Huang had always been an influential figure in major social networking platform rankings and media news.

He had left the gravel world for a year and disappeared from public view the entire time. Now that he was back, many people recalled when the major rankings dreaded being dominated by the name "Lin Huang".

When Lin Huang vanished without a trace, most people did not actually know where he had gone. Then again, he did not disclose the news of his leaving the gravel world; only the upper echelons of the major organizations were aware of this.

Although there were also opinions expressed on the internet that Lin Huang had gone to the great world, not many people were willing to believe it.

This time, however, the individual on the internet who provided the scoop on the Emperor's return seemed to be someone who knew about the details of the matter.

A post entitled "The Return of The Emperor" not only included the specific date of Lin Huang's return but also revealed that he had killed a true god-level monster upon his arrival.

In the beginning, replies to this post were all flames, accusing the original poster of making up stories.

However, the news of Lin Huang's return was verified later on. Not only that, but it was also revealed that the Union Government had asked the major organizations to form a virtual god-level team. However, the authorities had then sent a message stating that the crisis had been resolved

As more and more news appeared, both genuine and fake, everyone gradually began to believe that Lin Huang—who had previously dominated the ranks—had really returned after all.

More and more people also began to believe that Lin Huang had been to the great world.

As a result, a new round of discussion on Lin Huang began on all major social media forums.

One of the most discussed topics was, "What is this great world like—the one that Lin Huang had been to?"

On Dynasty's side, the upper echelons were practically harassed by the media for a spell.

In the cultivation world, the great world was originally a place that only existed in legend; no one had ever returned after going there.

The media and even other cultivators wanted to find out from Lin Huang what the legendary great world was like.

However, Dynasty's answer to everyone in the outside world was just a single sentence.

"His Majesty has entered closed-door cultivation; we don't know when exactly he will emerge."

Only the Union Government, the Hunter Association, and other top organizations received certain information released by Dynasty.

This piece of information about the great world was part of what Lin Huang had mentioned at the meeting with Dynasty. Before he entered closed-door cultivation, he had specifically told Huang Tianfu that there was no need to conceal this news, as it would help the Union Government and the other top organizations to be aware of the kind of crisis they were about to face.

However, this piece of information also concealed the part that he had mentioned in conversation with Mr. Fu.

After receiving the news about the great world from Dynasty, all the top organizations immediately held a meeting at the first possible instance to discuss further developments and response strategies.

After that, practically all the organizations that received the news made similar decisions.

All imperial-levels, demigods, and Virtual Gods within the organizations began to frantically explore the wastelands and ruins, seizing cultivation resources on a large scale.

Dynasty and Misery were no exceptions.

Once they sensed the anomalies happening in the top organizations, other organizations all began to make inquiries, so more and more people became aware of the information on the great world.

While Lin Huang was in closed-door cultivation, Lin Xin was doing the same as well.

She would eat one Godhead every two or three days, and then eat another after the first had assimilated.

After she had eaten twelve Virtual God rank-1 Godheads in a row, she finally began to condense the Godhead within her…

Meanwhile, Xiao Mo had been in the Peaceful Ocean.

With the twelve Sword Servants, he had been searching for the hiding place of the Crow God's will projection.

The other Sword Servants also adapted to their roles very quickly.

Sword101 and Sword102 became Lin Huang's new bodyguards, and the two continuously kept watch at the entrance of the Emperor Palace.

The twenty Sword Servants who stayed in Dynasty and Misery also found their positions within the organizations. Some participated in various meetings with the upper echelons and even got involved in decision-making, while others did not care about anything and just focused on obtaining cultivation resources.

As for the group of people who formed the Sword Alliance, they began to spread out in various Safety Zones, using a variety of methods to search for young people with Sword Dao talent.

In the Emperor Palace, Lin Huang's refining of the Divine Fire went smoothly.

The proportion of Divine Fire being refined was steadily improving every day.

Almost a month later, ten pieces of fourth-rank Divine Fire tinder had been completely refined and integrated.

The Divine Fire within Lin Huang's body transformed again, and the Godhead quickly metamorphosized once more under the Divine Fire's refinement.

After successfully advancing to Virtual God rank-4, Lin Huang did not have the slightest intention of resting. He immediately took out ten pieces of fifth-rank Divine Fire tinder, threw them into his inner world, and started a new round of refining and integration.

On the same day, Lin Xin, who was only a few hundred meters away from Lin Huang, successfully condensed her own Godhead in another house.

Amid the sensations of advancing to virtual god-level, Lin Xin vaguely felt that she was dozens of times stronger.

"Have I become this much stronger after advancing to virtual god-level?"

Not only had there been an increase in her combat strength, but her physical body and spiritual strength had also transformed in nature. What surprised and delighted Lin Xin even more was that she seemed to have completely inherited the inheritance memories of the twelve Godheads.

She could even directly use all the skills of the owners of the twelve Godheads.

After elevating to virtual god-level, Lin Xin immediately thought of sharing this good news with her brother. When she pulled up her message page, however, she saw the message that Lin Huang had sent almost over a month ago.

"My brother has also entered closed-door cultivation… Then I'll continue with it to improve my combat effectiveness."

Lin Xin thought for a while and sat back properly.

She took out a Virtual God rank-2 Godhead from the storage space and threw it into her mouth…

One month had passed since the news of Lin Huang's return but he never made an appearance. The popularity of his name on major social networking platforms had long since faded. Since the media had not received the desired response, everyone's attention gradually shifted to other topics.

However, what most ordinary cultivators did not know was that while they had been engaged in gossiping, the information that Lin Huang had shared upon his return had allowed all the major organizations to enter an unprecedented state of combat readiness.

Even the organizations that ordinarily had conflicts with each other had temporarily put aside their issues. They began to work hard to improve the overall abilities of the organizations so they could survive the coming war.

The Union Government, the Hunter Association, and other top organizations were racing against time and did not dare to relax…

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