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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After sizing up the Patchwork Monster briefly, Lin Huang launched his attack straight away.

With a shake of his sleeve cuffs, tens of thousands of telekinetic flying daggers directly transformed into tens of thousands of blood-colored lightning bolts that shot out.

Stitch was a monster skilled at close-quarter combat, and Lin Huang's current persona was only a psychic, so he had to make the first move to avoid his opponent drawing him into close quarters.

However, Stitch's dozens of wings vibrated almost simultaneously. Even the vibration frequency and amplitude of these wings of varying colors and shapes were completely different. However, the strange thing was Stitch's flight speed was quite amazing. Even its agility far surpassed what Lin Huang had expected.

Wings rapidly vibrating, Stitch's figure swiftly slipped through the dragnet set up by Lin Huang's telekinetic flying daggers and actually managed to evade all the attacks.

Not a single one of the tens of thousands of flying daggers managed to strike its body.

Lin Huang was a little surprised by this outcome.

This was because, in the materials provided by Buried Heaven, there was no mention of the Patchwork Monster being capable of such speed.

It was not that Buried Heaven did not know about this, but when he was organizing this set of materials for Lin Huang and the others, it had not crossed his mind that someone might have the ability to kill third-rank Heavenly Gods. Hence, the introductory information for Heavenly Gods above second-rank was very superficial.

Outside the secret territory, as they watched Stitch easily dodge Lin Huang's telekinetic flying daggers, many Heavenly God team leaders could not help but glance at Buried Heaven.

The team leader of God Capital asked straight away, "Senior Buried Heaven, in the materials you provided to Xiu Mu, was there detailed information on Stitch?"

"No." Buried Heaven shook his head, expressionless. "I gave the same information to several True Gods. I didn't expect that Xiu Mu would go hunt down a third-rank Heavenly God either."

Upon hearing Buried Heaven's words, everyone immediately felt that the chances of Lin Huang winning this battle had become much slimmer.

There were even several Heavenly God team leaders who were starting to regret not having placed their bets to start the wager earlier.

In fact, it was not just Death Sickle, but the few major grade-7 organizations as well that had given more or less the same information to their own respective trial participants.

This was because, in the secret prisoner territory, there was no precedent for killing third-rank Heavenly Gods.

They had not felt the need to give detailed information on Heavenly God prisoners of third-rank and above.

In the secret territory, after witnessing Stitch's flight speed and agility, Lin Huang was only slightly surprised.

The information that Buried Heaven had given out on Heavenly God prisoners second-rank and above was very concise. Lin Huang had noticed this right from the beginning and had more or less guessed the reason behind it. Therefore, before locking onto Stitch as his target, he had mentally prepared himself.

He had immediately made the first move as soon as he arrived, because for one, in his persona of a psychic, he could not afford to be drawn into close quarters. For another, he was actually testing his opponent's speed, agility, defenses, and other aspects as well.

Although he was slightly surprised that none of the tens of thousands of flying daggers hit his opponent, it was still within his expectations.

Now that the first round of testing had shown results, Lin Huang did not hesitate at all. From his sleeve cuffs, even more telekinetic flying daggers transformed into blood-colored lightning arcs and shot out.

Ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand… they accumulated to one hundred thousand and still continued to increase.

The Heavenly God team leaders outside the arena were shocked by this.

"There are already more than one hundred thousand flying daggers, and they're still increasing. How much more can his Divine Telekinesis continue splitting?!"

"The attacking speed of those telekinetic flying daggers has increased as well. It's reached the level of a third-rank Heavenly God psychic…"

"What I find most frightening is that he can control over one hundred thousand flying daggers and still infuse them with sequence power. This level of Divine Power consumption is massive. Logically speaking, no True God would be able to do this. I can't figure out how he's managed to do so!"

In the secret territory, the number of Lin Huang's telekinetic flying daggers kept increasing until they reached one hundred and eighty thousand. Stitch was finally unable to dodge and was struck for the first time.

However, Lin Huang also noticed that the attack—which had been imbued with lightning sequence power and more than a hundred types of Rule Bending Power—had been blocked by one of Stitch's wings. This was a dragon wing covered in scales, and the attack bounced right off without making even a dent in the monster's defenses.

'Not only is its speed amazing, but its defensive power as well. There are even several wings specifically equipped with defensive functions. Their defensive power should be superior to other parts of its body…'

Lin Huang continued quietly analyzing.

The truth of the matter was with his actual abilities at present, it would not be difficult for him to kill this Patchwork Monster, but his current persona was Xiu Mu. Moreover, there were countless monitors constantly trained on him, so there were many methods he could not use.

He also knew for certain that at this moment, many Heavenly God team leaders in the outside world were watching the live broadcast of his battle.

He could only look at things from Xiu Mu's viewpoint and consider how he might win this battle.

In the void, close to two hundred thousand telekinetic flying daggers formed a giant net, enveloping Stitch again and again.

However, Stitch was slippery as an eel and kept dodging with lightning speed. Not only was it extremely fast, but it was also remarkably agile. Only as a last resort would it resist the attacks from the telekinetic flying daggers by using force.

After all, every single one of the telekinetic flying daggers contained sequence power. Although Stitch would not be injured if it were to be hit, it would still use up a lot of its Divine Power. Therefore, Stitch kept trying its best to avoid getting hit.

However, with hundreds of thousands of flying daggers in pursuit, it only had the energy to dodge and defend itself, and it could not find the opportunity to get close to Lin Huang at all.

Lin Huang also easily dodged the occasional long-range attacks launched by Stitch.

Just like that, both sides entered a stalemate where neither one could do anything to the other.

Lin Huang's attacks did not manage to harm Stitch, and conversely, Stitch did not have the opportunity to attack Lin Huang up close.

On the surface, it seemed as if Lin Huang had managed to suppress Stitch.

However, the line of Heavenly God team leaders outside the secret territory was becoming less and less optimistic about the outcome of Lin Huang's battle.

This was because Lin Huang's combat method would consume huge amounts of his Divine Power and put a massive burden on his spirit.

Anyone could tell that the longer this battle dragged on, the slimmer the chances of Lin Huang winning.

This time, even Buried Heaven felt that it was impossible for Lin Huang to turn the tables.

This battle situation where neither could harm the other lasted for more than ten minutes, but the corners of Lin Huang's mouth curved upwards almost imperceptibly.

'So that's it…

'The seven heads each have their own role. One controls limb movement, one controls the flight of the wings, one controls defenses, one controls attacks, and one controls sight and other senses, while yet another one controls the consumption of Divine Power, and the last controls sequence and Rule Bending Powers."

After more than ten minutes of investigation, he finally had sufficient understanding of his current opponent's every aspect.

'If I get rid of one of its heads, what will happen?' Lin Huang wondered to himself, but in fact, he had already more or less guessed the answer to this question.

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Chapter 1507: Stitch's Weakness

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Outside the secret territory, the Heavenly God team leaders who were watching the fight were not optimistic about Lin Huang.

"It's been more than ten minutes, and still not a single scratch on Stitch's body. If the current state of affairs drags on, Stitch will still be fine even in ten days or half a month, but lasting for more than even an hour could prove to be a problem for Xiu Mu."

"His telekinetic threads are certainly split into a great many strands, but his micro-level control over them isn't quite up to par, and his attack method is too straightforward." The speaker was a Heavenly God team leader whose main cultivation path was telekinesis. "Actually, even without an advantage in terms of speed, it wouldn't be difficult to besiege a not-so-bright fellow like Stitch. However, even if he manages to hem Stitch in, his Divine Power will hardly be strong enough to subdue Stitch until its Divine Power is depleted."

"Xiu Mu was just too arrogant and chose the wrong opponent. If he'd chosen just an ordinary third-rank prisoner as a target, he might still have had a chance of winning."

"Do you all think it's possible for him to turn the tables this round?" The team leader of Divine Clapnet glanced around and threw out the question with a smile.

Everyone shook their heads upon hearing this.

Only Buried Heaven and a few other people remained silent, not expressing any opinions.

At this moment, a Heavenly God team leader suddenly let out a low exclamation.

"The flight trajectory of his telekinetic flying daggers has changed!"

Everyone immediately directed their gazes back to the monitor screen where Lin Huang was, only to see via the surveillance video that the flight trajectory of the telekinetic flying daggers—which had been frenziedly hot in pursuit behind Stitch—was becoming complicated and strange.

Stitch obviously had not adapted to this sudden change, and the number of hits it took began to increase abruptly.

Unlike their previous formation resembling a school of fish, the flight paths of the nearly two hundred thousand flying daggers had begun to become erratic. Some moved swiftly, while others moved slowly as if they had all fallen into an odd rampaging state, which made it completely impossible for Stitch to predict their movements.

In less than two minutes, the Patchwork Monster was surrounded by nearly two hundred thousand flying daggers, and the area within which to dodge also began to shrink rapidly.

At the sight of this, the face of the Heavenly God psychic on the outside of the secret territory turned red. He had only made one comment, saying that Lin Huang's grasp of Divine Telekinesis was not sufficient, and had ended up getting slapped in the face right the next second.

However, not many people paid any heed to his embarrassment, as almost everyone was staring at the surveillance video intently, wanting to know what would happen next.

Since Stitch was completely enveloped by the telekinetic flying daggers, its figure could no longer be seen from the monitor, but everyone outside the surveillance feed could still hear its furious howls.

Within the spherical space formed by the telekinetic flying daggers, Stitch tried to break free repeatedly but was blocked again and again.

It was like a trapped beast, struggling violently in alarm and fright.

For Lin Huang, however, the hunting for this prey was more than half completed.

His previous attacks had only been to test his opponent's speed, agility, defenses, weaknesses, various body functions, and other information.

Now that the investigation was complete, it was time for the actual hunt.

'Barring anything unexpected, its seven heads are probably its biggest weakness…' Lin Huang manipulated thousands of telekinetic flying daggers and began to attack the seven heads of the Patchwork Monster in front of him. He had secretly endowed two of the flying daggers with the power of two god sequence chains.

Just as Lin Huang had anticipated, if he targeted the heads of the Patchwork Monster, the other would rapidly increase its defense mechanisms.

Various techniques were used as defenses in an attempt to thwart Lin Huang's attacks and render them ineffective.

It had not been so obvious during the previous attacks, but right now, in this confined space, the Patchwork Monster was affected by its alarm and was increasingly protecting its heads undisguisedly.

As the telekinetic flying daggers approached, it dodged them with extreme speed, and several protective wings also went into defensive mode. It even stretched out its tentacles at the expense of injury to block the approaching flying daggers.

However, the trajectories of the telekinetic flying daggers were mysterious and unpredictable. Dozens of flying daggers searched for openings and broke through the Patchwork Monster's defense line, among them a flying dagger with two levels of sequence power.

After dozens of flying daggers bypassed the Patchwork Monster's heavy defenses, they went straight for its seven heads.

Just as the flying daggers were about to penetrate the seven heads, a thick layer of black scale armor suddenly appeared on the Patchwork Monster's seven heads.

The next instant, dozens of flying daggers swept through the air.

After striking against the black scale armor, the flying dagger with two levels of sequence power was only slightly hindered before piercing through one of the heads and causing it to explode. However, the other dozens of flying daggers with only one level of sequence power were blocked by the layer of scale armor, leaving only white marks on the black scales in their wake, unable to break through any further.

Lin Huang had already anticipated this.

He just raised his brow slightly, wanting to manipulate the flying dagger with two levels of sequence power into causing more of the Patchwork Monster's heads to explode.

However, right at this moment, the Patchwork Monster's remaining six heads simultaneously made a whistling sound.

A terrifying sound wave was unleashed, forcibly blowing away all the flying daggers that had broken through.

Lin Huang felt some slight regret that he had not been able to go a step further.

Outside the secret territory, the Heavenly God spectators could not see what was going on inside the cage of flying daggers, but they could still hear the whistling sound that the Patchwork Monster made.

The sound was brutal, but it also seemed to have an element of agonized whining.

"Is Stitch injured?!" Someone could not help exclaiming.

"This sound doesn't seem to be purely anger."

"Xiu Mu can't turn the tables again this time, can he?!"

In the secret territory, Lin Huang calmly looked at the Patchwork Monster who was standing opposite him.

'What was the function of the head that exploded just now, I wonder?'

He soon found out the answer to this question when the nine eyes growing from his opponent's head closed one after the other.

Lin Huang raised his brows slightly when he saw this. He knew that the other had lost its perceptual abilities.

Although he was not certain whether or not the other's lost ability would be allocated to its other heads, his opponent was in a state where its perception was obstructed, at least for a short while.

As long as he attacked before this ability could be transferred, he would have the upper hand in this situation.

In other words, Stitch, who had lost its perceptual abilities, had been put at a greater disadvantage.

It had been able to effectively dodge and defend itself from Lin Huang's telekinetic flying daggers all this time by relying on its perception. Now that its perceptual abilities were gone, the efficiency of its evasive and defensive tactics would drop dramatically.

Lin Huang was obviously aware of this as well. After confirming that the other had indeed lost its perceptual abilities, he launched a second round of attacks without hesitation.

The cage—made up of nearly two hundred thousand telekinetic flying daggers—accelerated its whirling within the void, and tens of thousands of flying daggers transformed into blood-red lightning arcs, joining in to besiege Stitch.

Originally, Stitch had been able to avoid more than 90% of Lin Huang's attacks by dodging them but after losing its perceptual abilities, more than 80% of the other's attacks scored direct hits on its body.

The efficiency of Stitch's defenses was originally well over 90%, and it could easily block most of the telekinetic flying daggers that pursued it. Now, however, the efficiency of its blocking had dropped to less than 30%. Seventy percent of the attacks easily bypassed its defense systems and directly attacked the remaining six heads.

The two telekinetic flying daggers with two levels of sequence power also found an opening and shot through, piercing two more heads easily…

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Chapter 1508: Eclipsing Everyone Else

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Stitch let out another mournful howl as two more of its heads exploded, sounding even more desperate than before.

Outside the secret territory, the group of Heavenly Gods was astonished. They really wanted to know what exactly Lin Huang was doing to Stitch, but they could not see anything through the cage of telekinetic flying daggers. They could only use their imaginations to fill in whatever they could not see.

"This harrowing shriek clearly doesn't seem like it's nothing."

"What on earth did he do to Stitch for it to screech so miserably?"

"Did he shove something up Stitch's anus?"

"Does Stitch even have an anus?!"

With the destruction of two more heads, Stitch very quickly displayed the loss of more abilities.

Its wings began to retract one after the other, and its figure plummeted to the ground. Only a few of its wings still retained their defensive abilities, but they could no longer flap or fly.

Obviously, the head that controlled Stitch's flight ability had been destroyed.

Besides that, Lin Huang noticed that its Divine Power had also become unstable.

Every time one of his own attacks hit Stitch, the strength of the Divine Power it exerted to defend itself was different.

At times, its Divine Power was easily breached by the telekinetic flying daggers, while at other times, it directly repelled them.

With the loss of its flight ability, Stitch's dodging capabilities had been weakened to the extreme. Although Lin Huang's telekinetic flying dagger attacks did not have a hundred percent success rate, it was well over 95%, and Stitch was, therefore, unable to avoid most of it.

On another front, Stitch's loss of control over its Divine Power also caused its defense systems to start becoming unstable.

Lin Huang's flying dagger attacks caused increasingly effective damage.

The increase of various disadvantageous factors made the scales of victory tilt in Lin Huang's favor.

Within less than two minutes, Lin Huang's telekinetic flying daggers breached Stitch's defenses once more and pierced through another one of its heads.

With the destruction of this head, the god sequence chains and Rule Bending Power in Stitch's body began to go haywire.

Knowing that it was now in desperate straits, Stitch began to ignore the barrier of telekinetic flying daggers, trying to forcefully break through the spherical area created by the telekinetic flying daggers and attack Lin Huang up close instead.

However, Lin Huang saw through its plan with just a glance, and there was no way he was willing to allow it an opportunity to carry out its intentions.

Whichever direction it moved, Lin Huang would boost the telekinetic flying daggers in that direction with the power of a second god sequence chain, forcing Stitch back.

Every time it tried to force its way through, it was helplessly forced back in turn. Sensing that not much Divine Power was left within itself, Stitch howled in despair.

Lin Huang's figure floated in the air outside the spherical area formed by the telekinetic flying daggers, continuing to wait indifferently for the end of this fight.

He did not feel any sympathy for Stitch. After all, it was an evil spirit type from the Abyss.

Nevertheless, he still acknowledged Stitch's abilities.

Outside the secret territory, the Heavenly Gods who were watching heard Stitch's yowls again, but they had been slightly desensitized by now.

Excluding the first ten minutes or so, it had only been about twenty minutes since the fight had started. After Stitch had been trapped in the space within the telekinetic flying daggers, they did not even know how many wails it had let out by now.

Practically every howl sounded utterly miserable.

"Although I don't know what exactly Xiu Mu did, I feel that Stitch is about to lose."

"I feel the same way. Stitch is screaming so miserably."

"This sound reminds me of my childhood and the Swine Beasts in the slaughterhouse who were still struggling, despite being bound and hung up from their hooves…."

"Now that you mention it, I think I haven't eaten Swine Beasts in more than eight thousand years. Once I'm done with work in the next few days, I'll have an all-pork feast!"

In the spherical space encaged by the telekinetic flying daggers, Stitch had basically become a moving target.

Although it had been forcing itself to move its body around, this was practically useless.

Blood-red gleams flashed rapidly in the void, leaving wound after wound on Stitch's body.

Under the attacks of the telekinetic flying daggers, Stitch's Divine Power was also rapidly being depleted.

Lin Huang did not ease up at all. He had no intention of giving the other party any chance to take a breather.

The telekinetic flying daggers poured down on Stitch like a torrential rainstorm.

In the short space of less than five minutes, not a single inch of Stitch's body was left unscathed.

Another two of its heads had been destroyed one after the other, and only one final head remained.

This last head was in charge of its defense systems.

Stitch had lost all of its body functions and could not carry out even the simplest movements, completely becoming a stationary target.

Even so, Stitch still used its defensive wings, long since riddled with holes, to protect its last head.

Despite that, it was all in vain. In less than a minute, Lin Huang's telekinetic flying daggers easily tore through Stitch's last line of defense and pierced through its last head.

At this moment, the fatality notification finally appeared in front of Lin Huang.

Almost simultaneously, he also felt several god sequence chains containing massive Rule Bending Power surging into his body.

This round of hunting had directly skyrocketed the number of rules in Lin Huang's body by more than a hundred thousand types.

Even Lin Huang himself was a little surprised.

What he did not know was that while taking the limbs of others for part of its collection, Stitch would also devour their God Territories.

Now, however, all of Stitch's hard work had ended up going to Lin Huang instead.

The two hundred and seventy thousand God Rule Powers in his body had increased to nearly four hundred thousand in one shot.

"Given this sort of effectiveness, I just need to hunt three or four more monsters for my combat level to increase again," Lin Huang mused to himself.

Of course, he was aware that the main reason for the bountiful yield this time was because of Stitch's uniqueness. Other third-rank Heavenly Gods would not be able to give him the same amount of benefits.

With a slight gesture of his fingers, the telekinetic flying daggers that had formed the spherical space quickly returned to Lin Huang's sleeve cuffs.

With the spherical area gone, the numerous Heavenly Gods who had been watching the fight from outside the secret territory finally saw Stitch's body, now riddled with holes until it was practically a sieve.

A glimpse at the tattered state of Stitch's corpse was all it took for everyone to know that Stitch was as dead as one could get.

Although everyone had already anticipated this result from a few minutes ago, they still could not help being shocked when they actually got a look at Stitch's body.

'He really did it…' Even Buried Heaven silently whispered in disbelief.

For someone at true god-level to kill a third-rank Heavenly God was not something that had never happened before in the history of the God Territory, but the select few who had managed to pull off such a feat had gone on to become Lords without exception.

As for this secret prisoner territory, Lin Huang was the first participant to successfully hunt down a third-rank Heavenly God.

The team leaders of God Capital and the Combat God Temple, as well as other organizations who had top-tier True Gods from their organizations participating in this trial, all had peculiar expressions on their faces.

Initially, they were extremely confident in the participants under their respective commands, firmly believing that they would be able to put up a stellar performance during this trial and show off to all the other organizations.

The top-tier True God powerhouses under their commands also possessed the ability to hunt down first-rank Heavenly Gods and could even go up against many second-ranks.

However, after seeing Lin Huang successfully hunt down Stitch, they knew that the individuals they had brought along this time had become mere foils.

It was useless! This was an absolute defeat in terms of ability.

None of them would be able to hunt down a third-rank Heavenly God the way Lin Huang had.

Lin Huang's sudden appearance on the public radar had completely eclipsed everyone else's brilliance.

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Chapter 1509: Death Sickle's Secret

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On the Gold Leaderboard, Xiu Mu's hunting points had suddenly skyrocketed by four hundred points, which once more attracted the attention of all the other participants.

One must be aware that Lin Huang's name had been constantly at the top of the Gold Leaderboard, so even just a change of 1 point could be clearly seen by everyone—what more a surge of 400 points.

Upon seeing the 400-point change in his score, many people were taken aback at first but immediately came back to their senses.

The base points a True God earned for hunting down a Heavenly God was 100 points, and for each subsequent increase in the level of the Heavenly God being hunted, the hunting points obtained by the hunters would also be doubled. Therefore, starting at first-rank, the hunting points earned from low-rank to high-rank would be 100 points, 200 points, 400 points, 800 points…

"His hunting points went up by 400 points at once. Does this mean he hunted down a third-rank Heavenly God?!"

"It's probably not from killing two second-rank Heavenly Gods at the same time. According to the rules regarding changes in hunting points, no matter how close the times between two hunts are, each increase in a hunter's points will be displayed in succession. Even if Xiu Mu did hunt down two second-rank Heavenly Gods at the same time, his points should have increased by 200 points twice instead of 400 points at once."

"An increase of 400 hunting points in one shot… Well, those top-tier fellows probably won't be able to sit still at all now."

Several top-tier True God powerhouses were indeed quite agitated by this.

Previously, when Lin Huang was hunting second-rank Heavenly Gods, they had already been forced to start hunting Heavenly Gods before they had even fully adapted to their new environment.

To some extent, Lin Huang's actions at that time had already disrupted their hunting rhythm.

Currently, Lin Huang's success in hunting down a third-rank Heavenly God had thoroughly caused quite a few people to be psychologically off-kilter.

Originally, several of them had thought that during this trial, they would hunt down a few Heavenly Gods and put up a sterling performance in front of the major organizations. If they had a chance, they would try to fight for the top spot on the Gold Leaderboard.

Now though, without a doubt, Lin Huang's performance had drawn everyone's attention. Moreover, having the ability to hunt down a third-rank Heavenly God meant that he had basically secured the top spot on the Gold Leaderboard. No one else had the ability to compete with him.

No matter how hard they tried, other top-tier powerhouses could only fight for second place at most.

Actually, in the beginning, everyone did not regard a dark horse like Xiu Mu as a competitor. However, at present, this fellow who had appeared out of nowhere had just displayed terrifying abilities that completely overpowered everyone else.

Several people were disgruntled, but they also felt helpless at the same time. They could only silently sigh over their bad luck at encountering a dark horse that had suddenly appeared on the public radar.

Many of those who were not top-tier powerhouses felt a sense of schadenfreude. They could fully imagine the faces of those peak powerhouses at this moment.

They could not compete for the first place anyway, so they were happy to watch the commotion.

They only came here to participate in the trial, but they had ended up witnessing the mighty rise of a powerhouse who defied all odds. The rewards were absolutely fulfilling.

After leaving this place, they would have a new hot topic to brag about to their friends.

Upon consideration, this had certainly been a worthwhile trip!

Lin Huang paid no heed to the leaderboard at all. After he had finished checking the state of things within his body, he immediately stored away Stitch's hole-riddled corpse. Without lingering any longer, he swiftly headed in the direction of his next target.

The secret territory was only accessible for one short month, so he wanted to make the best of this time to increase his combat level as much as possible.

After successfully hunting down Stitch, he now had a general understanding of the third-rank Heavenly Gods' abilities in this secret territory. He had also fully planned out his following course of action.

There was no need to hunt down first-ranks and second-ranks, as the number of rules that he could obtain from them was small. Heavenly God prisoners who were above third-rank were also excluded as there was no need for him to further expose his true power. Being able to hunt down a third-rank was already odds-defying enough as it was.

If it were not for the fact that True Gods capable of hunting down third-rank Heavenly Gods had previously emerged in the God Territory, Lin Huang would have even given up on hunting third-rank prisoners.

It was precisely because there were people before him who had already done it that Lin Huang displayed his strength up to this level.

What Lin Huang did not know was that all these predecessors had later gone on to become Lords, without exception.

His performance had already garnered the attention of all the top organizations in the God Territory.

Even the team leaders of the several grade-7 organizations outside the secret territory had reported the news back to the upper ranks of their respective organizations the moment he had successfully killed Stitch.

Of course, Buried Heaven had noticed the behavior of the grade-7 organization team leaders, but he was unable to prevent them from doing so.

In reality, he felt there was no need to stop them either.

He was more cognizant of Lin Huang's background than anyone else, and he knew that Lin Huang was unable to join any other organization except Death Sickle.

This was because he was not a Protoss at all, but a human being.

Apart from Xeno, which took a neutral stance, every other grade-7 organization in the God Territory did not have a very cordial attitude toward humans.

God Capital was a pure blood organization and they even looked down on other Protoss who were not pure blooded, what more humans. The Combat God Temple had conquered human territory more than once and seized a lot of their lands. Divine Clapnet had even planted countless spies among humans and were monitoring their movements at all times. As for Precious Treasure Pavilion, to them, humans were just a type of tradable commodity.

Xeno took a neutral stance, but they were in no way friendly. They would cooperate with whomever they deemed profitable. They did have dealings with humans, but such individuals could only be regarded as business partners at most, and there was definitely no friendship between them.

Buried Heaven knew very well that it was impossible for Lin Huang to join any other organization.

This was because once his identity as a human was exposed, death would be the only option awaiting him.

In fact, for organizations other than Death Sickle, if they were to find out that Lin Huang was a human, most of them would consider Lin Huang a major potential threat and would even try to nip it in the bud.

This was because it was very possible that his existence might lead to the rise of humans in the great world.

The reason why Death Sickle had no such misgivings about this was actually related to a secret the organization had.

In reality, Death Sickle was essentially not a local organization from the God Territory but a branch of a certain organization in the universe.

Only a handful of people knew about this matter.

This was why it was possible for the Blood Sickles within Death Sickle to have a human in their midst.

This was also why Death Sickle could tolerate the existence of a human like Lin Huang.

Buried Heaven also knew of this secret and had therefore maintained a friendly attitude to Lin Huang since the beginning.

Although Buried Heaven was a bona fide Protoss, the secrets he had learned from Death Sickle had long since allowed him to see things from a perspective beyond race.

In his eyes, it did not matter whether Lin Huang was a human or not. The important thing was that he was a powerhouse with extraordinary potential.

Of course, Buried Heaven actually had his own little selfish motive.

He wanted to watch Lin Huang develop, then battle it out with him to his heart's content!

It did not even matter who won or lost!

As he watched Lin Huang's spectacular performance within the secret prisoner territory, he had a feeling that day was not too far away.

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Chapter 1510: Play A Game With Me

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In the secret territory, having killed Sitch, Lin Huang proceeded with the hunt.

Unlike the other hunters, all of his targets after that were now third-rank heavenly god-level prisoners.

For the other participants in the secret territory, successfully being able to kill a third-rank heavenly god-level prisoner might have been a matter of luck. However, they saw Lin Huang's hunting points skyrocket by 400 points a second and third time, respectively.

Only then did they understand that Xiu Mu did indeed possess such ability. He did not depend on luck at all.

The numerous Heavenly God leaders who were watching the battle outside could very clearly see for themselves and basically acknowledged that Lin Huang's abilities were almost on par with the standard of a top third-rank Heavenly God.

However, they did not know that what they saw was, in reality, only what Lin Huang wanted to display.

In the secret territory, under the continued stimulus of Lin Huang's achievements, the few top-tier True God powerhouses also began moving into the domain of the second-rank heavenly god-level prisoners, thus beginning a whole new challenge.

However, their hunts were far less successful than Lin Huang's.

For one thing, they did not possess the ability to dominate their opponents. For another, the convicts in the secret prisoner territory held the geographical advantage. Almost every hunt was a mutual battle of wits and valor, which was extremely time-consuming.

Lin Huang aside, the fastest top-tier True God powerhouse to complete the killing of a second-rank heavenly god-level prisoner spent over five hours just to do it. This excluded the time spent tracking down their opponent and the time spent traveling.

Among the top-tier True Gods, there was even a rather unfortunate fellow who happened to encounter a second-rank heavenly god-level prisoner that managed to overwhelm him. After the intense battle of close to ten hours, he had no choice in the end but to flee in defeat.

While many participants were still cautiously hunting prisoners to obtain points, Lin Huang's hunting points had long since shot up, leaving everyone far behind.

The number of rules and god sequence chains in his body was also skyrocketing as he went.

By the fifth day of entering the secret prisoner territory, the number of rules within Lin Huang had increased to over 700,000. He was getting closer and closer to a breakthrough to fourth-rank True God.

As usual, Lin Huang checked the number of rules that had increased within him after completing the hunting of a third-rank heavenly god-level prisoner. He put away the corpse and headed straight to where the next target was.

However, halfway through his journey, there was a sudden change of expression on his face.

The reason for this was because, within the sensing range of his Divine Telekinesis, he sensed two auras in the area where his target was located.

One of the auras was at third-rank heavenly god-level; that was clearly his target.

Meanwhile, the other aura was not strange to him. He had come face-to-face with that particular individual before entering the secret territory.

Lin Huang did not slow down, nor did he change his route; he continued hurrying along his intended path.

The Heavenly God team leaders outside the secret territory displayed various expressions.

Many were secretly looking at Buried Heaven.

This was because the individual that Lin Huang was about to encounter was none other than Virtuoso from Death Sickle.

None of the Heavenly God team leaders had noticed exactly when Virtuoso had headed to the Heavenly God domain.

Once Lin Huang had locked down his prey and his flight path had become clear, almost all of the Heavenly God team leaders only noticed—after they had checked to see who Xiu Mu's target was— that there was now an individual who had appeared out of nowhere beside the intended prisoner.

What puzzled the team leaders even more was that Virtuoso was standing less than two meters away from that third-rank heavenly god-level prisoner, but Virtuoso had not been attacked.

It was as if the third-rank heavenly god-level prisoner could not see Virtuoso, completely ignoring their existence.

Such an odd state of affairs confused the entire group of Heavenly God team leaders.

Actually, everyone present had heard of Virtuoso and was aware that this individual's talent and potential even exceeded that of Buried Heaven.

Not a single assassination mission that Virtuoso took on for Death Sickle failed. All the targets would mysteriously die, and even their manner of death was very seldom repeated.

However, nobody knew exactly what Virtuoso's abilities were, nor had anyone ever seen their face. In fact, no one had any idea whether they were male or female.

Some grade-6 and grade-7 organizations had even attempted to investigate Virtuoso, but their efforts were to no avail.

Virtuoso was like a person who had appeared out of the blue; utterly no traces of their past could be discovered.

After some time, everyone gave up wasting time trying to investigate Virtuoso.

However, everyone was aware that Death Sickle had a mysterious individual like that with stunning potential—one who had extremely powerful potential to become a Lord.

Although the numerous Heavenly God leaders were not clear on Virtuoso's background, they were familiar with what Virtuoso had done.

Virtuoso was merely a true god-level White Sickle member in Death Sickle, but he had killed over 20 Heavenly Gods.

Among this number were even a few second-rank Heavenly God powerhouses.

Therefore, nobody had much at all in the way of doubts about Virtuoso's ability.

If Xiu Mu had not shown up out of the blue, Virtuoso was, without a doubt, the strongest contender for the No. 1 spot on the Hunter's Gold Leaderboard.

Meanwhile, it was clearly no coincidence that Virtuoso had appeared next to Lin Huang's hunting target out of nowhere.

Buried Heaven could not help frowning upon seeing Virtuoso suddenly appearing in the surveillance video.

Since the opening of the secret prisoner territory, it was also the first time he had openly displayed any sign of emotion in front of everyone present.

'This Virtuoso fellow, I've warned them repeatedly, and still, they choose to do as they please…'

In the secret territory, Lin Huang and Virtuoso very soon encountered each other.

Lin Huang was not overly surprised to see Virtuoso calmly standing next to the heavenly god-level prisoner, who seemed to have no intention of attacking Virtuoso at all.

Lin Huang had heard of Virtuoso's name in the early days when he first joined Death Sickle as Xie Lin.

He had even seen the pictures of the targets Virtuoso had killed, as well as the autopsy reports. All of them had died in strange ways. At the time, he had already known that Virtuoso possessed extremely odd abilities.

At the same time that Lin Huang was sizing up Virtuoso, Virtuoso was silently scrutinizing Lin Huang as well.

The heavenly god-level prisoner, on the other hand, was ignored by them both.

The strange thing was that the prisoner was still standing where he was, ignoring the duo so close to him.

"From the looks of it, you've been waiting for me?" Lin Huang took the initiative to break the silence.

"That's right." Virtuoso's voice was still ambiguous in terms of gender. "I've been waiting for you for a long time…"

Lin Huang did not think Virtuoso had been waiting on him here for a long time. Virtuoso's words seemed to imply that they had been waiting for Lin Huang outside the secret territory, or even much earlier than that.

"Here we are now. If you have anything to say, don't beat around the bush." Lin Huang had never been fond of talking to people who spoke with hidden meanings. "Whatever you want to do, just say so outright."

"There are so many people watching out there, are you sure you want me to say it outright?" Virtuoso paused and said the last two words through voice transmission, "Xie Lin…"

Lin Huang's pupils contracted slightly. He had not expected that Virtuoso would have unmasked his identity.

"Just tell me what you really want."

Lin Huang was startled for only a moment, quickly recovering his composure. However, the expression on his face remained cold.

"If you want to know what I really want…" Virtuoso said with a hint of mockery, "You'll have to play a game with me first."

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"Play a game with me first…"

As soon as Virtuoso started teasing him, tens of thousands of blood-red lightning bolts shot out from Lin Huang's cuffs.

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Dagger after God Weapon flying dagger transformed into blood-red lightning bolts that filled the sky and swept in an arc across the void, directly attacking Virtuoso from all directions.

"I'm definitely not in the mood for such things." On that note of disagreement, Lin Huang made his move straight away.

Although the rules in the secret prisoner territory did not allow trial participants to kill one another, it was Virtuoso who had provoked him first after all. Lin Huang could not be blamed for retaliating.

Moreover, as long as neither was killed or disabled, they would not be held accountable.

Lin Huang was not planning on killing Virtuoso; he was only preparing to teach them a lesson.

Outside the secret territory, the group of Heavenly Gods was shocked when they saw Lin Huang's sudden attack.

They had not expected the relationship between the two colleagues in Death Sickle to be this poor.

Many people sneaked glances at Buried Heaven. At this moment, Buried Heaven's brows were furrowed. This was clearly a scene he did not wish to see at all, so much so that he had forgotten to control his facial expressions.

At this moment, the team leaders of the few grade-7 organizations were secretly delighted that Xiu Mu and Virtuoso were at odds with each other. This meant that the chances of one of them leaving Death Sickle would be a lot higher than they had previously expected. Right now, several people were already secretly plotting how to poach them from Death Sickle. It did not matter whether it was Xiu Mu or Virtuoso, getting either one of them would definitely be a steal.

Tens of thousands of telekinetic flying daggers poured down like torrential rain, but Virtuoso just stood there, motionless.

They did not dodge, nor did they display any kind of defensive techniques.

The next instant, their figure was utterly swallowed up by countless blood-red lightning arcs.

Upon seeing this, the spectators outside the secret territory were bewildered.

They could not figure out why Virtuoso had abandoned defending themselves and let Xiu Mu attack them.

One should know that Xiu Mu's attack was probably able to kill even third-rank Heavenly Gods.

"They really didn't think that Xiu Mu would pull back at the last minute, did they?!"

"Virtuoso can't have been killed off so easily, right?"

"For Xiu Mu's current attack, his telekinetic flying daggers have been compounded with two levels of sequence power, which is sufficient to slay even third-rank Heavenly Gods. Virtuoso was hit without defending themselves whatsoever. There shouldn't be any doubt about the results."

While the group of Heavenly Gods was heatedly discussing this, Lin Huang frowned slightly.

He could sense that his attack had failed.

Not a single flying dagger had managed to hit Virtuoso. Strangely, however, his Divine Telekinesis sensed that Virtuoso still remained standing where they were, not having moved an inch.

'Is this a special sequence power?!

Logically speaking, rule-type attacks would definitely hit their target unless the other party used Rule Bending Power to dodge or defend themselves.

If even his telekinetic flying daggers with their compounded two levels of sequence power could not hit his opponent, the only logical explanation was that the other party had used sequence power to dodge the attack.

As for his Divine Telekinesis sensing that Virtuoso had not moved, that could only mean that their sequence power possessed the special function of being able to confuse one's Divine Telekinesis.

Although not a single one of Lin Huang's attacks managed to land on his target, he did not give up right away, continuing instead to manipulate the telekinetic flying daggers to keep attacking.

"Don't waste your energy." Virtuoso's voice drifted leisurely through the countless flying daggers surrounding them. "Even if you run out of Divine Power, this kind of attack can't cause me any harm."

As soon as Virtuoso said that, they slowly stepped out as though all the telekinetic flying daggers were nothing to them.

Only then did Lin Huang notice that although all the telekinetic flying daggers pierced straight through Virtuoso's body, they did not cause them any harm.

Outside the secret territory, most of the Heavenly God team leaders did not understand what they were seeing.

The few people who did were staring at Virtuoso with wide eyes.

"So it's Obscured Sequence…"

"Who would have thought that there really is someone who's mastered this kind of legendary sequence power!"

"I initially thought that this Xiu Mu fellow was already invincible enough. I never expected Virtuoso to be even more complicated?"

Buried Heaven's current expression was as unpleasant as it could get. Of course, he knew what sequence power Virtuoso had mastered, but he had not expected Virtuoso to use it publicly like that.

However, right at this moment, on the monitor screen, Virtuoso turned their head all of a sudden and flashed a bland smile at the surveillance camera. "What's about to happen next involves private matters and isn't for public disclosure. For now, you can watch other people's performances."

As soon as Virtuoso said that, they snapped their fingers, and the screen immediately froze on Virtuoso's masked face.

"Switch Xiu Mu and Virtuoso's screen to other monitoring angles!" The team leader of God Capital hurriedly dialed a number.

"There's no way to switch. All the nearby monitors have malfunctioned!" The voice of a staff member came from the other end of the communicator.

"How could this happen?! How long will it take to be repaired?!" The team leader of God Capital asked frantically.

"We have no idea. At the moment, we aren't sure where the fault is. We're still investigating the monitors one at a time. We can't be certain how much time exactly is needed to repair them either."

Upon hearing this reply, the expression of God Capital's team leader became really grim.

This was the first time the monitors in the secret prisoner territory had malfunctioned.

The staff members of God Capital had indeed been somewhat caught off guard.

In the secret territory, Virtuoso switched off the monitor screen before turning their head to look at Lin Huang. "It's just the two of us left."

As soon as they said that, they seemed to have recalled something, glancing at the prisoner. "I almost forgot. There's a third party here."

Lin Huang frowned slightly. "What did you do?!"

"Nothing much, I just used a little trick to temporarily block the monitor." Virtuoso's tone was mild. "In which case, you can demonstrate your abilities without having to hold back, and you don't need to worry about your identity being exposed either."

"I think you might have mistaken me for someone else." Lin Huang still wanted to continue hiding his identity. After all, he was still unable to trust what the other party had said about blocking the surveillance monitors to the outside world.

"Have I?" Virtuoso's eyebrows rose under their mask. "You also have another name, Xie Lin. Of course, I even know that this isn't your real name. Your real identity is human. Your main cultivation path is Sword Dao; telekinesis is just your supplemental path.

"Not only that, but I also know something even Buried Heaven from Death Sickle doesn't—you're an Imperial Censor who can control the Protoss!"

Virtuoso's words caused Lin Huang's expression to darken. He could almost imagine the consequences if the Heavenly God team leaders in the outside world were to hear these words.

"You can relax; since I've come out with it, of course, I'm absolutely certain that no one else can hear what I've just said," Virtuoso added.

"I've already said that you've mistaken me for someone else." Lin Huang still chose to deny it. After all, he could not be certain if the monitors had really been blocked or not.

"Forget it. Whether or not I've mistaken you for someone else, it isn't important." Virtuoso understood as well that Lin Huang did not believe what they had to say. They, too, could not be bothered to continue wasting time on this subject. "My request still stands. Play a game with me.

"Don't say no too hastily. As long as you pass, you'll win a prize. I believe that you'll be satisfied with this reward."

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Chapter 1512: Obsidian Dragon-being

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"The rules of the game are very simple. All you need to do is to defeat it."

Virtuoso pointed at the third-rank Heavenly God prisoner who had been standing motionlessly to one side all this time.

"But I must let you know you that I've made some modifications to this creature, and it's far stronger than before. If you don't fight it seriously, you might very well die at its hands."

As soon as Virtuoso said this, Lin Huang noticed the prisoner slowly raising its head, its body already unleashed in combat mode. Scarlet eyes stared right at him. Simultaneously, a terrifying aura emanated from its body.

This was an Obsidian Dragon-being from the Abyss; under normal circumstances, they even looked somewhat human when viewed from a distance. The scales on their bodies were extremely fine, and if one did not look closely, this might appear similar to human skin. The only difference between themselves and humans was that they had a tail.

However, Obsidian Dragon-beings in combat mode were a different matter altogether.

Their bodies would expand to more than three meters in size, and the two eyes on their heads would split into four. The scales covering their bodies would revert to their original black rhombus-shaped structure. The shape of their bodies would also drastically mutate, their heads appearing similar to that of four-eyed monitor lizards with black scales.

Although this prisoner before him was already in combat mode, it also displayed obvious anomalies.

Lin Huang's sensing indicated that the aura around this prisoner was extremely dangerous, akin to a star on the verge of exploding.

The strength of the prisoner's aura practically broke through third-rank limits in an instant, then climbed all the way up. In the span of several breaths, it had surpassed fourth-rank and continued advancing toward fifth-rank.

Lin Huang also noticed that, even for his opponent, whose inherent physical body strength was in no way inferior to that of its dragonkin, its body was being pushed to its limit step by step, and wisps of black blood were starting to leak out from the cracks between the scales covering its body.

Although Lin Huang did not know the exact method that Virtuoso had used, he knew that this was definitely a technique that forcefully extracted one's potential. This type of technique would typically have severe repercussions.

Judging by this Obsidian Dragon-being's current state, if it were released from Virtuoso's technique, its physical body was likely to disintegrate straight away. Even worse, its soul might be immediately be dispersed as well.

"This fellow…" Lin Huang's pupils narrowed slightly. He no longer had time to pay attention to Virtuoso anymore.

This was because the deadly aura emanating from this monster in front of him was already occupying his full attention.

Without waiting for his opponent's aura to reach its peak, Lin Huang could not help seizing the initiative to make his move first.

One hundred thousand telekinetic flying daggers shot out from his sleeve cuffs, transforming into one hundred thousand blood-red lightning arcs that rained down on his opponent.

The Obsidian Dragon-being did not dodge. As it saw the countless blood-red blades shooting toward it like lightning, it suddenly opened its mouth, inhaled a long breath of air, then suddenly let out an earth-shaking roar.

"ROAR!"

Circular sound waves spread out in all directions along with the bellowing. Those sound waves were even imbued with levels of sequence power, turning everything to dust wherever they passed.

Under the impact of the sound waves, countless telekinetic flying daggers were sent shooting backward, crumbling all over the ground.

The attack of the telekinetic flying daggers, which had always worked in the past, was easily overcome by his opponent just like that.

Lin Huang frowned slightly. "Its consciousness seems to have already descended into chaos, but it can still perform such precise functions, and its timing is so precisely…"

He could not help but glance at Virtuoso, who was not far away.

It was impossible to tell whether Virtuoso was happy or sad under their mask, but their tone sounded relaxed. "Oh dear, you've discovered it so quickly.

"I forgot to mention just now. As I've done things that can't be disclosed to its body, its consciousness has descended into a state of chaos, and it's unable to fight normally. Therefore, I can only control its body and take over the work in this battle."

Initially, Lin Huang had only been guessing; he had not expected that Virtuoso would reveal the truth so easily.

This Obsidian Dragon-being was only a puppet.

Logically speaking, he should definitely first get rid of Virtuoso, the mastermind, without having to waste time on the puppet.

This idea also flashed through Lin Huang's mind, but he instantly rejected it.

On one hand, the previous round of test attacks had already shown that his opponent would not be so easily dealt with. Until now, he was still unclear as to what method it had used to render his telekinetic flying daggers useless.

On the other hand, Virtuoso had already said that as long as he won this game, he would get some benefits in return. If such a good thing did exist, naturally, he was not about to pass it up.

However, this puppet under Virtuoso's control was truly a lot stronger than Lin Huang had expected.

"I've already said that I've hijacked the monitors. Rest assured that you can fully use your abilities without worrying about anything at all," Virtuoso continued after that, "Look at me. I've revealed my cards, and I'm not worried about being seen by the monitors."

Despite hearing Virtuoso's voice, Lin Huang remained unmoved.

In fact, he knew that it was possible that there really was a problem with the monitors, otherwise, Virtuoso would not display this kind of ability.

One should know that the puppet Virtuoso was currently controlling was strong enough to go up against fifth-rank Heavenly Gods. This kind of power was already beyond all logic, even beyond the level that could be described by the word "genius".

This was so extraordinary that even a Lord would not be able to resist capturing it for a round of dissection.

However, Lin Huang still chose to proceed cautiously. Unless it was a last resort, he still did not wish to reveal his true abilities.

From his cuffs, even more telekinetic flying daggers shot out, surging toward the Obsidian Dragon-being like a wave.

One hundred thousand!

One hundred and fifty thousand!

Two hundred thousand!

Three hundred thousand!

The number of telekinetic flying daggers skyrocketed to a grand total of three hundred thousand but still had no effect on the Obsidian Dragon-being.

Thousands upon thousands of attacks did not even break through its defenses.

"You're completely wasting your Divine Power like this, and wasting your time and mine." Virtuoso was evidently very dissatisfied with Lin Huang's current performance. "With this level of attack, even if I don't control it to defend itself, you won't be able to break through its defenses either.

"Pull out your sword and show your true abilities!"

By the time Virtuoso finished speaking, they had already controlled the Obsidian Dragon-being to forcefully break through the circle of telekinetic flying daggers, swiftly approaching where Lin Huang was.

Lin Huang did not panic, and he still was not planning on pulling out his sword.

Telekinetic flying daggers shot out of his cuffs again like a school of fish.

This round, the blood-red lightning bolts were becoming sharper.

However, the Obsidian Dragon-being still under Virtuoso's control did not dodge and continued forcefully breaking through.

Blood-red lightning bolts compounded with three levels of sequence power flashed past the Obsidian Dragon-being's body, slicing through and leaving traces of black blood on its scales…

"At least this round of attack is starting to shape up, but if you want to force it to retreat, that's not enough!" Virtuoso continued shouting imperiously.

The figure of the Obsidian Dragon-being was getting closer and closer…

However, Lin Huang still maintained the same output, looking as if he had no intention of compounding an extra level of sequence power.

This continued until the Obsidian Dragon-being was in front of him, brandishing its heavy fists and preparing to burst open Lin Huang's head.

A cold expression flashed in Lin Huang's eyes. Suddenly, he raised his hands, and in a motion that seemed slow but was, in fact, swift, he tapped a finger on his opponent's heart.

A blood-red gleam beamed faintly from his fingertips.

The next instant, it was as if the Obsidian Dragon-being had been hit by a wave of massive force, and its body shot backward for dozens of kilometers, smashing through several mountain peaks…

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Chapter 1513: No Fatality Notification

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Although Lin Huang had released this attack from his fingertips, he had actually used Sword Dao heavenly rule compounded with four levels of sequence power.

Under normal circumstances, a direct hit would have been enough to cause severe damage to a fifth-rank Heavenly God.

"Your attacks are finally starting to take shape," Virtuoso commented loudly. Not only was there no trace of surprise in their voice, but they even sounded slightly delighted.

Obviously, they had already anticipated Lin Huang's abilities.

Lin Huang had deliberately waited for the Obsidian Dragon-being to get close to him before launching this attack, in order to deceive the monitors.

After all, he still did not fully believe Virtuoso's claim that they had manipulated the monitors.

However, Virtuoso, who was at close range, had seen everything clearly. To be precise, they did not actually see the attack but rather sensed it.

As Lin Huang's attack had been directly released into the Obsidian Dragon-being's body from his fingers, nothing extraordinary could be noted visually—only a flash of red light could be seen at most.

Virtuoso was less than a hundred meters away from the two combatants, so they were able to sense even the most subtle of changes.

Although Lin Huang's attack had revealed his aura for only a moment, they still sensed it.

Not only did they sense his Sword Dao heavenly rule, but they could even clearly name all the god sequence chains LinHuang had utilized in this attack.

Crimson Lightning! Sun! Starburst! Godslayer!

Such a violent attack was enough to severely wound a fifth-rank Heavenly God powerhouse.

However, Lin Huang—who had released the attack—was not happy in the slightest at the moment.

This was because he could clearly sense that the Obsidian Dragon-being had withstood his blow and was not dead.

Not only was it still very much alive, but its aura had not even been weakened in the least.

The Obsidian Dragon-being crawled out of a pile of rubble within the sensing range of Lin Huang's Divine Telekinesis.

The fist-sized wound penetrating through its chest healed quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This anomaly made Lin Huang frown slightly.

In fact, ordinarily speaking, the damage caused by rule-type powers could not be healed by Enhanced Regeneration-type divine abilities or powers.

That is unless the opponent possessed Rule Bending Powers of similar strength, in which case they would be able to use their own Rule Bending Power to counteract the Rule Bending Power attached to their wound.

In other words, as Lin Huang had used Sword Dao heavenly rule compounded with four levels of sequence power—which would be equivalent to the compounding of five levels of sequence power—the other party would also need to possess the ability to compound five levels of sequence power to counteract the sequence power attached to its wound.

The wound could only be healed after canceling out the sequence power that accompanied it.

However, the Obsidian Dragon-being's combat power was only third-rank, and it had only mastered three god sequence chains.

Even if it had become stronger due to the modifications made by Virtuoso, only its physical strength and Divine Power would be enhanced at most; it was impossible for it to suddenly master a few more god sequence chains out of nowhere.

Even so, the other had easily counteracted his compounded five levels of sequence power. This made Lin Huang glance at Virtuoso, who was standing outside the battlefield.

If the Obsidian Dragon-being was not the one who had nullified Lin Huang's sequence power, then it could have only been done by its manipulator, Virtuoso.

This made Lin Huang all the more apprehensive of Virtuoso.

This time, however, Virtuoso did not outwardly admit that they had done anything. Instead, they just smiled and said to Lin Huang, "This is the way it should be. Show your true strength, don't conceal it anymore.

"There's a time limit on how long I can manipulate the monitors. The longer you drag this game out, the greater the possibility of your abilities being revealed.

"Therefore, I suggest that you unleash your full strength and quickly end this game."

Lin Huang could tell that Virtuoso was basically semi-threatening him with these words.

The meaning behind his comment was very clear—if you continue dragging things on like this, I can only stop manipulating the monitors.

Lin Huang frowned slightly. After internally weighing the pros and cons, he came to a quick decision. "In that case, I'll do as you wish."

As soon as he finished speaking, more telekinetic flying daggers shot out from his cuffs.

The initial two hundred thousand flying daggers dramatically increased in numbers.

Three hundred thousand!

Four hundred thousand!

Five hundred thousand!

One million!

One million telekinetic flying daggers transformed into red lightning bolts, illuminating the entire void.

Dagger after telekinetic flying dagger trailed red electric arcs across the heavens, resembling a wave of blood-red snakes erupting in the sky.

The Obsidian Dragon-being had only just planted itself firmly on the ground when it saw blood-red lightning bolts shooting down from the sky, eclipsing the whole of the heavens like the arrival of a thunderstorm on Doomsday.

If it had any self-awareness left, it would have been completely shocked by this scene.

However, it was merely a tool. Under Virtuoso's control, its figure fled into the distance at top speed.

There was no reason for this, other than these millions of telekinetic flying daggers were all imbued with the same sequence powers as the previous one released from Lin Huang's finger.

There were five levels of compounding—Sword Dao heavenly rule, Crimson Lightning, Sun, Starburst, and Godslayer.

It might not have been a big deal if it was just a single blow, but the Obsidian Dragon-being's body would not be able to withstand millions of such attacks at all.

If this were the outside world, the Obsidian Dragon-being would definitely not be able to escape such an attack no matter how fast it was, because regardless of its speed, it would not be able to cross the distance of a star zone in an instant.

In this secret prisoner territory, however, the detection range of everyone's Divine Telekinesis was severely restricted, which gave the Obsidian Dragon-being a chance of survival.

As long as it fled out of the detection range of Lin Huang's Divine Telekinesis, it would be able to completely take care of this threat.

Of course, Lin Huang also became aware of Virtuoso's scheme immediately, and countless telekinetic flying daggers surrounded the Obsidian Dragon-being from various angles and routes.

The Obsidian Dragon-being's speed was indeed incredible, to the point it was almost on par with a sixth-rank Heavenly God.

Even so, Lin Huang's flying daggers were faster. In just two blinks of an eye, they had caught up to the Obsidian Dragon-being and had even blocked off all its escape routes.

The next second, the Obsidian Dragon-being was completely engulfed by the endless blood-red lightning bolts.

It had no time to even make a sound before it was completely shredded to pieces by the countless blood-red sword gleams.

This time, Lin Huang did not give Virtuoso a chance to heal the Obsidian Dragon-being.

However, after ripping apart the Obsidian Dragon-being's body, he frowned again.

This was because Xiao Hei still had not sent him a fatality notification.

Lin Huang thought about it for a moment, then switched the target of his attack without any hesitation. Countless lightning bolts transformed into a single blood-red lightning dragon, which then turned around and charged directly toward Virtuoso.

Despite that, Virtuoso just stood where they were without dodging or defending themselves, allowing the blood-red lightning bolts to swallow them up.

Lin Huang had put his all into this attack, but the moment the dragon's head came in contact with Virtuoso's body, he already knew the result.

This was because he could clearly sense that his telekinetic flying daggers had not hit anything.

To be honest, he had expected this.

Once the lightning dragon completely pierced through Virtuoso's body, Virtuoso patted their chest and exclaimed in exaggerated tones, "I was really scared by that attack just now. How frightening, I almost thought I was done for!"

"That was just an illusion; how could you be killed?" With a slight flick of Lin Huang's cuffs, the countless telekinetic flying daggers spun around and returned to him, disappearing into his sleeve cuffs.

"You saw through me so quickly. This is admittedly a little beyond my expectations…" Virtuoso was startled for a moment, obviously rather surprised.

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Chapter 1514: A Reincarnated Being of the Club

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"When did you become aware of it?" Virtuoso asked with a smile, showing no trace at all of becoming angry from embarrassment at their secret being exposed.

"I had an inkling when I attacked you for the first time," Lin Huang said frankly, "But I was only able to confirm this fact after killing that fellow just now."

Lin Huang glanced in the direction of the Obsidian Dragon-being as he spoke. It was already beginning to reform its physical body from a state of nothingness. However, Lin Huang only briefly glanced at it before turning his gaze away, completely dismissing it as a threat, and continued speaking.

"To be honest, even though I know I was caught up in your illusion, I still haven't figured out exactly which god sequence chain you used, to be able to trick me so stealthily."

"It's not that I can't tell you…" Virtuoso laughed. "But you'll have to get through this game first.

"It's meaningless for me to tell you now because if you don't pass this challenge, you'll die here."

Lin Huang glanced at the Obsidian Dragon-being again. "Is it necessary for us to continue this game? Every time I kill it, you just revive it. Unless your plan all along was to tire me to death?"

"I'm not that ludicrous." Virtuoso shook their head slightly. "It's merely that you haven't found the right method of getting through this challenge."

Upon hearing that, Lin Huang sank into a prolonged contemplative silence.

Seeing this, Virtuoso also stayed silent so they would not disturb Lin Huang's thoughts.

In the distance, the body of the Obsidian Dragon-being swiftly consolidated itself again… into two bodies.

From one, it had now become two…

Since Lin Huang had seen through their illusion, Virtuoso did not bother to conceal it anymore.

Lin Huang sensed an anomaly within the detection range of his Divine Telekinesis and could not resist looking up for a quick glimpse. When he saw the two Obsidian Dragon-beings, he could not help but be stunned for a moment.

Before the two Obsidian Dragon-beings could make a move, two telekinetic flying daggers shot out from Lin Huang's cuffs, taking out one monster each.

Before the two Obsidian Dragon-beings could even fully react, their heads exploded almost simultaneously, turning them into two headless monsters that were standing upright.

Since there was no use in shredding them to pieces, Lin Huang chose to conserve his Divine Power altogether, using only two flying daggers to deal with them.

Since blowing their heads apart and shredding them into pieces gave the same end result, he did not need to waste his Divine Power.

Even though he had killed the two Obsidian Dragon-beings in the time it took to snap his fingers, Lin Huang knew that the game was not over yet, because Xiao Hei still had not sent him any fatality notifications.

Two more heads began to rapidly grow back on the two headless corpses at a speed visible to the naked eye.

What was even more unusual was that the two figures had multiplied into four without Lin Huang realizing it.

When his Divine Telekinesis sensed that the number had increased again, Lin Huang lifted his head for a glance once more, then turned his head toward Virtuoso. "There's no end to this, is there?!"

Virtuoso laughed without saying a word.

They chose to observe without saying anything, wanting to see how Lin Huang would deal with the upcoming crisis.

Every time an Obsidian Dragon-being was killed, their numbers would double. The longer Lin Huang dragged it out, and the more times he killed these Obsidian Dragon-beings, the greater the threat he would face.

Once more, two telekinetic flying daggers shot out from Lin Huang's cuffs like a whirlwind. Together with the two previous flying daggers, they attacked the four Obsidian Dragon-beings.

The four Obsidian Dragon-beings were still lackluster in performance, and collectively had their heads blown apart again.

The next second, however, the heads of the four Obsidian Dragon-beings regenerated. Not only that, but their numbers doubled from four to eight.

Despite this change, Lin Huang's attention was not fully on the Obsidian Dragon-beings.

His Divine Telekinesis surged forth in all directions like a tide, exploring all the nooks and crannies around him, not forgoing even below ground.

However, even after searching carefully several times, he found nothing.

"I can't find any flaws…" Lin Huang frowned slightly.

Based on the hint in Virtuoso's previous comment, he suspected that the key to breaking the illusion did not lie in the Obsidian Dragon-beings, so he had expended no small amount of effort probing his surroundings.

He had spent over ten minutes searching five or six times within the detection range of his Divine Telekinesis—which covered an area of several hundred kilometers—but he still could not find any weaknesses in the illusion.

By now, the Obsidian Dragon-beings had multiplied to more than ten thousand in number.

Even if Lin Huang had previously not paid much attention to the threat posed by the Obsidian Dragon-beings, he had to take them seriously now.

However, he still had not given up on finding a way to end this game.

"Virtuoso said that I haven't found the right method for passing this challenge, but they could be deliberately trying to bamboozle me. Let's forget about what they said for now; finding their real motive is the key to solving this problem.

"As soon as they approached me, they said they wanted me to play a game with them. Throughout the game, the one thing they've been doing repeatedly is forcing me to use even stronger abilities… including the number of Obsidian Dragon-beings that currently just keeps increasing…"

After a painstaking investigation, Lin Huang finally found a clue to beating this challenge.

A blood-red battle sword rapidly coalesced in front of him.

Lin Huang did not notice, but the moment the battle sword coalesced, Virtuoso's eyes locked onto him intently.

Sword hilt in one hand, Lin Huang compounded Sword Dao heavenly rule with six levels of sequence power.

Crimson Lightning! Sun! Starburst! Godslayer! Obliteration! Deathly Stillness!

These six god sequence chains were all from the Sword Servants of the Great Heaven Palace.

Using six borrowed god sequence chains was actually quite a burden on Lin Huang, even though he was currently at third-rank true god-level.

Six types of sequence power with the addition of one type of Sword Dao heavenly rule were equivalent to compounding seven levels of sequence power.

This attack of Lin Huang's was as dazzling as an exploding sun.

The crimson rays illuminated the entirety of the heavens, turning them bright as day. Within the radius of the surrounding ten thousand-plus kilometers, it looked as if a luminous blood-red sun was shining in the sky.

As Lin Huang's blade sliced down, the blood-red rays lighting up the whole of the sky flared even more brilliantly. Even Virtuoso, who had been watching the battle, could not help shutting their eyes from the brightness.

The blinding red light lasted for several full minutes before it gradually faded. The tens of thousands of Obsidian Dragon-beings all turned into black ash that scattered in the wind.

Right at this point, Lin Huang felt as if some kind of layer had suddenly shattered before his eyes.

He zoned out for a moment before discovering that he was still standing where he had been, while Virtuoso, expression as infuriating as before, was standing opposite him not too far away.

Next to Virtuoso, the Obsidian Dragon-being stood motionless and expressionless, as if it had never moved at all in the first place.

Before Lin Huang could say anything, Virtuoso spoke up once again.

"Many people think that the god sequence chain I've mastered is the Obscured Sequence. Actually, the god sequence chain that I've mastered is called Fabrication. Not only can I switch between illusion and reality, but I can also create false images."

Virtuoso merely left it at that without providing any further explanation. However, they could still be considered to have kept their promise by telling Lin Huang the name of the god sequence chain that they had mastered.

"Let's reacquaint ourselves with each other, then. The Club—reincarnated being Xu Bin." Virtuoso extended a hand to Lin Huang…

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Chapter 1515: Sword Seal Fragment

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"Reincarnated being…"

These individuals known as reincarnated beings were part of a special profession selected by something called the Lord System. They traveled back and forth between various planes and universes to complete missions assigned by Lords, as well as to exchange various resources.

As a traveler, Lin Huang was naturally aware of the concept of reincarnated beings.

When he was in college, there was a time when he had read online literature. That period had really been the golden age of online literature, and he had read all kinds of novels. He had read more than a hundred works from the infinity genre at the very least, so he was no stranger to the mechanics of reincarnated beings from these novels. (TN: The infinity genre is mainly found in Chinese novels. It typically involves stories where characters are repeatedly summoned into alternate or virtual spaces separated from the real world and are made to complete certain tasks, such as missions, puzzles, or survival games.)

"Is it really like in the novels?" Lin Huang could not help asking as he looked at the Club identity page that Virtuoso projected.

"More or less," Virtuoso replied vaguely as if they did not want to dwell on this topic any longer.

"Okay…" Lin Huang was not very satisfied with this answer. "Why didn't you just tell me you were a member of the Club, instead of deliberately stirring up trouble like this?"

"I just wanted to test your abilities a little. If your abilities were no good, then there wouldn't be any need for me to tell you my identity," Virtuoso said boldly. They paused for a moment before directing their words toward Lin Huang again, "I've already introduced myself, so won't you introduce yourself too?"

"My apologies, it's just that this is my first time meeting a reincarnated being." Lin Huang smiled as he introduced himself, "The Club, traveler, Lin Huang."

He emulated the other and projected his own Club identity page.

"As I thought, it really is you." Virtuoso did not seem surprised.

"You know who I am?" Lin Huang was slightly confused.

"I've heard about you before." Virtuoso nodded slightly. "The total number of people in the Club is relatively small, and the frequency of newcomers being recruited is also very low. You're the one and only newcomer in nearly thirty thousand years, so naturally, you would have attracted everyone's attention."

"The only one in nearly thirty thousand years?" Lin Huang stared at Virtuoso with wide eyes. This was the first time he had heard about this, but he was also a little curious. "What about you?"

The reason he asked this question was that according to the information he had obtained from Death Sickle, Virtuoso was not that old—only a little over a hundred years old.

"Haha… this identity I have as Virtuoso is just a reincarnated clone of mine in this great world," Virtuoso replied with a smile. "My Primordium joined the Club more than two hundred thousand years ago.

"I was thinking that since I was in the same great world as you, we could take this opportunity to get to know each other. When you joined Death Sickle as Xie Lin previously, I actually already suspected that it might be you, but before I could confirm this, you disappeared.

"Fortunately, you reappeared and joined Death Sickle again as Xiu Mu. This proves that the link between our fates is still not over yet…"

This last comment made Lin Huang shiver when he heard it.

"Since you joined the Club more than two hundred thousand years ago, you're my senior." Lin Huang cupped his hands in front of himself in obeisance and said courteously, "This humble junior acted too irreverently a while ago."

It was hard for him to imagine just how strong someone was who possessed a Lord System and had lived for more than two hundred thousand years. Although the other had not said anything, Lin Huang guessed that their Primordium was most likely a lord-level powerhouse, or even stronger.

"Don't call me 'senior'. I'm me, and my Primordium is my Primordium. Both our consciousness are independent of each other. Moreover, my own combat level is not that much higher than yours." Virtuoso smiled and shook their head. "If you want to address someone as 'senior', you can do that when you meet my Primordium in the future. You don't have to do that with me.

"Everything I just told you is actually a secret. Buried Heave,n as well as the upper tiers of Death Sickle, don't know about my identity as a reincarnated being. All they know is that I'm a powerful reincarnation."

At this point, Virtuoso suddenly said, "We've veered way off topic with our chatting, so let's get back to the matter at hand.

"I actually had another reason for testing your strength besides wanting to get to know you."

Lin Huang raised his eyebrow slightly. To be honest, he had been a little puzzled over this. If the other had just wanted to get to know him, there really was no need to attack him to that extent.

"I want to invite you to join my team to go on a trip to the Abyss." After saying that, Virtuoso added, "The real Abyss."

Lin Huang could not help being stunned when he heard this.

It was not as if he had never encountered an Abyssal creature before, and he had even entered several secret zones and ruins related to the Abyss. However, he had never been to the real Abyss.

He was also aware of how terrifying the real Abyss was. Not only were there countless lord-level monsters in its depths, but there were also slumbering beings who were stronger than Lords.

He did not think that he was powerful enough at all in his current state to go wandering around the Abyss.

"Can I decline this offer?" Lin Huang immediately rejected the other party's invitation without hesitation.

"Can't you even let a person finish speaking first?" Under their mask, Virtuoso's expression was most certainly one of extreme exasperation.

"Alright, please go on." The expression on Lin Huang's face clearly said, 'Go ahead and say your piece, since I'll end up declining anyway.'

"I need a certain item from the Abyss to elevate to Heavenly God. That item is inside the body of a high-rank Abyssal Heavenly God, and I must personally retrieve it. I've been making preparations for the past few years so I can form a team to help me complete this matter."

"Can't you just request for help from some Heavenly Gods?" Lin Huang asked, raising his brows.

In his opinion, to solve a matter like this, they just had to bring a group of high-rank Heavenly Gods to help out, or they could simply ask Buried Heaven to go with them. There would be practically no Abyssal Heavenly Gods that they could not handle.

"Due to certain restrictions, I can only ask help from True Gods at most," Virtuoso shook their head rather helplessly as they explained.

"Does this count as a job change mission given to you by a Lord?" Lin Huang could not help smiling as he asked.

Virtuoso just stared blankly at him for a moment, then nodded their head. "I guess you could say that."

"You said you wanted to form a team. Besides me, who else have you invited?" Lin Huang inquired again.

"One of them is my friend's clone, a ninth-rank saber cultivator who's also a member of the Club. Another two are disciples who trained under my Primordium; one is a combat cultivator while the other is a spell caster, and they're both also ninth-rank. Including you and me, there will be five of us," Virtuoso explained.

"Let me just outright voice my concerns then. If we ever get targeted by a Lord or a being greater than a Lord, do you have a way to get us out of there?" If this were someone else, Lin Huang would not have even asked such a question because it was impossible that a True God would have the ability to escape alive from a Lord's grasp. However, Virtuoso's Primordium had exceptional strength, and they were also a highly-experienced reincarnated being, so they might really possess a means to escape from a Lord.

Upon hearing this question, Virtuoso was silent for a moment but finally nodded. "Initially, I wasn't actually planning on exposing a trump card such as this, but since you asked, I think it's better that I be honest. I do have a space-time flying shuttle in my possession. It was personally refined by my Primordium, and it can allow us to escape from the Kingdom of a Lord.

"You probably don't fully understand how things work in the Abyss. Although the borders are not very clear, the distribution of monsters is different at different depths of the Abyss. Lords and Heavenly Gods aren't within the same depth.

"Furthermore, in the Abyss, once various types of powers are released from the body, they will be extremely weakened. Unless a lord-level powerhouse or someone even stronger than that attacks, the energy fluctuations will not be transmitted very far. Even when top-tier Heavenly Gods collide, the fluctuations from the battle usually can only be sensed within the range of a hundred kilometers. Beyond this distance, no one will know that a battle was taking place."

"What will I gain if I join?" Lin Huang pondered for a moment, then asked.

Although he had been prepared to decline the offer at first, Virtuoso's explanation had dispelled much of his worries. Furthermore, he had been thinking about the fact that after leaving this secret territory, he would still need to hunt down more heavenly god-level monsters to increase his combat level, and most secret zone ruins did not have that many Heavenly Gods for him to hunt.

Based on Virtuoso's description, the Abyss indeed sounded like a good place to gain experience.

"Your cultivation is in Sword Dao and Telekinesis, so I can give you a Soul seal fragment first as a down payment. You can also consider it an apology for attacking you just now. After we're done and are out of the Abyss, I'll give you a Sword seal fragment as well," Virtuoso stated their conditions for this deal.

"Soul seal? Sword seal?" Lin Huang was utterly confused; he had absolutely no idea what these two things were that Virtuoso had mentioned.

Seeing Lin Huang's expression, Virtuoso immediately understood that he did not know what Soul seals and Sword seals were, and promptly explained, "You've probably heard that for Heavenly Gods to evolve to Lords, they need to consolidate Dao seals, right? These so-called Soul seals are the Soul Dao Dao seals consolidated and formed by Lords who are soul cultivators, while Sword seals are the Sword Dao Sword seals consolidated and formed by Lords who are sword cultivators. (TN: We believe that this was a typo on the author's part and it should be Sword Dao Dao seals instead of Sword Dao Sword seals, as the pinyin for the Chinese characters of 'Sword' and 'Dao' are both spelled as 'dao'. However, we have opted to translate it as is.)

"Dao seal fragments are the remnants left over after a Lord dies and their Dao seals fall to pieces. Although the Dao contained in these fragments is incomplete, they can still be interpreted, and a large amount of Dao power still remains within them.

"Every piece of Dao seal fragment is a priceless treasure to Heavenly Gods and half-step lord-level powerhouses alike. Heavenly Gods can increase their mastery over god sequence chains through interpretation of the Dao seal fragments and may even obtain a complete inheritance, while half-step lord-level powerhouses can absorb the Dao power from within and advance to become Lords."

Hearing this, Lin Huang was inevitably a little intrigued.

His Sword Dao was only at the beginning stages of Sword Dao heavenly rule, so he guessed that it would be highly unlikely for him to advance further in the foreseeable future. If he obtained a Sword seal fragment, he might be able to greatly speed up the progress of his sword cultivation.

"Can we change it to two Sword seal fragments instead?" Lin Huang could not help asking.

"What do you think these are—cabbages sold at the side of the road that you can pick and choose? I only have one Sword seal fragment. If I had two of them, I definitely would have given them to you. I'm not even a sword cultivator, so there's no use in me keeping them. Although you won't benefit from a Soul seal fragment as much as you would with a Sword seal fragment, it can still indirectly increase the strength of your Divine Telekinesis, and if you're lucky, it's not impossible for you to obtain a telekinesis-type inheritance." Virtuoso was feeling slightly exasperated.

"Alright, I guess. Soul seal it is, then." Lin Huang's tone was laced with obvious disappointment. "Can you make the Sword seal fragment your down payment, though? I'm fine with getting the Soul seal fragment after we're out of the Abyss."

"Alright," Virtuoso readily agreed and retrieved the Sword seal fragment.

Lin Huang looked curiously at the item that Virtuoso produced, but the moment he saw it, his eyes widened and his face filled with shock. "Are you telling me that this thing is a Sword seal fragment?!"

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Chapter 1516: Lords Are Just Slightly Stronger Cultivators

The Sword seal fragment in Virtuoso's hand looked somewhat familiar to Lin Huang.

This was a dark gold-colored piece of paper the size of a human palm, and there were black sigils shining faintly on it. However, this piece of paper appeared to be incomplete, as if it had been torn off by someone.

Lin Huang's eyes widened. This item was almost identical to the One Page Sword Scripture within him, except that its torn shape was slightly different.

"Why, have you seen it before?" Virtuoso was also slightly surprised upon hearing this. Based on what Lin Huang said, he seemed to have seen it before. (TN: Author appears to be referring to Lin Huang's comment in the previous chapter, "Are you telling me that this thing is a Sword seal fragment?!")

"I guess I have." Lin Huang answered vaguely. He concealed the fact that he already had a Sword seal fragment within him.

Seeing that Lin Huang did not want to elaborate further, Virtuoso did not delve deeper into this topic either.

"I have a question. If it's the same for sword cultivation, and elevation to lord-level is through Sword Dao, will the condensed Sword seals have any differences in terms of strength?" Lin Huang was extremely curious about Dao seals and could not help but ask such a question.

"Yes, of course." Virtuoso smiled and nodded.

"The stronger the foundation of a person's cultivation, the stronger the condensed Sword seal will be.

"It's actually very simple logic. A Sword seal condensed from nine god sequence chains will never be stronger than the one condensed from hundreds of god sequence chains.

"Sword Dao is essentially a type of Rule Bending Power. In fact, there aren't any fundamental differences between Sword Dao heavenly rule and god sequence chains.

"Of course, the difference lies in the fact that each person's condensed Sword Dao heavenly rule is unique because it's impossible for two people to cultivate exactly the same sword skills. Even if you take things back to the very beginning and hypothesize that two apprentices cultivate the exact same sword skills, their inborn talent and comprehension would definitely not be identical. Moreover, their comprehension of different types of sword skills would never be the same either.

"It's these various factors that form the uniqueness of Sword Dao heavenly rule and determine the strength of Sword Dao heavenly rule, as well as the strength of the Sword seals that follow.

"In short, if you don't want to be crushed by other Lords after becoming one yourself, lay a solid foundation." After Virtuoso finished explaining, they added a concluding statement.

"I have another question." Lin Huang could not help but ask. "After lord-level… is there really a higher level?"

After deliberating for a moment, Virtuoso answered, "Let me put it this way, becoming a Lord is only the first step to becoming a powerhouse.

"Of course, for most people, lord-level is the final point, as well as the highest point in life. But for some people, the remaining journey is still very long…" When Virtuoso said the last sentence, they deliberately looked at Lin Huang.

"May I ask what the combat level of your Primordium is?" Again, Lin Huang could not help asking.

"This is confidential for the time being." Virtuoso shook their head and refused to provide an answer. "Because there's no point in telling you."

At this reply, Lin Huang smiled in embarrassment and did not continue probing.

After taking the Sword seal fragment from Virtuoso and agreeing on when they would enter the Abyss, Lin Huang chatted with Virtuoso for a while. It was basically him asking questions and Virtuoso answering them. Only when Virtuoso told him that the block they had placed on the monitors was about to lose its effect soon, did Lin Huang finally end the conversation reluctantly.

After the two of them exchanged their numbers, Virtuoso quietly left.

After Virtuoso left, the Obsidian Dragon-being soon recovered its willpower.

Lin Huang also quickly re-entered hunting mode.

Outside the secret territory, when the monitor screens were restored, the group of Heavenly Gods only saw Lin Huang fighting against the Obsidian Dragon-being.

"Where's Virtuoso?"

"Did the two of them fight or not?!"

"I really want to know what just happened…"

Several Heavenly Gods quickly opened up the Gold Leaderboard to check and saw that Virtuoso's name remained on it. Only then did they completely banish the thought, 'Has Virtuoso been killed by Xiu Mu,' from their minds.

Although Buried Heaven did not know what exactly had happened, seeing that Lin Huang remained intact and Virtuoso was still on the Leaderboard, he let out a long sigh of relief.

One was the almighty reincarnate, and one was the invincible genius.

Something bad happening to either of them was an outcome he did not want to see.

Inside the secret territory, Lin Huang quickly and successfully killed the Obsidian Dragon-being. After storing away its corpse, he continued hurrying toward his next target.

Although the encounter with Virtuoso was only a small interlude of ten minutes or so, Lin Huang now had a much deeper understanding of this world compared to before.

Perhaps Lords were the most powerful beings in this great world, but there were countless great worlds in the universe, most of them stronger than the great world he was currently in.

In the universe, Lords were just slightly stronger cultivators. There were stronger beings than Lords.

In the universe, those preeminent overlords might even have hundreds or thousands of Lords working for them.

He had originally thought that he was already quite powerful, to have been able to kill Heavenly Gods. However, after his conversation with Virtuoso, Lin Huang knew that this world was a lot more vast than he had imagined!

Setting aside his unruly thoughts, Lin Huang increased his determination to become stronger.

This was because only by becoming stronger would he get to see the vast world out there!

Outside the secret territory, several individuals from the group of Heavenly Gods soon discovered the change in Lin Huang.

"Have you all noticed that Xiu Mu's combat style seems to have become a lot steadier?"

"I feel it too. During the previous hunts, he seemed to be forcing his opponents to exert themselves to their fullest. Only when his opponents displayed their full strength would he dispose of them. But now the battles are a lot more concise and efficient, and it seems like he's trying to use the least number of telekinetic flying daggers to kill his opponents."

"I've also noticed that he's picking up on his opponents' every flaw and going after every single one of them to inflict maximum damage! His grasp of timing is much stronger than before."

"These changes are likely to have been brought about by Virtuoso!"

Buried Heaven had actually noticed the change in Lin Huang right from the start. In the beginning, he had been slightly concerned, worried that Virtuoso had done something to Lin Huang. However, gradually, he began to feel that this kind of change was not a bad thing, and it might even be good for Lin Huang.

Only Lin Huang himself knew that the reason behind his change of combat style was because he now understood that becoming stronger was not just about elevating his combat level.

Putting his heart and soul into experiencing each battle, seizing upon every detail of the fight, and learning from his opponents was also one way to become stronger.

As long as he worked hard enough, even if his opponent were weaker than himself, he would be able to gain something from every battle.

He even felt somewhat that he had rediscovered the kind of enthusiasm he had had when he first began the path of cultivation.

Another two days passed quickly in the secret territory.

Through each hunt, Lin Huang plundered rules from the inner worlds of the Heavenly God prisoners and soon raised his number of rules from 400,000 to 810,000, successfully elevating to fourth rank.

However, he had no plans to change his hunting targets, and still set his sights on third-rank Heavenly Gods.

His apparent combat level was ninth-rank true god-level, after all. Normally speaking, being able to hunt third-rank Heavenly Gods at this combat level was already quite impressive.

Although hunting fourth-rank Heavenly Gods would allow him to plunder rules much more speedily, to avoid attracting more attention, he still decisively chose to give up on that.

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Chapter 1517: What A Savage!

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In the void, a three-headed monstrous bird howled miserably as it frantically fled.

Large areas of the scales and feathers on its body were scorched black. Not only that, even one of its heads was gone.

If Lin Huang were here, he would probably have been able to identify that this monstrous bird being hunted down was called a Three-headed Owl. It was an aberrant species from the Abyss.

This type of bird could fly extremely fast, and its body stance and motions were like those of a demon. It moved silently and unpredictably, and its forte was assassination techniques.

Additionally, each of its three heads had individually mastered a type of Rule Bending Power from birth.

Usually, these types of Rule Bending Power were strength-type, illusion-type, and toxin-type.

Several extraordinary such Three-headed Owls could evolve into Heavenly Gods and condense Rule Bending Power into god sequence chains.

This Three-headed Owl being hunted down was one that had evolved into a Heavenly God.

Evidently, this battle had also caught the attention of several Heavenly God team leaders outside the secret territory.

"I seem to remember that initially, God Capital procured a batch of Three-headed Owls for experimental purposes, right?" The team leader of Xeno suddenly broached the subject.

"I remember this incident too. In the beginning, because of this, the price of Three-headed Owls shot up exorbitantly then. Many people headed into secret zones and ruins related to the Abyss especially to capture Three-headed Owls alive," the team leader of Precious Treasure Pavilion immediately chimed in as well. "At the time, we were wondering why God Capital was suddenly interested in Three-headed Owls, even purposely keeping dozens of them for research. We only found out later that the Owls were bought to be experimented upon."

"From the looks of it now, those experiments most probably failed." The team leader of Divine Clapnet smiled and glanced at the team leader of God Capital. It was rare enough to encounter an opportunity for a dig at God Capital, so of course, they were not about to pass it up.

The rest of the team leaders from the other organizations did not dare to speak, but most of them were secretly rejoicing.

God Capital had always taken pride in its pure blood. In fact, most of the God Territory organizations currently did not approve of this concept. What made individuals from God Capital even more unwelcome was the fact that its members were almost always flaunting their sense of superiority wherever they went.

Watching the team leader of God Capital being roasted right now, most of the team leaders from the various organizations present were feeling particularly invigorated.

As for the matter discussed by the several grade-7 organizations, most of the Heavenly God team leaders present understood it to some degree.

Ten thousand years ago, a researcher in God Capital was suddenly inspired to experiment on monsters like the Three-headed Owls. The reason was that the three heads of the Three-headed Owls were born with the inherent ability to master three different types of Rule Bending Power.

The researcher conceptualized, therefore, that if they forcefully elevated Three-headed Owls to heavenly god-level, would it be possible for this monster to master three god sequence chains straight away at first-rank heavenly god-level.

If this experiment succeeded, based on the biological characteristics of the Three-headed Owls, they could further study how to bypass and break through the strength limits of body and soul to master multiple god sequence chains.

However, this experiment failed right from the very start.

After all the Three-headed Owls had successfully condensed a god sequence chain, they either elevated straight to heavenly god-level or were stuck at true god-level, unable to break through. Some of them also experienced an acceleration of their aberration after being forced to condense a second god sequence chain, and exploded to death.

As for three god sequence chains—not a single Three-headed Owl had successfully condensed even two god sequence chains at first-rank heavenly god-level.

After thousands of experimental failures, God Capital ultimately gave up on this experiment for lack of a better option.

As for the remaining experimental subjects, they were naturally tossed into the secret prisoner territory.

"The little princess from Nephilic Judge Tribe is performing quite well." The team leader of God Capital changed the subject right away, as it was Kylie, the little princess of the Nephilic Judge Tribe, who was hunting down this Three-headed Owl. "I heard that several of our dashing young talents have gone forward to propose to her?"

The Nephilic Judge Tribe team leader's smile held a touch of awkwardness. "It's true."

"Her abilities are truly something else. She can be regarded as a top-tier True God." The team leader of the Combat God Temple nodded in satisfaction. "I heard that kid Zhan Kuang seems to be interested in her."

"It's not just Zhan Kuang. From what I know, there are many prodigies who adore this little princess." The team leader of Divine Clapnet smiled. "Although there are several of them who haven't expressed it yet, I anticipate that after this trip to the secret territory, they'll definitely make a move."

According to the insider information Divine Clapnet had received, many organizations actually had set their sights on Kylie.

Some top-notch True God prodigies had not expressed their intentions yet, wanting to see for themselves whether this little princess was a phony or if she was genuinely that powerful.

However, during this trip to the secret prisoner territory, Kylie had already demonstrated top-notch prodigy-levels of strength.

It was anticipated that several prodigies, who were originally watching from the sidelines, would take action soon.

Listening to the others' discussion, the team leader of Nephilic Judge Tribe merely laughed along without sharing his opinion.

They were clearly aware that this little princess had no intention whatsoever of marrying; when it came to the Nephilic Judge Tribe, she did not have much of a sense of belonging either.

How to convince her to marry was still a big problem.

In the secret territory, clad in silver armor with faulds, Kylie was unaware that the outside world was talking about her.

From the moment she entered this secret prisoner territory, she vented all her emotions through hunting.

This three-headed monstrous bird before her was the prey that had given her the most emotional catharsis since entering the secret territory.

Although there was hardly any expression on her face, her every blow revealed her displeasure.

Although this Three-headed Owl could not be regarded as the most powerful amongst the first-rank Heavenly Gods in the secret prisoner territory, its overall abilities could be considered top-notch.

Normally, when it encountered other prisoners it could not afford to antagonize, it could hide or run away.

However, in front of Kylie, it had nowhere to retreat. It could neither hide nor escape.

Once electromagnetic induction was turned on, all its escape methods were useless in front of Kylie. In terms of speed, it did not have any advantages over her at all.

Since their initial encounter, the Three-headed Owl had been subdued into a state of subjugation all this while, to the extent it could not even lift its head.

The god sequence chain it had mastered was a type of toxin, but in front of Heaven's Punishment—the god chain Kylie had mastered—it was broken down by lightning straight away.

The small remaining part that had not been broken down was also isolated outside its body by Kylie's electromagnetic screen, which contained sequence power, making it hard to enter.

What was even more preposterous was the fact that Kylie was also wearing a full-body god sequence relic outfit.

From the crown on her head to her earrings, and necklace, to her battle armor and faulds, as well as the battle spear in her hand, her rings, then the high heels on her feet… All of them were god sequence relics.

Therefore, in front of this little princess from the Nephilic Judge Tribe, the only option that remained for the Three-headed Owl was to be pulverized.

The god chain, Heaven's Punishment, was extremely lethal to begin with, and it was a sequence that resulted in extreme agony.

Every time Three-headed Owl was hit, it was no different from being tortured.

Each time it howled, it was due to the excruciating pain emanating from the depths of its heart.

Therefore, before it was hit more than twice, it knew that it was no match for Kylie and turned to flee.

However, it had not expected to be unable to escape.

This was because this woman was faster than it was…

Kylie gave chase with the battle spear in her hand. With each attack from her spear, purple-red lightning burst from the spear tip, turning into countless lightning arcs that descended upon the Three-headed Owl.

After being chased like this for over twenty minutes, in the middle of its miserable howls, the Three-headed Owl's last head exploded in the lightning arc. It turned into a headless scorched corpse and collapsed onto the ground…

Watching this scene unfold, many Heavenly Gods outside the secret territory secretly thought, "What a savage!"

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Chapter 1518: That Purple-haired Girl Is Pretty Good

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After successfully elevating to fourth rank, to avoid attracting even more attention, Lin Huang kept his sights on third-rank heavenly god-level prisoners as his hunting targets from beginning to end.

After all, there were only a few like Stitch, who contained large quantities of Rule Bending Power inside their inner worlds. The majority of the third-rank prisoners he had slain only allowed him to plunder fifteen thousand to twenty thousand types of rules.

As the domains of the Heavenly God prisoners were far away from each other, most of his time was spent on traveling, and the number of Heavenly God prisoners he killed every day was usually between twelve and fifteen.

At this rate of plundering, it took him a whole week before he managed to obtain enough rules to advance to fifth-rank true god-level.

As he was limited by the distance between the domains of the Heavenly God prisoners and was also unable to use Space Rule and sequence to teleport—coupled with the fact that his hunting targets were still third-rank heavenly god-level prisoners—his killing efficiency did not increase by much after his combat level had advanced.

The Heavenly God team leaders outside the secret territory saw that he was becoming more adept at hunting.

It was just that after numerous times, they did not feel surprised anymore.

Several Heavenly God team leaders were even discussing why Lin Huang was not challenging more difficult targets.

"I thought that after Xiu Mu familiarized himself with hunting third-rank Heavenly God prisoners, he would continue challenging himself and try hunting fourth-ranks. But it's been a week, and he seems to have no intention of trying at all."

"I don't really understand either. Why did he give up on challenging fourth ranks straight away? Looking at the character he's displayed previously, it shouldn't be like this."

"Maybe he feels that hunting third-ranks is a more efficient way to obtain points, in order to secure first place on the Gold Leaderboard. After all, the prize for first place on the Gold Leaderboard is still a fairly tempting prospect."

"I don't think that he's the kind of person who gives up a challenge for points and rankings. Moreover, he still has a clear advantage in points. Even if he delays for two or three days, he's still unlikely to be overtaken by the person in second place. Spending half a day to attempt this challenge once won't affect his ranking at all. There has to be another reason for him not to challenge the fourth-ranks."

"Why are you guys complicating things so much? Perhaps he just feels that he isn't strong enough to challenge fourth-ranks and has simply given up."

There were even people who directed their questions straight at Buried Heaven, enquiring as to what Lin Huang's true abilities were.

Buried Heaven only smiled and responded with, "I'm not sure either."

The Heavenly God team leaders were tired of watching Lin Huang hunt, so they finally began shifting their attention to other trial participants.

Many of the trial participants were completely oblivious to the fact that although the trial had already progressed to one-third of the way through, they were finally being noticed for the first time.

However, in comparison with Lin Huang, the others' performances were not as satisfactory.

Most of them hunted ninth-rank True Gods, and there were basically no highlights; the Heavenly God team leaders nearly fell asleep while watching.

Although several top-tier hunters were hunting first or second-rank Heavenly Gods, their battles were extremely difficult. The shortest battle still took more than two hours to complete; the longest battle even lasted for a full day and night.

If this had been in the past, no matter how long these battles lasted, they were still marvelous in the eyes of the Heavenly God team leaders.

After all, True Gods crossing levels to hunt Heavenly Gods was an extraordinary feat in itself.

However, this time the Heavenly God team leaders were frowning while watching.

After witnessing Lin Huang's crushing successes, there was a clear sense of contrast, and this group of top-tier hunters was a lot weaker compared to Xiu Mu.

Lin Huang hunted down third-rank Heavenly Gods as smoothly as moving clouds and flowing water. Not a single unnecessary move was made throughout the entire process. Moreover, one battle lasted for half an hour at most, and he could complete a hunt in approximately twenty minutes most of the time.

In comparison, the hunts of other top-tier powerhouses were a lot more awkward.

Of course, there were a few trial participants below the top-tier levels who drew attention as well.

An example was Bloody.

Amongst the True God hunters, Blood could be regarded as one of those with the lowest combat level.

This was because, in order to showcase the strength of their younger generation, the trial participants sent by the major organizations to take part in the secret territory hunt each time were essentially their strongest geniuses.

Those at virtual god-level were basically all Virtual Gods rank-9. Those at true god-level were basically all at ninth-rank as well.

Bloody was the only eighth-rank participant among the True Gods.

Originally, the Nephilic Judges were quite reluctant to give the slot to Bloody, because if she did not perform well, she would bring shame to the Nephilic Judge Tribe.

It was Kylie who strongly contested this, saying that if they did not allow Bloody to participate, she would not take part either.

Only then did the Nephilic Judge Tribe give Bloody a slot.

Bloody was not considered strong among the many True God geniuses since she was only at class-4.5 Pseudo-supreme God-level, whereas there were at least dozens of participants who were Supreme God rank-5s.

However, her performance was very outstanding, even comparable to that of several top-tier powerhouses.

After entering the secret prisoner territory, she did not immediately proceed to hunt down ninth-rank True Gods. Instead, she turned to the eighth-rank prisoner domains and spent a whole two days controlling more than ten eighth-rank prisoners. On the third day, she finally brought along more than ten of these eighth-rank parasitic bodies and began attacking ninth-rank prisoners.

While she was besieged by a group of eighth ranks, she then searched for an opening to parasitize them.

After that, she took three days to control ten ninth-rank prisoners before leading the group to slaughter their way into the domains of first-rank Heavenly Gods.

In the past five days, she had already defeated seven first-rank Heavenly Gods.

She had also succeeded in controlling two of them.

What the Heavenly God team leaders in the outer world did not know was that Bloody actually could control all seven of them but she intentionally acted three times as if she had failed at controlling them, just to reveal the limits of her parasitic power to avoid others being afraid of the consequences.

Even the team leader of Nephilic Judge Tribe bought it. This was because their impression of Bloody was that her abilities had always been poor, and Kylie was always protecting her. Her performance this time had already exceeded their expectations by leaps and bounds.

There were even a few Heavenly God team leaders who began to discuss Bloody.

"That purple-haired girl from the Nephilic Judge Tribe is pretty good. Although her combat strength is a bit weak, she's actually mastered god sequence chains, and it's a control-type god sequence chain which can control first-rank Heavenly Gods!"

"The limitations of this power are a bit too low. It's reached its limits after controlling only two first-rank Heavenly Gods. It's rather a pity…"

"This type of control power is generally related to psychic strength. Although it can only control two first-rank Heavenly Gods now, it still has the potential to be strengthened further. After all, this girl's combat level is only at eighth-rank true god-level. When she elevates to heavenly god-level, her spirit strength will also undergo a round of transformation, and her psychic strength will greatly increase then. Being able to control ten Heavenly God puppets is far stronger than average Heavenly Gods of the same rank."

Evidently, Bloody's acting skills had successfully fooled all the Heavenly God team leaders who were watching the battle through the screen.

In fact, if it were not that she had to meet up with Lin Huang, based on Bloody's cautious habits, she would definitely have given up on trying to enter the Heavenly God domain to hunt. She would have continued keeping a low profile to prevent herself from being noticed.

She had entered the Heavenly God domain because from the beginning, she had discussed the matter with Lin Huang and agreed to meet him there.

Moreover, the meeting point that she and Kylie had decided upon was also in the Heavenly God domain.

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In a flash, five days passed by just like that.

Bloody and Kylie successfully managed to meet in the Heavenly God domain.

Currently, Bloody had gone through half a month of hunting and had elevated to ninth-rank True God. The number of ninth-rank Heavenly Gods she could control had also grown from two to three.

As the hunting rules had stated that group hunting was prohibited in the secret prisoner territory, the duo worked out a way of hunting in the manner of playing touch ball.

Every time they encountered a target, one would be responsible for attacking, while the other would watch the battle from the sidelines.

However, once the prey revealed its weakness, the other person would take over the attack.

On the surface, it seemed as if they were fighting over the target; in reality, they were aiding each other, breaking the target's tempo of battle.

This fighting technique that the two ladies displayed became a topic of discussion among the Heavenly God leaders who were watching outside the secret territory.

"This touch ball technique is… amazing!"

"That purple-haired girl is so accurate with her timing! Every time she controls her puppets to attack, it's always at the opponent's weakest point."

"The most important thing is that it seems like she's really competing for the target every time she attacks. If I didn't know that they're best friends, I'd genuinely believe that she's fighting to snatch away the prey."

"I think we can let the participants do it like this too in the future."

As the group of Heavenly God leaders continued their heated discussion, the expressions on the faces of God Capital's Heavenly God leaders were rather unpleasant.

The rule set by God Capital had been broken and in front of so many people. To God Capital, this was not something to be proud of at all.

In all honesty, they could not determine that the way Bloody and Kylie played was collaboration. Instead, it looked as if the two girls were fighting to snatch the other's intended prey.

However, the duo's hunting efficiency had increased more than several times by doing so. Not only that, they were practically invincible in the first-rank Heavenly God zone.

The rate at which their hunting points increased was rapidly catching them up with the top three participants.

The performance of the two girls caused a lot of discussion among the Heavenly God leaders outside the secret territory.

"If I'm not wrong, that purple-haired girl must have combined a simplified battle formation, where three puppets are equivalent to one person. The three puppets' ability isn't a simple matter of compounding either."

"Little Princess Kylie is performing pretty well too. She must have known the purple-haired girl for a long time. This sort of tacit understanding can't be developed in a mere short period."

After a full day of major battles in the secret prisoner territory, both girls headed straight to the domain of the second-rank Heavenly God prisoners early the next day and began a new round of hunting.

The first target the duo chose was a Demonic Eight-Eyed Ape.

This Demonic Ape had mastered two god sequence chains—Superhuman Strength and Vajrapani. It had prodigious strength and unparalleled defenses; it was also an expert in close-quarter combat.

Its overall ability could be considered top-tier among the second-rank Heavenly Gods.

In reality, the two girls had chosen this hunting target not to kill it but to test the waters.

For one, Bloody wanted to find out the limits of her battle formation consisting of three first-rank Heavenly God convicts. For another, Kylie wanted to find out how far her most powerful attack could go.

With these goals in mind, the two girls invaded the Demonic Eight-Eyed Ape's territory.

The ape did not beat around the bush either; the battle started immediately.

Bloody controlled the battle formation consisting of the three convicts and took the initiative to charge at the Demonic Eight-Eyed Ape. Meanwhile, Kylie watched the battle from the sidelines just like before.

The giant shadow of a blood-red ape consolidated in the air and collided with the Demonic Eight-Eyed Ape.

The collision of the two massive silhouettes, one black, and one red, caused Divine Power to surge in all directions.

It seemed as if they were evenly matched, but as soon as the collision happened, Bloody knew a direct attack would not win the battle.

Judging by the pressure coming from the battle formation, the opponent had the upper hand in terms of suppression.

On second thought, Bloody immediately controlled the battle formation and changed her modus operandi of battle.

She retreated far away at once from the massive energy surging from her opponent, offloading the majority of the force of the attack.

Seeing that the giant ape shadow had not settled down yet and that the Demonic Eight-Eyed Ape wanted to seize the opportunity to go after it, Kylie could not help making her move.

Her spear stabbed holes through the void, which turned into hundreds of purplish-red lightning arcs that blocked the Demonic Ape's way.

As soon the giant ape shadow finished offloading the impact not too far away, Bloody took control and sent it charging at the Demonic Eight-Eyed Ape to prevent the monster from changing its battle target.

Kylie's attack earlier was clearly not to snatch the target away, but to help Bloody.

This time, it was obvious to anyone not blind.

Fortunately, Bloody managed to draw the Demonic Eight-Eyed Ape's attention back to herself, while Kylie also became aware of her own mistake. She stopped attacking and did not participate in the fight.

The group of Heavenly God leaders watching outside the secret territory also did not say anything.

The leaders from God Capital merely frowned and said nothing either.

The battle in the secret territory surprised nobody.

The giant ape shadow was suppressed by the Demonic Eight-Eyed Ape throughout the close combat between the two gigantic monsters.

Bloody had been controlling the giant ape shadow to avoid a head-on collision. She destroyed the attacks with her agility and countered the threats one after another. However, her attack did not cause any substantial harm to the Demonic Eight-Eyed Ape.

The battle lasted for almost three hours, but she decided to give up in the end.

Meanwhile, Kylie, who had been watching the battle from the sidelines, immediately began the second stage of combat.

She showcased her upper hand as soon as she began fighting.

She dominated her opponent with her speed and agility while she dodged all of its attacks with ease. Not only that, due to her extremely swift and stealthy attacks, most of her blows managed to hit the Demonic Eight-Eyed Ape.

Ray upon ray of purplish-red lightning shot out at different angles and in various forms. However, they merely caused a little bit of external injury at most every time they struck the Demonic Eight-Eyed Ape. These wounds recovered almost immediately.

Although Kylie had a massive advantage in speed, she was defeated by her opponent's defenses. Her attack power was even weaker than Bloody's battle formation shadow, and she could not cause any effective harm to the Demonic Eight-Eyed Ape at all.

Nevertheless, Kylie was unwilling to give up and tried for close to two hours, even though she knew she could not break through its defenses. In the end, she had no choice but to abandon her attempts.

However, the Demonic Eight-Eyed Ape had been enraged by the duo and was not planning on letting them leave just like that. One must know that it had been disturbed for over five hours for no reason by the both of them taking turns to attack it.

Although it had the advantage over Kylie and Bloody in terms of strength and defenses, it was far inferior to Kylie where speed was concerned.

Kylie flapped her wings and flew away immediately after putting Bloody and the three convicts away in her God Territory. It took her only less than three minutes to shake off the Demonic Eight-Eyed Ape that had been pursuing her.

Despite the two girls being unsuccessful in this battle, they had still attracted the attention of many Heavenly God leaders outside the secret territory.

Some even sympathized with them, thinking that they had picked the wrong opponent.

However, some of the Heavenly God leaders could tell that the two girls had deliberately provoked the Demonic Eight-Eyed Ape on purpose.

On the surveillance camera, Kylie released Bloody from her God Territory after shaking off the Demonic Eight-Eyed Ape on her heels.

Although this battle had been a failure, they did not give up at all. They continued heading towards their next target while beginning to review the earlier fight…

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Chapter 1520: The Meeting Of The Three

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Lin Huang felt that the time spent hunting in the secret prisoner territory went by very quickly.

By the time he elevated to sixth-rank True God, it was already the last three days before the secret territory closed.

He had not actually forgotten the main reason for entering the secret prisoner territory this time. It was just that he had not been able to find a particularly opportune moment to meet up with Kylie and Bloody.

Since he could sense his summoning beasts' coordinates at all times, his choice of hunting targets throughout this half-a-month seemed random, but in reality, he was heading closer to where the two girls were.

Bloody and Kylie could also sense where Lin Huang was; as they hunted, they too were approaching closer in his direction.

On the second day after Lin Huang elevated to sixth-rank True God—which was also three days before the secret territory closed—he suddenly chose a prisoner located close to the border of the first-rank and second-rank Heavenly God domains.

Kylie and Bloody picked a second-rank Heavenly God prisoner close to the border at almost the same time as well.

The two territories were less than six hundred kilometers apart.

Very soon, the Heavenly God leaders outside the secret territory noticed this unusual situation.

"The target that the little princess from the Nephilic Judge Tribe picked is so close to the one Xiu Mu chose!"

"Those two girls won't encounter Xiu Mu face-to-face, will they?!"

"They're too close to each other. There's a high possibility of them sensing each other as soon as the waves from the battles spread. I wonder if Xiu Mu will go investigate out of curiosity."

"It doesn't really matter even if they encounter each other. All the participants know the hunting rules in the secret prisoner territory. The possibility of Xiu Mu attacking the two girls is low."

Although most people believed that Lin Huang would not attack the duo, the Nephilic Judge Tribe team leader still displayed a rather unpleasant expression.

He would not be as worried if Kylie were to encounter any other top-tier True God powerhouses apart from Xiu Mu and Virtuoso.

However, she was unfortunate enough to encounter Xiu Mu this time—an unbelievable genius whose ability could completely crush third-rank Heavenly Gods.

Although the rules said that attacking participants was not allowed in the secret territory, the lines were very blurred.

The organizers would turn a blind eye on the participants as long as nobody was killed or incapacitated.

Moreover, Xiu Mu also had his battle with Virtuoso as precedence. It would not be surprising if he attacked other participants.

The group of Heavenly God leaders was still discussing this topic outside the secret territory.

Meanwhile, Kylie and Bloody had arrived in the domain where their target was and had initiated combat.

The battle between the two girls and the second-rank Heavenly God prisoner had only just begun for less than twenty minutes before Lin Huang arrived where his target was as well. He began hunting a third-rank Heavenly God prisoner.

In reality, the three of them already knew they had arrived at this distance from each other, even without using telepathic voice transmission.

The three of them did not display anything out of the ordinary, behaving as usual.

In the surveillance monitors, it seemed as if they were not aware of each other's existence at all.

As usual, Lin Huang overwhelmed his opponent just as he had done on previous occasions, taking only twenty minutes or so to kill his prey.

However, after killing his opponent and storing the monster carcass away, he suddenly lifted his head and stared toward the distant sky.

There were streaks of faint purplish-red lightning illuminating in the clouds in that direction.

This gesture caused the Nephilic Judge Tribe leader watching outside the secret territory to have a moment of tension.

The rest of the Heavenly Gods watching the battle were staring at the surveillance screen as well, not wanting to miss a single thing.

A couple of seconds later, Lin Huang moved in a flash, swiftly heading in the direction of the purplish-red lightning streaks.

"As expected, they've been discovered…"

Someone among the Heavenly God team leaders could not help sighing.

It took Lin Huang merely the space of a few breaths to cross the distance of over five hundred kilometers.

When Kylie was still fighting the second-rank Heavenly God prisoner, he revealed himself completely, standing upright in the void less than a hundred meters from the battleground.

Bloody immediately looked up at him, her expression guarded and vigilant. Her acting skills were perfect.

Lin Huang merely glanced at her without a word.

However, Kylie, who was currently fighting, was clearly a little distracted.

She was actually not acting at all; she was genuinely distracted by sensing Lin Huang's aura near her again.

"Being distracted during a battle is a cardinal sin," Lin Huang reminded her immediately. "Don't mind me. I sensed the energy waves and thought I would stop in on the way to check it out."

Although he said this, Lin Huang had no intention of leaving at all. Instead, he crossed his arms and watched the battle, sitting in the void with his legs crossed.

Kylie hurriedly focused after hearing Lin Huang's reminder and put herself entirely in battle mode.

Outside the battleground, Bloody was watching Kylie's fight while keeping her guard up at Lin Huang.

"Who are you?"

Bloody's acting skills were perfect. As Xiu Mu had only risen to prominence since entering the secret territory, by all normal logic, she certainly would not know who he was. Moreover, as the best friend of the Nephilic Judge Tribe's little princess, it even made sense for her to not know anyone else, other than a few top-tier True Gods.

"Xiu Mu from Death Sickle," Lin Huang disclosed his identity and looked at Bloody with a smile. "I've seen the both of you outside the territory—the Nephilic Judge Tribe's little princess and her best friend."

Bloody's face turned pale upon hearing Lin Huang's identity; it seemed that she was shocked by his name. However, she remained stern as she spoke, "Good that you know then. You'd better not plot anything against us!"

Lin Huang displayed both his hands while smiling, implying that he had no intention of attacking.

However, Bloody clearly did not let her guard down, still looking rather displeased.

"Girl, I heard the little princess is getting married?" Lin Huang asked, testing the waters while smiling.

"No, that's fake news!" Bloody denied right away. In reality, she said this on purpose for the benefit of the many organizations that were watching through the surveillance video. "Sister Kylie isn't impressed by stupid men like you! She's going to elevate to Supreme God rank-6 and dominate all you supreme geniuses!"

"Oh, I see…" Lin Huang cupped his chin, looking like he was in deep thought.

Outside the secret territory, after hearing Bloody's comments, the numerous Heavenly God leaders realized immediately that Kylie herself had no intention of getting married.

The Nephilic Judge Tribe team leader looked rather embarrassed. Naturally, he knew of Kylie's aspirations. However, he was just like the upper echelons of the Nephilic Judge Tribe and thought that she did not possess such ability. Only by marrying her off would the Tribe benefit most of all.

The Heavenly God leaders saw the awkward expression on the Nephilic Judge Tribe leader's face and felt even more certain that the arrangements for marriage were against Kylie's will.

Although some organizations did not mind that and felt that what she wanted did not matter as long as the marriage happened, other organizations felt that a forced marriage would bring hidden misfortunes with it. They began considering whether or not they should abandon their plans for proposing marriage.

What everyone did not know was that right under the surveillance cameras, Lin Huang had crushed five Supreme God rank-5 Advance Cards secretly and imbued them into Kylie's body. This would help her break through the most important hurdle and successfully elevate to sixth-rank Supreme God…

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Chapter 1521: The Outstanding Imperial Monsters Should Learn to Obtain Elevation Materials Themselves

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Lin Huang did not watch the battle for too long. He continued making idle banter with Bloody for a little bit after secretly crushing the five Supreme God rank-5 Advance Cards into Kylie's body.

Realizing that Bloody was acting rather cold toward him, Lin Huang eventually left.

He did not speak to Kylie throughout the whole encounter.

However, she sensed the penetration of the Advance Cards' energy as clear as day. She also understood that she was one step away from elevating to Supreme God rank-6.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Bloody, who had just displayed a superb acting performance while being cold to Lin Huang, also sensed the penetration of Advance Cards' energy before the man left.

Lin Huang had five crushed Supreme God rank-4 Advance Cards into her body.

In reality, Bloody was on Pseudo-supreme God rank-4.5 and could elevate to Supreme God rank-5 directly with the help of the few Advance Cards. However, she suppressed it. She chose not to break through at the moment.

One factor was that the secret territory was closing. The breakthrough of rank would not be completed instantly. Also, she did not want anyone to think that her elevation was related to the encounter with Lin Huang.

Lin Huang felt much more relaxed after completing the real objective of entering the secret prisoner territory this time.

He observed Kylie and Bloody—they were doing great. They were not troubled by the Nephilic Judge Tribe. That brought him a fair amount of relief.

He no longer had to worry about the marriage.

The reason being that Kylie already had all the elevation materials ready, while he had provided her with Advance Cards. It was only a matter of time before she would be elevated to Supreme God rank-6. She would undoubtedly go into closed-door cultivation to break through as soon as the trial in the secret zone ended.

If the Supreme God rank-5 Kylie's identity as a princess was just a symbol, her biggest asset to the Nephilic Judge Tribe would be her marriage. However, a Pure Spirit rank-6 Kylie would definitely be the Nephilic Judge Tribe's true queen, or perhaps even the person to hold absolute power over the entire tribe.

As soon as she elevated to Pure Spirit rank-6, the Nephilic Judge Tribe's upper echelons would never dream about going through the marriage even if they were dumb as rocks. The reason being Kylie could lead the entire tribe to new heights on her own.

Marriage?

There really was no male Protoss that would be able to match her.

After all, there was not a single Pure Spirit rank-6 powerhouse in the entire God Territory in this era.

As soon as Kylie elevated, she could suppress all geniuses of the same level in the entire era.

In reality, Bloody had suggested to Lin Huang to help Kylie to elevate. It was a bold move.

This decision seemed to be able to resolve all of Kylie's crises at first glance. However, it actually had a deeper and more complicated meaning that she did not reveal to Lin Huang.

The other thing was that Kylie would take control of the Nephilic Judge Tribe as soon as she elevated to Pure Spirit rank-6. In reality, it was only a matter of time before Kylie became the person of power. By then, it would mean that Lin Huang would have a peak-level grade-6 or even grade-7 massive organization under him.

Lin Huang had no idea that Bloody had set her sights on such an ambition.

One of the reasons why he agreed to help Kylie elevate to Pure Spirit rank-6 was to resolve the crisis of Kylie being married. On top of that, he was willing to elevate all of the imperial monsters under him.

If the circumstances allowed it, he was eager to elevate all of the imperial monsters under him to Pure Spirit rank-6, or even higher, which was rank-7 and rank-8.

He had to do everything by himself at the moment. That was mainly because his imperial monsters' abilities could not keep up with his elevation speed. His imperial monsters could not fight the enemies that he encountered.

If Kylie, Bai, Lancelot, and the rest could elevate to Pure Spirit rank-6, there were many tasks that he could assign them. He would no longer have to do everything by himself.

After meeting with Kylie, Lin Huang was secretly planning his development direction next.

As he elevated to sixth-rank True God, his Heavenly God Sword Servants' combat strength had also unlocked to sixth-rank heavenly god-level. Compared to before, there was a significant elevation of ability in his 358 Sword Servants.

High-level sixth-rank Heavenly Gods could help him handle many things.

Next would be the imperial monsters under him.

Kylie was going to break through to Supreme God rank-6 soon, while Bloody would soon be elevated to Supreme God rank-5.

Apart from them, he had three Supreme God rank-5 imperial monsters including Killer, Ku Rong (Demonic Buddhist Holy Son), and Blackscale (Symbiotic Creature of the Abyssal Fountain). With the three's abilities, it was pretty easy for them to elevate to heavenly god-level.

There were Bai and Teng Ran (Thousand Snake Sect Leader) who were on Pseudo-supreme God rank-4.5. The duo merely needed Supreme God rank-4 Advance Cards to elevate directly to Supreme God rank-5.

Meanwhile, Grimace, Charcoal, Lancelot, Bug Tribe's Queen Mothers, and others remained on mythical-level rank-4. Lin Huang considered starting to prepare the materials for their elevation.

After all, mythical-level rank-4 powerhouses had lost their advantageous status when they arrived in the great world.

Apart from that, the over 5,000 mythical-level rank-4 Bug Kings and bug guardians under the Queen Mothers had formidable battle strength too. However, Lin Huang had insufficient Advance Cards to elevate their ranks. They could only rely on themselves to elevate their combat strength.

"I'll elevate Bai and Teng Ran to Supreme God rank-5 first once I get out of here. Then I'll prepare the Supreme God rank-6 elevation materials for Killer and the rest, as well as Supreme God rank-5 elevation materials for Charcoal and so on… However, I'll probably have to spend a hefty sum to purchase those materials… Hmm, maybe I should let them hunt themselves and make money on their own…"

Lin Huang thought the outstanding imperial monsters should learn from Kylie. They should learn to obtain elevation materials themselves. After all, it was tough enough for him to provide them with Advance Cards.

'If everyone can be like Kylie, obtaining elevation materials themselves, I'll have such a huge burden lifted off my shoulders…' Lin Huang quietly mumbled, 'Not only will I provide them with Advance Cards to elevate to Supreme God rank-6, I'm even willing to elevate them to rank-7 and rank-8.'

Although he thought that, he knew that the higher rank the elevation materials were, the rarer they were, and the harder they were to obtain.

Kylie managed to gather Supreme God rank-6 elevation materials because she had a grade-6 force behind her, which was the Nephilic Judge Tribe. If Killer and the rest were to obtain elevation materials themselves, it might not be as easy as that.

After thinking to himself for a little bit, Lin Huang soon went into hunting mode. He started a fresh round of hunting.

When he began the next hunt, Bloody and Kylie had just completed theirs.

The two ladies looked at each other after putting the monster carcass away.

They did not say anything on the surface, but they were communicating secretly through voice transmission.

"Did the Advance Cards penetration work?"

"Yes, it did."

"Don't elevate just yet. You'll go into closed-door cultivation to break through after the secret territory is closed," Bloody reminded her.

"Yes, the secret territory is closing soon. We don't have enough time. And I don't want the surveillance cameras to capture the elevation process," Kylie responded.

"I had Advance Cards penetrate my body too. I can break through to Supreme God rank-5 anytime now," Bloody added.

Kylie looked at Bloody with her beautiful eyes. She was not exactly surprised. "We'll go into closed-door cultivation together after the secret territory is closed."

"Sure."

The two ladies soon began their journey again after a brief chat. They began a new round of hunting.

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The time inside the secret prisoner territory flew by.

Lin Huang had been standing firmly at the No.1 spot on the Hunter's Gold Leaderboard since the beginning. Nobody could come close to challenge his position.

He would kill 12 to15 second-rank heavenly god-level prisoners per day. His points would increase over 5,000 points every day on average. It was almost five times the pace of the person who ranked No.2.

In reality, nobody could surpass his hunting points even before he met Kylie and Bloody.

Meanwhile, the No.2 was not Virtuoso from Death Sickle, but a top-tier True God-level powerhouse from God Capital—Kun Ting.

Kylie and Bloody were ranked No.3 and No.4.

The gap between the two ladies' points was less than 300. A simple calculation showed that Bloody could actually catch up if she killed just one more first-rank Heavenly God convict and a second-rank Heavenly God convict.

Meanwhile, Kylie and Kun Ting were separated by over 1,000 points.

As for Virtuoso, he was not taking the hunting seriously at all. He was ranked a lowly No.10, and he only had 100 points more than the person who ranked No.11.

Apart from the top three, the candidates ranking No.4 to No.10 would be given similar rewards.

Many Heavenly God leaders suspected that Virtuoso felt that struggling for the No.1 spot with Xiu Mu would take far too much effort, which was why he gave up from the start.

However, Lin Huang knew that this guy likely did not care for the reward from such a leaderboard at all. He did not bother to fight for it. There was a great possibility that he was ranked in the top ten as he spoke to Buried Heaven earlier. Buried Heaven might have just been trying to be nice.

Compared to the Hunter's Gold Leaderboard, the competition among the Virtual Gods on the Hunter's Silver Leaderboard was much more intense.

The person who ranked No.1 on the Hunter's Silver Leaderboard was someone that Lin Huang was familiar with—Unrivalled God from Combat God Temple.

He gave up on elevating to True God-level when he encountered Lin Huang and the Sword Servants under Great Heaven during the trial in the Great Heaven Territory over a year ago. He cultivated sword skills in closed-door cultivation. Indeed, his ability had significantly improved compared to over a year ago. He held on to the No.1 position among the Virtual Gods in the God Territory even firmer now.

He had even fancied that he might be able to beat Lin Huang if they were to meet again. However, he had no idea that Lin Huang had already elevated to True God-level. If the difference in their ability was like a fluorescent light and a candle over a year ago, it was more like a fluorescent light and dazzling sunlight now. There was no way to compare them at all.

The No.2 on the Hunter's Silver Leaderboard was a saber cultivator from God Capital. He was only 120 points behind the Unrivalled God.

The point difference between No.3 to No.6 was minimal. Their points were a mere 200 to 300 apart.

Meanwhile, the gap between No.7 to No.10 was in the range of 300 to 500 points.

The intensity of the competition of the top ten on the Hunter's Silver Leaderboard easily surpassed that of the Hunter's Gold Leaderboard.

As soon as the one-month trial period in the secret prisoner territory was up, God Capital's staff teleported all of the candidates out without wasting a second.

Lin Huang sensed countless eyes locked onto him as soon as he was teleported out of the territory.

He glanced over and saw almost all the Heavenly God leaders were staring at him. They did not care about the candidates from their organizations at all.

The first thought that flashed through his mind noticing their reaction was, 'Have I exposed my identity as a human?!'

He quickly recollected his performance in the secret prisoner territory. He did not think he made any major slip-ups.

Just as he was contemplating making a hasty exit, Buried Heaven's voice transmission came over slowly.

"Come over here. Don't just stand there."

Naturally, Buried Heaven could tell that Lin Huang was worried about his identity being exposed.

Lin Huang was relieved when he heard the voice transmission. He arrived next to him in a flash. He asked softly through the voice transmission, "Why are they staring at me?"

"You're ranked No.1 on the Hunter's Gold Leaderboard. Who else would they be staring at if not you?" Buried Heaven replied offhandedly.

"That's all?" Lin Huang raised his brows.

Buried Heaven fell into silence for a moment and added, "There have been people who managed to kill third-rank Heavenly Gods with True God-level combat strength throughout history. However, including you, there were less than ten who managed to do that."

"Alright then. I thought I'd exposed my identity…" Lin Huang did not mind that. He released a big sigh of relief after hearing Buried Heaven's explanation.

While the pair were speaking through voice transmission, the candidates from all organizations had returned to their groups one after the other.

Virtuoso too had returned to Death Sickle. He merely glanced at Lin Huang, then he stood beside Buried Heaven. Everyone believed that the two of them were enemies.

Even Buried Heaven thought the same. He was secretly relieved when he realized that they did not break out into a fight on the spot.

Fallen Star and the rest had curiosity brimming in their eyes when they looked at Lin Huang. Although they were competing on the Hunter's Silver Leaderboard, they could see the ranking on the Hunter's Gold Leaderboard.

At first, they figured the rookie Buried Heaven discovered must have extraordinary ability. After all, Xie Lin was a great example. Never had they expected that this rookie named Xiu Mi would be the black horse that suppressed all the other candidates.

Wild Fiend who ranked No.3 on the White Sickle Leaderboard said nothing. Before entering the secret territory, he indirectly mocked Lin Huang on purpose, stating that Lin Huang would drag the entire Death Sickle behind.

Little did he expect that this rookie's ability was far beyond his. He, on the other hand, had the lowest hunting points among the four True God candidates in Death Sickle.

He did not dare to look at Lin Huang, as he was afraid that Lin Huang would mock him in payback.

However, Lin Huang never spared him a glance from the beginning until the end.

He was not ignoring him on purpose. He had already forgotten that he mocked him a month ago. In fact, he could not even remember his name.

As Buried Heaven was bringing a couple of candidates to Death Sickle's headquarters, a Heavenly God leader walked over with his team.

"Senior Buried Heaven, please stay a moment." It was Precious Treasure Pavilion's leader who called out to him.

He was rather plump with blushed cheeks. He looked very kind.

Buried Heaven frowned. He had already guessed the person's intentions in asking him to stay.

"I'd like to have a brief chat with Fellow Xiu Mu." The plump leader smiled and looked at Lin Huang.

"Me?" Lin Huang had puzzlement etched all over his face. He did not recall having any contacts with Precious Treasure Pavilion in the past at all.

"That's right." The plump leader from Precious Treasure Pavilion nodded with a warm smile. "Little guy, are you interested in joining my Precious Treasure Pavilion?"

The plump leader did not beat around the bush at all. He invited Lin Huang to join him right in front of Buried Heaven.

Lin Huang was stunned for a moment. He did not expect the man was here to poach him. However, he soon came up with a solid reason to reject the offer

"I'm sorry. I believe Death Sickle is plenty good enough for me."

"No matter how great Death Sickle is, it is just a grade-6 organization. I think Fellow Xiu Mu should really consider joining a grade-7 organization." At that moment, the Combat God Temple's leader walked over with his team too. "I'm sure you've heard of us, the Combat God Temple."

"No organization in the entire God Territory offers more handsome benefits than we, the Precious Treasure Pavilion, do." The plump leader refused to step down and quickly played their best card.

"So what if you guys have resources and benefits?! We, Divine Clapnet, have the biggest archive in the entire God Territory." Even the Divine Clapnet leader could not help but interject, "We even know many secrets of the universe that many other grade-7 organizations have no idea about…"

"I think it's best that Xiu Mu joins Xeno. Everyone knows that we have the highest tolerance among all grade-7 organizations. There are many tribes that have joined us. Perhaps many peers from the tribe that Xiu Mi belongs to are already Xeno's members…"

Apart from God Capital, four of the five grade-7 organizations had taken the initiative to poach Lin Huang. Not to mention, they were doing it in front of Buried Heaven.

Buried Heaven was pissed, but he did not show his anger. He even put up a calm front as if he was watching a show. The reason being he knew that Lin Huang would decline every invitation.

As expected, Lin Huang spoke calmly after the few grade-7 organizations extended their invitations.

'Seniors, perhaps I didn't make myself clear earlier. I love Death Sickle's current situation. Therefore, I won't transfer to any other organization. Thank you for your kindness!"

Anyone else might have transferred to another organization without hesitation. However, Lin Huang knew very well that Death Sickle was the only one that suited him.

No matter how handsome the offer the other organizations put on the table, they would definitely kill him before he managed to achieve anything the moment they found out that he was a human.

The few Heavenly God leaders seemed rather aghast after hearing Lin Huang's direct rejection. However, they did their best not to show it.

They tried to convince him again. When they realized that Lin Huang was adamantly insisting on staying with Death Sickle, they had no choice but to give up.

However, they still insisted on getting Lin Huang's contact number. They wanted to try to convince him again in the future.

After Lin Huang rejected them, the Heavenly God leaders soon left. The plump leader from Precious Treasure Pavilion had the thickest skin. He extended an invitation to Virtuoso right in front of Lin Huang.

Virtuoso was even more direct in his rejection, merely saying two words, "Not interested!"

The plump leader merely left while smiling after hearing the reply.

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Chapter 1523: Daughters Should Be Raised In Abundance

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In the meeting room at the Death Sickle headquarters, Buried Heaven and the several participants who went into the secret prisoner territory gathered together.

Apart from Fallen Star and the rest, Lin Huang and Virtuoso were there as well.

"For the trip this time into the secret prisoner territory, everyone's rankings aren't bad at all. Following the usual custom, those who ranked in the top ten on the Hunter's Gold Leaderboard and Hunter's Silver Leaderboard will be rewarded. These rewards were gathered collectively from God Capital and all of the participating organizations.

"Aside from that, I've also had a discussion with a few Blood Sickle members. To encourage all of you to participate more in trials such as the secret prisoner territory, Death Sickle will independently give another reward to participants who ranked in the top ten.

"As Xiu Mu is involved in a share from some wagers apart from the reward, I'll give the rest of you your rewards first.

"The first is Fallen Star, who ranked No. 4 on the Hunter's Silver Leaderboard. The reward from God Capital is a high-level god rule battle sword relic. Meanwhile, the reward from Death Sickle is also of the same grade – a high-level god rule battle armor relic!

"You'll elevate to True God-level soon, so you'll be able to use them by then.

"Apart from that, your total hunting points in the secret territory was 27,186 points, and the reward points for No.4 is 3,000 points, so you have a total of 30,186 points. God Capital has already converted these points into silver coins to be used at the Secret Territory Mall so you can redeem items there. However, the silver coin's purchasing authorization is lower than gold coins; you can check the details out for yourselves.

"Other than Fallen Star, Destiny performed quite well too, coming in at No. 9 on the Hunter's Silver Leaderboard. You had a total of 25,418 hunting points, and the reward points for No. 9 is 300 points, so you have a total of 25,718 points. The points have also been converted into silver coins. You can check out what exactly you can purchase when you have the time."

Destiny could not help but mumble softly, upon hearing that the reward points were merely 300 points, "What the hell, the reward points are ten times less?!"

Initially, he had been less than 2,000 points away from Fallen Star. Now with the reward points added, they were close to 5,000 points apart.

Buried Heaven heard what he said, clear as crystal. He glanced at Destiny. "Anyone who has questions about the reward points can take a look at the document on the secret territory that I sent to everyone previously. On the rewards page, the reward points for each ranking are stated clearly on the list."

Destiny shut up immediately and said nothing more.

"The reward from God Capital is a beginner-level god rule battle sword relic for ranking No. 9 on the Hunter's Silver Leaderboard. Meanwhile, Death Sickle's reward is something of the same grade – a beginner-level god rule battle armor relic!"

The ranking was only five ranks apart, but the difference in how they were treated was much greater.

Fallen Star had obtained two high-level god rule relics which she could use when she elevated to true god-level. She could even use them when she elevated to the higher ranks. However, the two beginner-level god rule relics Destiny obtained could only be used when he was low-rank at most, as transitional items.

If one did not compare oneself with others, there would be no harm done.

Although Destiny had been given rewards too, he almost cried when he compared what he had gotten with those of Fallen Star, who had obtained the rewards earlier.

"It's unfortunate that you got No. 11, Twin. You were merely less than 400 points away from No. 10. Work harder next time!

"Although there's no reward from God Capital for ranking No. 11, and Death Sickle theoretically doesn't give out any either, I personally think you should be rewarded. I happen to have a set of mid-level god rule battle armor relics. I'll give it to you as a reward."

Destiny was even more annoyed when he heard that. "Senior Buried Heaven, that's favoritism!"

"Haven't you heard the saying, 'Sons should be raised in frugality and daughters in abundance'?" Although it was rather funny that Buried Heaven, who looked like a young man, would say something like that, nobody had any objections.

After giving out the rewards to the three of them, Buried Heaven then looked at Virtuoso.

"Virtuoso, you're ranked No. 10 on the Hunter's Gold Leaderboard. The reward from God Capital is a set of low-level god sequence battle armor relics. Meanwhile, Death Sickle is giving you a Heavenly God's God Territory Shell Remnant!" Buried Heaven intentionally left out the grade of the reward.

Virtuoso could not help raising his brows when he heard that.

The rest did not have any comments either.

"Apart from this, your hunting point in the secret territory was 25,198 points. The reward points for ranking No.10 is 100 points, so your total is 25,298 points. God Capital has converted these points into gold coins at the Secret Territory Mall. You can redeem the items you desire there.

"Let me take the opportunity to talk about the secret territory gold coins. The gold coin's purchasing authorization is higher than the silver coin in the God Territory's Secret Territory Mall. Apart from a handful of rare items that you can't purchase, essentially, you can buy most of the items on the market that you see. That even includes the Dao Weapons that Lords use. Naturally, the proviso is that you have enough gold coins."

When Lin Huang heard this, he secretly began to harbor some anticipation.

After explaining the purchasing power of the gold coin, Buried Heaven looked at Lin Huang.

"Xiu Mu, ranked No.1 on the Hunter's Gold Leaderboard. The reward from God Capital is a top-tier god sequence telekinetic flying dagger relic. You've also been given a record-breaking reward, which is a half-step lord-level telekinesis inheritance.

"Naturally, the reward from Death Sickle can't be too shabby. After discussion with several Blood Sickle members, we've decided to reward Xiu Mu with a half-step lord-level God Territory Shell Remnant.

At the same time, we've decided to invite Xiu Mu to be a guest Gold Sickle. You'll have all of the authorizations that a Gold Sickle member in Death Sickle would have; you're also excused from all of the missions. Of course, we won't stop you if you want to take on some missions to obtain points."

Fallen Star and the others all had dropped jaws. They had no idea what to say.

Even Virtuoso could not help but raise their brows slightly under their mask.

Lin Huang thought about it and did not decline.

To avoid constraining him, Death Sickle had even given him a place as a guest Gold Sickle, and he was excused from all of the missions. Although he had no actual power, the authorization he had been given was the same as that of Buried Heaven, which was equivalent to being admitted to Death Sickle's core circle.

"You obtained 154,610 secret territory hunting points. The points awarded for the No. 1 spot is 10,000 points. For the killing of third-rank Heavenly Gods, you've been given 30,000 reward points for breaking the record, so your total is 194,610 points. With this amount of secret territory gold coins, you can actually exchange them for a great many excellent items.

" It's just a pity that you didn't kill any fourth-rank Heavenly Gods. If you had broken the record for killing fourth-rank Heavenly God, you would have been awarded 40,000 reward points."

Fallen Star and the rest were entirely too envious upon hearing that Lin Huang had close to 200,000 points.

Although nobody could see the expression on Virtuoso's face as they were wearing a mask, everyone could sense the negative aura emanating from him. He was obviously somewhat jealous.

After glancing at everyone, Buried Heaven continued, "Apart from these rewards, I've also won many things from betting on you. We'll share half of them.

"Your share is a total of 13 high-level god sequence relics, 41 mid-level god sequence relics, and 87 beginner-level god sequence relics…"

Fallen Star and the rest wanted to cry when they heard that.

They had initially thought that the rewards they obtained were not too shabby. However, now that they had a basis for comparison, the more they realized there was a significant difference between the two.

Some people could win first prize without having to put in too much effort, obtaining everyone's praise and even getting all the rewards.

Meanwhile, it was considered excellent for some to get into the top ten when they had given their all.

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Chapter 1524: Elevating The Pseudo-Supreme God Rank-4.5s

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After giving out all the rewards, Buried Heaven dismissed everyone else except for Lin Huang.

A moment of silence later in the meeting room, Buried Heaven spoke. "Do you know why we're willing to break Death Sickle's rules and make an exception for you to be a guest Gold Sickle?"

'Because I'm outstanding enough?!' Lin Huang really wanted to reply in this manner. However, he figured it would sound arrogant, so he changed his answer.

"I don't know."

"Your identity would be a threat to most organizations in the God Territory," Buried Heaven said without mincing words, "There are very few individuals in the God Territory who would be willing to countenance the rising of a compelling human genius."

"Then why doesn't Death Sickle think the same?" Lin Huang did not think Buried Heaven wanted to have a falling out with him by saying this. If Buried Heaven had wanted to take action, he would have done so over a year ago.

"Because we're looking at the issue from a higher dimension." Although Buried Heaven did not say it directly, his next words revealed Death Sickle's secret. "Humans and Protoss aren't enemies. We're even allies in the universe, with the same enemies."

"The same enemies?! Do you mean the Abyssal creatures or the Bug Tribe?" Lin Huang asked immediately.

"It's something even more powerful…" Buried Heaven said only this, unwilling to reveal more.

Lin Huang frowned and fell silent for a moment after hearing this reply. He knew that Buried Heaven would not answer him even if he proceeded to ask further. He changed topics and asked a question about something that he really wanted to know.

"Perhaps all these things you're telling me can explain the friendly attitude that Death Sickle and yourself harbor toward me, but it doesn't explain why Death Sickle is willing to break the rules to pull me into the core circle. No matter how you look at it, the Gold Sickle authorization that I've obtained would give me benefits that exceed what Death Sickle could get from me.

"Moreover, all of you should be aware that, as a human, I can't wander in the God Territory forever. In the end, I'll still have to return to my human world. Judging from the current relationship between humans and Protoss, no matter how successful I might be in the human world, there's still very little that I could repay you with."

"We're not looking at the great world, but the greater universe. You have the potential to break through to mighty divinity-level (lord-level). As long as you don't die, we'll gain a great ally in the future. By then, even if you don't bring us any returns, your existence alone can prevent many people from dying in wars. That alone is the real value that we see in you."

From these words, Lin Huang finally realized Death Sickle's stand. He had no idea what to say at the moment.

He suddenly thought of something else a moment later.

"Why didn't you all give Virtuoso the same treatment? From what I know, his potential is certainly no less than mine."

"He's different from you." Buried Heaven shook his head. He hesitated for a little bit but still decided to say it anyway. "He's a reincarnation of an Almighty.

"An Almighty reincarnation might seem to have extraordinary potential, but there are actually restrictions. It's very difficult for him to break through the level that he was born at.

"The potential isn't the main issue. More importantly, we're worried.

"We're not sure if there's anything wrong with Virtuoso's past life. He's been purposely hiding information on it. We can't find any clues, we can't differentiate whether he's a friend or a foe. No matter how powerful he was in his past life, we dare not pull him into our core circle recklessly."

What Buried Heaven said did indeed make sense.

Lin Huang thought to himself for a moment while frowning, but said nothing.

He was aware of Virtuoso's background and knew that they were actually a reincarnated being. Their identity as Virtuoso was just a clone for them to disguise themselves as an Almighty reincarnation.

He also knew that Virtuoso was a member of the Club, just like he was. There was a high chance that they would not stand on the opposing side against Protoss and humans.

However, he could not tell Buried Heaven that.

Doing so would be tantamount to exposing Virtuoso's background; it would also expose his own identity as a member of the Club.

On the other hand, he had also considered that Virtuoso probably had their own reasons to hide this information from Death Sickle.

Lin Huang pondered for a while but did not offer any opinions on the matter.

"If they could be slightly more candid, they might even be an extremely valuable ally," Buried Heaven eventually commented.

"We'll handle the matter of Virtuoso ourselves. You should focus on yourself first," Buried Heaven looked at Lin Huang after saying this. "Your combat strength has elevated from first-rank True God all the way to sixth-rank True God this month. To be honest, that's quite frightening. However, your combat strength is fairly low compared to your abilities. I personally suggest that you go into closed-door cultivation to catch up on your foundation properly before elevating to heavenly god-level. Don't rush straight into heavenly god-level recklessly. If your foundation isn't stable, the problem will worsen in the future and will even affect your elevation when you advance to a higher level."

"Yes, I know." Although Lin Huang said this, he knew better than anyone that there were no True Gods who could compare with him in terms of a stable foundation.

After the duo chatted for close to half an hour, Buried Heaven left after giving some words of advice.

Lin Huang also departed from Death Sickle's headquarters soon after and headed straight to the Devil Hunter Star Zone.

When he got there, Mr. Fu and Kylie had gotten out of the Battlefield of the Dragon Abyss much earlier. Not only that, they had gone into closed-door cultivation.1

Of their three-person team, Lin Xuan was the only person who remained at the Battlefield of the Dragon Abyss.

Meanwhile, the three-person virtual god-level team consisting of Chan Dou, Xiao Mo, and Huang Wuji had entered the Battlefield of the Dragon Abyss for the second time after replenishing their supplies.

After ascertaining that they were safe, Lin Huang did not bother with them any further, returning in a flash to the Great Heaven Palace.

Sword11's training of Wu Hao had progressed very smoothly. Wu Hao had only just advanced to imperial-level, but he had mastered all of the mythical-level and below-mythical-level sword skills that Lin Huang selected for him.

He had even broken through to the first Sword Dao true meaning level—True Martial Level.

Lin Huang did not teach Wu Hao any higher-level sword skills. Instead, the millions of sword skills, mythical-level and below, that had not been picked earlier, he transferred into Wu Hao's mind.

Even though this youngster was powerful in Sword Dao, this amount of sword skills was sufficient for him to train for a while.

After sorting out the matter of his disciple Wu Hao, Lin Huang entered the Great Heaven Palace.

Once inside, he sat down cross-legged and checked on the condition of his imperial monsters.

His three Supreme God rank-5 imperial monsters Killer, Blackscale (Symbiotic Creature of the Abyssal Fountain), and Ku Rong (Demonic Buddhist Holy Son) had elevated to heavenly god-level.

Among the Pseudo-supreme God rank-4.5 imperial monsters, Teng Ran (the Thousand Snake Sect leader) had elevated to heavenly god-level as well. However, Bai remained at ninth-rank True God-level.

The remaining ones—Grimace, Charcoal, Lancelot, the Bug Tribe's Queen Mothers, and so on—had elevated to high-rank True God-level. Those with the lowest combat strength were at seventh-rank True God-level, while the one with the highest combat strength was Grimace, who had elevated to ninth-rank True God-level.

"I can start preparing materials for Grimace and the rest. Mythical-level rank-4 is indeed a bit too low…" Lin Huang glanced through the imperial monster card projections, and his gaze very soon fell upon Bai and Teng Ran.

He moved his fingers slightly, and both imperial monster cards turned into sparkles, which coalesced at the tips of his fingers.

The next second, the two cards once more transformed into sparkles and consolidated into two figures.

One figure had hair as white as snow, clad in a black robe with blood-red patterns that seemed alive. His eyes were red, and he had a blood-red crystal between his brows, his entire body shrouded by a faint red mist.

The other figure had blond hair, each strand giving the impression of being a spirit serpent that could swallow one up. His eyes had snake pupils, which terrified anyone looking into them. His appearance caused the very air around to turn a few degrees colder.

"Both of you are already Pseudo-supreme God rank-4.5…" Ten rank-4 Advance Cards appeared in Lin Huang's hand as he spoke, but Bai and Teng Ran could not see them, "Pseudo-supreme God rank-4.5 is nothing in the great world. Therefore, I've summoned both of you today so I can elevate you to Supreme God rank-5."

Bai's expression was calm; he already knew this day would come.

Teng Ran, on the other hand, looked utterly startled. Although he had communicated with other imperial monsters during this time and knew that Lin Huang had methods of elevating the ranks of his imperial monsters, Teng Ran did not expect that he himself would receive such treatment as well.

Materials were not required for Pseudo-supreme God rank-4.5 imperial monsters; they could directly use Advance Cards to elevate to Supreme God rank-5. Therefore, Lin Huang did not mind Teng Ran having seniority among the imperial monsters under him.

He had his Goldfinger, Xiao Hei, anyway, so he did not have to be suspicious of his imperial monsters' loyalty.

As he crushed the ten rank-4 Advance Cards in his hand, the cards coalesced into two golden gleams, which penetrated Bai and Teng Ran's bodies respectively.

The bodies of the two swiftly transformed into two gigantic cocoons at a speed visible to the naked eye…

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Chapter 1525: Workers

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There were two cocoons in the Great Heaven Palace. One was blood-red, while the other was dark purple; both had peculiar sigils circulating faintly on them.

Lin Huang observed them for a while to confirm that the two were in stable condition before he looked away from the two cocoons.

He knew that Bai and Teng Ran would not be emerging from their cocoons any time soon.

After settling the matter of Bai and Teng Ran, he thought for a little while and sent his consciousness into his body. He began looking at the card projections of Grimace, Charcoal, Lancelot, and the rest of his mythical-level rank-4 imperial monsters, recording down all the materials they needed for advancement.

Later on, he sent each of these lists of advancement materials to their respective imperial monsters via voice transmission.

After he had finished sending all the lists out, Lin Huang spoke through voice transmission again.

"Since combat strength authorization for heavenly god-level has now been made accessible, your combat strength is sufficient for you to elevate your level to where you can be independent in the great world.

"All of you will have to find ways to obtain future advancement materials on your own. If you really can't find some of the rare materials, you can come to me and trade with items of the same value.

"Apart from that, all of you will have to take responsibility for your daily expenses from now on. I won't be providing complimentary food and accommodation services anymore. Naturally, you can come to me to trade items of the same value for items that are hard to obtain on the market, if there's any that you require. After all, you are my imperial monsters so I won't collect extra handling fees.

"In order to allow you to obtain sufficient cultivation resources and advancement materials, all of you may roam freely in the great world most of the time from now on. However, this freedom comes with a caveat—you must form a team consisting of at least two people. Furthermore, unless it's the last resort, members of the same team can't go off on their own.

"Discuss among yourselves about forming teams, and send me the group list within the next three days. From that time on, you will all move in your individual teams. For those who haven't come up with a group during these three days, I'll recall them into card forms right away.

"Also, there's one last thing. There are many powerhouses in the great world, so don't stir things up on purpose. If any of you offend half-step lord-level or lord-level powerhouses and are killed by Odylic Force, there's no way you can be revived."

Lin Huang had another reason for being able to release his imperial monsters without worrying, apart from allowing them to elevate their combat strength to heavenly god-level. He could revive the imperial monsters with his Rule Bending Power in the God Territory if they were killed.

However, the God Territory's Rule Bending Power would not be able to revive them if they were killed by Odylic Force.

"Be as low profile as you can when you're out there. If you're considering stirring things up, please consider first whether you can handle it." Lin Huang was clearly saying this for Grimace's benefit.

Among all the imperial monsters, Grimace was the one he was most worried about.

The imperial monsters had thus far spent most of their time in card form. Even when they were summoned, they did everything under Lin Huang's scrutiny. He could see whatever Grimace did, clear as anything. However, now that Grimace had been given sufficient freedom, Lin Huang could almost foresee that this fellow would certainly misbehave.

All of the imperial monsters were stunned when they heard Lin Huang's voice transmission.

For one, they had not expected that they would be given the freedom to be out on their own most of the time. On the other hand, their master had halted their supply of cultivation and advancement resources. They would have to depend on themselves to obtain all sorts of resources from now on.

Obtaining cultivation resources was doable, but there was a degree of difficulty in obtaining advancement resources.

This change was something the imperial monsters were not accustomed to. However, they had to get used to it.

They were also aware that the higher their advancement in rank, the more increasingly difficult it would be to obtain the necessary advancement materials. It was a massive burden to their master as well.

As the number of imperial monsters grew, the burden increased too.

Therefore, the imperial monsters understood why Lin Huang was doing this.

They soon adjusted themselves and began their transition into workers.

After all, they had been relying on someone to take care of them previously; now, they had to take care of themselves.

As the voice transmission with his imperial monsters ended, Lin Huang received questions one after the other from Charcoal and the rest, and he answered them one by one.

The imperial monsters began teaming up on their own after clarifying the rules of this new game.

Within ten minutes, Lin Huang began receiving the grouping lists.

Approximately an hour later, most of the imperial monsters had formed their own teams.

At that moment, Lin Huang received a voice transmission from Grimace.

"It's not that I'm unwilling to form a group. I've been trying to contact Bai for an hour, but he's ignoring me…"

Lin Huang could not help raising his brows upon hearing the voice transmission.

"Bai is elevating. He'll need at least a month to complete his advancement. You should look for someone else."

"I don't want to team up with anyone else. I'll wait for him to get out of closed-door cultivation." Grimace insisted on teaming up with Bai. "That fellow is too much! I can't believe he quietly went off to advance his level without saying a word to anyone!"

"Don't wait for Bai. His abilities will be way ahead of yours after he gets out of closed-door cultivation. If you both team up, the opponents that you fight won't give him any training results, and you'll only be able to sit on the sidelines and watch while he fights his opponents. A team like that won't do any good for either of you."

After saying that, Lin Huang glanced at the group lists that had already been sent over to him before continuing, "Join Charcoal and Lancelot's group. I'll feel more relieved with them watching you."

"The way you put it is as if I might possibly do something bad…" Grimace was rather annoyed. He did not expect himself to be assigned so succinctly to another group.

However, he could not decline his master's arrangement. He could only agree to it, feeling aggrieved.

On the other end, Lancelot and Charcoal were puzzled. They had chosen to team up with each other and were not expecting another person to join them out of nowhere. The two-person team had become a three-person team now.

They thought it was Grimace who had chosen to do this and asked him through voice transmission immediately.

"Haven't you always teamed up with Bai? Why did you choose to be in our group this time?"

"Bai is in the middle of advancement…" Grimace did not bother to explain any further.

"So we're your second choice?" Charcoal pouted.

"No," Grimace denied with complete honesty.

"Then, why did you choose us?" Charcoal proceeded to ask.

"Our almighty master arranged that," Grimace replied in a huff.

"Alright then…" Clearly, Charcoal had not expected that answer.

"Since the team has already been decided upon, let's discuss where to meet." At that moment, Lancelot, who had been listening to the duo's conversation, finally spoke up. "Let's share our coordinates with each other."

The three of them did not raise any further objections to Lin Huang's arrangement.

Grimace was the first to speak after the three of them shared their coordinates.

"What kind of lousy corner are you guys in?"

"We're at the border of the Devil Hunter Star Zone. Why did you go so far away?!" Charcoal blinked his eyes twice. Grimace's coordinates were close to the God Territory's core zone.

"What resources would there be in the middle of nowhere?" Grimace smirked. "Let me tell you guys what the core zone is. It's the most developed place in the entire God Territory with the richest resources. We can obtain many resources much more easily in such a place; we can even obtain those rare advancement materials that others find difficult to obtain…"

"That makes sense…" Charcoal nodded slightly while cupping his chin with a claw.

Meanwhile, Lancelet fell silent as well on the other end…

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Chapter 1526: Almighty Queen

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After sending out the notification allowing the imperial monsters to be independent, Lin Huang finally began focusing on himself.

The rewards he had obtained from this trip into the secret prisoner territory were the biggest that he had ever gotten in his life.

Not only had he elevated from first-rank True God to sixth-rank True God, but the rewards that he received from God Capital and Death Sickle were also extremely generous.

"1 top-tier god sequence telekinetic flying dagger relic, 13 high-level god sequence relics, 41 mid-level god sequence relics, and 87 beginner-level god sequence relics… I can trade these god sequence relics and the 400-plus Heavenly God carcasses for other resources.

"194,610 points worth of secret territory gold coins… Based on the purchasing power of the secret territory gold coins, a high-level god sequence relic would cost around 10,000 gold coins. I can exchange these for a good many resources."

Lin Huang did an inventory of his rewards. He then discovered that apart from the half-step lord-level telekinesis inheritance and the half-step lord-level God Territory Shell Remnant, the rest of the items were useless to him. He could only use them to trade for other resources.

He was very interested in the half-step lord-level telekinesis inheritance.

He had cultivated Seamless to the highest level, which was level-10. It could now cultivate on its own without him having to initiate the process. The number of his telekinetic threads would automatically increase by 1,000 per hour.

As far as he was concerned, the half-step lord-level telekinesis inheritance had come at the perfect time for him.

As he immersed his consciousness into the inheritance, his consciousness appeared in a sky full of stars a second later.

He was puzzled at first but soon realized the countless stars before his eyes were moving in an odd manner.

The trajectory of the stars' movement seemed to be controlled by humans, who were using the stars to attack giant celestial beasts in the distance, one after the other…

Lin Huang was fully immersed in this strange, extraordinary scene.

His consciousness returned to his body a long time later, but he could not calm himself down even after some time had passed.

"Telekinesis can be used like that?!"

In the inherited image, Lin Huang had witnessed this half-step Lord controlling telekinetic weapons with telekinesis and turning them into stars before attacking in a bizarre manner.

This direct attack was just an ordinary technique, but he unleashed all the stars' characteristics in their entirety, turning them into various forms.

He imbued the fire element's elemental truth into the telekinetic weapons, virtually transforming them into stars. He then drew everything together with telekinesis and set up a massive fire formation, burning everything.

He also infused the dark element's elemental truth and the engulf sequence into the telekinetic weapons, turning them into terrifying black holes. Once more, he used telekinesis to set up a great engulf formation, swallowing up everything.

This had inspired Lin Huang to think in that direction.

On a certain level, god weapons were more suitable for such high-level maneuverings.

Unlike the forms of god sequence relics that could only be realized virtually, Lin Huang's telekinetic god weapons could materialize into concrete form from his visualizations. Since it was not just a virtual object, the impact would be more powerful.

Third-rank god weapons were sufficiently powerful to materialize into real celestial bodies, including stars and black holes.

Apart from that, a god weapon was the equivalent of a body's extension. It could convert all sorts of energies, rules, and sequence powers 100% without any loss. That was much more powerful than god rule relics and god sequence relics.

He had to admit that this inheritance had opened a brand new door for him.

Perhaps it was difficult for most people who obtained this inheritance to learn what was contained in it, but Lin Huang had a firm foundation in Seamless. No matter what the number of telekinetic threads was, the intensity, or control of detail, he was able to do it.

He could even foresee using this inheritance as a foundation in the future, discovering more ways of using telekinesis, and playing around with more styles.

Apart from this new way of using telekinesis, there was also a Divine Telekinesis visualization method in the inheritance.

There were a total of 108 visualization images with extremely complex sigils on each of them.

Each of the sigils had the effect of fortifying and refining Divine Telekinesis.

When a visualization image was successfully visualized, a Divine Seal would be consolidated, and one's Divine Telekinesis would be fortified once.

According to the records in the inheritance, if someone managed to visualize all 108 visualization images, the strength of their Divine Telekinesis would reach lord-level right away.

Lin Huang merely gave the visualization method a rough glance and, without hesitation, adjusted the time flow in the Great Heaven Palace to be 1,000 times faster than the outside world. He then went into closed-door cultivation at once.

Time passed swiftly, a day at a time, in the Great Heaven Palace.

Lin Huang's visualization was exceptionally successful in the beginning. He spent less than ten minutes to visualize the first ten images and was rapidly done.

From the 11th to the 20th image, the time he took for visualization became longer. Altogether, it took him approximately one and a half hours to do that.

He spent a total of at least 15 hours on the 21st to 30th images.

Later on, he spent almost a week on the 31st to 40th images.

He spent over two months on the 41st to 50th images.

After that, he spent over 600 days on the 51st to 60th images.

He then spent at least 17 years on the 61st to 70th images…

Almost a week had passed by in the outside world.

However, Lin Huang still did not stop, continuing to visualize the rest of the visualization images…

Bai and Teng Ran had gotten out of their cocoons much earlier, having successfully elevated to Supreme God rank-5.

Lin Huang did not have the time to check the duo's card information. He sent both of them out of the Great Heaven Palace right away during a break between visualizations.

The duo then teamed up and began their journey to obtain resources.

While Lin Huang was in the midst of closed-door cultivation, something major happened in the Nephilic Judge Tribe.

The incident in question was that little princess Kylie had elevated to Pure Spirit rank-6 after over a month in closed-door cultivation, becoming the first Pure Spirit Protoss in this era.

Bloody came out of closed-door cultivation with her as well, having completed the elevation to Supreme God rank-5.

However, the news of Kylie's elevation did not spread. Only a handful of the Nephilic Judge Tribe's upper echelons knew the truth.

They merely told the public that little princess Kylie had broken through to heavenly god-level in her closed-door cultivation this round.

Even the rest of the Nephilic Judge Tribe thought that Kylie going into closed-door cultivation this time was so she could break through to heavenly god-level.

Kylie's advancement was undoubtedly news as shocking as a nuclear explosion to the Nephilic Judge Tribe's upper echelons.

They had never thought that anyone from the Nephilic Judge Tribe would be able to achieve this, as no one had the quality and potential for elevation to Pure Spirit rank-6.

Even though Kylie had shown extraordinary quality and potential in the beginning, in the eyes of the Nephilic Judge Tribes upper echelons, she was still far from being able to achieve Pure Spirit rank-6.

Therefore, she had been treated all along as a marriage pawn.

However, Kylie had used concrete action to give everyone a slap in the face.

Her successful advancement had made her status in the Nephilic Judge Tribe soar to peak heights in a flash.

Previously, she had been treated like a little princess who could do nothing. Now, in the eyes of Nephilic Judge Tribe's upper echelons, she had transformed into a bona fide noble queen to whom everyone would willingly give their allegiance…

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Chapter 1527: Lin Huang, Immersed In Closed-Door Cultivation

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Time passed by day after day in the Great Heaven Palace.

Lin Huang immersed himself in cultivation mode completely, unable to extricate himself.

Although the time flow in the Great Heaven Palace had been sped up 1,000 times, over two months had passed in the outside world.

Lin Huang had only just completed cultivating the 71st to 80th visualization images, and the strength of his Divine Telekinesis had elevated once more.

As he visualized over and over again, the automatic cultivation of Seamless within him was also accelerating.

From the initial automatic gain of 1,000 telekinetic threads per hour, it had sped up to 3,000 threads per hour after he had finished visualizing the 80th image.

Meanwhile, the strength of his Divine Telekinesis had skyrocketed from sixth-rank heavenly god-level to peak eighth-rank heavenly god-level.

Lin Huang had initially wanted to continue closed-door cultivation to further elevate the strength of his Divine Telekinesis. However, he quietly calculated the visualization time it would take and discovered that to complete the cultivation of the 81st to 90th images, he would have to spend close to two years for that, even when time had been sped up 1,000 times. He gave up on the idea.

Temporarily setting aside the cultivation of his Divine Telekinesis, he retrieved the Sword seal fragment that Virtuoso had given him.

According to Virtuoso, a Sword seal was the Sword Dao seal that consolidated in a Heavenly God sword cultivator's body. As soon as the Heavenly God died, the Dao seal in their body would shatter automatically, becoming fragments of various sizes.

Lin Huang obtained a similar fragment back when he killed the Regal Sword Killer in the gravel world. Since it looked like a page from a book and also contained a massive amount of sword skills, he had named it the One Page Sword Scripture.

Back then, the One Page Sword Scripture had a corner missing.

Upon his return to the gravel world, he had then killed the revived Regal Sword Killer and obtained the missing corner.

When the two fragments integrated, they formed an ancient and mysterious seal tactic.

Lin Huang only found out that the seal tactic was actually a complete Sword seal after listening to Virtuoso's explanation. When he discovered this, he was astounded, because he already had within him a complete Dao seal that only Heavenly Gods could consolidate.

If he could control the Dao seal perfectly, it was equivalent to directly possessing lord-level ability.

However, until now, he still could not understand why the Regal Sword Killer would have a complete Sword seal within him.

According to what Virtuoso said, when a Heavenly God died, the Dao seal would scatter to the four winds after it shattered. Even if there were other Heavenly God powerhouses present, they might not be able to obtain all of the fragments.

This was because the impact from the Dao seal shattering was terrifying, and even Heavenly God powerhouses would be impacted if they were too close. Moreover, the shattered Dao seal might pierce through layers of space and time, becoming instantly untraceable.

Although he could not understand why the Regal Sword Killer had a complete Sword seal within his body, Lin Huang did not dwell on it.

He could sense clearly that the Sword seal within him had a burning desire for the Sword seal fragment in his hand.

After only a slight moment of consideration, he placed the Sword seal fragment—that looked like a torn page—into his inner world.

Almost at the same time the Sword seal fragment entered his inner world, the battle sword in the Sword Soul's hand released an infinite sun-like golden ray.

Only Lin Huang was able to see that the source of the golden ray was the completed Sword seal.

Under the illumination of the golden ray, the Sword seal fragment seemed to have come alive. Golden divine patterns lit up on the torn page, and the ray of light grew more and more.

A moment later, the torn page transformed into golden sparkles and gathered around the divine patterns. Meanwhile, the divine patterns were like tiny golden snakes surrounded by hazy starlight, surging rapidly to where the Sword Spirit was.

At last, they penetrated the Sword seal on top of the Sword Heart.

The integration of the Sword seal fragment initiated an immediate transformation in the original Sword seal.

One by one, the divine patterns rearranged themselves. This process lasted for a full 12 days, finally creating an even more complex and mysterious Sword seal.

Lin Huang glanced at it quickly, not daring to stare at it too much. He could only roughly judge that the new Sword seal was 70 to 80 percent similar to the previous one.

As the new Sword seal took shape, he felt as if his Sword Dao heavenly rule had been unblocked by an invisible force. It began to grow more powerful at lightning speed.

Originally, he had only recently elevated to Sword Dao heavenly rule. To be exact, he had only just crossed the first threshold of level-1, Heavenly Sword.

However, he could clearly sense that his rank was now advancing.

Within ten seconds, he had elevated to the peak of Heavenly Sword and was still advancing.

After remaining at the peak of Heavenly Sword for over ten seconds, Lin Huang suddenly felt that his comprehension of Sword Dao had reached a new level.

A second later, his Sword Dao heavenly rule broke through straight away from level-1, Heavenly Sword, to level-2, Heavenly Heart.

This breakthrough that came out of nowhere puzzled Lin Huang.

He had even planned to go into closed-door cultivation once he advanced to ninth-rank true god-level, before breaking through to heavenly god-level. He wanted to try his best to achieve a breakthrough to Heavenly Heart for his Sword Dao.

Never had he expected to achieve that same goal without even being aware of it.

'What should I do before elevating to Heavenly God-level now? Should I achieve a Sword Dao heavenly rule breakthrough to level-3, which is Heavenly Dao?!' Lin Huang grumbled quietly to himself.

Right now, the elevation of Sword Dao heavenly rule was finally slowing down.

Lin Huang had honestly not expected that a mere Sword seal fragment could directly elevate his Sword Dao heavenly rule by a rank.

Moreover, apart from the elevation in Sword Dao rank, he discovered that his Sword Dao inheritance memories had increased as well.

There were around one-fifth more memories compared to before.

Lin Huang was rather upset about that.

He already had no time to learn many of the original sword skills in the inheritance memories that he obtained previously. Before he was done with his homework, he had now been given more.

He did not even bother to go check his inheritance memories; instead, he merely focused on an item in his hand that he had retrieved.

A purplish-black crystal the size of a thumb hovered above his palm.

It was Death Sickle's reward – a half-step lord-level God Territory Shell Remnant.

According to Buried Heaven's explanation, this God Territory Shell Remnant's owner used to be an Abyssal half-step Lord who had been killed by two of Death Sickle's Blood Sickle members.

After his death, a Blood Sickle member retrieved the God Territory in his body and put it through a proper cleansing. There was no trace of Abyssal energy left behind at all now.

When the Blood Sickle member was cleansing it, he purged all of the living things in the God Territory as well.

Therefore, the God Territory Shell Remnant was merely an empty shell now.

However, to Lin Huang, it had great value despite being just an empty shell.

This was because as soon as integration was completed, it would mean that he possessed a half-step lord-level God Territory immediately.

His God Territory, Monster Paradise, would also be able to obtain a corresponding advancement. The coverage range alone would expand hundreds and thousands of times…

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Time passed by day by day in the Great Heaven Palace.

The speed at which Lin Huang's God Territory integrated with the God Territory Shell Remnant was very slow.

He spent almost three and a half years to complete the integration between his own God Territory and the God Territory Shell Remnant.

However, merely a day had passed in the outside world.

The integrated God Territory had some new changes in it.

"God Territory: Monster Paradise"

"God Territory Ability 1: After a summoning beast dies, 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 souls will have their broken soul pieces recalled and recovered."

"Remark 1: Unlimited number of revivals in theory."

"Remark 2: If killed by an Odylic attack coming from a Lord or a being above Lord, it will truly die and cannot be revived."

"Remark 3: If killed multiple times by a half-step Lord's Odylic attacks, there is a possibility that it will be unable to be revived."

"Remark 4: Each revival requires the expenditure of a certain amount of Godly Right Power (the expended Godly Right can be replenished).

"Derivative Ability: If the God Territory possessor dies, they can choose a summoning beast to substitute death."

"Remark 1: The number of substitute deaths per day depends on the number of summoning beasts. Each summoning beast can only die in place of the host once within 24 hours."

"Remark 2: If the God Territory possessor is killed by the Odyl of a Lord or a being above Lord, they will truly die and cannot be substituted by a summoning beast."

"Remark 3: If killed multiple times by a half-step Lord's Odylic attacks, there is also a possibility that it will be unable to be revived."

"Remark 4: After a summoning beast dies in place of its host, it will return to the God Territory to be revived."

"God Territory Ability 2: The God Territory possessor can borrow any skills, divine abilities, rules, and sequence powers of all summoning beasts at any time."

"Remark 1: The borrowing of Monster Skills already possessed by the God Territory possessor is invalid and will not produce compounded effects."

"Remark 2: In theory, the number of borrowed skills is not restricted by the upper limit of the God Territory possessor's number of Monster Skills. It will only be affected by how much the God Territory possessor's physical strength and spirit strength can bear."

"Remark 3: It is not restricted by the space and time in which the summoning beast is located."

"Remark 4: When a summoning beast truly dies, all of its skills, divine abilities, rules, and sequence powers can no longer be borrowed."

"God Territory Ability 3: The God Territory possessor can use any of the residents' skills, divine abilities, rules, and sequence powers at any time."

"Remark 1: The borrowing of skills, divine abilities, rules, and sequence powers already possessed by the God Territory possessor is invalid and will not produce compounded effects."

"Remark 2: In theory, the number of borrowed skills has no upper limit restrictions. It will only be affected by how much the God Territory possessor's physical strength and spirit strength can bear."

"Remark 3: The God Territory possessor can only borrow from residents within their bodies which have the world imprint."

"Remark 4: It is not restricted by the space and time in which the residents are located."

Remark 5: When a resident dies, all of their skills, divine abilities, rules, and sequence powers can no longer be borrowed."

Lin Huang noticed that the biggest change was that previously, he or his imperial monsters would be killed right away as soon as they were hit by Odylic attacks. However, since the integration of the God Territory Shell Remnant, only Odylic attacks coming from Lords or beings above Lords could kill him and his imperial monsters.

In other words, if they were killed by a half-step Lord's Odylic attack, it would not affect his revival or that of his imperial monsters.

There was no reason given in the information from Xiaohei's side, but Lin Huang roughly speculated that the effects of Odylic attacks might possibly be borne by the God Territory since it had now been elevated.

If that were the case, there was definitely a limit to the attacks that the God Territory could bear. If death happened multiple times from a half-step Lord's Odylic attacks, it might exceed the limit that the God Territory could bear, and result in true death.

"So it's best that I don't offend half-step Lord powerhouses for nothing…" Lin Huang rapidly came to this conclusion.

After turning off Monster Paradise's information panel, Lin Huang began to check on the changes brought about this time by his closed-door cultivation.

Although his combat level had not elevated, the strength of his Divine Telekinesis had increased significantly.

His Sword Dao had also elevated to level-2 of Sword Dao heavenly rule—Heavenly Heart.

His God Territory had also elevated further since its successful integration with the God Territory Shell Remnant.

Not only had its functions become significantly more powerful, but its range had also expanded thousands upon ten thousand times.

Within the Great Heaven Territory, many years had already passed.

However, since the speed of time there had been sped up 1,000 times, merely less than two and a half months had passed in the outside world.

"Although my combat level hasn't elevated, there's still a significant elevation in my abilities." Lin Huang was fairly satisfied with the result of his closed-door cultivation this time.

Realizing that he would not be able to elevate his abilities further within a short period, Lin Huang opened the doors somewhat reluctantly and walked out of the Great Heaven Palace.

Sword1, who had been guarding the doors of the Palace, stood up as soon as he saw Lin Huang come out of closed-door cultivation.

"Lord Swordmaster…" As soon as he greeted Lin Huang, he noticed that Lin Huang's Sword Dao had advanced again. The gleam in his eyes brightened. "Congratulations, Lord Swordmaster, on your Sword Dao elevating to Heavenly Heart!"

Lin Huang was not surprised that Sword1 had seen through him. He was not wearing Thousand Face to hide his aura, after all. Moreover, the Sword Servants themselves were powerful sword cultivators and were extra sensitive to Sword Dao levels.

"Mm." Lin Huang responded, then asked, "How long have I been in closed-door cultivation?"

"Today is the 71st day," Sword1 reported the number without any hesitation. Clearly, he had been counting the days.

"It's been less than two and a half months…" Lin Huang had actually set an alarm according to the time flow—which had been sped up 1,000 times—so that he would exit his state of closed-door cultivation when three months had passed the outside world. He had ended his cultivation before the alarm rang, and he had not bothered to count the days since he would be able to find out by asking once he got out.

"I'm a month away from the arrangement I made with Virtuoso…" Lin Huang mumbled softly.

After chatting with Sword1 and asking about matters in the Great Heaven Territory recently, Lin Huang bid him farewell and teleported out of the Territory.

The identity ring on his finger vibrated repeatedly as soon as he got out of the Great Heaven Territory.

He tapped into the communication page and saw he had a missed call and two unread messages.

The missed call was from an unknown number. In general, there was a high chance of unknown numbers being advertisements. Lin Huang merely glanced at it and proceeded to ignore it. He then checked the two unread messages.

Of the two messages, one was from Mr. Fu, while the other was also from an unknown number.

Lin Huang checked Mr. Fu's message first.

In the message, Mr. Fu informed Lin Huang that he had come out of closed-door cultivation and had elevated to second-rank true god-level. Mr. Fu also said that the possibility of elevating his ability further in the immediate short-term was low after coming out of closed-door cultivation this time. Therefore, he wanted to check out other places in the great world so he could learn more.

Lin Huang was not worried about Mr. Fu; he had already spoken to a few Sword Servants previously while in the Devil Hunter Star Zone. When Mr. Fu departed this time, there would most certainly be a Sword Servant secretly following him.

When he checked on the date that the message had been sent, it was almost two months ago.

Lin Huang considered for a moment but did not call back right away. Instead, he read the message that had been sent from the unknown number.

This message contained only one sentence:

"Take care of Hong Zhuang for me…"

Lin Huang was stunned when he saw this; he knew immediately that it was definitely Yang Ling who had sent the message.

He called the number back at once. However, the response message was, "The number you have dialed is not in service…"

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Chapter 1529: Yang Ling In Trouble

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Yang Ling was in trouble!

Lin Huang frowned hard.

He remembered clearly that Yang Ling said he might have been targeted by Raiders when he helped Lin Huang create his fake identities a couple of months ago.

At that time, he had mentioned that he wanted Lin Huang to take care of Hong Zhuang if something really happened to him.

Lin Huang thought for a moment, then tapped into the contact page again. He looked at the unknown number of the missed call.

This number was different from the one that had been used to send the message.

However, when he checked the date of the call, it was April 4th—the same day the message had been sent.

Not only that, the time of the call request was merely two minutes before the message was sent.

Lin Huang guessed that the number was most probably Yang Ling's. With hardly any hesitation, he returned the call.

However, the same response message soon played again. "The number you have dialed is not in service…"

The same thing happened with both numbers. This made Lin Huang certain that something had definitely happened to Yang Ling!

It was May 21st now, one and a half months since the message had been sent. Going by the Raiders' modus operandi, Yang Ling might already be dead.

Even if he were still alive, he most probably had been captured by the Raiders, otherwise, he would not be out of contact.

However, judging by the message that Yang Ling had sent, Hong Zhuang should still have been safe one-and-a-half months ago.

Even if that were the case, though, Lin Huang had no way of ascertaining if she was still safe or not, since one-and-a-half months had already gone by.

What left him speechless was that Yang Ling had not left him any clues to her whereabouts at all.

As Yang Ling's girlfriend, there was a high possibility that Hong Zhuang had been targeted by Raiders as well.

Therefore, she might already be dead, or she might have been captured by Raiders.

If either of these two possibilities occurred, naturally, Lin Huang was not under any obligation to look after her.

After all, at his current level of ability, there was a high possibility that he might be killed too if he were to provoke the Raiders.

He did not like Hong Zhuang very much, as the woman was just too secretive and unfathomable. One never knew which of her words were truthful and which were lies.

However, no matter what, she and Lin Huang could be considered familiar with each other. Moreover, she was Yang Ling's girlfriend, and Yang Ling was a man from Earth, Lin Huang's home.

Lin Huang felt that if Hong Zhuang really did manage to escape from the Raiders, he would certainly be willing to fulfill Yang Ling's dying wish that Lin Huang take care of her.

Many thoughts flashed through his head, and he called both unknown numbers once more. However, the response message was the same each time—the numbers were not in service.

With no leads to go on, Lin Huang had no option but to give up.

"Given Yang Ling's character, if he left no clues behind, it was probably for the sake of Hong Zhuang's safety. However, since he asked me to take care of her, he might have left something for her so that she could find me…"

Lin Huang did not dwell any further on the matter once he got to this point in his musings.

If Hong Zhuang did manage to escape, she would likely follow Yang Ling's plan and look for Lin Huang.

After all, it was just too difficult for her to survive in the great world alone, given her previous imperial-level combat strength.

Lin Huang put aside the matter of Yang Ling and Hong Zhuang and logged onto Death Sickle's official website.

It was less than a month away from the arrangements he had made with Virtuoso to go to the Abyss.

This was not enough time for him to go into another round of closed-door cultivation, nor was it sufficient for him to make one more trip into the ruins.

For this reason, he decided to take the opportunity and use this period to accept a few Death Sickle missions.

For Death Sickle's authorizations, his identity as Xiu Mu was already a Gold Sickle member, and his corresponding authorizations had all been activated.

However, he clicked on the information section first before checking the available missions.

As he glanced through, a trending hot topic caught his attention.

The subject was "Will the Little Princess of the Nephilic Judge Tribe Manage to Escape the Fate Of Marriage Since She Has Elevated to Heavenly God-level?"

Lin Huang clicked on the link immediately. After reading through, he felt slightly more relieved.

The Nephilic Judge Tribe was shrewd enough to have revealed only that Kylie had elevated to heavenly god-level. They had not disclosed that, in reality, she had elevated to Pure Spirit rank-6.

The more outstanding one was, the more one would be targeted for destruction.

Although all the organizations in the God Territory were eagerly anticipating that the God Territory would produce a Pure Spirit rank-6 powerhouse, they all hoped that this powerhouse would be someone within their own organization.

As soon as the news of Kylie's elevation to Pure Spirit rank-6 leaked out, the other organizations would outwardly show goodwill, but the entire Nephilic Judge Tribe would secretly become a target on all sides.

The several grade-7 organizations, in particular, would not watch helplessly as Kylie grew to lead the Nephilic Judge Tribe in elevating to a grade-7 organization as well.

After all, there were only so many top-notch resources in the God Territory. One more grade-7 organization appearing would mean that the resources given to other grade-7 organizations would lessen correspondingly.

Not only would the Nephilic Judge Tribe be targeted, but Kylie would also become the target of many assassinations.

Therefore, the shrewdest way of going about things was to underplay the matter, saying that Kylie had elevated to heavenly god-level.

When the time came, all the antagonism would naturally not exist.

However, Lin Huang also knew that it might be difficult for the Nephilic Judge Tribe to continue concealing the matter.

Kylie's status would be exposed sooner or later—it was only a matter of time.

Lin Huang felt a little more relieved as he glanced through the comments below. At least nobody suspected Kylie's elevation at the moment.

After all, she had been at ninth-rank true god-level before this, so it made sense that she would elevate to heavenly god-level after closed-door cultivation. Moreover, the announcement that the Nephilic Judge Tribe made for the little princess was also a normal occurence.

Lin Huang was not worried about Kylie's current situation. For one thing, she had Bloody with her. For another, given her current status, the Nephilic Judge upper echelons would take good care of her.

As for the matter of her Pure Spirit rank-6 standing being exposed, that would be something to worry about in the future.

When things reached the point where the Nephilic Judge Tribe really could not handle it, Bloody would definitely contact him immediately. The worst-case scenario would be Lin Huang recalling both of them forcibly into card form when that happened.

After closing the thread about Kylie, Lin Huang noticed that there was a Gold Sickle symbol on the first thread pinned on top of the information section.

The thread had been posted half a month ago, with the subject "Regarding the Conquest Expedition to the Abyss."

Lin Huang clicked on the thread immediately when he saw that it had something to do with the Abyss.

It was only after spending a minute or more to finish reading the thread that Lin Huang discovered Virtuoso had invited him to team up and go into the Abyss because they had found out about this piece of news ahead of time.

The mission was a small-scale conquest expedition into the Abyss organized by the God Territory.

There were only a few major grade-7 and grade-6 organizations as well as a handful of top grade-5 organizations participating in this.

Of the seven Blood Sickle members of Death Sickle, five would participate this time.

Buried Heaven and a few top Heavenly Gods from Death Sickle were on the list too.

It was the same for the other organizations.

The participants were the Lords, half-step Lords, and top Heavenly God powerhouses from the various organizations.

The reason for pinning the thread on top was to inform all Gold Sickle members that the Abyss would be extremely dangerous during this period, and everyone should not attempt to enter.

At the same time, it was mentioned that the rest of the Gold Sickle members should follow the orders of the remaining two Blood Sickle members and assist in handling all Death Sickle matters, maintaining Death Sickle's usual operations.

After he finished reading, Lin Huang could not help secretly exclaiming that Virtuoso was bold and reckless.

Virtuoso had invited him to enter the Abyss on the second day that the powerhouses from the major organizations would be there.

Clearly, Virtuoso wanted to take advantage of the conquest expedition and gain more benefits amidst the chaos that ensued.

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Chapter 1530: Gold Sickle-Level Missions

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Lin Huang checked out a couple of threads in the information section before looking through the missions section.

This time the missions section was clearly different from the one previously.

Before this, Lin Huang's status was only that of a Black Sickle. There had been only two panels in the missions section—one was missions for reserve members, while the other was Black Sickle missions. Now, there were four panels for reserve missions, Black Sickle missions, White Sickle missions, and Gold Sickle missions.

As soon as Lin Huang clicked into the missions section, his default choice was the Gold Sickle missions panel.

The difficulty level for Gold Sickle missions was that of fighting Heavenly Gods.

Ordinarily speaking, one would either have to assassinate a Heavenly God, or they would encounter conflict with a Heavenly God powerhouse during the mission.

Lin Huang glanced over the missions list and discovered that the missions were sorted according to the time they were posted. The later the posting, the closer to the top of the list it would appear.

He immediately changed how the missions were sorted, choosing to display them in the order of the most handsome rewards.

The missions list immediately changed.

He scanned through the list again and found out that most of the missions in the top spots had been published for years.

The one that ranked first was posted over 8,000 years ago.

As for the objective of the mission, it was to kill a half-step lord-level Bug Tribe Queen Mother.

Lin Huang merely glanced at the title and skipped past, not even bothering to see what the reward was.

At his ability, he had to avoid half-step lord-level powerhouses for now, what more a half-step lord-level Bug Tribe Queen Mother.

One must know that a Bug Tribe Queen Mother of such combat strength could mass-produce high-level Heavenly God Bug Kings and even Bug Queens as long as they had sufficient material. They might even be able to produce half-step lord-level Bug Kings and Bug Queens.

Apart from that, a Bug Tribe Queen Mother with such combat strength was a treasure to the Bug Tribe. There would be at least several half-step lord-level Bug Servants guarding her closely or even lord-level Bug Tribe powerhouses.

Never mind Gold Sickle members—Lin Huang felt this mission might not be possible even with all seven Blood Sickle members working together.

He looked at the second mission right after skipping the first one.

After reading the heading, he was speechless again.

This was because the mission was to kill a Bug Tribe Queen Mother as well. However, it was to kill a fallen Queen Mother in the Abyss. The fallen Queen Mother also had the combat strength of a half-step Lord.

From Lin Huang's point of view, if one did not consider external influences, this fallen Queen Mother might have an overall ability that was even more powerful than the Queen Mother from the first mission.

The reason she was ranked second was probably that she did not have any Bug Tribe Lords by her side as bodyguards.

However, Lin Huang believed that the fallen Queen Mother would have Abyssal lord-level powerhouses behind her.

The reason for this was that the Queen Mother was an excellent tool for conquest. It was impossible that Abyssal lord-level powerhouses would be unaware of the fallen Queen Mother's existence.

The reason she had been able to hide herself so well in the Abyss without being noticed was most probably because she had become the subject of a lord-level powerhouse.

Therefore, the difficulty of hunting this fallen Queen Mother was actually no less than that of hunting the Queen Mother from the previous first-ranked mission.

"Does Death Sickle have a problem with Queen Mothers…" Lin Huang grumbled, then looked at the third mission—hunting the half-step lord-level Succubus Mia.

"Succubus?" Lin Huang tapped open this mission with some curiosity.

There was no reason other than a succubus being the sexiest creature in the world, and he wanted to see for himself exactly how sexy it was.

When he clicked in, there was only a description of the mission. There were no pictures at all.

Regarding the nonexistent pictures, Death Sickle's explanation was that a half-step lord-level succubus possessed the ability to affect most creatures below half-step lord-level through images and sound.

If pictures of the succubus were attached, it was entirely possible that the Gold Sickle members who clicked in from Death Sickle's website would be affected.

"She's so powerful she can affect people through pictures and sound?!" Even Lin Huang thought this was unbelievable.

However, that was not the only powerful thing that he noticed about this succubus.

According to the mission's description, she had at least three lord-level paramours and some powerful half-step lord-level lovers.

One would have to be prepared to be hunted by at least three Abyssal Lords and over ten half-step Lords if one were to kill her.

"I'm terrified already!" Lin Huang hurriedly closed that mission thread immediately and looked at the missions below it.

He looked through over ten missions, one after the other, and all of them required the killing of half-step Lords.

Further down, there were missions to kill ninth-rank Heavenly Gods, but the targets were either supreme god-level rank-5 geniuses, half-step Lords, or even the supporters of a Lord.

There were thirty missions on the first page, but Lin Huang did not see any that suited him.

At present, all of them were beyond his scope.

He thought about it for a moment. Instead of going to the next page, he directly typed 'God Territory' into the section on mission rewards.

He would need to obtain a massive amount of Rule Bending Power from the God Territory within Heavenly Gods' bodies in order to elevate his combat strength. Killing Heavenly Gods was one way; obtaining the God Territory Shell Remnant in a dead Heavenly God's body was another.

Moreover, he knew that Death Sickle had many missions that gave out God Territory Shell Remnants as rewards.

In reality, a normal God Territory Shell Remnant was not like the half-step Lord Shell Remnant that he had obtained from Buried Heaven previously.

The God Territory Shell Remnant that Buried Heaven gave him was cleansed because it had been utterly contaminated with Abyssal energy.

He would not have been able to integrate it if it were not cleansed.

Integrating it directly would have caused his God Territory to be contaminated with Abyssal energy as well.

Under normal circumstances, when Death Sickle's Gold Sickle members killed a Heavenly God, they would retrieve the Heavenly God's God Territory entirely and keep it perfectly preserved. The Rule Bending Powers, sequence powers, and even the number of creatures in there would not undergo any significant changes compared to the time the Heavenly God was still alive.

If the fallen Heavenly God's God Territory was damaged, causing the internal Rule Bending Powers and sequence powers to be missing, it had to be mentioned when it was retrieved and sold on the market.

This was because an incomplete God Territory Shell Remnant would be sold at a much lower price.

The God Territory Shell Remnants that Death Sickle used as mission rewards were generally complete.

The half-step lord-level God Territory Shell Remnant Lin Huang got from Buried Heaven was just an exception.

Meanwhile, the rewards for the missions he was looking at were complete God Territory Shell Remnants.

This was also something that he needed most at the moment.

Lin Huang sorted the missions in the order of God Territory Shell Remnant rewards, then he sorted them again so the best rewards would be shown first.

The first one that gave generous rewards was the killing of a ninth-rank Heavenly God.

Lin Huang gave up on that mission right away and proceeded to check the next one.

Only when he got to the third page did he see a mission to kill a fourth-rank Heavenly God. The reward was a complete fourth-rank Heavenly God's God Territory Shell Remnant.

Lin Huang chose this difficulty level, not because his ability was that low, but because he could only display that level of ability in front of Death Sickle's upper echelons. It would be too unusual if he displayed more than that.

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Chapter 1531: Elevating To Seventh-Rank

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Given that his scheduled appointment with Virtuoso to go into the Abyss was happening soon, Lin Huang accepted twenty missions to kill fourth-rank Heavenly Gods for the time being.

"He disappeared for over two months, and now as soon as he's back on the radar, he takes up twenty missions to kill fourth-rank Heavenly Gods… It looks like either his combat level's made a breakthrough again, or he was previously holding back his abilities…"

As soon as Lin Huang accepted the missions, the Death Sickle upper echelons were already noticing his movements.

Given his genius level, it would indeed be strange if he were not noticed.

Lin Huang was also aware that he would certainly draw attention to himself, so he only chose hunting targets that were fourth-rank.

He planned his route according to distance. The first hunting target he chose was a Lightning Fox.

The mission was to capture this Lightning Fox alive, and the reward was two fifth-rank God Territory Shell Remnants.

Meanwhile, the Lightning Fox referred to in the mission was located in some battlefield ruins not far away from the Devil Hunter Star Zone.

Although its combat level was merely fourth-rank, this Lightning Fox had mastered the Lightning Sequence and possessed astounding speed and explosive power.

In reality, many Gold Sickle members from Death Sickle had attempted this mission, but all of them had failed.

After all, such a reward was not enough to attract high-level Gold Sickle members to attempt such a task. Meanwhile, this fourth-rank Lightning Fox possessed a speed that was on par with most sixth-rank Heavenly Gods.

Lin Huang was confident he could capture it, not because he was just as fast as the creature itself, but because he felt that this Lightning Fox could not possibly be swifter than his own Divine Telekinesis.

Upon entering the rarely-visited battlefield ruins, he spread his Divine Telekinesis and began searching for the Lightning Fox.

Within two minutes, he had located his target.

"I've found you, little creature!"

As soon as the Lightning Fox sensed that it was being scanned by Divine Telekinesis, it turned into a lightning arc and tried to flee.

The next second, an invisible telekinetic thread twined around its rear right leg and stopped it from running away entirely.

The Lightning Fox let out a yelp of surprise. Just as it was about to unleash its might and struggle free, another telekinetic thread looped around its neck the next instant.

It immediately settled down, as it knew that if it continued to struggle, Lin Huang could easily cut off its head.

Noticing that the Lightning Fox had stopped struggling, Lin Huang did not hesitate.

A snap of his fingers and several telekinetic threads wrapped around the Lightning Fox, turning it into a cocoon, which was then dragged back to Lin Huang's side.

It was a mission that was practically impossible for anyone else, but when Lin Huang took it up, including his time on the road, he spent less than five minutes to complete it.

"Not bad. It went more smoothly than I expected." Lin Huang patted the Divine Telekinesis cocoon and put it away in the God Territory within him, inside the foothold where his Sword Servants were.

After advising his Sword Servants, he proceeded to check out the next mission.

To maximize his efficiency in completing his missions, Lin Huang had prepared to finish off all twenty missions at once and then submit them as soon as he was done.

The second mission was located in a neighboring star zone next to the Devil Hunter Star Zone.

The target of the mission was a third-rank heavenly god-level pure blood Protoss.

The reward was five fourth-rank God Territory Shell Remnants.

The mission reward exceeded the target's combat level considerably because this pure blood Protoss had a small clan backing him. The clan's master was a high-level eighth-rank Heavenly God.

The target was the master's grandchild.

Others might have taken the clan into consideration, but Lin Huang did not bother about this.

He noticed that the mission was a private commission. The commission documents had detailed evidence that this pure blood Protoss had humiliated and abused many female Protoss.

Lin Huang took merely ten minutes and arrived at the nearby Siri Star Zone through a dimensional portal.

When he arrived close to the planet where his target was, he soon locked onto his prey with Divine Telekinesis.

This was a young man who looked like he was in his early 20s—tall, with shoulder-length blond hair.

He was currently lying in a bathhouse, embracing two female Protoss with amazing bodies, one on each side of him.

Suddenly, a barely perceptible blood-red ray sparked like an electric arc, piercing right through the middle of the man's brows.

A red dot only appeared a moment later between the man's brows. Thin trickles of blood seeped out and dripped off his face into the bathhouse.

Only then did the two ladies notice something was wrong and cried out in alarm.

A brawny man was guarding the door outside the bathhouse. However, he did not notice anything unusual.

He ignored the ladies screaming and knocking on the door. He had seen far too many scenarios like this, and the best way of handling them was not to meddle in anything.

Despite having successfully killed the target of the mission, Lin Huang was not very happy.

Having killed the target at such a distance, he was unable to retrieve the God Territory within the target's body.

After spending less than twenty minutes to complete this second mission, Lin Huang did not stop at all. He checked out the third mission immediately…

He spent less than two days to complete all twenty missions.

After locating a Death Sickle branch to submit the missions, he obtained his mission rewards—forty-six fourth-rank and seven fifth-rank God Territory Shell Remnants.

Including the God Territories that he had extracted from the targets' bodies, he had accumulated almost 1.8 million Rule Bending Powers.

As soon as he submitted the twenty missions, Lin Huang accepted a further one hundred and fifty missions all at once, swiftly entering a second round of hunting.

This time, he merely spent eighteen days to complete all one hundred and fifty missions.

The mission rewards were four hundred and thirteen fourth-rank and thirty-four fifth-rank God Territory Shell Remnants.

Including the God Territories he had extracted from the targets' bodies, he had accumulated almost 15 million Rule Bending Powers.

Realizing that it was merely a few days away from his appointment with Virtuoso, Lin Huang did not accept any more missions. Instead, he set an alarm and began closed-door cultivation to refine the God Territory Shell Remnants that he had obtained.

When he was in closed-door cultivation, the Death Sickle upper echelons held another meeting.

All seven Blood Sickle members were present in the meeting room. Apart from that, there were a few top-tier Heavenly Gods in attendance, including Buried Heaven.

These dozen-over people had gathered mainly to discuss final matters before entering the Abyss.

When all of the agendas had been discussed and the meeting was coming to an end, a Blood Sickle member suddenly spoke up," I noticed something interesting recently…

"That little fellow named Xiu Mu's taken up over a hundred missions to hunt fourth-rank Heavenly Gods since being given Gold Sickle authorization. Not only that, he's completed all of them…"

"I've noticed his unusual movements too," another Blood Sickle member next to him commented while smiling, "Moreover, the strange thing is that all the missions he selected had God Territory Shell Remnants as rewards. I can't figure why this little guy is so persistent in strengthening his God Territory."

"A possibility is that his cultivation method has something to do with his God Territory," another Blood Sickle member could not help speaking up at this point.

The meeting room fell silent for a moment. Prying into the roots of a person's cultivation was a taboo in the cultivation world.

However, that particular Blood Sickle member's comment could not help but cause everyone to speculate on how this powerful Xiu Mu fellow cultivated exactly.

Noticing that the atmosphere was off, Buried Heaven spoke up to change the subjec, "Xiu Mu has great potential. No matter which universe he's in, he'd be in the outstanding elite among Protoss! I have a feeling that in the future, he'll grow into a compelling man that I would definitely admire…"

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Chapter 1532: The Team Gathers

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In a flash, several days had passed again.

Soon, the day of Lin Huang and Virtuoso's appointment arrived.

At 8.50 in the morning, Lin Huang arrived at the agreed location after breakfast—a cafe by the beach, located quite far from Shelter No. 3.

It was mid-June at the moment; in this region where the café was located, it was already the beginning of summer.

A glance showed swimsuit-clad men and ladies everywhere at the beach. Lin Huang, who was in a black robe, looked out of place among them. He even received judgmental glances directed at him every now and then.

Lin Huang ignored the stares from those people. He found himself a table in the alfresco area and took a seat. He then ordered a cup of coffee and waited patiently for Virtuoso to show up.

Very soon, his coffee was served by a young female attendant in a short serving maid outfit.

Lin Huang lifted the cup and took a sip. He could not help frowning slightly, putting down the cup.

He thought there were probably two words that could best describe this cup of coffee – utterly undrinkable.

It was not an exaggeration to say that this was the worst cup of coffee he had ever tasted since he traveled to this world.

He even had some suspicions as to how this café had survived until now.

'Don't tell me those pretty girls in maid attire are the only appeal?!'

At 9 a.m. sharp, none of the several team members that Virtuoso mentioned to him had arrived.

"Did that fellow blow me off?" Lin Huang raised his brows. However, after some careful consideration, he felt that he had nothing to lose since he had already obtained a Sword seal fragment.

After thinking about it, he figured he would send Virtuoso a message. "Where are you? We agreed to meet at 9, where's everyone?!"

"We're on the way. Wait for a few more minutes," Virtuoso replied almost immediately.

Lin Huang could only continue to wait patiently. After all, he had accepted the deposit. There was no need for him to rage-quit just because they were a few minutes late.

What he thought strange was that not only was Virtuoso absent, but the rest had yet to arrive as well.

Right after he turned off his communication page, Lin Huang sensed a dimensional wave coming from not far away.

A black whirlpool opened up, and two figures walked out of it.

One of them was a burly, bald man who was over two meters tall. He had a face full of stubble and was clad in golden armor.

Meanwhile, the other figure was a thin, small lady in a blue robe, whose height did not even reach 1.4 meters. She looked a little like an adolescent girl.

Lin Huang had a rough idea of their identities.

The two newcomers noticed Lin Huang sitting outside the cafe as soon as they teleported in. They walked directly over to him.

"I suppose you're Xiu Mu? I'm Tu Tong," the burly man in golden armor extended his hand immediately.

Lin Huang stretched out his own hand as well and gave Tu Tong a handshake.

The lady in the blue robe seemed to be a little timid. Her gaze at Lin Huang was somewhat fugitive.

"This is Lan Ling." Noticing what was going on, the man in golden armor immediately introduced his companion.

"Hello," Lin Huang greeted with a smile.

"I heard that you're a sword cultivator?" Tu Tong seemed to be rather interested in Lin Huang's status as a sword cultivator.

"Yes, that's right," Lin Huang nodded in acknowledgment.

Although Xiu Mu's status in Death Sickle was only that of a psychic, Virtuoso had seen through him completely. Therefore, there was no need for him to hide his sword cultivator status in front of the duo.

"I'm a combat cultivator. Let's spar when we have the chance. Sparring with sword cultivators and saber cultivators is what I like best." Tu Tong looked eager to try this.

If not for the unsuitable time and location, he might just have sparred with Lin Huang right away.

In comparison with Tu Tong, Lan Ling, who had remained on the sidelines, was quiet throughout.

She had been listening to their conversation, but she did not show any signs of wishing to contribute at all.

As Lin Huang and Tu Tong were chatting, another dimensional wave suddenly came out of nowhere.

The three of them looked toward the source of the dimensional wave at almost the same time.

A figure in a green robe slowly walked out of the black whirlpool.

Lin Huang did not even need to think about it to know that the third team member had arrived.

This was because he sensed an overwhelming saber intent within the man's body. It was at least as powerful as his own sword intent—perhaps even more powerful.

"Sword cultivator?" The man in the green robe raised his eyes and looked at Lin Huang as soon as he stepped out of the whirlpool.

The next second, he took a stride forward and appeared before the three of them.

"Senior Saber." Tu Tong and Lan Ling stood up almost at the same time.

"Just call me Saber9, that will do." Only then did the man in the green robe shift his gaze from Lin Huang to look at the pair in front of him.

Clearly, the three of them knew each other.

Noticing this, Lin Huang stood up immediately and took the initiative to introduce himself, "This humble one is Xiu Mu."

"I know you—Virtuoso has mentioned you before." Saber9 nodded slightly.

He appeared to be in his early 30s but was the kind who looked young. If he were to say that he was 27 or 28, people would still believe him. However, his aura was coldly arrogant and extremely elegant.

"Isn't he here yet?" Saber9 glanced around and asked Tu Tong and Lan Ling.

"I don't think so…" Tu Tong answered immediately, but he secretly wondered, 'Why ask me when I wasn't the first one who arrived here?'

"I've messaged him already to prompt him," Lin Huang spoke up as well, "Why don't all of you order something to drink first? Not coffee though—this cafe's coffee tastes like crap."

The three ordered one after the other, then all four of them sat together at a table and waited patiently for Virtuoso.

When the drinks were served, the three of them merely took a sip, then put down their cups.

"Are they terrible too?" Lin Huang could not help asking when he noticed this.

"Just like you said, it tastes like crap," Saber9 gave the same comment.

Beside him, Tu Tong and Lan Ling nodded immediately.

None of the three had ordered coffee; they had even ordered three different drinks.

The fact that the cafe had managed to make four different drinks that were equally terrible made Lin Huang feel a slight trace of dubious admiration.

He was even more doubtful now. 'How in the world has this cafe survived?!'

The four of them waited until 9.15 a.m. but there was still no sign of Virtuoso.

Lin Huang did not mind, but Saber9 had on a long face the entire time. Tu Tong and Lan Ling stole glances at him every now and again; they were clearly anxious.

"Let me hurry him up one more time." Seeing this, Lin Huang called Virtuoso again. They picked up almost immediately.

"Could you hurry up a little? The four of us have arrived; we're all waiting for you."

"Right away! Right away!" Virtuoso ended the call immediately after saying that.

Virtuoso said that they would be there right away, but the four of them still waited for over ten minutes more.

At 9:30 a.m., the white-robed Virtuoso finally arrived.

"My apologies, everyone. I'm late." Although he said that, Virtuoso's expression did not seem to indicate he was sorry.

"Of all the good qualities you could have learned, you had to pick up on your Primordium's bad habit of being late," Saber9 said, angrily.

"Ah Jiu, don't be angry." Lin Huang had goosebumps when he heard how Virtuoso addressed Saber9.

However, the odd thing was that Saber9 merely registered his protests with his eyes instead of verbally correcting the term of address.

"Ahh, Tutu, and Lanlan, it's been a while!" Virtuoso greeted Tu Tong and Lan Ling in a sappy manner.

The pair looked helpless, but neither did they correct the endearments.

At that moment, Virtuoso looked at Lin Huang.

Before they could speak, Lin Huang spoke up first, "We're not that close, don't you dare do that to me."

Only then did Virtuoso drop the matter rather sulkily.

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Chapter 1533: Going Into The Abyss

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As the five stepped out of the Dimensional Whirlpool, they soon arrived in an expanse of nothingness.

Lin Huang saw a gigantic black hole in the void before them, like a massive eyeball hovering in the air. He could not help but feel a trace of awe and admiration rising within him.

It was his first time seeing the real Abyss.

Prior to this, he had seen pictures and video documentations before and had even imagined a great deal. However, now that he had seen it in person, the sense of awe still remained.

What was strange was that he had the vague illusion that he seemed to be watching an endless, massive living creature, even though the black abyss ahead was merely the entrance to the Abyss proper.

"Do all of you have this feeling that the entrance looks like an eyeball staring at us?" Lin Huang could not help asking.

He faintly recalled something that he used to always hear—if you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss will also gaze into you.

"Everyone has that feeling when they see the Abyss for the first time. It's just an illusion," Saber9 explained calmly from where he was off to the side, "You won't have this feeling when you come again."

"Why does such an illusion happen?" Lin Huang felt he did not quite understand.

"No idea, it's the same for everyone." Before Saber9 could speak, Virtuoso answered the question directly, "There's no need to dwell further on this matter."

At that moment, the small, skinny Lan Ling raised her arm weakly, "I-I know…"

Lin Huang and the rest looked at her.

Only then did Lan Ling murmur softly, "I-I've seen related research papers.

"To put it simply, in reality, the Abyss comes with an extremely subtle mental suppression, which causes fear in one's subconscious mind. Therefore, our subconscious mind views it as a great threat, resulting in such an illusion the first time we see the Abyss.

"As to why this illusion only happens the first time, the explanation in the study was that our subconscious minds become accustomed to the mental suppression from the Abyss after the first visit. As the fear has been removed from the subconscious mind, we no longer see it as a threat."

Although Lan Ling's explanation sounded reasonable, Lin Huang still felt he was not convinced.

At that moment, Tu Tong could no longer contain himself and finally joined in the discussion.

"I've seen an explanation on the internet which garnered many likes. The thread said that the Abyss is a gigantic living creature that's in deep sleep mode. Each entrance is actually one of the creature's eyes. These eyes subconsciously examine everyone who enters its body. Therefore, we have the feeling that we're being stared at.

"As to why we only experience this feeling the first time we see the Abyss, it's because this scrutiny comes with a memory function—it only targets strangers. If the person were entering the Abyss for the second or third time, they would pass this scrutiny by default."

After listening to this, Lin Huang felt Tu Tong's explanation was more convincing to him. Just when he was about to agree, he heard Virtuoso's straightforward, mocking voice from the sidelines.

"Only you would believe this nonsense, Tutu."

"This explanation has certainly gone viral on the internet, but it's false." Off to one side, Lan Ling nodded and explained, "The biggest galaxy discovered throughout the history of the universe is merely the size of three star zones. That's the size limit of a life form.

"Meanwhile, the Abyss occupied at least one-fourth of the universe, and this is only the part that's within the universe. Its complete form might even be bigger than the entire universe itself. Based on size alone, it can't possibly be a life form. Even if it's an existence above lord-level, it would be impossible for it to control such a gigantic body.

"Also, judging by its mass, there's no life structure that could bear such a massive body physical body without collapsing. Even a combat cultivator powerhouse above lord-level in the archaic epoch couldn't maintain a functioning body of such mass."

Lin Huang fell silent. Although Lan Ling's explanation made a lot of sense, he felt that Tu Tong's explanation might be possible as well.

"Alright, time is precious. Let's go in." Virtuoso did not bother to waste more time on this topic and directly interrupted the discussion to put an end to it.

However, they did not seem to realize that they were the last person who had the right to say that time was precious.

If they had not wasted everybody's time and met up with them half an hour late, they might have hunted for a few rounds in the Abyss already.

Virtuoso extended their hand to Lin Huang as soon as they were done speaking.

Lin Huang was startled for a moment but immediately responded. The conditions for entering the Abyss might involve randomly teleporting the individuals who entered.

Under such circumstances, all of them had to maintain bodily contact to be teleported as a unit, so that they would not be separated.

Once he considered this, Lin Huang extended his hand, grasping Virtuoso's right hand.

He then stretched out his right hand to hold Saber9's left hand on the other side.

"Don't think of anything once we enter. Just keep flying ahead," Virtuoso's voice came through very soon.

They said this mainly for Lin Huang's benefit since the rest had been to the Abyss before.

Hand-in-hand, the five of them headed together into the black abyss of the entrance.

Lin Huang could only feel that they were getting closer and closer to the black abyss. In front of him, everything was pitch-black. When they finally entered the darkness, they were unable to see anything at all.

However, he followed Virtuoso's reminder before, which was to follow his feelings and keep flying forward.

Lin Huang secretly calculated the time—almost over a minute later, they finally saw a ray of light appearing not far away.

The five of them flew towards the source of the light at once. As they got closer, the light became brighter as well.

Eventually, they exited the darkness completely.

Lin Huang cast his gaze over where they were. The sky was dark, and in front of them was an expanse of black earth. He had no way of determining his location.

Right as he was going to spread his Divine Telekinesis, he suddenly heard a voice transmission from Virtuoso.

"Hide your aura, don't release your Divine Telekinesis for now."

Although Lin Huang had no idea what happened, he heard the seriousness in Virtuoso's tone, so he did as they said.

At that moment, he finally became aware that the rest had somewhat unhappy expressions on their faces.

"What happened?" Lin Huang hastily enquired through voice transmission.

"The normal entry time of each Abyss entrance should be ten seconds," Saber9 replied calmly through voice transmission.

"Ten seconds?! But our entry this time took at least a minute, right?" Lin Huang could not help frowning. Although he had no idea what had caused this, he knew that something was definitely wrong.

"Perhaps someone did something while we were being teleported, or perhaps it's the after-effects of Lord powerhouses in combat. I personally hope it's the latter," Virtuoso explained very seriously, before adding, "If it's the former, there's a high possibility of the five of us dying here."

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Chapter 1534: Demonic Bug Maze

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"So what do we do next?" Lin Huang asked immediately through voice transmission.

He was the only one going into the Abyss for the first time and had no experience at all handling something like this. It was best that he did not act rashly.

The others had been in the Abyss before. Even if they had never encountered such a thing, they should have at least heard of such a situation and perhaps had a way of dealing with it.

"Lan Ling, check out the situation nearby." How Virtuoso addressed Lan Ling had changed; his attitude had clearly become serious now.

Lan Ling nodded slightly and rolled up her left sleeve, revealing a frail, skinny arm.

As her lips moved, her right hand swiftly formed a seal tactic. On her left arm, black incantations immediately appeared—they looked like they were formed from countless ants.

The complex, mysterious incantations seemed like tiny living snakes, writhing and slithering on her arm at incredible speed.

A moment later, she spread all five fingers and pressed her palm on the ground. The tiny snake-like incantations slid from her arm and squirmed underground at lightning speed.

After that, Lan Ling shut her eyes and sat down cross-legged.

This was Lin Huang's first time seeing such a strange technique. However, he noticed something odd.

He did not sense any Divine Power waves from Lan Ling's body at all throughout the whole process, nor did he sense any sort of waves on a psychic level.

He immediately realized what such a probing technique meant—it could not be sensed at all by ordinary measures.

Approximately two to three minutes later, sigils began to appear again on half of Lan Ling's exposed arm. Only then did she slowly open her eyes.

She pulled her sleeve down to cover her arm once more and stood up.

"I didn't sense any lord-level or more powerful auras within range…"

To Lin Huang, that sounded like good news. However, the adjacent Saber9 and Tu Tong did not relax their tense expressions at all.

Although he could not see the expression on Virtuoso's face because of their mask, Lin Huang could sense from their aura that Virtuoso was still very much on their guard.

"However, we've certainly been sent to a slightly more problematic area…" Lan Ling paused before giving the name of their whereabouts, "A Demonic Bug Maze!"

Everyone had a slight change of expression upon hearing the name.

Lin Huang was no exception.

Although he had never been to the Abyss, he had spent some time doing some homework before coming, so he knew some basic things about it.

The Demonic Bug Maze was a special type of area in the Abyss.

This type of area was usually formed by massive gatherings of Demonic Bug Tribes.

The multitudes of Demonic Bug Tribes would gather into groups under the Bug Queen or Queen Mother's command, forming a gigantic structure similar to a hive. They would then live in it.

This special structure would even come with some of the hive's characteristics; the structure itself, however, was even more complex.

A normal hive had tens of thousands of tunnels. In a Demonic Bug Maze of the same size, there would be even more tunnels that were more winding, mysterious and unfathomable.

If anyone was to intrude accidentally, there was a very high chance that they would be lost inside. This was because the Demonic Bug Maze would block most probing techniques, and one would not know which tunnel would lead to the exit. A wrong turn might make one lose their chance of escaping entirely.

Lin Huang raised a doubt in his mind as he recalled all of the information about Demonic Bug Mazes.

"Are you sure this is really a Demonic Bug Maze? Why can we still see the sky?"

"This is an illusion the Bewilderment Bug groups created," Virtuoso explained calmly, "Ignore this illusion. It relies on the hive walls to exist; it doesn't really affect us. Moreover, nobody below lord-level can dispel it."

Lin Huang only realized at this point that nothing was mentioned about this matter in the information that he had looked up.

"Did you sense any Bug Queens or Queen Mothers?" Saber9 asked.

"No," Lan Ling shook her head. "This Demonic Bug Maze has a very complex structure. I'm worried that there might be special sensing bug groups around, so I didn't dare to probe too far in.

"However, judging by the complexity of the bug group's' structure alone, the leader of this Maze might be a Lord or a half-step lord-level powerhouse."

Lin Huang knew Saber9's objective in asking this question—he wanted to determine if the leader of the Maze was a Queen Mother or a Bug Queen.

If it was just a Bug Queen, it could not sense whether its underlings were dead or alive.

However, if it was a Queen Mother, it could sense the state of all its offspring's life cycles. This would mean that it would be even more difficult if they wanted to get out of the Maze.

"Although we can't be sure if the leader is a Queen Mother or not, it's best to be a bit more careful." Although Virtuoso sounded calm, the rest could hear the caution in their tone.

The few times that Lin Huang had come into contact with Virtuoso, he had never felt that Virtuoso did anything cautiously. Now, hearing Virtuoso say they had to be careful, he was even a little suspicious about whether or not the Virtuoso in front of him had been replaced by someone else.

"Do you have a solution?" Lin Huang had no clue at all.

To him, finding the exit of the Demonic Bug Maze was a great challenge.

There were just too many tunnels; they could not be sure which was the right one.

Not only that, the biggest problem was that these Bug Tribes were contaminated by Abyssal energy and possessed clouded minds. There was no way of reading any information from them.

Virtuoso glanced at Lin Huang but did not even nod. "Let's try first. We might not succeed though."

Including Lin Huang, none of the others objected to this.

After all, nobody had a better solution for now; they could only try out Virtuoso's idea.

Subsequently, Virtuoso began to explain their solution through voice transmission.

In reality, their plan was simple and very rough. It was to have everyone hide within a demonic bug's body and let Lan Ling use spells to control the bug's movement.

This way, they could avoid fighting with other Bug Tribes in the Maze as much as possible, to avoid causing this Bug Tribe to be wiped out.

This could also prevent the Bug Tribe Queen Mother from sensing their presence.

Although they were not sure whether or not the Demonic Bug Maze's leader was a Queen Mother, it was best to plan with the worst-case scenario in mind.

Although Virtuoso's plan was simple and rough to the point of being crude, everyone agreed to the plan as soon as they were done explaining it.

After all, this solution had a certain feasibility. Moreover, they could not think of anything better.

Once the plan was set, they began discussing the details in short order.

With all five of them brainstorming, the details were soon hammered out.

Almost immediately, Lan Ling formed an incantation seal with both hands. Around her, the incantation sigils slithered like snakes and disappeared underground.

Very soon, a huge, decaying bug beast crawled over quickly and prostrated itself before them.

Lin Huang and the rest frowned slightly. This was an entirely physiological reaction—the stench coming from the decaying bug beast was comparable to a biochemical weapon.

No, to be precise, it was a biochemical weapon.

In reality, there were all sorts of toxins and Abyssal energy particles hidden within the terrible stench.

Lin Huang and the rest were True Gods, and the Divine Fire in their bodies came with a cleansing function. Therefore, they were not affected by the noxious fumes.

However, cultivators below true god-level and even Virtual Gods might be infected by the toxins and Abyssal energy particles in the terrible stench.

Seeing that the rest made no move, Lin Huang leaped onto the huge, decaying bug beast's back. With the tip of his sword, he cut an opening close to its abdomen. He then enveloped his entire body with Telekinesis and wriggled in directly.

Virtuoso and the others did not stand on ceremony after that. They hopped onto the bug's back and crawled in one after the other, concealing their auras…

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Under Lan Ling's control, the giant decaying beetle headed toward the winding tunnels.

The five of them hid in the beetle's back. They hid their auras and stopped breathing as well as they patiently waited.

No matter what, there were only two possibilities in the end.

They would either be discovered, or they would pass through successfully.

The giant beetle they were hiding in was called a Tank Beetle in the Bug Tribe. These beetles were usually beginner-stage to intermediate-stage heavenly god-level. They were a type of bug with powerful defenses and incredible biting ability.

They were usually the vanguards of the Bug Tribe, the defensive formation that would attack the enemy.

Meanwhile, the one they were hiding in had clearly been contaminated with Abyssal energy to the point where it had become an undying species.

Its body was in advanced stages of decay, and an intense rotten stench wafted out from it. Even the odor particles it exuded contained definite concentrations of Abyssal energy.

However, it was the perfect cover for Lin Huang and the others who were hiding inside its body.

The Tank Beetle took the group through several intersections; everything went very smoothly. Even several demonic bugs contaminated with Abyssal energy that they encountered along the way did not sense anything out of the ordinary.

However, Lin Huang and the rest could do nothing apart from shielding their aura.

They began chatting through voice transmission from sheer boredom.

"The plan is going pretty well so far. Have you all done any rough calculations on our chances of being able to successfully make it out of here?" Lin Huang could not help asking Virtuoso, who had come up with the idea.

"Theoretically…" Virtuoso paused and turned their head to look at Lin Huang, "The success rate is close to zero."

"???" Lin Huang looked utterly bewildered. He had not expected Virtuoso to give such an answer.

However, the rest did not seem to be surprised at this reply.

"We're not even entirely sure if the Tank Beetle is going in the correct direction," Lan Ling delivered another piece of bad news.

"Didn't you investigate the nearby distribution of the bugs earlier?" Lin Huang was even more puzzled now, "I think it shouldn't be too hard to ascertain the general direction according to the rules of the bug distribution in the Demonic Bug Maze, right?"

Although the internal passages in the Demonic Bug Maze were complex, the distribution of bug beasts in the Maze followed the habitat rule of the Bug Tribe in the hive—the higher the level and combat strength of the bugs, the deeper their habitat would be in the Demonic Bug Maze.

Conversely, the lower their combat strength, the closer the bugs' habitat would be to the maze's exit.

Many people actually knew about this rule. However, as most probing techniques were restricted in the Demonic Bug Maze, not many were able to discover the distribution of the bugs.

Meanwhile, Lan Ling had used a spell to probe as soon as they were teleported here and had found out the distribution of monsters nearby.

This was also why Lin Huang was doubtful when Lan Ling said she was not sure of the general direction.

Lan Ling knew why Lin Huang was doubtful, so she explained immediately, "This Demonic Bug Maze is massive, and the interior is extremely vast. The distance between bugs is also very wide. My spell probe is a probing technique for short to medium distances. Moreover, as it's affected by the Maze, the probing range becomes very limited.

"The probe I did earlier was only able to obtain information from five distributions. Although there is a mix of combat strength levels, I can't be entirely sure that the two tribes with low combat strength are in the direction of the exit.

"Theoretically, the distribution of bugs follows the rule that the lower their combat strength, the closer they are to the exit. However, in reality, there's a definite complexity to the bugs' distribution in this Maze. The bugs are very close in terms of ability, so they might be in the same region.

"For instance, we're currently going toward the Scarlet Centipedes. Although their average combat strength is merely third-rank heavenly god-level, they might be in the fourth-rank heavenly god-level bugs' region, or even close to the fifth-rank heavenly god-level bugs' region.

"We're only judging based on partial distribution now. Scarlet Centipedes have rather low combat strength on average, so it's possible that they're closer to the exit. However, if we're looking at this from the standpoint of the entire bug distribution, we might be going deeper into the maze."

Lin Huang only understood what Lan Ling meant now. The bugs were not neatly distributed in the Demonic Bug Maze. It was just that as a whole, the habitat of the lower combat strength bugs would be closer to the exit. However, if they were looking at only a partial distribution, bugs that were close in combat strength would be mixed in the same region.

Therefore, they could not determine the actual direction just by looking at the bugs' combat strength in a partial distribution.

Lin Huang also immediately understood why Virtuoso said the success rate for this escape plan might be near-zero.

This was because they might go through a lot of trial and error.

Given that the partial distribution of bugs according to combat strength might not be the same as the overall Bug Tribe combat strength, Lan Ling would have probe all over again every time they got to a certain distance.

If the probing result came out the same after many tries, it would prove that the Tank Beetle was going in the correct direction.

If the result was different, they might need to use another tunnel to go in another direction, until the result of multiple probes came out the same.

It was a process of constant trial and error.

However, the longer they stayed in the Demonic Bug Maze, the higher the chances of them being discovered.

"Fortunately, we're currently in the Demonic Bug Maze's outer region. Moreover, our situation is much better than those who have their probing techniques completely prohibited," Tu Tong, who was off to one side, could not help commenting.

However, nobody knew whether he said this to console himself or to console others.

"Better my a*s, who comes into the Demonic Bug Maze to play around just because they're bored?" Virtuoso ridiculed, not standing on ceremony. Clearly, they were pissed to have been teleported into the Demonic Bug Maze for no reason, "They'd better not let me find out who's been pulling a fast one on us!"

"They better not let me find out who's been pulling tricks!" The adjacent Saber9 also had a flash of killing intent in his eyes.

Both their Primordiums were big shots in the Club—big shots who might even have surpassed Lords.

If their clones died, they might really go into battle to avenge themselves.

Lan Ling and Tu Tong fell as silent as the grave when they heard that and did not dare say anything more.

Lin Huang, on the other hand, had no idea how powerful Virtuoso and Saber 9's Primordiums were, so he did not really feel anything.

The Tank Beetle continued advancing, under Lan Ling's control. After some twenty minutes, they finally arrived at the first destination of the plan – the gathering grounds of the Scarlet Centipedes.

The Scarlet Centipedes were not Bug Tribe beasts contaminated by Abyssal energy, but demons that were born in the Abyss.

These monsters bore some resemblance to bugs with many legs, like giant centipedes. Their bodies measured between eight to twelve meters and were wreathed in toxic red mist.

From birth, they had innate mastery of the Toxic Sequence of such poisons. A handful of gifted ones could even derive other sequence powers and Rule Bending Powers.

This was the first bug territory in the route Lan Ling had planned. They had to pass through this area anyway; there was no way of avoiding it or circumventing it.

She could only carefully control the Tank Beetle to get nearer to the Scarlet Centipedes' territory.

When they arrived close to the Scarlet Centipedes' territory, a few Centipedes soon surrounded them.

Lan Ling controlled the Tank Beetle to stop.

This was a routine check.

The several giant Centipedes lifted their massive, ugly heads and clustered around the Tank Beetle, sniffing. It was as if they did not register the rotten stench coming from it; instead, it looked as though they enjoyed it.

After circling the Tank Beetle a few times and sniffing at it, the several Scarlet Centipedes retreated.

Just when Lan Ling was about to control the Tank Beetle to leave, a Scarlet Centipede that was much bigger than the previous few barred the Tank Beetle's way.

Not only was it much bigger, but it also had three heads.

The scarlet eyes on its three heads were staring at the Tank Beetle. A viscous purple liquid was flowing out of its three large mouths…

It did not discover anything unusual and merely thought the Tank Beetle was rather delicious.

Lin Huang and the rest were anxious; they were even ready to fight.

However, right at that point, a strange low hum sounded.

The three-headed Scarlet Centipede turned its head and glanced at the Scarlet Centipedes' territory. It only hesitated for a moment, before retreating into the shadows…

Lan Ling hurriedly controlled the Tank Beetle to leave.

What Lin Huang and the rest did now know was that in the Scarlet Centipedes' territory, a pitch-black centipede raised its head and glanced at the layers of hive walls, looking in the direction of where the Tank Beetle had departed…

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"That was so close!"

Everyone was relieved when they left the Scarlet Centipedes' gathering grounds. Tu Tong was the first to speak, unable to hold back.

"I've just found out that Scarlet Centipedes can grow three heads…" Lin Huang cared more about the Scarlet Centipede's form.

Although they could not use Divine Telekinesis to probe what was happening outside, Lin Huang and the others could still see everything out there clearly, thanks to Lan Ling's spell projection.

"The chances of mutated indigenous monsters in the Abyss are much higher than in other places. Some that look like distorted mutations to the outside world are actually a way for them to elevate. Just like that three-headed monster earlier—its level might be class-5.5, which has far surpassed its own tribe," Virtuoso, who was next to them, explained calmly.

Not only Lin Huang, but even Tu Tong and Lan Ling fell silent at that. Clearly, it was their first time hearing about such a unique method of elevation.

"The three-headed Centipede doesn't seem like the bugs' leader though," Lin Huang commented after that, "The one that released the low hum and stopped it from attacking us might be the real leader."

"But I didn't sense any more auras more powerful than the three-headed Centipede among the Scarlet Centipedes earlier." Lan Ling, on the other hand, shook her head to voice her doubt.

"That was probably a Mother Bug. It might even be that three-headed Centipede's mother." It was Saber9 who explained this time.

The Mother Bug that he mentioned was not merely a female bug but also one that possessed reproductive ability. Mother Bugs had a high status in the Bug Tribe; they might even be the leaders of the entire Bug Tribe. Mother Bugs becoming leaders of the Bug Tribe had nothing to do with their abilities. Usually, this was determined by the number of offspring that had surpassed a specific ratio. (The Queen Mother was a special kind of Mother Bug. Among Mother Bugs, only those with reproductive abilities that had exceeded normal limits would be named Queen Mothers.)

"That Mother Bug is very wise. It's probably fairly high-level…" Virtuoso smiled and noted.

Although they did not say it outright, Lin Huang and the rest caught the hidden meaning behind their words.

"Do you mean we've been discovered?!" Lin Huang asked immediately.

"There's an eighty percent chance we've most probably been discovered." Virtuoso nodded calmly.

Lin Huang was rather confused, as he had not noticed anything odd.

Tu Tong and Lan Ling had not noticed anything out of the ordinary either.

Noticing their confusion on their faces, Virtuoso then explained calmly, "The bugs don't live in harmony with each other in Demonic Bug Mazes. Conflicts are common, and it's something very normal for a single bug beast to be eaten by other bugs. That's also the reason why we were stopped by the three-headed Scarlet Centipede.

"In reality, the three-headed Centipede was famished, and had already locked onto the Tank Beetle we're in as its prey. Under normal circumstances, the Mother Bug wouldn't stop it from hunting and eating since it was hungry. That's because hunting a single Tank Beetle is nothing.

"However, it was strange that the Mother Bug was so eager to stop it from attacking us…

"The only reasonable explanation is that it discovered us hiding in the Tank Beetle's body. It was even shrewd enough to speculate that its bugs would lose as soon as a fight broke out… To prevent the bugs from being hurt, the only choice it had was to release the Tank Beetle to avoid conflict with us."

Lin Huang and the rest felt that Virtuoso's speculation made sense after listening to their explanation.

"If it's really as you say, then I suspect we've already been discovered by now." Lin Huang rapidly became aware of another issue. "That Mother Bug must have already spread the news about us."

Clearly, Virtuoso and the rest had realized this too. After a moment of silence, Virtuoso turned their head to look at Lan Ling, "Wait for a little and find an opportunity—we'll change to another puppet."

Lan Ling nodded immediately.

Approximately less than three minutes later, she found a second puppet—a Boa Worm.

The Boa Worm was a bug monster that looked like a massive boa constrictor but bore a slight resemblance to an earthworm as well. Its body was usually more than twenty meters long, and its forte was soil elemental truth.

If not for Lan Ling's ability with spells, it would have been very difficult for even an ordinary Heavenly God to capture a Boa Worm, as they were extremely proficient in soil escape methods.

When they saw the Boa Worm appearing under Lan Ling's control, Lin Huang and the rest abandoned the Tank Beetle. After killing it, they climbed into the Boa Worm's body.

The Boa Worm might have been an expert in soil escape methods, but in reality, to Lin Huang and the rest, it was even more suitable as a means of transport.

There were many restrictions in the Demonic Bug Maze, as well as many places that the Boa Worm could not pass through with its escape method.

However, under Lan Ling's control, the Boa Worm moved forward at least ten times faster than the Tank Beetle from before.

Meanwhile, within five minutes of their departure, a Bug Tribe team hastened to where the Tank Beetle's carcass was.

"They must have hidden in the Tank Beetle's back previously…" After some investigation, a few bugs soon noticed the sliced opening on the Tank Beetle's back.

"They've already escaped. They must be hiding in another bug beast now."

"The trail seems to be left by a Boa Worm…"

"It might just have been passing through."

"Whether it's a coincidence or not, we must strictly monitor all Boa Worm movements!"

Lin Huang and the others remained hiding in the Boa Worm, and progress was smooth.

Very soon, Lan Ling determined that the general direction they started in was the correct one.

They could not help but be relieved.

This was because they would have to backtrack if the direction was wrong. There might even be a great deal of trial and error involved to determine where the general direction of the exit was.

"Since we're in the correct general direction, the next thing that we need to do is to look for the passageway that leads to the exit," Virtuoso said calmly.

However, Lin Huang did not forget to remind them, "We still need to escape the bugs' pursuit as well!"

They knew that by now, the news of them invading the Demonic Bug Maze would have already been broadcast everywhere.

Almost all the bugs from the shallower areas of the entire Maze had left their lairs in search of the five of them.

If the Bug Tribe's probing techniques had not also been affected by the Demonic Bug Maze, the group might have been discovered way early on.

"We'll fight our way out if we really can't escape them!" Saber9's tone was grim. He was obviously not joking, judging by the expression on his face—he genuinely had every intention of doing it.

"That has to be the last resort," Lin Huang disagreed, "If we can, we should avoid battle as much as possible. After all, this is the Demonic Bugs' lair. No matter how powerful our individual abilities are, we're not Lords after all. We can't hold off the entire Maze; it's only a matter of time before we exhaust ourselves and die."

Saber9 shot a glance at Lin Huang and said nothing more.

Lan Ling remained silent from beginning to end. Given that she was the one using spells to control the Boa Worm, she was the one who faced the most pressure out of everyone there. She did not have extra energy to participate in the discussion…

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Chapter 1537: That's A Secret

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Lan Ling controlled the Boa Worm as they sneaked around, quietly slipping through a few of the bugs' gathering places.

"We're looking at first-rank heavenly god-level bug territory now. We should be close to the exit." When Virtuoso finished speaking, they looked at Lan Ling. "You still haven't found the tunnel that leads to the exit?"

"No…" Lan Ling shook her head helplessly.

A major difference between the Demonic Bug Maze and the Bug Tribe's hive was that the combat strength disparity between bugs in the hive could be very big. Among the hives that had a heavenly god-level Queen Mother or Bug Queen as ruler, it was extremely normal to have Heavenly Gods, True Gods, and even virtual god-level Bug Tribe fighters in the hive together. However, it was different in a Demonic Bug Maze. In a Maze that was ruled by a Heavenly God, there would only be heavenly god-level bug beasts. If bug beasts below heavenly god-level came in, they would be treated as food and eaten.

Therefore, the first-rank heavenly god-level bug territory in the Demonic Bug Maze—where Lin Huang and the rest were now— housed the bugs with the lowest combat strength. Their gathering place was the shallowest layer in the entire Maze, and closest to the region where the Maze's exit was.

Generally, there was more than one exit and entrance in a Demonic Bug Maze. However, there would not be many of them.

Judging from the scale of the Demonic Bug Maze that they were currently in, there should be four to six entrances and exits.

However, it meant that there would only be four to six passageways that led to the exits. Locating those few specific passageways among the tens of thousands of other complex passages was an astronomically difficult undertaking.

"The range of my probing ability is approximately thirty kilometers at most in this Maze. Furthermore, with the direction we're traveling in, it's still at least several thousand kilometers to the border region where the exit is—possibly even up to ten thousand kilometers… If we're unlucky, I might need to probe up to a hundred times before I find the exit." Lan Ling did not have any better ideas either. She could only look for the exit the hard way, probing repeatedly.

The rest were helpless too. After all, everyone's probing techniques had been blocked. Lan Ling's rather unusual spell ability was the only probing technique that could be used here.

Lin Huang pondered for a moment, then spoke up suddenly, "The efficiency of this method is too low."

"You have a plan?" Virtuoso asked immediately. The rest looked at Lin Huang as well.

"I'm not sure how feasible it is, but we can try." Lin Huang nodded, then said to Lan Ling, "Don't go around the bugs when you encounter them later. Stop for a little bit."

"Sure!" Lan Ling heaved a sigh of relief upon seeing someone taking the initiative to share her burden. She nodded immediately in agreement.

Very soon, she controlled the Boa Worm to slow down.

"There are a group of bugs approximately three kilometers ahead."

Lin Huang nodded and eased himself half out of the Boa Worm's back. As he moved his ten fingers slightly, tens of thousands of invisible Leech Pods wafted forth.

As the master of Monster Paradise, he could borrow Bloody's Leech Pods ability with ease.

Leech Pods could be cast on all creatures with combat strength that was either the same as or lower than Bloody. Furthermore, she had gone into closed-door cultivation together with Kylie previously. Not only had she elevated to fifth-rank, but she had also achieved a breakthrough to first-rank heavenly god-level.

The Leech Pod ability was perfect for use in the current situation.

Lin Huang wriggled back into the Boa Worm's body as soon as he was done releasing the Leech Pods.

Although Lan Ling's projection allowed the others to see what he had done, they were not able to see the Leech Pods.

"What did you do?" Tu Tong was the first to ask as soon as Lin Huang returned, unable to restrain himself.

They did not use their sensing techniques, so it was only natural that they could not sense the Leech Pods.

"Just a little trick." Lin Huang smiled but did not elaborate. "We'll find out when we check out the bugs' gathering place."

"Are you sure you want us to barge in directly?" Virtuoso spoke before Lan Ling could ask any questions.

"Don't all of you want to know what I did?" Lin Huang replied to Virtuoso, smiling.

Lan Ling, on the other hand, seemed to be hesitating a little. She was not sure if she should listen to Lin Huang.

Off to the side, Virtuoso fell silent for a moment, then nodded at Lan Ling. "Let's go take a look."

Lan Ling's worries eased only after getting Virtuoso's confirmation. She then controlled the Boa Worm and headed to the bugs' gathering area.

A moment later, the Boa Worm arrived where the bugs were.

This was a group of Bladefoot Worms, approximately two thousand of them. Their bodies were purplish-black from being contaminated by Abyssal energy and were wreathed in black miasma. A number of them had mutated, sprouting even more strangely-shaped bladed feet on their bodies… They looked even more frightening than normal Bladefoot Worms.

However, what puzzled Virtuoso and the rest was that the Bladefoot Worms in front of them had tidily ordered themselves into a square formation.

Not only that, they did nothing when they saw the Boa Worm. They remained where they were neatly, seemingly waiting to be inspected.

"What is this…" Even Lan Ling thought this was rather unbelievable.

"I've never heard of an Imperial Censor who can control bugs, let alone control bugs from a distance." Virtuoso glanced at Lin Huang. They were clearly somewhat surprised.

"I merely used a little trick," Lin Huang said, smiling.

"If you've got such a trick up your sleeve, when didn't you use it earlier?" Tu Tong asked from off to the side. He was not skeptical; instead, he was shocked.

"At the moment, I can only control first-rank heavenly god-level bugs at most. I can't control those with higher combat strength," Lin Huang explained rather helplessly. Naturally, he did not tell them that the reason for this was that Bloody—whom he had borrowed the ability from—only had the combat strength of a first-rank Heavenly God.

"To be able to control a group of first-rank Heavenly Gods while at true god-level—this trick of yours is already quite incredible," Saber9, who had been quiet all along, gave his assessment apropos.

"What do you plan to do? Use these Bladefoot Worms to find the path for us?" Virtuoso asked.

"No, I'll command a few of them to leave this Demonic Bug Maze from the closest exit," Lin Huang answered unexpectedly. "We just need to follow them secretly."

The others understood Lin Huang's intentions immediately.

There was no way of retrieving information from the Bug Tribe beasts' minds, as they were contaminated with Abyssal energy. However, the beasts definitely knew where the Demonic Bug Maze's exits were.

Although Lin Huang's command was simple, he could very efficiently turn the Bladefoot Worms into their guides.

"That's a great idea!" When Virtuoso and the others heard that, their eyes lit up.

At that moment, six Bladefoot Worms emerged from the multitude. They formed a small group and left quickly in a specific direction.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Bladefoot Worms that were in formation soon resumed their usual relaxed mode.

"Follow them!" Lin Huang said to Lan Ling immediately.

Lan Ling hurriedly controlled the Boa Worm to follow behind the group of Bladefoot Worms.

"You've even specifically put together a search team. What a smart trick!" Virtuoso gave Lin Huang a thumbs-up. "Nobody would suspect them even if they ran into other search teams."

"Details determine whether a plan succeeds or fails," Lin Huang said expressionlessly.

"I have a question. Can you control more Bug Tribe monsters with this ability?" Lan Ling could not help asking.

"Yes."

"Then how many can you control at the most?" Lan Ling questioned further.

Lin Huang turned his head to glance at her, giving her a slight smile. "That's a secret."

"…" Not just Lan Ling, but the rest were also bereft of speech.

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