Monster Paradise

by Stayrr

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

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Chapter 1698: The Application of the Pure Golden Blood

"You guys don't have to worry too much about obtaining resources."

Lin Huang looked at them and calmly told them about the virtual realm.

"From now on, I'll send three of you into the virtual realm each day to hunt Voids and obtain Origin Energy. You can absorb the Origin Energy you obtain if you deem it suitable for you. If it's not suited to you, you can swap it with others."

"As there'll be three in a group each time, you guys can come up with your own teams. Also, I've given the slots today to Bai, Charcoal and Grimace. The second team that will go tomorrow will be Lancelot's team."

"Therefore, after all the teams have entered once, you guys will follow the current order in the future to enter for the second, third cycles…"

"If one of the team members of the team that's supposed to go in has an emergency or cannot make it, you guys can discuss with the other teams to propose a change in the order of entry. Of course, the member who had something come up must communicate with the other two members to reach an agreement beforehand."

"Also, I'll inform all of you in advance if I need to use the virtual realm. The team that is supposed to go in will have to delay their turn to the next day."

"You guys can ask Bai, Charcoal and Grimace regarding the exact situation regarding the virtual realm."

"You guys can discuss the swapping of Origin Energy too."

"Lastly, I want to tell you something that might upset you guys a little. I'll be taking 30% of the Origin Energy you guys obtain in the virtual world." Lin Huang mentioned the distribution ratio after explaining the rules roughly. "I'll tell you the reasons why I'm taking a portion."

"Firstly, you guys are actually taking up my hunting slots to enter the virtual realm. If I didn't give you the slots, I could go into the virtual realm three times a day. Not only that, my hunting efficiency is much higher than yours."

"Secondly, Xiao Hei requires a huge amount of Origin Energy to make all sorts of cards, which includes the accumulated energy required to create the higher level Advance Cards later on. Most of my share of the Origin Energy will eventually be used on you guys."

"My personal suggestion to you guys would be that, after you've obtained Origin Energy from the hunt, you should consider prioritizing keeping the Origin Energy that suits you and the Origin Energy that's suitable for swapping. Let me handle the Origin Energy that's not suitable for trading."

Indeed, Lin Huang suggested taking a share from them because, after giving these slots to enter the virtual realm to the imperial monsters, it would mean that Xiao Hei would lose its source of Origin Energy replenishment.

After taking that into consideration, Lin Huang had been repeatedly thinking about a solution and eventually decided to "exploit" the portion of the deficit from his imperial monsters.

Most of the imperial monsters were quite dumbstruck when they heard about the arrangement in the beginning.

It was not that they were unwilling. It was just that they did not understand why Lin Huang would suddenly come up with such an arrangement.

However, they thought it made perfect sense after hearing his explanation.

"I have a tiny request before you all start teaming up." Lin Huang's lips curled into a smirk. "I need all of you here to provide me with a drop of your blood essence."

Lin Huang did not elaborate on this matter any further.

Although they did not understand why exactly Lin Huang wanted their blood essence all of a sudden, none of them objected. They went forward one by one to provide their blood essence.

Bloody did not ask when she saw that Lin Huang was unwilling to tell them the reason. She went forward as well to give her blood essence.

Lin Huang only spoke again after gathering all of the imperial monsters' blood essence, "Alright. That's all I have to say. All of you can pick your teams now. Report your teams to Bloody when you're done."

"Regarding the order of teams going into the virtual realm, let's follow the sequential numbering of the teams. Bai's team will be No. 1, and Lancelot's will be No. 2. Whichever team that reports to Bloody first will be No. 3. That'll be the order."

Lin Huang came up with such an arrangement with the goal of preventing them from wasting too much time picking their teams.

Although it did not actually make much difference by nature if it was done a few days earlier or later, everyone would have been occupied with thoughts of fighting for the first place. They were unwilling to be placed further behind in the sequence.

Within five minutes, all of them had come up with their teams.

Bloody had also given the sorted list to Lin Huang.

He listed down the sequence and dates and made the information public to indicate his fairness.

All of the teams jotted down the dates their team would be going into the virtual realm instantly.

"You guys can stay in the Demon Eye Star Zone for the time being. You can do whatever you want as long as you make it back in time to enter the virtual realm officially."

Lin Huang gave them their freedom after he was done speaking.

The imperial monsters surrounded Bai, Charcoal and Grimace immediately and began to ask about the virtual realm.

Lin Huang flashed and returned to the Great Heaven Palace.

The first thing he did when he returned to the Great Heaven Palace was to adjust the time flow. He then sat with his legs crossed and dripped the blood essence onto the Goldfinger Pure Golden Blood one by one.

The function of the Pure Golden Blood was to absorb different varieties of creatures' blood and extract their energy to strengthen the host's physical body.

The more types of blood that were integrated, and the higher the rank and combat strength of the creatures, the better the effect of strengthening his physical body.

The quantity of blood did not really matter, as the Pure Golden Blood only needed a drop of blood to extract its primary substance. After doing that, it could duplicate the substance on its own.

Lin Huang had already thought about how he would use it as soon as he obtained the Goldfinger earlier.

After all, he had many imperial monsters under him. Although Bai and the rest only had lower-rank lord-level combat strength, their current rank was Pure Spirit rank-6.

The nutrients in their blood essence might have surpassed many ultimate-rank Lords.

As Lin Huang expected, after the Pure Golden Blood absorbed the first drop of blood essence, his physical strength began to undergo a new round of strengthening.

The level of his peak upper-rank Lord's physical body began to loosen.

After absorbing the third drop of blood essence, Lin Huang's physical strength finally broke through again, stepping into the realm of ultimate-rank Lord.

As the Pure Golden Blood continued absorbing the blood essences, Lin Huang's physical strength skyrocketed.

In the end, after absorbing all of the blood essences, his physical strength grew to peak ultimate-rank lord-level, just shy of the upper limit.

Initially, physical strength had been his biggest shortcoming. However, his physical strength had now surpassed the strength of his God's soul.

In reality, this result was not really what Lin Huang had expected.

He initially thought that, even if he absorbed all of the blood essences, the physical strength boost coming from the Pure Golden Blood would be limited. After all, Bai and the rest only had the combat strength of lower-rank Lords. He had previously estimated that it would be good enough if his physical strength could break through to ultimate-rank Lord. He did not anticipate that he would break through all the way to peak ultimate-rank Lord at all.

"This round of strengthening is pretty great." Lin Huang was very satisfied with the overall results that far exceeded his expectations.

The truth had proved that the Goldfinger Pure Golden Blood's effect was much more powerful than he initially thought.

Under the accelerated time flow in the Great Heaven Palace, merely a moment had passed before Lin Huang returned to the Demon Eye Star Zone.

The imperial monsters were still surrounding Bai's team to ask about all sorts of information regarding the virtual realm.

Lin Huang was the only one who knew that he had become much more powerful after that fleeting moment in time.

As the disparity between the imperial monsters' abilities and his were too vast, they did not sense any changes from him at all.

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Chapter 1699: Upgraded to Rank-S

Over the next few days, one after the other, the imperial monsters entered the virtual realm everyday to hunt for Void beasts.

Bloody joined Lancelot and Teng Ran's team on the second day. After the hunt ended, she created a clone to return to the Nephilic Judge Star Zone.

Given her current identity and status, although Kylie was definitely safe with the Nephilic Judge Tribe, Bloody was still a little worried about leaving her alone with them for long periods of time.

Bai, Grimace and a small number of imperial monsters left the Demon Eye Star Zone after getting out of the virtual realm.

However, most imperial monsters chose to stay.

Lin Huang would obtain a 30% share of the Origin Energy collected by the imperial monsters' daily. Although it was not much, it was better than nothing at all.

He did not remain idle over the past few days either.

He received the Nine Snake team's storage rings that had been unsealed from Yang Ling.

The items in there had far surpassed Lin Huang's expectations.

Among them, Nine Snake's collection was the most shocking.

As a reincarnated being, Nine Snake could not refine Goldfingers.

However, there were three Goldfingers in his storage ring.

Clearly he had obtained these after killing travellers, and had not had the opportunity to trade them.

Lin Huang checked the three Goldfingers. Almost all of them were of the lowest grade and had mediocre functions.

He placed them into the Gate of All Realms to refine them.

After spending a few days refining them, the number of virtual bodies the Gate of All Realms could create increased to six.

Lin Huang increased the daily allocations for the imperial beasts to enter the virtual realm from one team to two.

Apart from three Goldfingers, Nine Snake's storage ring contained all sorts of reincarnated beings' tools and medicines.

Even Lin Huang coveted some of these tools and medicines.

However, these were exclusively for reincarnated beings. Others could not use them at all.

Not only that, some of the tools and medicines could only be used in the reincarnation dimension.

Lin Huang could not get into the reincarnation dimension, and therefore could not use them.

He could only post them on Royal's auction to sell them.

He did not have to worry about people bidding on them by mistake since he included a remark stating that these items were exclusively for reincarnated beings.

There were many powerhouses in Royal, which meant that there were definitely entities such as travellers and reincarnated beings.

In reality and in the universe, reincarnated beings, travellers and regenerated beings were not a secret to powerhouses at the lord-level and above.

Though Lin Huang could not use the reincarnated beings' tools and medicines, there were other more valuable items in Nine Snake's storage ring.

There were tens of Dao Weapons alone.

Moreover, most of them were expert-grade Dao Weapons. There were even two supreme-grade Dao Weapons.

To Lin Huang who possessed God Weapons, these were valuable items that could be traded.

The person who had the second most valuable collection was the upper-rank Lord, Scarlet Fox.

Scarlet Fox was a regenerated being, which was probably why he knew some of the ancient secret zones and ruins that outsiders were unaware of.

There were hundreds of Dao Weapons in his collection.

However, these were mostly intermediate-grade Dao Weapons, amounting to a total of about 60 intermediate-grade Dao Weapons.

There were over 20 low-grade and expert-grade Dao Weapons.

There was one supreme-grade Dao Weapon.

Apart from Dao Weapons, there were other luxury items such as precious stones in his storage ring as well.

These were not just accessories. Most of them were engraved with complicated sigils and could boost one's capabilities to an extent similar to that of Dao Weapons.

Lin Huang was not too sure whether they were gifts he received or if they were items he planned to give away as gifts.

There were hundreds of these luxury items. He speculated that the price of each luxury item was on par with some of the Dao Weapons.

The one who had the third most valuable collection was not the upper-rank Lord, Silver, but rather the middle-rank Lord, the mummy-like man.

He was a regenerated being too.

The number of Dao Weapons in his storage ring was only second to Scarlet Fox. There were over 80 Dao Weapons.

However, most of them were intermediate-grade Dao Weapons. There were only five expert-grade Dao Weapons.

Lin Huang also received a surprise gift from his storage ring.

There were over a hundred bottles with a variety of lord-level beings' blood essence.

Lin Huang immediately thought of feeding the Pure Golden Blood again.

There were no surprises to Lin Huang on what the remaining Raiders had in their storage rings. The value of their contents was similar to what he had anticipated.

The one that disappointed him the most was Silver's storage ring.

As an upper-rank Lord, apart from a Goldfinger, there was almost nothing that Lin Huang could use in his storage ring.

He thought there would be mechanoids who would be interested in those items if he auctioned them on Royal's auction.

The Goldfinger, on the other hand, was of the lowest grade. Lin Huang gave it to the Gate of All Realms to absorb without much hesitation. After that, the Gate of All Realms could create seven virtual bodies daily.

After briefly sorting out spoils, Lin Huang posted the items that could be sold on Royal's auction.

He evaluated the valuable ones and decided that they could only be traded with upper-rank Lords' and ultimate-rank Lords' God Territories.

Those that were not valuable could be traded with middle-rank Lords' and upper-rank Lords' God Territories.

Naturally, he did not forget to include the remark—There was no limit to the type of God Territories. Bug Tribe and Abyssal ones were also acceptable.

As he was not in a hurry, Lin Huang set the auction duration to last a month.

The next morning, after doing an inventory of the spoils and posting more of them on the auction, his Royal Token suddenly vibrated.

He thought something had gone wrong with his trades, so he took out his identity token immediately.

However, a call request popped up directly as he spread his Divine Telekinesis over it.

Lin Huang looked at the name. It was Liu Fu.

He was stunned for a second, before he clicked the answer button shortly after.

The next moment, Liu Fu's image projection appeared not far from Lin Huang.

"Congratulations, Brother Lin Huang!"

Liu Fu congratulated him with a smile on his face as soon as his image was projected.

"From today on, just like me, you're a Royal Rank-S member."

In reality, when Lin Huang saw Liu Fu's name on the call request, he had already guessed that he would be calling about this. Nevertheless, he was still slightly surprised.

"Is the Royal Rank-S evaluation that easy?"

It had only been less than three days. Not only that, nobody came looking for him for assessments of any sorts.

After all, as a job seeker on Earth in the past, you would have to go through at least one round of interview after sending in your resume before being selected. The company would only get them to start working after meeting the job seeker and deeming the person suitable for the job.

However, there was not even an "interviewer" from Royal for the Rank-S evaluation this time. Lin Huang thought that the process was a little too easy.

"Was it easy? Royal's headquarters receives tens of hundreds of applications to upgrade the members to Rank-S almost every year. There might not be even one person who passes the application over tens of years." Liu Fu looked at Lin Huang with a smile.

"The passing rate is so low?" That fact indeed surprised Lin Huang.

"What do you think?" Liu Fu continued, "Your application passed so quickly because I recorded the entire battle between you and Nine Snake's team. Your ability, talent and potential were shown completely. After the superiors saw it, they passed your evaluation unanimously. Nobody voted against you."

"Aren't they worried that the video might be fake? Shouldn't they at least send someone to verify the applicant's ability?" Lin Huang raised his doubts anyway.

"Firstly, I recorded that battle video as a Supervisor. I used tools exclusive to Supervisors to record the video. The video was saved immediately, and was recorded into Royal's network database directly. The video can't be edited."

"Secondly, I saw the entire battle with my own eyes. The superiors asked about you as well. I'm a Rank-S member, so I have a certain amount of credibility in Royal. I wouldn't lie for the sake of a newbie. Moreover, some of these entities would be able to tell if I'm lying at glance."

"To put it simply, your brute force proved your qualifications. You even surpassed the average Rank-S member's standard. Therefore, it was easy for your application to be approved."

Liu Fu explained in detail.

"What's the difference between a Rank-S and Rank-A member?" Lin Huang stopped dwelling on the difficulty of being upgraded and asked about something else instead.

"The difference is quite significant. Rank-S members are considered to be Royal's core members. There's a great upgrade in your authority, as well as all sorts of rights."

"Rank-S members can apply for resource subsidies annually. There are also the convoy quotas. Convoys will enjoy Rank-A member's treatments in Royal. The number of affiliate organizations under you increases too. The authority relative to that has been upgraded as well. Also, you won't have to pay any handling fees to participate in Royal's auction…" Liu Fu said a bunch of things. "I won't go into the specifics. You can check the details and description yourself."

"To put it simply, Rank-S members are Royal's biological sons, while members below Rank-S could only be considered their illegitimate children."

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Chapter 1700: Kylie's Decision

After hanging up on Liu Fu, Lin Huang checked his current account authorization status instantly.

"Member: Lin Huang"

"Gender: Male"

"Authorization level: Rank-S"

"Qualification Assessment: Grade-S"

"Combat Strength: Lower-rank Lord-level"

"Affiliate Organizations: Dynasty (Two-Star), Misery (Two-Star)"

"Remarks: He killed Raider's peak upper-rank lord-level powerhouse Nine Snake with his lower-rank lord-level combat strength."

…

As expected, his personal information page was altered to Rank-S, and there was an update on his related information as well.

He looked at the exact contents of the Rank-S authorization status in detail. He found out that it was indeed as Liu Fu said, Rank-S members were almost considered to be Royal's biological sons.

Firstly, Rank-S members could conduct trades of all kinds in Royal without having to pay the handling fees.

This authorization perk was not only useful in Royal, but was also applicable to all of Royal's affiliate organizations. As long as it was registered under Royal, he would not have to pay their handling fees.

To Lin Huang, this was the perfect time to use his new Rank-S authorization status.

He could seize the opportunity to list a bunch of items on the auction. The Rank-S authorization would save him the handling fees.

Not to mention, the money-saving authorization perk was only considered an insignificant benefit among the many authorization perks included in the upgrade.

Among all of them, Lin Huang thought that the most practical perk was the one that gave him complete access to all trial zones.

He could not help but compare it to the description of his previous authorization status.

"Rank-A Authorized Member: Access to any grade-0 to grade-3 trial zones, 30 grade-4 trial zones, ten grade-5 trial zones and ten great world trial zones."

"Rank-S Authorized Member: Unlimited access to any trial zones (a small number of forbidden areas are excluded from this clause)."

One must know that the trial zones were either ruins or secret zones. In reality, it was equivalent to one instanced dungeon.

It would mean that Lin Huang had countless instanced dungeons available for him to grind. The resources he could obtain would not be limited to the great world he was currently in.

Even the authorization status for the members of his affiliated organizations received a qualitative upgrade.

"Rank-A Authorized Member: Access to any grade-0 trial zones, 80 grade-1 trial zones, 20 grade-2 trial zones, ten grade-3 trial zones, three grade-4 trial zones, one grade-5 trial zone and one great world trial zone."

"Rank-S Authorized Member: Unlimited access to trial zones of any grades, any great world trial zones and most public trial zones in the universe."

Theoretically, the treatment Royal provided was enough for their Rank-S members to train and cultivate a batch of lord-level subordinates.

Lin Huang thought for a moment and registered the Sword Alliance as an affiliate organization under him.

Considering that Sword1 and the rest were at the heavenly god-level, he registered the Sword Alliance as a grade-4 organization.

After passing the Royal headquarters' assessment, he could send anyone and everyone from the Sword Alliance into the trial zones' instanced dungeons that best suited their levels.

Lin Huang glanced through the remaining authorization perks. Very soon, he saw one that he was interested in—the convoy authorization.

Rank-S members could set up their own convoys.

The total quota of such convoys was ten. As soon as the setup process was completed, all his convoys would possess Royal's Rank-A membership identity. They would enjoy all of the Rank-A member authorization perks that Royal provided.

Rank-S members could add, change or remove a convoy as they wished, as long as the quota requirement was met.

Seeing this authorization perk, Lin Huang thought of Bloody and Kylie first.

The both of them would possess Royal's Rank-A membership identity if he assigned them a convoy quota. He could totally grow the Nephilic Judge Tribe as an organization under him.

He only dwelled on this thought for a second before telling his idea and the information regarding Royal to Bloody and Kylie via telepathic voice transmission.

Later on, he proceeded to examine the remaining authorization perks.

"Resource subsidies…" Lin Huang soon noticed an authorization perk that had not existed prior to this.

"Rank-S members can apply for an annual resource subsidy once per year. They can choose a subsidy with a value equivalent to a supreme-grade Dao Weapon…"

"The subsidy authorization perk can be accumulated and stored without being claimed over the course of many years. The value of the subsidy would stack cumulatively…"

"This means if someone sets it aside and doesn't claim it for tens of thousands of years, they can apply to claim a subsidy that's equivalent to tens of thousands of supreme-grade Dao Weapons?!" Lin Huang widened his eyes.

One had to say that Royal was generous indeed.

A Rank-S member's annual benefit was comparable to a supreme-grade Dao Weapon.

To his surprise, this benefit could even be accumulated.

However, when he thought about it carefully, Lin Huang figured that such a reward would be inconsequential to other Rank-S members.

The reason being that, as Liu Fu had said, most Rank-S members in Royal were at the dao-level.

There were only a few members who were below the dao-level.

A supreme-grade Dao Weapon would look pretty valuable from the perspective of a lower-rank Lord.

However, to dao-level powerhouses, supreme-grade Dao Weapons would not interest them at all.

When he thought up to this point, Lin Huang instantly understood the reason why Royal set up a subsidy system that could accumulate over time.

To Lin Huang, the accumulation would not mean much either.

It had only been a few years since he started cultivating. Tens of thousands of years aside, he even had no idea what level he would be at after cultivating a hundred years from now.

Naturally, he would choose to claim it every year.

Apart from resource subsidies, there was another reward that made Lin Huang happy.

The reward he would receive from being upgraded to Rank-S was a dao-level item.

Just when Lin Huang was thinking about what kind of dao-level item he should pick as his upgrade reward, Kylie and Bloody seemed to have arrived at a conclusion from their discussion and replied to his telepathic voice transmission.

"We've decided to accept the convoy quotas."

Kylie sent a couple of voice transmissions consecutively.

"I only came to this decision after much thinking. At first, my concern was that I couldn't decide things for the Nephilic Judge Tribe as I wished. The reason being that they might not be willing to become dependent on Royal. However, what Bloody said makes sense. I'm also one of the Nephilic Judges. I can try my best to change the Nephilic Judge Tribe's fate.

"This is the only Nephilic Judge Tribe left in this great world. There are only a mere hundreds of individuals left, and their fertility rate is extremely low. Although it's a top grade-6 organization that looks majestic from the outside, in reality, they're barely scraping by among all the other organizations that are their equals".

"Perhaps getting them some backing is the best choice to change the entire tribe's fate. Although it sounds demoralizing to depend on Royal and become an affiliate organization, this great world is Royal's territory after all. All grade-7 organizations are protected by Royal. It doesn't make much difference for us to become an affiliate organization."

"Moreover, the abundant resources Royal provides could get the Nephilic Judge Tribe out of their current predicament…"

Lin Huang thought about it and replied to Kylie via voice transmission.

"Do you want to make the Nephilic Judge Tribe an organization under you when you receive the convoy status? You guys can decide that yourselves. If you're certain that you want to do that, I'll give you and Bloody full authority regarding management in the future. I won't intervene."

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Chapter 1701: It's Not Too Late for A Gentleman to Take Revenge in Two Years

Lin Huang would be completely free over the next few days.

Royal's auction had yet to end, so he did not want to go into closed-door cultivation for the time being.

However, he was not a person who could stay idle. Thus, he got Kylie to help gather information regarding the Myriad Tribe Palace.

"The Myriad Tribe Palace is a top grade-6 organization in the God Territory. Its overall ability is almost only second to the five grade-7 organizations with Lords guarding them. There's a rumor in the God Territory that their Palace Master and Vice Palace Master are supreme powerhouses at half-step lord-level. They have thousands of Heavenly Gods and countless True Gods under them…"

Lin Huang had many thoughts floating about in his head as he read about the Myriad Tribe Palace.

The Myriad Tribe Palace was the culprit behind why the gravel world's cultivation civilization was destroyed over and over again. The Thousand Snake Sect that attacked was just a pawn of theirs.

If he did not kill the Thousand Snake Sect's intruders himself, and moved the gravel world into the Kingdom in his body, the gravel world's cultivation civilization might continue to be destroyed over and over again. Nobody knew how long it would suffer through this endless loop.

Just over two years ago, the Myriad Tribe Palace was a giant that Lin Huang could not afford to offend.

Since arriving at the great world, he had disguised himself, taking on many different identities over and over again as he was afraid that the Myriad Tribe Palace would find him.

He initially thought that this large mountain would hinder him for a long time. He never imagined that, in less than three years, he would arrive at a point where exterminating the Myriad Tribe Palace was a viable option.

"Since I'm free these few days, I should seize the opportunity to solve this matter once and for all." Lin Huang thought it was almost time to put an end to this grudge.

He did not have the ability nor the time to do so in the past, but this was no longer the case in the present.

However, Lin Huang did not plan to fight them on his own this time. As he spread his Divine Telekinesis out, he realized that Lancelot, Tyrant, Charcoal and the rest were nearby.

He communicated via voice transmission to his imperial monsters, excluding the Bug Tribe, directly, "Gather everyone. We'll drop by the God Territory for some training."

Almost the next second after the voice transmission was sent, Charcoal landed on Lin Huang's shoulder in a flash.

"Are we going to fight?!" Charcoal had a look of excitement etched all over its face.

It had initially wanted to get Bai and Grimace to bring it out of the Demon Eye Star Zone, but they rejected it, claiming that they had some personal matters to deal with.

Charcoal had been upset for the past two days because of that.

Lin Huang figured that they probably went to the Abyss and refused to bring Charcoal along, worried that it would let slip their plans and tell him where they went.

He did not stop them.

As long as they were not killed by dao-level powerhouses, his Kingdom could actually revive the imperial monsters under him.

Given Bai and Grimace's current abilities, the places they could go to in the Abyss were rather limited, and there was a high probability that there were no dao-level powerhouses in those places.

Lin Huang hit Charcoal's head. "You're always thinking about fighting. Why don't you give some thought to elevating your combat strength quickly?"

"Can't I elevate my combat strength by fighting?" Charcoal buried its head and quibbled softly.

"You're speaking as if you're very powerful in actual combat." Lin Huang raised his eyebrows. "Do you want to spar with me?"

"No!" Charcoal rejected decisively.

It happened to see Thunder showing up, and hid behind Thunder in a flash. It merely popped its head out and refuted, "Sparring with you isn't actual combat training, but being abused instead."

The next second, Charcoal felt its body tighten. Subsequently, beyond its control, its body landed back on Lin Huang's shoulder.

"Where do you think you're going?" Lin Huang flicked Charcoal's head before releasing the Divine Telekinesis thread.

Thunder shrunk its body silently as it watched that. It shrunk to the size of a sparrow and landed on the other side of Lin Huang's shoulder. It secretly peeped at Charcoal after managing to stay absolutely still.

After Thunder arrived, Lancelot, Tyrant and the rest arrived one after the other.

Charcoal, Thunder, Lancelot, Tyrant, Bloody Robe, Fiend, Scarlet Imp (Imp), Witch, Eclipse (Eclipse Boa), Crescent Moon and Dark Moon (the two Dark Crescent Snakes), Death (Death Knight), Fallen (Fallen Knight), Warlord, Herculean King, Bing Wang, Killer, Evil Dominator, Ku Rong (Demonic Buddhist Holy Son), Blackscale (Symbiotic Creature of the Abyssal Fountain) and Nine Gloom (Silver-armored Nine Gloom).

Lin Huang felt a sense of achievement as he looked at the 21 imperial monsters before him.

It would be an immense fortune for any imperial censors in the great world to have even one Pure Spirit rank-6 lord-level imperial monster.

He had more than 21 imperial monsters standing before him; part of the imperial monster army that he had built.

Lin Huang even speculated that, even if there were imperial censors with such high-level imperial monsters in the universe, they definitely would not have as many imperial monsters as he did.

He soon snapped back to his senses after falling deep into thought.

"I gathered you guys this time mainly because I have some grudges to settle with an organization from before. I happen to have time to deal with it these few days, so I thought I'd train all of you."

"The target this time is a grade-6 organization in the God Territory—the Myriad Tribe Palace."

"On the surface, this organization has at least three half-step Lords. The actual number should be more than that. There's also a very low chance that they have a Lord guarding them."

The imperial monsters' excitement clearly dropped when they heard that.

Their current abilities were enough to fight middle-rank Lords. They had little interest in fighting half-step Lords.

Lin Huang guessed that they would have such a reaction.

"To increase the difficulty of the mission for you guys, the task this time is to capture all of the half-step Lords and Lords at the Myriad Tribe Palace alive, especially the one named Zos. No matter what his combat strength, he must be captured alive."

Zos was the individual from the Thousand Snake Sect that the Myriad Tribe Palace had given their orders to.

Lin Huang only knew the name of this individual.

He did not know how the person looked like and what the person's combat strength was.

Lin Huang wanted Zos alive mainly because he wanted to learn about the truth from Zos. He wanted to know why Zos repeatedly ordered the destruction of the gravel world's cultivation civilization.

Teng Ran and the rest from the Thousand Snake Sect had their guesses.

However, those were still guesses and not proven to be the truth.

Naturally, keeping Zos alive was just a temporary arrangement.

After Lin Huang obtained the truth, no matter what role Zos played in this matter, as he was the person who directly issued the order, it was impossible for Lin Huang to let him go.

As for the Myriad Tribe Palace, regardless of how many people were involved in this matter, Lin Huang did not plan to let this organization continue to exist.

The reason being was that it was impossible for the Myriad Tribe Palace to not have any idea about Zos giving out such an order.

However, the upper echelons of the Myriad Tribe Palace chose to indulge him and ignore it.

They allowed Zos to order the Thousand Snake Sect to destroy the gravel world's cultivation civilization over and over again, repeatedly massacring the cultivators in the gravel world.

Throughout the eras, there were at least tens of billions of gravel world's cultivators who died innocently under the hand of the Thousand Snake Sect.

The Myriad Tribe Palace had to pay the price for allowing such atrocities to occur!

"I've already told you guys about the mission and target. I won't say anything further. Let's depart directly."

As soon as Lin Huang was done speaking, he summoned the Gate of All Realms and set its coordinates to the Myriad Tribe Palace…

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Chapter 1702: Love-Hate Relationship

The Myriad Tribe Palace's headquarters was located within the Pilgrim Star Zone within the God Territory's core zone.

It was less than three million lightyears away from the Combat God Temple's headquarters. They could be considered fairly close to each other.

Unlike the Nephilic Judge Tribe, whose growth and strength was restricted by its population, the standing of the Myriad Tribe Palace could be described as being like the sun at high noon. Among the top grade-6 organizations, their overall strength ranked steadily within the top three.

Although on the surface they only had three half-step Lords with top-notch combat strength, the Myriad Tribe Palace had members everywhere. They had at least three times the number of members than Death Sickle had.

Before Buried Heaven was elevated to Lord, and before Death Sickle was upgraded to a grade-7 organization, in the eyes of everyone in the God Territory, the Myriad Tribe Palace's overall ability was actually no lower than Death Sickle's.

That was the reason why Lin Huang had never dared to use his real identity over the past few years since arriving in the great world.

Clearly, his growth rate was pretty stunning throughout his period of incognito living.

The current Lin Huang was so powerful that he could end the Myriad Tribe Palace with a flip of his hand.

Leading a bunch of imperial monsters through the Gate of All Realms, Lin Huang's team appeared directly above Pilgrim Star Zone, the planet where the Myriad Tribe Palace's headquarters was.

The few half-step Lords guarding the Myriad Tribe Palace's headquarters sensed their arrival immediately.

"Who are you?"

A half-step Lord's Divine Telekinesis voice transmission sounded out.

Although they could not sense Lin Huang's team's exact strength, what they sensed was enough to tell that their appearance meant trouble.

The few Myriad Tribe Palace guardians became tense as if they were facing their mortal enemies.

However, even now, they had no idea who exactly they offended.

"You guys can attack now. Don't hurt the innocent." Lin Huang did not waste time and gave out the order directly.

He specifically reminded them not to hurt the innocent because there were quite a few non-cultivators living on the planet where the Myriad Tribe Palace's headquarters was.

Lancelot took the lead to attack the moment Lin Huang issued the order.

He stretched his hand through the air. Four half-step lord-level guardians were immediately enveloped by a black sphere.

Not to mention Charcoal and the others, even Lin Huang was stunned as he watched the technique unfold.

"What an epic technique…" Lin Huang realized from a glance that it was Mirror that Lancelot had used.

Mirror was usually a skill used as a form of defense to deflect damage.

Lancelot used a double-sided black mirror to envelop the few Myriad Tribe Palace guardians this time.

Not only would it defend against the exterior attacks, but there was a layer of defense inside as well.

He used Mirror as a cage to capture the guardians.

After all, Lin Huang had said at the beginning that he wanted them alive. Lancelot executed Lin Huang's order quite thoroughly.

The rest of the imperial monsters were dumbstruck.

Less than a second had passed since the battle began, and four half-step Lords from the enemy's side had been captured alive.

What was there left for them?!

Just when they were in a daze, a chant came to their ears suddenly.

They turned their heads to look. Ku Rong (Demonic Buddhist Holy Son) looked like a Buddha statue with a solemn face. There was a corona that rose above his head.

He closed his eyes slightly and performed a hand seal with both hands. A chant with unusual syllables came out of his mouth.

Just when the crowd was doubtful of what he was doing, the many cultivators in the Myriad Tribe Palace beneath started flying up. All of them pressed their palms together and looked sincere. They looked like monks who had been in seclusion for years.

They were even more dumbstruck now.

Who were they going to fight now?!

All the cultivators had been captured alive.

Naturally, Lin Huang knew what kind of technique Ku Rong used. It was just that he did not expect that he would use such a powerful move in such a place.

One must know that such Buddhist precepts were classified as weapons of mass destruction in battlefields. As long as his God's soul was powerful enough, even bug hordes numbering in the billions would have to yield wherever the chant spread.

Ku Rong clearly had locked on to all the targets with Divine Telekinesis first with his technique. It did not affect the non-cultivators on this planet.

Everyone, including Lin Huang, did not expect that the battle would end so quickly.

Less than a second the battle began, Lancelot and Ku Rong had both attacked consecutively and…

They subdued all the enemies instantly.

The remaining 19 imperial monsters did not manage to attack at all.

They thought that they would show off their skills before their master this time. They felt beaten now.

"Lancelot… You're too much!" Charcoal could not help but vent its dissatisfaction to Lancelot directly.

"Master wants them alive. This is the best way," Lancelot responded in all seriousness.

Lin Huang said nothing. He appeared in the camp of the Myriad Tribe Palace's headquarters directly in a flash.

He glanced through the buildings around that were rather extravagant and walked toward the palace right in front of him. He walked straight to the main seat right across the door.

"Bring them here," Lin Huang said to Lancelot and the rest through voice transmission after taking his seat.

When Lancelot and Ku Rong heard that, they immediately controlled the many cultivators to land in the palace.

The remaining imperial monsters quickly entered the palace too.

"Let them out." Lin Huang nodded at Lancelot lightly after glancing at the sphere made of four black mirrors.

Ku Rong, who was standing at the side, performed hand seals and chanted scriptures with his eyes shut.

Lancelot unsealed Mirror when he saw that.

The four half-step Lords saw bright lights before them but, the next second, they heard the chanting of scriptures. Their gaze turned empty all of a sudden.

Lin Huang only asked when he saw that, "Which one of you is Zos?!"

A middle-aged man with a moustache took a step forward looking in a daze. The remaining half-step Lords looked at him.

Lin Huang took a good look at him.

He looked like he was in his early forties. He had a mediocre appearance with a moustache above his lips.

To be honest, apart from him being 1.8 meters tall, this person's appearance was unremarkable.

"4815162342, you should remember this number, right?" Lin Huang asked expressionlessly.

"I do. It's a mini world's serial number." Zos nodded with a blank stare.

"Why did you order the Thousand Snake Sect to destroy this mini world's cultivation civilization over and over again?" Lin Huang finally asked the question.

"Because this mini world evolved from Alex's God Territory fragment."

"Who is Alex?" Lin Huang asked further.

Zos struggled for a second when he heard that question. However, he soon answered the question, "He's my junior brother…"

As time went on, Lin Huang and the rest listened to Zos talk about the story of a love-hate relationship between a senior brother and junior brother.

Zos and Alex were adopted by a cultivator from a young age.

Zos was two years older than him. However, from childhood until adulthood, he had lived in his junior brother Alex's shadow.

He started cultivating over a year earlier than Alex did, but Alex caught up to him within two months. Since then, the gap between their cultivation had grown further and further apart.

When the master who adopted them died, Zos was 19. He had yet to step into virtual god-level. Meanwhile, Alex who was 17 at that time was already at Virtual God rank-8.

Since their master died, the two of them parted ways (it was Zos who suggested this).

Initially, Zos thought he would no longer be in Alex's shadow after parting ways.

Never had he thought Alex would soon stand out in the great world.

He appeared on the Virtual God Leaderboard, and then broke through to true god-level not long after.

Zos did not expect that Alex's shadow would grow even larger after they parted ways.

He worked hard at his cultivation to catch up with him. However, he could only watch as Alex's back drifted further and further away.

Throughout the tens of thousands of years that passed, Zos would hear Alex's name every now and then.

He watched him being ranked on a variety of leaderboards along the way and accrue praise from the masses. His combat strength skyrocketed all the way to the heavenly god-level.

A piece of news suddenly came one day.

Alex had failed in his attempt to elevate to lord-level and had died on the spot!

At that time, Zos had only managed to achieve heavenly god-level through all manners of hardships.

When he heard the news, he locked himself in a room for over a month without stepping out.

He was not sure if he was happy or sad.

Theoretically, he would no longer have to live in Alex's shadow since he was dead. He was finally liberated. He should feel happy.

However, Zos could not be happy.

Nevertheless, he did not shed even a single tear for Alex's death.

On the other hand, the unusual emotions he held inside were festering throughout the month of locking himself in.

He hated Alex!

He hated the fact that he was more powerful than him in every way.

His appearance, charisma, cultivation… Every single aspect of Alex was much better than him.

He hated that he was loved and respected.

He had countless lovers and tens of thousands of followers.

He hated that he died young.

Which destroyed the possibility of him ever catching up to Alex…

Not long after Alex died, Zos focused all of his efforts on cultivation completely in order to break through to lord-level. He wanted to surpass Alex's highest combat strength when he was alive.

During his cultivation journey, he made some heavenly god-level friends, and built the Myriad Tribe Palace.

Soon after the Myriad Tribe Palace was built, Zos suddenly received a piece of news.

When Alex died, his God Territory collapsed. A few remnant fragments did not disintegrate completely.

Since then, Zos spent many years trying to find the few remnant fragments.

Eventually, he finally found the mini world No. 4815162342, which he suspected was Alex's God Territory fragment.

He was worried that Alex would be reborn in his God Territory fragment.

To prevent himself from being surpassed again, Zos made a decision.

"I'll destroy your cultivation civilization over and over again. Even if you reincarnate, you can only watch me surpass your highest combat strength in your past life by elevating myself to lord-level!"

However, Zos did not fulfil his wish in the end.

Many years later, he failed in his lord-level elevation. He could only go for the second best option, which was to become a half-step Lord…

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Chapter 1703: Distorted Memory

Lin Huang squinted slightly after hearing Zos' story.

He then questioned the remaining three half-step Lords.

Two among the three of them were like Zos. They were founders of the Myriad Tribe Palace. They knew about the whole thing from the beginning to the end.

The two's narratives were virtually identical to what Zos had said.

However, Lin Huang frowned and fell into silence after hearing their stories..

The reason being the stories they narrated were completely different from what the Emperor's Heart said.

The Emperor's Heart told Lin Huang previously that gravel world No. 4815162342 was Lin Xin's God Territory fragment from her past life.

The reason why gravel world No. 4815162342 was wiped out over and over again was caused by Lin Xin's enemy during her past life—an Abyssal Lord.

The Myriad Tribe Palace was his vassal.

Lin Huang went after the Myriad Tribe Palace in order to find out more information about the Abyssal Lord, as well as the complete story behind the whole saga from them.

Never would he have thought such a situation would occur.

Although Zos and the rest's stories had no loopholes, it was completely different from the story he had heard.

"Did this group of people have their memories distorted?" Lin Huang thought long and hard about it. That was the only conclusion he could draw.

The Abyssal Lord might be the only one who could distort the memories of these few half-step Lords' so easily.

"Remove your control on Zos and let me try again," Lin Huang said to Ku Rong, refusing to give up.

Ku Rong nodded lightly and excluded Zos from the chant.

Zos very soon snapped back to his senses since he no longer had to listen to the chant.

However, when he took a good look at Lin Huang's face, his eyes fell into a daze once again. He stood where he was without moving.

Black sigils appeared in Lin Huang's pupils.

"Tell me the truth about gravel world No. 4815162342."

Zos began to narrate instantly without hesitation.

However, what he spoke of was still the story of the love-hate relationship between the sect brothers before.

It was not that Lin Huang had no faith in the effect of Ku Rong's Buddhist precepts.

After all, Ku Rong was a lower-rank Lord. The strength of his God's soul was barely that of a middle-rank Lord. It made sense that his technique would not work on the Abyssal Lord's memory distortion.

On the other hand, the strength of Lin Huang's God's soul was already at ultimate-rank lord-level. Theoretically, his hypnosis should be sufficient to dismantle the memory distortion technique that was set up by a person whose God's soul was weaker than his.

It was a surprise to him that Zos' memory remained distorted.

Lin Huang listened to Zos' story patiently. Apart from the additional details, it was basically identical to the story from before.

The sigils in his pupils faded. He appeared before Zos in a flash and pointed his finger between his eyebrows.

This time, he read his memory directly.

Within a mere second, Lin Huang copied all of Zos' memories.

He scanned through the memory images using Divine Telekinesis one by one. Zos' hundreds of thousands of years worth of memories were revealed in their entirety.

However, his memory about gravel world No. 4815162342 was exactly the same as his story.

Not only that, Lin Huang was unable to find anything unusual about his memory.

He frowned hard.

There were only two possibilities in such a situation.

One was that Lin Xin's enemy had a God's soul that was far more powerful than his.

Another possibility would be that the Abyssal Lord might be proficient in God's soul; an expert in techniques such as tampering with one's memory.

Lin Huang was more willing to accept that it was the latter. At least he might not be defeated if they really were to fight.

If it was the former, then things would be quite troublesome.

After all, the strength of his God's soul was at ultimate-rank lord-level now. If the strength of the person's God's soul was so much more powerful, then it might even be at dao-level.

"It seems like I can only ask the Emperor's Heart…"

Now that it had come down to this, the Myriad Tribe Palace was a complete dead-end as a clue.

Lin Huang did not plan to leave any loose ends behind. As he activated his Divine Telekinesis, countless God Weapon flying daggers turned into blood-colored electric arcs, penetrating all of the captives' bodies.

Subsequently, he casually tossed Zos and the other three corpses into his storage space.

"Clean up this place." Lancelot and the rest were stunned when they heard what Lin Huang said.

They thought they could leave after this was over.

Never had they thought they would have to clean up.

"Don't you guys think this is a pretty great foothold?" Lin Huang said while smiling when he saw Lancelot and the rest looking stunned.

The location of the Myriad Tribe Palace's headquarters was amazing. Not only that, the surrounding resources were abundant.

In reality, when Lin Huang first landed on this planet, he already planned to take it over.

After all, with his current ability, he could be carefree in everything he did in this great world.

"I'll need you guys to make a trip later." Lin Huang glanced at the group. "Clear out all of the Myriad Tribe Palace's branches in the surrounding star zones."

Although Lin Huang had taken over the headquarters, he did not want to leave any future troubles behind.

He figured he would occupy all of Myriad Tribe Palace's territories once and for all.

This would in turn save him a lot of time in developing the Sword Alliance.

Population growth and migration would have been a significant hindrance to his developmental plans. However, by occupying this territory, he could simply take over all the habitable planets the Myriad Tribe Palace initially had, which would solve the problem completely.

To most civilians, a change in the guardian organization would not affect their lives much. They would still continue living as they were. As long as the guardian organization's policy was not overly strict, the civilians would be unlikely to migrate.

Similar to the civilians on Earth, life went on when the country had a new president. Migration was a very unlikely scenario for most people.

As the takeover plan commenced, Lin Huang could almost foresee the rapid development of the Sword Alliance over the next few years.

After clearing out the palace, very soon, Lancelot and the rest left separately. They began purging the Myriad Tribe Palace's various branches.

Charcoal and the rest put in all of their effort in order to prove their capabilities.

Many imperial monsters were clearly more competitive in this mission since Lancelot and Ku Rong had stolen the limelight previously.

In under 10 minutes, Lancelot and the rest began to return one after the other.

All of the Myriad Tribe Palace's branches in the tens of star zones were cleared out.

Many busybodies took videos of the Myriad Tribe Palace being destroyed and posted them onto the internet.

In the beginning, many thought it was fake news.

After all, the Myriad Tribe Palace was a top organization that was only second to the few grade-7 organizations in the God Territory. The few half-step Lords who guarded the organization were not to be offended.

However, as more and more videos surfaced, they could see different Myriad Tribe Palace's branches being destroyed from different angles in the videos. They finally began to believe that someone had really attacked the Myriad Tribe Palace.

There were over 20 Myriad Tribe Palace's branches that were destroyed in the videos alone.

Clearly, it was not a one-time incident. Instead, someone was really dealing the Myriad Tribe Palace a devastating blow.

As those threads with videos went viral on the internet, people soon spread rumors and suspicions about the Myriad Tribe Palace's headquarters being attacked…

An unprecedentedly heated discussion broke out on the internet…

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Chapter 1704: The Seventh Grade-7 Organization in the God Territory

Lin Huang saw the heated discussions on the internet as soon as they broke out.

Throughout the next two to three days, the number of topics discussing the Myriad Tribe Palace increased to an astounding figure.

Myriad Tribe Palace became the number one trending topic on all internet platforms, and stayed there for a long time.

Not only did the discussions not let up, but rather they continued to intensify.

The reason was that a verified account on the internet, specializing in refuting rumors, visited all of the Myriad Tribe Palace's branches that were in ruins from the videos and proved the authenticity of the matter.

In addition, the entire video was broadcasted live.

It had provided solid evidence to verify the news of the many Myriad Tribe Palace branches being destroyed.

Many busybodies even found their way to the Myriad Tribe Palace's headquarters. They could only see that the door was shut tight, and that many barriers had been erected to conceal what was happening inside.

In reality, it was Lin Huang and the rest who occupied the Myriad Tribe Palace's headquarters. He was having a meeting with Bloody to decide on the future development pathway of the Sword Alliance.

Lancelot and the rest did not stay idle. Throughout those few days, they traveled to the Myriad Tribe Palace's remaining branches in the star zones further away to clear them out.

Meanwhile, Sword 1's team sent people to start taking over the Myriad Tribe Palace's branches that had been cleared.

On the fifth day, the matter escalated, just when the discussions regarding the Myriad Tribe Palace on the internet were beginning to die out.

Suddenly, a thread appeared early in the morning , quickly jumping to the top of the ranks on all the internet platforms.

"Breaking: A Mysterious Organization Has Taken Over the Myriad Tribe Palace's Stations!"

The thread caught every netizens' attention instantly.

Any organization that dared to take over the Myriad Tribe Palace's stations at such a time would most likely be the one responsible for the destruction of the Myriad Tribe Palace's branches.

The thread did not point out that the organization that took over was Sword Alliance. However, there were a couple of videos and many pictures in the thread that bore witness to the entire process of this mysterious organization taking over the Myriad Tribe Palace's branches.

This had immediately stirred up a frenzied discussion online.

Everyone was guessing the identity of this mysterious organization.

They were dumbstruck too. The way the Myriad Tribe Palace had been destroyed was just too strange.

They guessed that the mastermind behind the whole thing had to be a lord-level powerhouse. However, nobody knew how many Lords there were exactly and the abilities of this newly-risen mysterious organization.

Within an hour of the thread about the mysterious organization taking over the Myriad Tribe Palace's stations being posted, another thread suddenly jumped to first rank on all internet platforms.

"Revealing the Mysterious Organization that Destroyed the Myriad Tribe Palace".

The thread was posted by a verified account.

It was a thread with a video only.

In the video, the user shamelessly interviewed a few staff members who had taken over the Myriad Tribe Palace's stations.

Eventually, they learned from the staff members that the organization was called the Sword Alliance.

Everyone looked dumbstruck after they watched the video.

What grade of an organization was this Sword Alliance?! Why had they never heard of it before?

The cultivators in the God Territory had all memorized the names of the grade-6 and grade-7 organizations clearly. Most of them even knew about the rather popular grade-5 organizations as well.

However, the name Sword Alliance was completely unfamiliar to them.

It was not among any of the grade-6 and grade-7 organizations.

Very soon, people began to inquire on the internet.

In the end, the result all of them found was the Sword Alliance that Great Heaven founded in the previous era.

Many people conveniently found information about Great Heaven.

"This person named Great Heaven was so powerful. He was a Heavenly God who suppressed an entire era! Our God Territory aside, none of the Heavenly Gods in the entire great world were his match!"

"Do you guys think this dude named Great Heaven is still alive? Did he rebuild the Sword Alliance?!"

"The information said that he died during his lord-level elevation. It's more likely that he reincarnated and cultivated all over again. That's probably the reason why he has only rebuilt the Sword Alliance after so many years."

"You guys are speculating about this and that, but it's uncertain whether this Sword Alliance has anything to do with the Sword Alliance of the previous era. Perhaps they just happen to have the same name."

…

While the internet was rife with discussions on the topic, the grade-7 organizations, including the Combat God Temple and the others, got into action immediately and began to look for the Sword Alliance's information.

The grade-7 organizations possessed the authorization to check the registration details of the rest of the organizations.

However, they could not find anything about the Sword Alliance.

The reason being was that, when Lin Huang registered the Sword Alliance in the beginning, he did so in the human world. He did not do it in the God Territory.

However, not all organizations were clueless about the Sword Alliance.

At least Death Sickle were aware of it.

Buried Heaven and the rest already found out much earlier that Lin Huang had built an organization called the Sword Alliance in the human world.

In reality, even before the Sword Alliance was exposed, Buried Heaven had suspected that it was Lin Huang behind it all.

The reason was that, in the God Territory, only a couple of veteran grade-7 organizations could suppress the Myriad Tribe Palace.

Even if Death Sickle, which had just been upgraded to grade-7, wanted to destroy the Myriad Tribe Palace, it was not something that they could do within a short period of time.

Meanwhile, other organizations would definitely notice if any large commotion was stirred by the other grade-7 organizations. Therefore, it was impossible for them to have done it.

Therefore, Lin Huang became an obvious suspect.

Now that the Sword Alliance had been exposed, Buried Heaven contacted Lin Huang directly.

He asked about the Myriad Tribe Palace.

He said nothing much after Lin Huang gave a simple explanation.

After all, the Myriad Tribe Palace was at fault first. Lin Huang did not stir trouble with them for nothing, but was rather taking revenge.

Buried Heaven then asked about Lin Huang's future plans, and Lin Huang gave him a rough idea of what those would be.

In order to grow, the Sword Alliance definitely needed an ally.

Death Sickle would undoubtedly be a great ally.

In reality, this was within Bloody's plan.

Over the next few days, people started to uncover more and more information about the Sword Alliance (it was actually the Sword Alliance that released it secretly).

The discussions about the Sword Alliance ranked foremost on all internet platforms.

As Lin Huang's team expected, the Sword Alliance's popularity was growing by day.

The topic was trending for three days.

Then finally the Sword Alliance's representative spoke up.

A thread with the title "A Little Something About the Sword Alliance" was soon trending on the entire internet.

Naturally, Bloody was the author of the thread.

There were not many words in the thread. It merely gave a simple explanation of the grudge between the Sword Alliance and the Myriad Tribe Palace, introducing the organization's internal structure, as well as declaring their future vision.

There was a document at the end of the thread.

It was signed by Royal. It was a document recognizing the Sword Alliance as a grade-7 organization.

Most people thought it was rather ridiculous when they saw the document at the end. Many netizens had no idea who Royal was at all.

However, all grade-7 organizations and a portion of the grade-6 organizations knew the document was authentic when they saw it.

The Sword Alliance was a grade-7 organization that Royal legally recognized!

Within half an hour of the thread being posted, Death Sickle was the first to extend their congratulations on the internet.

They congratulated the Sword Alliance on becoming a new grade-7 organization!

Within ten minutes of Death Sickle posting their congratulations, the Nephilic Judge Tribe became the second organization to extend their congratulations.

Later on, the Combat God Temple, Divine Clapnet, Xeno and Precious Treasure Pavilion congratulated the Sword Alliance one after the other.

Among the six grade-7 organizations besides the Sword Alliance, God Capital was the only one who remained silent.

Seeing the six grade-7 organizations extend their congratulations, many grade-6 and grade-5 organizations immediately realized that it was a great opportunity to butter them up. They extended their congratulations as well.

The scale of the congratulations had even exceeded the time when Death Sickle had been upgraded to a grade-7 organization not long ago…

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Chapter 1705: Rise to Fame

All of a sudden, the name of the Sword Alliance went completely viral on the internet.

Almost all the cultivators in the entire God Territory became aware of this new grade-7 organization.

Even the few people who did not know about Death Sickle's upgrade to grade-7 organization knew that the Sword Alliance was the new grade-7 organization.

After all, the Sword Alliance's rise to prominence was quite different to that of Death Sickle's.

The Sword Alliance rose to power by destroying a grade-6 organization, the Myriad Tribe Palace.

In addition, due to Royal's endorsement, apart from God Capital, the other grade-7 organizations in the God Territory all extended their congratulations.

With them leading the way, it caused the Sword Alliance to receive far more congratulatory messages from the different organizations than Death Sickle did back then.

Naturally, increasing the Sword Alliance's popularity was part of Bloody's plan.

If Lin Huang's ability was still insufficient, like it had been before, he would have naturally preferred to grow his strength while lying low. He would have avoided attracting too much attention.

However, he now had the ability to stand tall, and he had the backing of Royal as well.

He figured that he could totally grow the Sword Alliance in this great world.

By increasing their popularity, it would in turn hasten the development of the Sword Alliance.

Lin Huang would not have to worry about many issues that would arise when the Sword Alliance was developing.

With Bloody as the advisor, and Sword 1's team as the supervisors, they would only require some time to adapt at most. He would be able to fast-track the Sword Alliance's development soon.

…

Although the Combat God Temple and the other grade-7 organizations had extended their congratulations due to Royal's endorsement, they were actually rather confused.

The few Lords from the Combat God Temple had even specially requested Peerless Overlord to ask Royal about what exactly happened. As a Royal Rank-A member, Peerless Overlord was considered to possess some connections within Royal.

In the end, he only received a one sentence reply—"The Sword Alliance's Chief is Lin Huang, a Royal Rank-S member."

Peerless Overlord was stunned after seeing that message.

As a Royal Rank-A member who had been a member for many years, he naturally knew what being a Rank-S member meant. He was clearly aware of how difficult it was to become a Rank-S member.

In reality, he barely passed his Rank-A membership evaluation.

One could even say that, in the entire God Territory in this era, only Buried Heaven and him barely had the right to pass the Rank-A membership evaluation, what more the Rank-S membership evaluation.

Moreover, a Rank-S member would be a core member of Royal.

As a Rank-A member, Peerless Overlord would gain far more advantages by simply getting close to Lin Huang than he had gained through hard work all these years.

"Lin Huang… Why is this name rather familiar?" Peerless Overlord frowned slightly. He only recalled a while later, "He seems to be the guy that those bunch of outsiders from the universe came to capture a while ago…"

Peerless Overlord soon connected the dots after confirming Lin Huang's identity and his Rank-S membership evaluation. "Don't tell me this guy has killed those outsiders from the universe?!"

He was terrified just imagining it. He had been in contact with the investigators from the Raiders. He could clearly sense that any one of them could kill him easily.

Peerless Overlord did not hesitate at all, and immediately informed Zhan Guang and the others about Royal's response and his speculations.

The few Lords from the Combat God Temple fell into a long period of silence after hearing his words.

"Indeed, there was no news about the investigators who came…"

"While it could be a case of having the same name, I think it's impossible that it's all a coincidence. It should be the same person."

"Unfortunately, the Sword Alliance's Chief has never shown his face. Otherwise, we could compare it with the image from the wanted order." Zhan Guang could not help but ask, "Overlord, didn't you find out Lin Huang's personal information from Royal? Isn't there a picture at least?"

"Rank-S members are Royal's core members. Their personal information is confidential. I can't find anything about him with my level of authorization," Peerless Overlord said rather helplessly, "However, I also think that it should be the same person."

"He must possess powerful abilities if he's wanted by a group of middle-rank lord-level outsiders. Even more so since he's a Royal Rank-S member and destroyed the Myriad Tribe Palace. The possibility of having two powerhouses with lord-level ability with the same name is abysmally low."

While Combat God Temple and the other grade-7 organizations were investigating the Sword Alliance and trying to figure out what sort of relationship to have with them, Death Sickle had already finalized all the details of their collaboration with the Sword Alliance. They even signed an agreement and posted the collaboration announcement online.

While the bunch of grade-5 and grade-6 organizations were waiting and observing, the few grade-7 organizations had reacted immediately.

Death Sickle definitely knew something.

They started contacting Death Sickle, wanting to obtain more information from them.

Within two hours of Death Sickle posting the collaboration notice, the Nephilic Judge Tribe also posted a collaboration announcement with the Sword Alliance too.

After all, unlike Death Sickle where the upper echelons were aware of Lin Huang's capabilities, Kylie and Bloody had to spend some time before finally convincing the upper echelons of the Nephilic Judge Tribe.

Combat God Temple was the third one to publish a collaboration announcement. It was because they had confirmed with Death Sickle that both Lin Huangs were the same person.

His Royal Rank-S identity alone was enough for the Combat God Temple to want to cozy up to him.

Soon after the Combat God Temple published the notice, Divine Clapnet, Precious Treasure Pavilion and Xeno published theirs in rapid succession.

The grade-5 and grade-6 organizations sent negotiation invitations immediately when they saw what was unfolding. All of them wanted to be in the loop as well.

Meanwhile, the smaller organizations and some rogue cultivators had a heated discussion on what exactly Sword Alliance was.

While the internet was still discussing the Sword Alliance enthusiastically, organizations such as Death Sickle and the Combat God Temple quietly removed Lin Huang's wanted notice that they had initially posted under the threat of the Raiders' investigators.

The Sword Alliance's rise to fame also made Lin Huang so busy that he did not have time to enter the virtual realm to cultivate.

He had obtained a vast amount of lord-level God Territories from Royal's auction earlier, but could not spare any time to refine them.

He got Sword 1's team to check and amend the few grade-7 organizations' terms of collaboration one by one before giving them to Bloody. After Bloody revised the terms, he participated in discussions about them with Sword 1's team.

There were also video conferences of discussions with various organizations such as the Combat God Temple and others…

Naturally, Lin Huang had only participated in the collaboration discussions with the grade-7 organizations. He gave the authority to Bloody and Sword 1 to handle the grade-6 organizations, excluding the Nephilic Judge Tribe.

Apart from new collaborations, Lin Huang got Sword 1's team to do a selective takeover of the organizations under the Myriad Tribe Palace.

Just like what Bloody said, taking over the Myriad Tribe Palace's organizations would give the outsiders the impression that the Sword Alliance was generous. On the other hand, this could reduce their potential enemies as well.

After all, it was possible that the organizations that used to rely on the Myriad Tribe Palace in the past would see Sword Alliance, the one that destroyed the Myriad Tribe Palace, as an enemy after losing the protection of the former.

Although the Sword Alliance did not care about that, it would be better to have one more organization under them as opposed to having one more enemy.

Furthermore, some of the organizations under the Myriad Tribe Palace were in great shape.

There were four grade-5 organizations among them. Though they did not rank amongst the top, the annual "protection fee" they paid was significant.

Lin Huang got his Sword Servants to run an evaluation. They basically took over any organization as long as their reputations were not below average.

Outside the God Territory, the human world received the news a few days later. Grade-6 and grade-7 organizations contacted the Sword Alliance's branch in the Demon Eye Star Zone one after the other in an attempt to initiate a collaboration with them.

Lin Huang only managed to finally spare some time to enter the virtual realm after he was more or less done with the arrangements regarding the Sword Alliance. He began a new round of cultivation…

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Chapter 1706: The Illusion of Becoming More Powerful

Lin Huang sat with his legs crossed and entered the cultivation state in the virtual realm cabin.

His priority during the closed-door cultivation this time was to visualize the nameless Divine Telekinesis visualization images.

Among the 108 nameless Divine Telekinesis visualization images, he was only left with the final two that he had yet to complete.

He had put it aside because, back then, he would have had to spend tens of thousands of years to visualize the 107th image alone with his upper-rank lord-level God's soul.

Since elevating to Lord-level, the strength of his God's soul had reached ultimate-rank lord-level. Given that he had two God's soul-type Goldfingers in his body now, the Soul-controlling Tablet and Brain of the Soul, the visualization duration would be reduced significantly.

After calming his mind, Lin Huang no longer hesitated and entered a state of visualization directly.

Days passed by in the virtual realm cabin.

He spent less than 200 years to completely visualize the 107th visualization image successfully.

The strength of his God's soul had elevated directly to peak ultimate-level lord-level.

He spent over 800 years to complete the 108th visualization image.

The strength of Lin Huang's God's soul and Divine Telekinesis elevated again when he was done visualizing the last nameless Divine Telekinesis visualization image. They reached the limits of ultimate-rank lord-level.

"I've finally completed the visualization process!" Lin Huang released a long exhale of breath.

Although he did not keep track of the exact duration, he was very sure that he spent a fairly long time visualizing the last two images.

Sensing the speedy transformation of his God's soul within his body, Lin Huang felt an inexplicable sense of achievement, akin to the feeling when he had conquered a stage in the games he used to play.

However, the second his God's soul completed its transformation in its entirety, the set of nameless Divine Telekinesis visualization images were suddenly crushed, turning into sparkles and disappearing.

Lin Huang was stunned for a moment, but soon came to a realization.

The nameless Divine Telekinesis inheritance had clearly self-destructed as he had already completely mastered the inheritance.

"The owner of this inheritance was a decent person. I can't believe he did that because he was unwilling to have his inheritance being exploited." Lin Huang roughly guessed the mindset of the owner of the inheritance.

On one hand, he hoped that there would be a successor for his inheritance.

On the other hand, he did not want his inheritance to end up in the wrong hands.

Therefore, he set things up accordingly.

Since someone had inherited it completely, he would destroy it directly. There was no need for a second successor.

Naturally, the risk of doing that was grave.

If the person who obtained the visualization images died before completing the visualization, the inheritance might be buried together with the person who died. The possibility of it being inherited would have vanished entirely.

Naturally, the owner had to be mentally prepared for this eventuality if he chose to make such a decision.

Lin Huang fell into a daze momentarily as he watched the visualization images disappear. He began to worry a little now.

There was no way for him to cultivate his God's soul and Divine Telekinesis in the future.

Although the strength of his God's soul had reached the limits of ultimate-rank lord-level, he did not think that ultimate-rank lord-level was his final destination. He wanted to step into the dao-level; he wanted to achieve an even higher level.

However, without a way to cultivate his God's soul and Divine Telekinesis, he had no idea how he would break through to the next level of his God's soul.

Nevertheless, Lin Huang did not worry or dwell on the problem for too long.

His current combat strength was merely at lower-rank lord-level. He still had ample time to figure out how to break through to the next level of his God's soul.

Seeing that there was no way to elevate the strength of his God's soul, he shifted his focus to his physical strength.

He had used the Goldfinger Pure Golden Blood's function to absorb Bai and the rest's blood essences earlier. He elevated his physical strength to peak ultimate-rank lord-level. He was only a step away from the limits of ultimate-rank lord-level.

In addition, Lin Huang happened to obtain hundreds of Lords' blood essences from the mummy-like man's storage space he had killed previously.

Although the quality of these blood essences could not be compared with the blood essence he had obtained from Bai and the others, it would be wasteful not to make use of the resources he had obtained.

Whether or not they could elevate his physical strength to the limits of ultimate-rank lord-level, that was something he would only find out after absorbing them.

With that mindset, Lin Huang fed the bottles of blood essences to the Pure Golden Blood in his body one by one.

Very soon, the Pure Golden Blood began a new round of reaction after absorbing the Lords' blood essences.

Lin Huang could sense clearly that his physical strength was increasing slowly.

Though slow, the increase was steady.

Lin Huang fed it hundreds of bottles of Lords' blood essences.

The Pure Golden Blood extracted the effective substances from them continuously to strengthen Lin Huang's physical body.

Time continued to pass in the virtual realm cabin.

Very soon, his physical strength elevated from peak ultimate-rank lord-level to the limits of ultimate-rank lord-level.

Although the quality of the blood essences could not compare, there were more in quantity after all.

Moreover, Lin Huang's physical strength had already been a half step away from the limits of ultimate-rank lord-level previously.

This round of strengthening had bridged the half-step gap entirely, pushing his physical body to its limit once and for all.

The strength of his God's soul and physical body had reached the limits of ultimate-rank lord-level. In reality, this exceeded Lin Huang's expectations.

However, he did not plan to leave his closed-door cultivation session just yet. Instead, he chose to continue on.

For the third round of closed-door cultivation, he chose to refine the Lords' God Territories.

He had busied himself over the Sword Alliance's matters for a month. The auction to sell the spoils he obtained from Nine Snake's team had also ended earlier. There were also the 11 intermediate-grade Dao Weapons he obtained from killing Black Mountain and the others. He had traded them for Lords' Kingdoms on Royal's auction before.

He had been putting these aside until now, and he could finally spend some time to refine them now.

This time, he had obtained many Lords' Kingdoms from trading the spoils.

He obtained 648 middle-rank Lords' Kingdoms alone.

There were also 211 upper-rank Lords' Kingdoms.

Finally, he had also managed to obtain eight ultimate-rank Lords' Kingdoms as well.

Naturally, the Kingdoms he obtained this time were the same as before. They were Abyssal and Bug Tribe Kingdoms that nobody wanted.

Otherwise, it was impossible that he could have obtained that many.

However, the quantity was the only thing that mattered to Lin Huang.

No matter what kind of Kingdom it was, the Eternity Fire was able to remove the contaminated energy contained in those Kingdoms.

Lin Huang began the refining process directly after doing a rough inventory.

There was no concept of time in the virtual realm.

Day after day, Lin Huang did not eat, drink, rest or sleep. It was unclear how long it took for him to finally refine all the 648 middle-rank Lords' Kingdoms.

The 648 middle-rank Lords' Kingdoms provided a boost of over 38,000 Dao seals in Lin Huang's Kingdoms. The total number of Dao seals increased to 43,161.

Regarding the number of Dao tattoos, it provided a boost of over 260 million Dao tattoos; the total number surpassing 300 million.

The round of elevation seemed to provide a comprehensive boost to Lin Huang's ability on the surface.

It even seemed like he could fight a minor dao-level entity head-on if he unleashed his Kingdom.

However, Lin Huang realized that, though there were many Dao seals in his Kingdom indeed, they seemed to be restricted by the strength of his God's soul and physical body. Even in his Kingdom, 3,000 Dao seals was the limit he could use.

He clearly sensed that there would be a great risk of his God's soul and physical body collapsing instantly if he was to use even 1 additional Dao seal past his limit.

His initial excitement faded away; he felt as if a bucket of cold water had been splashed on his face.

Looking at the remaining upper-rank and ultimate-rank Lords' Kingdoms, he gave up on the plan of continuing to refine them.

"I should just obediently refine my god sequence chains to elevate my brute force outside my Kingdom," Lin Huang said, feeling rather helpless.

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Chapter 1707: Soaring Combat Strength

Lin Huang continued his closed-door cultivation session in the virtual realm cabin.

Noticing that the number of Dao seals he could borrow from his Kingdom had reached its limit, he decisively stopped refining more God Territories.

Instead, he began developing the god sequence chains that were already in his Kingdom.

Lin Huang could borrow all of the god sequence chains in the Kingdom, and had not only used them before, but also studied them before.

Therefore, developing them again and transforming them into his own god sequence chains was easier than consolidating god sequence chains from scratch.

Days passed by rapidly in the virtual realm cabin.

The number of god sequence chains in Lin Huang's body was skyrocketing.

It was unclear how much time had passed, but he had finally consolidated one million god sequence chains.

After a moment of hesitation, Lin Huang resolutely chose to perform unification again.

He had been attacked by a powerhouse above lord-level the last time he performed unification, and almost failed to fight back.

If not for the lady who attacked in the end, his virtual body would definitely have been destroyed.

This time, he was not leaving it to chance; on whether such an entity would appear again, nor whether the lady who saved him before would appear again.

He was fully prepared.

He spread out his Kingdom in its entirety. The God Weapon flying daggers in his sleeves were ready to attack.

This time, he was going to fight it head-on.

It was not the case of him being arrogant due to his increase in combat strength, but rather he wanted to know how large of a gap exactly there was between his ability and a dao-level powerhouse.

On the other hand, he was not worried about being killed.

If he died in the virtual realm, all he would lose was a virtual body.

Even if a dao-level powerhouse's technique could affect the material realm, he had other techniques that would allow him to revive.

His comprehensive preparations allowed him a measure of confidence and safety in attempting this once again.

The path of cultivation, after all, was something in defiance of nature.

If he became terrified of powerful enemies due to one failure, he would truly be in a regretful state in future encounters.

Lin Huang took action instantly after making up his mind.

He performed unification again.

It was his fourth Dao Seal. The process of unification was pretty similar to the process before.

The first stage of unification—psychic communication.

In this stage, the god sequence chains would start to possess a fragment of intelligence. They would enter a state of chaos and fight for dominance.

In Lin Huang's body, the one million god sequence chains transformed into various forms and entered a chaotic state.

This process was very dangerous for a person who was performing unification for the first time. However, it was nothing to veterans.

Lin Huang had no expression on his face. He merely used his God's soul to release some pressure, and the god sequence chains immediately became obedient.

The entire process ended in less than a second.

The second stage of unification—unification.

During this stage, the god sequence chains would change their forms and transform into Dao tattoos to consolidate the Dao seal.

This stage was the stage with the highest failure rate for ninth-rank heavenly god-level powerhouses who were performing unification for the first time.

The reason was that the process of Dao tattoos consolidating the Dao seal was similar to nuclear fusion. It would release terrifying amounts of energy.

The release of such energy would impact the physical body, God's soul and God Territory of the person performing unification.

If any of the three failed to overcome the impact, the unification would abort itself.

However, to a powerhouse whose physical body and God's soul had reached the limits of ultimate-rank lord-level, the energy impact of a lower-rank lord-level unification could not break through his defense at all.

His Kingdom was even more sturdy. It could not be moved by the mere unification of a Dao seal.

Throughout the unification process this time around, Lin Huang had no expression on his face from the outset. He watched the entire process play out in silence.

The energy impact of the unification did not harm his Kingdom at all, nor did it affect his physical body and God's soul.

He was like a spectator, watching a grand display of fireworks in his Kingdom.

He watched the fourth Dao seal begin to consolidate quickly.

Lin Huang knew that the third stage was coming.

Dao plundering!

The moment the Dao seal consolidated successfully, the aura that it generated would attract the attention of Raptors, luring them from the virtual realm.

Lin Huang was currently in the virtual realm. Naturally, countless Voids would sense the Dao seal's aura.

He lifted his spirit. It was not that he was afraid of the Voids that would come in search of his Dao seal's aura. Instead, he was taking precautions against the dao-level powerhouse that had attacked him previously.

He was ready to go all out at any time. He did not plan to hold back at all.

In the virtual realm, Lin Huang's Kingdom descended. It was unknown how many star zones nearby were enveloped within.

The sparkling golden Dao seal that had just been consolidated was like a big, golden sun above the Kingdom. It exuded an endless golden glow and its overwhelming aura spread toward all directions like a wave.

To the Voids' senses, the aura from the Dao seal was similar to the aroma of delicious food that made one drool.

They were like sharks that had smelled blood. They began to rush toward Lin Huang's direction in a frenzy.

Lin Huang was expressionless. He clearly sensed the Voids that were intruding into his Kingdom.

From his sleeves, blood-colored electric arcs shot forth consecutively, reaping lives mercilessly.

This time, he had killed over 50 Voids.

The most powerful one even had the combat strength of upper-rank lord-level.

Lin Huang could not help but raise his brows as he watched the Dao seal's glow in the sky dimming slowly.

The dao-level attacker from the last time did not come.

It was unknown whether it was afraid of that lady who attacked previously or perhaps because of some other reason.

Up till the Dao seal's aura had weakened completely and hidden itself deep in the depths of his Kingdom, Lin Huang did not see the attacker from before.

While he did feel a sense of relief, he also felt that it was quite a pity.

He put his Kingdom away and turned around. He entered the virtual realm beneath again and started a new round of developing his god sequence chains…

Years passed by in the virtual realm.

Since the fourth Dao seal had been successfully consolidated, Lin Huang consolidated more and more over and over again.

The dao-level attacker never showed up again.

Instead, he would reap the lives of many Voids each time he consolidated Dao seals.

Just like that, he consolidated ten Dao seals smoothly.

The strength of the Dao seals had arrived at peak lower-rank lord-level.

However, Lin Huang did not stop just yet. Instead, he chose to consolidate more Dao seals.

When the 11th Dao seal was formed, the difficulty of unification had clearly increased significantly.

Nevertheless, this did not cause any hindrances to Lin Huang.

Even though the number of Voids the Dao seal's aura attracted was multiplied, it merely increased the number of lives Lin Huang would reap.

Lin Huang had yet to halt the development of god sequence chains.

The number of Dao seals in his body skyrocketed.

11…

12…

…

20…

30…

…

90…

A hundred!

When he consolidated the 101th Dao seal, the difficulty of unification increased again.

However, it still did not cause any problems to Lin Huang.

Although he knew that he had been in closed-door cultivation for an extremely long time, he did not plan to leave just yet. He chose to continue developing even more Dao seals.

The number of Dao seals in his body continued to grow significantly.

101…

102…

…

110…

120…

…

200…

300…

…

1,000…

2,000…

3,000!

Lin Huang reached the limit of 3,000 Dao seals, similar to the amount an ultimate-rank Lord would have, but the dao-level attacker still had not shown itself.

However, he finally felt that he had hit a plateau.

He could not develop more god sequence chains…

The god sequence chains that had looked extremely simple to him before felt like they had suddenly been encrypted.

Lin Huang tried over ten times, but failed each time.

"Perhaps this is the limit before stepping into dao-level…"

Feeling helpless, Lin Huang could only halt things here and shook his head while forcing a smile. "The duration of this closed-door cultivation session has gone on long enough. It's time to leave."

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Chapter 1708: Even I've No Idea How Powerful I Am

When Lin Huang returned to the material realm, barely a second had passed since his virtual body entered the virtual realm.

Within that brief second, his overall ability underwent an immense transformation.

Before entering the virtual realm, he had only consolidated three Dao seals; Two of the Sword seals were even incomplete.

Now that he had gotten out of closed-door cultivation, he had successfully consolidated 3,000 Dao seals.

Not only did he complete the two Sword seals that he had in the beginning to the state of having one million Dao tattoos, he had consolidated over 200 new Sword seals.

That was under the premise that the number of Sword Dao heavenly rule was limited in his Kingdom which only allowed him to develop over 200 Sword seals.

Otherwise, he was more than happy to consolidate all of the 3,000 Dao seals into Sword seals.

In reality, Lin Huang was not exactly happy to have reached the limit of ultimate-rank lord-level.

He could not figure out what exactly was the issue that he could not consolidate more Dao seals.

There was a faint, invisible will that was stopping him from breaking through.

It had even intervened with his Kingdom and Godly Right.

In his own Kingdom, he could only use the power of 3,000 Dao seals. He could not use any more than that.

Meanwhile, outside his Kingdom, he could only use the 3,000 Dao seals that he had mastered. He could not even borrow any more Dao seals from his Kingdom.

Lin Huang had a faint feeling that the plateau did not come from himself.

It seemed to be restricted by a rule from the outside world.

However, he did not get himself stuck in that.

On one hand, it was because his ability had risen to an ultimate level.

Although he could only master 3,000 Dao seals, he knew that other ultimate-rank Lords who had also mastered 3,000 Dao seals were definitely not his match.

The reason being each of his Dao seals was made of millions of Dao tattoos.

In the great world, any ordinary Lords would only have over 1,000 Dao tattoos in the Dao seals that they consolidated.

Even a genius like Buried Heaven only had less than 2,000 Dao tattoos in the Dao seals he consolidated.

Even in the entire universe, it was quite impossible that any Lords could compare him with the number of Dao tattoos in the Dao seals they consolidated.

The number of Dao tattoos in Dao seals was not Lin Huang's only strong suit. There was his physical body and God's soul.

When he had just gotten into closed-door cultivation at lower-rank lord-level, the strength of his physical body and God's soul had reached the limit of ultimate-rank lord-level.

As the number of Dao seals were growing in his body, and that his combat strength was elevating, it had strengthened his physical body and God's soul over and over again.

Although he was not exactly sure if the strength of his physical body and God's soul had reached dao-level, he was very sure that no matter his physical body and God's soul, he was definitely more powerful than most powerhouses at the limit of ultimate-rank lord-level.

Let alone his Kingdom.

Lin Huang's Kingdom contained over 43,000 Dao seals. That was not even the limit the Kingdom could contain.

Lin Huang would not dare to compare other things, but he was certain that his Kingdom would definitely be comparable with dao-level powerhouses.

Apart from his brute force, Lin Huang had many Goldfingers, the advantage that others did not have.

The Critical Hit Hammer alone that had grown to fourth stage would be torturous enough.

Each time he attacked, there would be at least threefold to fortyfold of random critical hit effect.

Combined with his vast amount of God Weapon flying daggers, Lin Huang thought he should not have any matches who were under dao-level.

Moreover, as his combat strength elevated, the few God Weapons in his body went through a transformation as well.

The God Weapons that were initially supreme-grade Dao Weapons had transformed into dao-level spiritual treasures.

Even Lin Huang was not sure which rank they had gotten exactly.

He was not even sure how powerful his ability was now exactly. He was not sure whether he had the ability to fight a fair battle head-on with a dao-level powerhouse with all of his strength.

Lin Huang scanned with his Divine Telekinesis when he returned to the material realm. He soon noticed Charcoal and the rest.

However, he was a little confused. The reason being under the senses of his Divine Telekinesis, Charcoal and the rest gave him a feeling that they were matchsticks that were currently burning with unstable flame and sparks. He even had the illusion that he could put out their lives with a blow of breath.

The aura of Sword1's team was even weaker. They were like sparks that might extinguish any time.

While the remaining people were like dots of glow. The strength of their aura was not enough to generate heat.

Lin Huang was a little worried that he would put out all of the lives in the hundreds of star zones around if he accidentally sneezed.

"Is this an illusion coming from the skyrocketed ability? Will I really wipe out everything from a sneeze?" Lin Huang could not help but mutter softly.

At that very moment, he suddenly felt something watching him.

He spread his Divine Telekinesis and found nothing.

The sense of prying vanished instantly.

"Is that sense of prying an illusion as well?" Lin Huang frowned lightly.

He did not think that anyone in this great world could escape from the detection of his Divine Telekinesis. Even if the person was an expert in techniques that could hide their Divine Telekinesis, it was quite impossible that they managed to do that. After all, the strength of his Divine Telekinesis suppressed everyone below dao-level.

He did not think it was an illusion either.

He was a little suspicious that the sense of prying came from a Royal's dao-level powerhouse.

That was the only possibility that sounded more reasonable as an explanation.

The person might have sensed the aura that he spread unintentionally, so they pried.

Lin Huang did not dwell into that.

He continued to close his eyes to sense the changes as he returned to the material realm this time. He tried his best to familiarize with his body since the skyrocketed ability.

When it was close to night time, Sword1 suddenly sent a message.

"The operation of the Sword Alliance is basically on track now. We can prepare for the celebration. Please set a date, Lord Swordmaster."

Lin Huang fell into deep thoughts when he saw the message.

He had spent too much time in the virtual realm. He had completely forgotten about that since coming out of the closed-door cultivation this time.

The celebration that Sword1 was talking about was the celebration of Sword Alliance being upgraded.

Naturally, being upgraded to a grade-7 organization was something worth celebrating.

All of the organizations would hold a celebration when they were upgraded to grade-7 so that the world would know.

Although the Sword Alliance had great exposure on the internet throughout this period of time, where almost all cultivators had heard of them at least, they had never officially shown themselves in the public.

They could seize the celebration this time to invite everyone over to launch the Sword Alliance officially!

This would be the first time the Sword Alliance would show themselves to the public officially. It would be the perfect opportunity to boost their reputation.

"How many days do you guys need to prepare for the celebration?" Lin Huang replied to the message directly.

"Actually, we're almost done with the preliminary preparations. Now we're left with the official setup, deploying of staff and sending out invitations. I think we can get them done in three days at most," Sword1 replied instantly.

"Send the invitations out today and proceed with the preparation for the remaining three days. Set the celebration date three days later." Lin Huang did not hesitate at all. "Let me send the invitations when you guys are done with it."

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Chapter 1709: All Parties' Reaction

The Curse Planet in the Nephilic Judge Star Zone was a planet that was covered in lightning all year round.

It was not only the weather, there was a lord-level Odyl lingering above the clouds.

It was said that it was a technique that a lord-level senior from the Nephilic Judge had Tribe left behind in the past. It was now being controlled by a half-step Lord through the activation of a Dao Weapon.

Even lower-level Lords dared not trespass the territory of this planet.

This was where the Nephilic Judge Tribe's headquarters was.

Since Kylie joined the Nephilic Judge Tribe, she spent most of her time on this planet.

To be exact, she spent most of her time in the tallest holy tower on the Curse Planet.

It was a giant silver tower that was tens of thousands of meters tall.

There was a lady with purple hair and in a white dress at the top of the giant tower. She stood before the window, watching the lightning strikes of various colors flash in the rain outside.

It was Kylie who had her military uniform removed.

"Master has just sent the invitation over…" Kylie said while looking outside the window, as if she was talking to herself. "The Sword Alliance he founded has been upgraded to a grade-7 organization. He wants us to join the celebration."

"He should have conducted this celebration much earlier. He has dragged it for over a month." A petite yet busty lady with red hair walked over slowly.

That was the clone that Bloody had left behind with the Nephilic Judge Tribe.

"I chose to stay with the Nephilic Judge Tribe back then because I initially wanted to borrow their strength to help him as much as I could. In the end, I did nothing." Kylie turned around and looked at Bloody.

"Indeed, I didn't expect master to grow to such a level so quickly." Bloody nodded lightly. "I speculated that, even if he didn't need a hundred years to elevate to lord-level, he would need at least 30 to 50 years, and we could borrow the Nephilic Judge Tribe's strength to protect him throughout those tens of years of growth."

"Turns out he elevated to lord-level within three years. It made all my future plans worthless."

"However, that's not a bad thing. Master becoming powerful saves us a lot of trouble."

"How powerful exactly is he now?" Kylie could not help but ask.

"I don't know. No matter what, he's much more powerful than I am now." Bloody shook her head while smiling.

"Don't you have a rough estimate of his power?" Kylie continued to ask.

"No. The gap between our abilities is too great." Bloody continued to smile as she shook her head. "I heard from Charcoal that he defeated Bai and Teng Ran when they fought him together."

"After his elevation?" Kylie raised her eyebrows lightly.

"Yes. From what Charcoal said, they must've fought right after he had elevated and upgraded his rank." Bloody nodded with a smile.

"There's one more thing that might be a better indication of his ability," Bloody continued to say, "If my judgment is correct, he must've killed the bunch of Raiders who came from the universe. Otherwise, he wouldn't have announced the existence of the Sword Alliance in such a high profile manner."

"Those guys were middle-rank lords at the very least." Although Kylie had never come into contact with them herself, when the bunch of Raiders assigned someone to send the letter asking the Nephilic Judge Tribe to put Lin Huang on the wanted list, she sensed the aura that they did not bother concealing at all. She could roughly estimate their strength based on their aura.

"You can seize the opportunity to test his ability when you visit him this time. You should give it a shot since you've elevated to lord-level." Bloody had a playful grin on her face.

"Not interested," Kylie turned down the suggestion directly.

She knew very well that, even though she had been elevated to lord-level, her combat ability should be similar to Bai who was beaten earlier.

Bai and Teng Ran were tortured when they fought him together. It would be impossible that she could be Lin Huang's match if she was to fight him alone.

Moreover, that fight was something that took place close to two months ago.

The current Lin Huang would only be more powerful than he had been two months ago.

…

At the Blood Sickle Shelter in Death Sickle's headquarters, Buried Heaven gathered the couple of Blood Sickle members in the meeting room.

"Lin Huang sent us a message. There'll be a celebration for the Sword Alliance's upgrade to a grade-7 organization in three days. He invited our Death Sickle to join the celebration."

Buried Heaven projected the invitation as he spoke.

"I think it's best that the few of us here attend it. After all, Lin Huang came from Death Sickle, and he was the one who avenged Old Sun." As a human of Lin Huang's own kind, Gao Ming was the first to voice his opinion.

"I think all of us should go too. In the entire God Territory, Death Sickle should be the ones closest to him. We should support him." Hu Xian'er was the second to agree.

"I've no objections." Boundless Blood nodded lightly. "I even think that we can bring some of Lin Huang's old friends to join the occasion."

…

"Now let's proceed to the next topic. What gift should we prepare for the celebration this time?" Without skipping a beat, Buried Heaven broached the second topic.

…

At the Gods Shelter in God Capital's headquarters, Shen Tu squinted lightly as he sat at the main seat in the meeting room.

There were men and women dressed in luxurious clothes on both sides of the long table in the meeting room. They were in flawless human forms.

"Tell me what you think about the Sword Alliance's invitation this time."

"I think we can just give them a symbolic gift to prevent outsiders from calling God Capital rude." An old man with white hair sitting on Shen Tu's left took the lead to voice his opinion.

"I think there's no need to care." A blonde lady cleaned her nails absent-mindedly. "That brat surnamed Lin is just an inferior human. Among the rest of their members, even the outstanding ones are mixed-blood. I don't want to dirty my shoes going to such a place."

"That's right. I wonder where a lowly human got the guts to build an organization in our God Territory!" A young man with a slicked-back hairstyle went along with the lady's comment. "Now they've even been upgraded to grade-7?! If not for Royal's endorsement, I'd attack their headquarters and sever his head from his shoulders."

"Are there any other opinions?" Shen Tu glanced at the crowd present expressionlessly.

"I think we should drop by," the middle-aged man sitting on Shen Tu's right spoke slowly, "To show our God Capital's magnanimity. We can conveniently check out how powerful their Chief is and boost God Capital's reputation in front of everyone as well."

"Old Jue's suggestion isn't too shabby." The man with slicked-back hairstyle sitting further behind echoed his approval. "The Sword Alliance is very popular lately. They would indeed by a great stepping stone. We don't have to humiliate them. All we have to do is to suppress them and let everyone know that our God Capital is more powerful than the Sword Alliance. It depends on how the media wants to write about it."

…

All of a sudden, the entire God Territory was discussing the Sword Alliance's celebration event.

Almost everyone who received the invitation was discussing how many people they would send and what gift they should give.

Those who did not receive the invitation were waiting eagerly. They were waiting for the live broadcast stream from the media.

After all, this would be a celebration even grander than the time when Death Sickle upgraded.

Not only that, apart from the grade-7 organizations and the small number of grade-6 organizations who found out that Sword Alliance's Chief was called Lin Huang, the rest of the organizations and cultivators did not know that the Sword Alliance's Chief was the person on the wanted list.

They were very curious about what exactly the Sword Alliance's Chief looked like.

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Chapter 1710: You Might Die

In the Pilgrim Star Zone, the Sword Alliance's headquarters had become extraordinarily busy.

Beautiful lights were lit on the streets of the entire planet. It had a very festive feel.

The Myriad Tribe Palace's buildings had already been extravagant previously. After some renovations and adding a couple of Dao Weapon palaces, the buildings seemed even more luxurious now.

Apart from Kylie and the Bug Tribe, everyone under Lin Huang was present.

Bai, Grimace, Lancelot, Charcoal and the other imperial monsters were here. They shrunk their size and concealed their combat strength. They did not expose their lord-level auras at all.

After all, the number of the imperial monsters here was higher than all of the Lords added up in all of the organizations in the entire God Territory.

Lin Huang thought that it would be too high profile if they revealed their combat strength publicly.

After all, he had over 300 ninth-rank heavenly god-level Sword Servants under him.

The existence of his Sword Servant army was enough to prove the Sword Alliance's strength.

"I'll prepare a set of Sword Dao inheritances after we're done with the celebration. You guys can take a look, though you'll have to depend on yourselves to elevate to lord-level."

Lin Huang and the rest had gone to their respective positions early in the morning.

Noticing that the guests had yet to arrive, Lin Huang had said those words to Sword 1 who was next to him through voice transmission.

"Thank you, Lord Swordmaster." Sword 1 was secretly touched.

He watched Lin Huang grow almost throughout his journey in Sword Dao.

Lin Huang had consolidated Sword seals and achieved lord-level, yet Sword 1 had yet to consolidate even one Sword seal.

However, he knew that Lin Huang had exceeded him and the other Sword Servants in terms of Sword Dao. Moreover, the Sword Dao he cultivated included Great Heaven's and many other Sword Servants'. Therefore, the Sword Dao inheritances he would prepare for them should be useful for most Sword Servants.

Sword 1 was excited to absorb enough from the inheritances in order for him to consolidate Sword seals and become a Lord.

"It's best that you spare some time to focus your energy mainly on cultivation when you receive the inheritances. Let the rest handle other things. I think among the group, from you to Sword 12, the potential you guys possess is enough to elevate to lord-level. Not only that, you have the resources now. You're only lacking the opportunity to break through."

"Meanwhile, Sword 13 and the rest are rather lacking in innate attributes. However, it's not completely hopeless for them to achieve a breakthrough. It's just that they will have to depend on their luck…" Lin Huang chatted casually.

"Is it difficult to elevate to lord-level with rank-4 qualifications?" Sword 1 could not help but ask.

"The success rate is close to 50% if one is at rank-4.5. For rank-4, the success rate of achieving a breakthrough is less than 10%," Lin Huang said bluntly, "Therefore, it's rather difficult for Sword 38 and the rest to break through…"

Lin Huang knew about the qualifications of the Sword Servants under him from the beginning.

Sword 1 to Sword 12 were at rank-5.

Sword 13 to Sword 37 were at rank-4.5.

The rest from Sword 38 onward were at rank-4.

Sword 1 fell into a long period of silence before speaking again, "If they really fail to break through, they can stay in the great world and guard the Sword Alliance for you, Lord Swordmaster."

He knew very well that it was impossible for Lin Huang to bring subordinates below lord-level to the universe.

The reason was that the difference in the abilities of Lords and non-Lords were as far apart as heaven and earth.

They would become a burden if they went along.

Therefore, the Sword Servants would definitely be separated into two teams.

One team would continue to follow Lin Huang, heading to the universe together.

The other team could only stay behind.

Sword1 did not really wish for those Sword Servants to be dismissed just like that. Therefore, he took the lead to fight for a position for them.

"I think so too. It's true that we need people to stay and guard this place in the future."

In reality, Lin Huang had another plan for those Sword Servants who failed to elevate to Lords. However, he was unsure whether it would work just yet, so he thought he would first agree to Sword 1's idea. He knew very well what Sword 1 was trying to achieve.

The two of them chatted for a little bit, and soon it was time for the guests to enter.

Sword 1's voice spread through the venue quickly.

"Death Sickle's Blood Sickle members Buried Heaven, Gao Ming and Hu Xian'er are here for the celebration!"

"The Combat God Temple's palace master Zhan Guang, vice palace master Zhan Tian and Peerless Overlord are here for the celebration!"

"Xeno's federal president Link and vice president Beth are here for the celebration!"

"Divine Clapnet Heavenly Clapnet Lu Shu and Lu Yu are here for the celebration!"

"Precious Treasure Pavilion's pavilion master Jin Dafu is here for the celebration!"

"God Capital's God Emperor Shen Tu, God King Shen Jue and Shen Lu are here for the celebration!"

…

Everyone looked at the entrance when God Capital's welcome address was announced.

They had always been arrogant, believing themselves to be the most powerful ones among the grade-7 organizations.

When Death Sickle was upgraded to grade-7 back then, they merely gave a symbolic gift and sent no one to the celebration.

However, when the Sword Alliance was upgraded to grade-7, even God Capital's God Emperor, Shen Tu, had come. He even brought along two lord-level God Kings, Shen Jue and Shen Lu, with him.

Many of those present had knowing expressions on their faces.

They were from grade-7 organizations themselves, so they knew very well of God Capital's style.

They clearly came with ill intentions.

Lin Huang had a light smile on his face, but Buried Heaven who was not far away had a slight change of expression.

He secretly spoke through voice transmission, "Watch out. These guys from God Capital might have come with ill intentions."

The three Lords from God Capital glanced around.

They clearly paused for a moment when they saw the group of Sword Servants.

However, as they glanced around Lin Huang, Shen Tu revealed a smile.

"Chief Lin, we've finally met."

"I've heard about you too, Lord God Emperor." Lin Huang smiled lightly. No matter what their objective was, he had to abide by the formalities.

"Chief Lin, since you've heard of our Lord God Emperor, why did you arrange for our God Capital to enter after all of the other grade-7 organizations did?" It was Shen Jue who was trying to stir trouble.

He looked like a middle-aged man with a thick moustache above his lips. He had the charisma of a mature man, but his words were sharp.

Lin Huang said nothing, while Sword 1 who was standing on the side took over the topic.

"The celebration's guest sequence for organizations of the same grade was decided by order of arrival. Those who arrived first would enter first. We explained this at the back of the invitation."

"You're not even a half-step Lord. What makes you think you have a right to talk to me?!" Naturally, Shen Jue would not listen to Sword 1's explanation. He scoffed and tried to stir up trouble.

Odyl had been secretly fused into his soundwave as it charged at Sword 1 directly.

Shen Jue had a mocking smirk at the corner of his lips seeing that Lin Huang did nothing.

'As expected, he's just a fool who has just been elevated to lord-level. He didn't even notice my secret attack.'

Just when that thought popped up, he suddenly sensed his sonic attack vanish quietly.

He was slightly stunned, but he had cold sweat dripping from his forehead the next moment.

A voice was transmitted to his ear instantly.

"Old man, you might die if you stir trouble up again…"

As the soft female voice sounded in his ears, Shen Jue could even clearly feel that the person had blown warm air into his ear.

He faintly sensed the warm air penetrate his eardrum and enter his brain.

The person secretly left behind some sort of technique in his head.

He scanned his head with Divine Telekinesis immediately, but found nothing at all…

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Chapter 1711: You're Not Worthy

Lin Huang saw Witch's attack, but he did not stop her.

Clearly, apart from him and his group of imperial monsters, the remaining Lords did not notice Witch's trick.

Lin Huang only spoke with a light smile on his face when he saw that Witch had enchanted Shen Jue without him noticing at all.

"Sword 1 is my Sword Alliance's vice chief. It was me who decided the entrance sequence he mentioned earlier. To me, everyone in the God Territory is of the same kind. There's no difference in status among the grade-7 organizations. The entrance sequence has nothing to do with the strength of the organization at all. However, there must be a sequence for the entrance after all. Therefore, to be fair, I decided that those who arrive first will enter first, while those who arrive later, will enter later."

"Can it be that God King Jue thinks that God Capital is in a higher position compared to the other grade-7 organizations? And that everyone should wait at the door until your God Capital has entered before they do?"

Although the few of them from God Capital secretly thought that, they dared not nod in agreement under such circumstances.

Shen Jue wanted to go on and make a scene shamelessly. He wanted to humiliate Lin Huang.

However, he realized that he could no longer speak when he was about to open his mouth.

'What's happening?!' He panicked at that moment.

Not only could he not speak, he realized that he could not even move his fingers at all. It was as if his body had been taken over by something unknown. He had lost control of it entirely.

Shen Tu was waiting for Shen Jue to continue making a scene. However, seeing that he stood where he was and said nothing, he could not help but take over the topic while feeling confused.

"You're overthinking it, Chief Lin. God King Jue has always been straightforward. He doesn't mean anything ill by his words. The entrance sequence doesn't make a difference. Our God Capital isn't particular over such things."

At that moment, Shen Lu who was standing on the side started to stir up trouble.

"This humble one is Shen Lu, a saber cultivator. I heard that Chief Lin is a sword cultivator powerhouse. I've been itching for an opportunity to spar with you. I've finally met you today. My Saber Heart is trembling from seeing you. I can no longer hold back my desire to spar with you. I hope that Chief Lin can enlighten me!"

"What are you doing, Shen Lu?! Didn't I tell you repeatedly before coming that you can't raise such a ridiculous request on such an occasion?!" Shen Tu stopped him immediately.

However, people who were wise could tell from a glance that the two of them were just acting out a play.

To outsiders, Shen Lu had indeed always been a reckless man who loved challenges. However, on such an occasion, it was ridiculous to assume that he had made such a challenge request without Shen Tu's permission.

The crowd present knew that the few of them from God Capital must have discussed this before coming. They were here to stir up trouble.

"It's just a spar between a saber cultivator and sword cultivator. How can that be considered an unreasonable request?" Shen Lu continued acting like a stubborn saber fanatic. "I believe that, as a sword cultivator, Chief Lin should be excited to spar and exchange moves with a powerful saber cultivator, right? After all, there are not many pure sword cultivators and saber cultivators in this great world."

Lin Huang watched the scene play out in silence.

He had zero interest in Shen Lu.

He was even thinking to himself. 'Powerful saber cultivator? Are you talking about yourself? You sure are boastful.'

The crowd watching said nothing as well. Apart from the few of them from Death Sickle who were worried about Lin Huang, the rest were waiting to see how Lin Huang was going to handle this crisis.

In reality, things would be awkward regardless of whether he took Shen Lu's challenge or not.

It would be embarrassing even if he defeated Shen Lu.

When faced with such a situation, Lin Huang should not fight personally.

If there were other Lords in the Sword Alliance, they could take the initiative to accept the challenge on his behalf. It would not even matter who won.

However, as people looked around, there were many ninth-rank Heavenly Gods, close to 400 of them, but Lin Huang was the only one who had the aura of a Lord.

Just when everyone thought that Lin Huang would be forced to fight, a figure walked out.

It was a man covered in a black armor. A faint black mist lingered on his body.

"You're not worthy of challenging the Swordmaster."

As soon as he was done speaking, Lancelot's aura skyrocketed, revealing his lord-level cultivation directly.

"I'll fight in his stead!"

The many Lords present were taken aback. The intensity of the aura meant that this person was at least a middle-rank Lord.

Almost everyone had the same thought flashing through their heads—There was such an expert hiding in the Sword Alliance?!

Shen Tu could not help but frown. He did not expect a variable like Lancelot to appear.

He initially thought that, apart from Lin Huang, everyone else's aura was at heavenly god-level. When he got here, he thought that he would definitely succeed in stepping on the Sword Alliance to advance God Capital's status.

Never had he thought that someone from the Sword Alliance's camp had hidden his cultivation base.

Shen Lu's face was slightly pale. He was just a lower-rank Lord. Judging by the aura of his opponent, he knew that he was not Lancelot's match.

However, seeing that Lancelot had taken his sword out, he could only bite the bullet.

Lin Huang suddenly spoke when the two of them were about to fight.

"Be gentle. Don't kill him."

Lancelot paused slightly.

Shen Lu's eyes lit up. He did not expect the opponent to reveal such a flaw.

The saber gleam turned into a silver glow, flashing through the air at its highest speed.

However, the black-armored man before him vanished the next second.

"You're too slow."

A deep voice came from behind him.

Shen Lu had only felt a pain coming from his chest.

He lowered his head to look. There was a wound the size of a fist in the middle of his chest. He had no idea how or when it happened. It penetrated through his back.

The attack would have crushed his heart directly if it was even a few centimeters off target.

Shen Lu was stunned momentarily when he noticed that the wound on his chest was not recovering. He then abruptly realized that the attack from his opponent had drained all of the Divine Power and Odyl from his body.

"Are you alright?" Shen Tu seemed to have sensed something off. He flashed and arrived next to Shen Lu, supporting his unstable body.

"I'm fine. He held back." Shen Lu shook his head. He was already drenched in cold sweat.

If the attack earlier had hit his vital points, it would have easily taken his life. However, his opponent calculated the attack perfectly. He merely drained the Divine Power and Odyl in his body and stopped instantly after that.

Shen Tu saw what happened to Shen Lu's chest when he examined the wound from close distance. He instantly realized what had happened. He glanced at Lancelot in fear.

Lancelot said nothing and walked straight back to his seat as if what had happened just now had nothing to do with him at all.

Fright flashed through the eyes of the Lords in their seats.

The reason was that none of them had seen the trajectory of Lancelot's sword clearly.

It also meant that that sword alone could severely injure all of the Lords present.

'What's the background of this sword cultivator from the Sword Alliance exactly?!'

Almost everyone present had the same doubts in their minds.

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Chapter 1712: Beaten Again

Shen Tu's face was ashen.

He did not expect that a guy like Lancelot would appear out of nowhere from the Sword Alliance.

His appearance had messed up their plans completely.

Seeing that Shen Lu's wound was not healing at all, he knew that Lancelot had held back.

It was enough to prove that his ability had far surpassed Shen Lu's.

He secretly speculated that he was most probably not Lancelot's match as well.

He would just humiliate himself if he continued to stir up trouble with him.

He peeped at Shen Jue who was standing still not far away. He secretly cursed him seeing that he was still standing motionless, 'This old thing must've been terrified by that sword move earlier.'

He thought that Shen Jue would make a scene by seizing the opportunity that Shen Lu was hurt. Then he could use him as a way out that would not be as awkward as how things were panning out now.

However, judging by Shen Jue's expression, he thought that he had been scared by the sword move, no longer daring to speak up again.

"I told you not to cause problems. Have you learned your lesson now?!" Shen Tu helped Shen Lu up to his seat after scolding him.

As long as he pushed all of the responsibility onto Shen Lu wanting to challenge the Sword Alliance, the humiliation would have nothing to do with him at all.

At least that was what Shen Tu thought.

However, the people who were here were part of the upper echelons of grade-7 organizations. None of them were fools. They saw through the trick that they were trying to pull, but none of them bothered to expose them.

Everyone was happy to watch God Capital being humiliated. Nevertheless, they just enjoyed the show. There was no need to fall out with God Capital over something like this.

Lin Huang said nothing. After all, the Sword Alliance had succeeded in humiliating God Capital.

On God Capital's side, Shen Jue, who had regained control of his body, had a grim look on his face. He took his seat following Shen Tu and Shen Lu.

"What happened to you? Why did you become mute all of a sudden?!" Shen Tu's face turned grim as soon as he took his seat. He asked Shen Jue through voice transmission.

Shen Jue glanced at Lin Huang's direction and glanced at the crowd behind him before speaking softly and carefully.

"I think there's more than one middle-rank Lord in the Sword Alliance. I was affected by a sneak attack. My body was being controlled, and I couldn't move at all."

Shen Tu's expression changed slightly. He did not expect that to be the reason.

What shocked him was the fact that he did not notice that someone had attacked Shen Jue at all.

It only proved that the person who attacked Shen Jue was more capable than he was.

"It's impossible for two middle-rank Lords to appear out of nowhere. The only possible explanation is that they came from the universe. Our great world is Royal's territory. The Sword Alliance's upgrade to a grade-7 organization was endorsed by Royal. I suspect that this Sword Alliance is a secret pawn that Royal has planted in the God Territory," Shen Jue continued to speak of his speculation.

Shen Tu fell into complete silence after listening to those words.

At that moment, Sword 1 continued to welcome the organizations that arrived later into the venue.

"Nephilic Judge Tribe's Virgen Kylie, tribe leader Abbott… and guest elder Bloody are here for the celebration!"

Hearing Sword 1's announcement, the many people present had interested expressions on their faces.

The order of the name list was provided by the organizations themselves.

Under normal circumstances, the tribe leader should be ranked first.

There could be a few Virgens, so naturally their status was lower than the tribe leader.

To the Nephilic Judge, which was an ancient tribe, they would not allow for any mistakes in the rankings of identity.

However, the Nephilic Judge Tribe placed Virgen Kylie first this time, and the tribe leader second.

This was enough to indicate that Virgen Kylie's status was higher than the tribe leader.

The people could not help but speculate on the exact reason for this.

Many of them soon made the connection to the time when the Nephilic Judge Tribe had rejected the match-making efforts of the outsiders with regard to Virgen Kylie back then.

The reason they gave was that Virgen Kylie was still young and that they would not consider marrying her off for the time being.

Back then, many people thought that the Nephilic Judge Tribe wanted to settle this matter internally and wanted to marry Virgen Kylie off to a young, handsome talent within the tribe to cultivate an even more outstanding next generation.

However, it clearly did not seem like that was the case now.

Everyone coincidentally sensed that Virgen Kylie must have some hidden secrets behind her status!

Lin Huang had been staring at the entrance. It had been close to three years since he had last seen Kylie.

Although they had been in contact, and he had been hearing about how she had been doing from Bloody, it had still been close to three years that they had not seen each other.

The silver-armored Kylie stepped into the palace entrance with the Nephilic Judge Tribe delegation in tow. She instantly attracted the attention of everyone present.

Many men could not tear their eyes away from her figure.

Not only was her appearance beautiful, her aura was immensely heroic as well.

Bloody was actually right next to her. However, in the presence of Kylie, she appeared to be overshadowed. Given that she concealed her lord-level aura intentionally, it caused many people to overlook her.

Lin Huang could not help but smirk seeing that Kylie had not changed much.

Kylie glanced around the venue casually. She only locked eyes with Lin Huang for a moment and then looked away. She led the rest of the people from the Nephilic Judge Tribe to their seats.

Shen Tu stared at Kylie for a long time before finally looking away unwillingly.

After a moment of silence, he suddenly spoke in the presence of the crowd.

"The Nephilic Judge Tribe is considered an ancient pure blood tribe within the God Territory. Now that we've met today, I've noticed how valiant the Virgen is."

"My God Capital has countless handsome and talented men, as well as many top-notch pure blood direct descendants. Abbott, I think we can consider a marriage alliance."

Abbott, who had a head full of white hair, had a slight change of expression. However, he soon responded with a smile, "Thank you God Emperor for your kind intentions. However, the Virgen calls the shots regarding her own matters. I'm an old man now. I can't decide for her."

Abbott's reply clearly surprised everyone present.

Theoretically, given the fact that the Nephilic Judge Tribe was in an awkward position in the God Territory, they should have agreed instantly to a grade-7 organization taking the initiative to arrange a marriage alliance.

However, he rejected their overtures directly.

Shen Tu obviously did not expect such a reply from Abbott. He only snapped back to his senses after a moment of disbelief.

He then looked at Kylie with a smile.

"Virgen, since Abbott can't call the shots, what do you think?"

He secretly exerted pressure on Kylie with his lord-level aura when he spoke.

Suddenly, he sensed the pressure he exerted vanish instantly. At the same time, a terrifying pressure emanated from the direction of the Nephilic Judge Tribe.

It did not only target Shen Tu, but also enveloped Shen Jue and Shen Lu who were nearby.

Under its suppression, the three of them could not move an inch.

Never had they thought that they would meet another tough one.

"I'm not interested." It was only once Kylie's cold voice echoed in reply that the pressure finally faded away.

The crowd thought Shen Tu would act against the Nephilic Judge Tribe when they heard Kylie's response.

To their surprise, Shen Tu merely chuckled twice.

"Since the Virgen has no interest, let's forget about it."

The people who were waiting for a show to unfold had shock-filled expressions on their faces at the moment.

Was this still the Shen Tu they knew?!

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Chapter 1713: Banquet

In reality, Lancelot, Witch, Bloody and the rest were only lower-rank Lords.

However, unlike the other lower-rank Lords in the universe, each of their Dao seals had been consolidated with over two million levels of Dao tattoo power.

In this great world, even the prodigy Buried Heaven could only use over 1,800 levels of Dao tattoo power from each of his Dao seals.

Without using the Dao tattoo power within the Kingdom, the ability of a Dao seal consolidated by Lancelot and the rest would be comparable to when Buried Heaven elevated to middle-rank Lord.

Not to mention the imperial monsters who had entered the virtual realm a few times and obtained substantial amounts of Origin Energy, and had basically consolidated two to three Dao seals. The number of levels of Dao tattoo power in the Kingdom had increased significantly.

Their ability could not be compared to the time when they had just been elevated to Lords.

Meanwhile, due to the limited resources in the great world, a middle-rank Lord would basically head to the universe when they obtained more than 20 Dao seals.

Take Shen Tu from God Capital for example. Although he was a middle-rank Lord, he had only consolidated 14 Dao seals. His ability should be roughly the same as the time when Lancelot and the rest had just been elevated to Lords.

Zhan Guang from the Combat God Temple was perhaps the most powerful powerhouse here, excluding the people from the Sword Alliance. Yet he had only consolidated 17 Dao seals. His ability was far weaker than the imperial monsters' under Lin Huang.

As Bloody's aura was only targeted at the three people from God Capital, she did not expose herself at all.

This caused the many people present to be confused as to why Shen Tu had suddenly become so amiable.

He was secretly cursing inside.

'The Sword Alliance might just be a branch that Royal set up. Forget it, there's a middle-rank Lord guarding them. Why does the Nephilic Judge Tribe, a dying organization, have such a terrifying guy hiding amongst them?!"

He did not think that the "middle-rank Lord " who had just released her aura from the Nephilic Judge Tribe's side came from the universe. He thought that the probability of the person being a veteran survivor from the ancient era was higher.

After all, the Nephilic Judge Tribe had existed for far too long. There were many among them who had been elevated to Lords in the previous eras. It was entirely possible that there were one or two of them who had survived until now, and had chosen to guard the tribe instead of heading out into the universe.

He could not help but peep at Kylie. He had a faint feeling that the veteran from the Nephilic Judge Tribe came because of this Virgen.

He did not notice that Shen Lu, who was sitting next to him, had almost fainted from Bloody's suppressive aura just now.

He had been severely injured by Lancelot and had had all of the Divine Power and Odyl in his body drained.

He had just sat down to consolidate some Divine Power and Odyl to heal his wounds. The pressure exerted by Bloody almost exhausted all of the Divine Power and Odyl that he had just accumulated.

Shen Jue, who was on the other side, was worried that the person who controlled his body would do it again. He sat motionless where he was obediently. He ignored whatever that was happening around him.

Many people noticed the odd reactions from the three people from God Capital.

However, everyone could not figure out the reasons behind their odd behavior. They only thought that the three had suffered a blow from Lancelot's actions earlier.

After the little drama between God Capital and the Nephilic Judge Tribe concluded, the banquet soon went on successfully.

Without God Capital stirring up trouble, the rest of the organizations dared not cause a ruckus in the territory of the Sword Alliance.

After all of the organizations entered, the media arrived as well.

The lowest grade of organization that joined this banquet was grade-5, and they ranked amongst the top grade-5 organizations.

All of the grade-7 organizations in the God Territory were here.

The scale and degree of luxury clearly exceeded Death Sickle's upgrade celebration ceremony significantly.

Lin Huang merely gave a short speech to start the banquet.

The members of the media finally caught sight of how the Sword Alliance's chief looked like.

Many of them were shocked as they recognized Lin Huang as the mysterious powerhouse that had been wanted by all the top organizations previously.

However, most of the media personnel present knew that the wanted order had been rescinded quietly earlier.

They guessed that it had something to do with the rise of the Sword Alliance.

After Lin Huang gave his speech, he got Sword 1 to take over the proceedings.

Although Sword 1 was not a Lord, he was the Sword Alliance's vice chief after all. Everyone did not dare to disrespect him.

Given that he was very experienced in handling such occasions, he quickly took control of the entire celebration.

He began to talk about future collaborations with some organizations.

"You're making everyone envious by being a boss who does nothing." Buried Heaven, who appeared in a form of muscular hunk, walked over to Lin Huang with a glass of wine in his hand.

"Aren't you one as well?" Lin Huang clinked his glass with his.

"I'm not like you. You pushed your responsibility away." Buried Heaven shook his head while smiling. "I never had the right to decide anything from the beginning."

"Why? Are you not happy at Death Sickle? Do you want to join me?" Lin Huang raised his eyebrows and tried to poach him directly.

"It's not that I'm unhappy. Such problems exist in partnerships. When the upper echelons try to take charge, the people below them will have to pick sides." Buried Heaven shook his head.

"Fortunately, I wasn't a part of your upper echelons. I didn't notice such a problem," Lin Huang teased with a smile.

"In reality, the problem existed even while you were around, just that it wasn't as serious as it is now." Buried Heaven felt rather helpless. "Since Old Sun and the few others died, vacancies have become available in Blood Sickle, disrupting the balance as the different camps fight for authority. Given that I was elevated to Lord and Death Sickle was automatically upgraded to grade-7, the accumulation of these few matters caused all sorts of problems to surface."

"You walked too fast and stubbed your toe." Lin Huang suddenly thought of a classic saying.

"What?!" Buried Heaven was stunned. He then understood what Lin Huang meant. "That makes sense, but it's just so…"

"I just suddenly recalled that saying," Lin Huang laughed out loud.

"Do you have any solutions?" Buried Heaven asked the question anyway after a moment of hesitation.

"It can be resolved easily if you're willing to take charge." Lin Huang smiled as he looked at Buried Heaven.

However, Buried Heaven shook his head. "I won't stay in this great world for long. Moreover, I don't like having my cultivation held up by trivial matters."

"If you don't take over, the split between the few Blood Sickle members can't be eradicated." Lin Huang pointed out the main problem. "After all, their ability and talent levels are similar. Nobody is willing to let the other become their boss."

Buried Heaven fell into silence.

"I think you can take over things in a domineering manner. Solve the big problem first to stabilize Death Sickle's situation. After that, train a suitable successor from among the Heavenly Gods you already have. When the successor has been elevated to Lord, you can leave everything behind." Lin Huang said those words as if everything was that simple.

"Do you think training someone to become a Lord is as easy as cultivating a cactus?" Buried Heaven felt rather speechless.

"I'm just giving you an idea," Lin Huang said, as he smiled lightly.

He had just realized that training a Lord was actually a difficult thing. Otherwise, there would not only be seven grade-7 organizations in the God Territory, including the Sword Alliance.

Buried Heaven only left after chatting for a while.

Lin Huang glanced through the crowd and soon saw Kylie and Bloody, who were standing not far away…

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Chapter 1714: Kylie's Plan

Kylie did not seem like she was planning to mingle at such an occasion at all. She had a cold and intimidating look on her face at all times. She would take a sip of her drink occasionally.

Bloody, who was next to her, looked petite and harmless. She seemed to be chatting about something with Kylie while holding a drink.

Lin Huang, who was walking over to the two ladies, soon attracted the attention of the crowd.

However, nobody assumed that they had known each other for a long time.

They thought that he was interested in this Virgen.

After all, Kylie indeed had the best appearance and charm among all those that were present.

Naturally, Shen Tu noticed him going over as well. He was secretly smirking inside, looking like he was excited to watch a show unfold.

'This guy surnamed Lin will definitely be beaten up later.'

Lin Huang picked up a plate of snacks from the table next to the two ladies and handed it to them. "This stuff is quite good. You guys should try some."

The two ladies were stunned, but soon picked up a piece each quickly and tried it.

"It's quite delicious." Bloody nodded continuously.

"Not bad." Kylie took a small bite and began to savor it slowly.

"This is a rose apple puff, a local delicacy. The filling is made using a type of rose apple that's the Pilgrim Star Zone's specialty. There's nowhere else that seems to cultivate this fruit. The pastry chef is a local as well. He's been making this snack for over 30 years…"

Lin Huang introduced the snack, seemingly engaging the two in a casual conversation.

Shen Tu, who thought that he would be treated to a show, froze at the sight of the harmonious scene of Lin Huang chatting with the two ladies.

'That hidden powerhouse didn't attack him?!'

While chatting casually, Lin Huang was speaking to the two ladies secretly through voice transmission.

"Did everything go well with your return to the Nephilic Judge Tribe?"

"It went quite smoothly. They're more than happy to have one more Lord to guard the Nephilic Judge Tribe," Bloody said with a smile, "They didn't enquire in detail regarding my breakthrough in combat strength."

"What about you? I suppose the Nephilic Judge Tribe has stopped giving you problems?" Lin Huang looked at Kylie.

"Basically nobody has dared to say anything since I elevated to rank-6," Kylie responded while smiling, "It's just that I have a half-step Lord following me around no matter where I go."

"It's been the same even after Bloody returned?" Lin Huang asked.

"They're worried that I'll kidnap their Virgen, so they're even more strict now," Bloody said angrily.

Lin Huang smiled when he heard that. He understood the Nephilic Judge Tribe's mindset.

"Did the Nephilic Judge Tribe agree to join Royal?" Lin Huang continued to ask.

"They only agreed after hesitating for many days."

"They're just a bunch of stubborn, old people. They want change, and yet they're afraid of change," Bloody commented harshly.

"It is, after all, an ancient tribe that has been passed down for a couple of eras. It's very difficult to change the many traditions that the older generation has passed down," Lin Huang expressed his understanding, "It's amazing that they're even willing to make changes for the tribe's development."

"When do you plan to head to the universe?" Kylie could not help but ask.

"When I've settled all the things here. I'll definitely need two to three months." Lin Huang thought about it before answering, "However, it won't exceed a year's time."

"Therefore, you guys should prepare for the future for the Nephilic Judge Tribe. Don't let the loss of a Virgen ruin the entire tribe. Come up with a solution for a smooth transition."

Bloody was Lin Huang's think tank, so it was impossible that he would leave her behind when he headed to the universe. When Bloody left, Kylie would be left alone with the Nephilic Judge Tribe. Lin Huang was worried about that as well.

Naturally, he wanted to bring both of them with him.

However, with Kylie's current standing in the Nephilic Judge Tribe, as soon as she left, it would definitely cause shockwaves within the tribe.

Kylie definitely did not want to see that happening.

Therefore, Lin Huang hoped that they could work together to find a solution to the issue.

"I have one dependent who is pretty talented. She was elevated to rank-5.5 after I was elevated to rank-6. I can get her to stay and replace me."

The dependents Kylie was talking about were the batch of Starlight Beasts she adopted from way back during her time in the gravel world.

"However, in order for her to control the group, she'll have to elevate to Lord first." Bloody looked at Lin Huang.

"Are you guys thinking of making her my imperial monster? To strengthen her combat strength?" Lin Huang instantly understood what they meant.

Clearly, the two ladies had discussed the plan.

"When we return to the Nephilic Judge Star Zone this time, we'll introduce her as Kylie's younger sister to the Nephilic Judge Tribe, and then we'll bring her back to the tribe. She's just a sixth-rank Heavenly God now. We'll try our best to increase her combat strength over the next few months. Naturally, you'll have to step in for the last stage," Bloody continued to say, "As long as her combat strength is elevated to lord-level before we leave, she should be enough to replace Kylie."

Lin Huang nodded immediately after a moment of thought. "This solution indeed sounds viable."

He really could not do that if this had happened in the past. After all, the chances of him obtaining a complete Monster Card was quite low.

However, there were no restrictions on Xiao Hei's authorization now. All he needed to do was to kill Kylie's dependent and he could get Xiao Hei to extract her True Spirit to turn her into a Monster Card.

It would be a piece of cake to elevate the Monster Card to lord-level.

The method was totally feasible.

"This drink is sweet, but it actually contains no sugar. The main ingredient is the juice squeezed from licorice… The licorice, after a rainy day, will secrete a type of cyclamate. This cyclamate gives it a sweet taste when consumed, but it's actually not sugar…"

On the surface, Lin Huang was talking about the green drink in his hand.

The crowd present noticed the harmonious scene unfolding on his side.

"So the Nephilic Judge Virgen is interested in talking about food and drinks."

"They look so happy. It seems like Chief Lin knows well how a girl's mind works."

However, some people were upset at this scene.

Shen Tu was secretly cursing.

'I was wondering why they were unwilling to become allies with my God Capital. It seems they already had their eye on the Sword Alliance's chief from the start. That old thing Abbott sure is vicious. And they were smart enough to fake the Virgen's cold demeanor. Even this fool surnamed Lin fell for it…"

Meanwhile, Abbott and the remaining Nephilic Judge Tribe elders, who were not far away, were quite upset.

They had been staring daggers at Lin Huang as he stood beside Kylie.

The longer the three of them chatted, the grimmer their expressions seemed.

They had just joined Royal. With the backing of Royal, they had a more sophisticated outlook now. They currently no longer took a grade-7 organization from the great world like Sword Alliance seriously.

They were worried that Lin Huang might kidnap their Virgen.

Fortunately, Lin Huang did not continue chatting for too long. He walked away after flicking a Combat Strength Upgrade Card into Kylie's body.

Very soon, Kylie left early with Bloody with the excuse that she was feeling unwell.

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Chapter 1715: Little Story of the Past

Just when Lin Huang had taken a few steps, after turning around, he saw a black-haired lady walking toward him.

The lady had black hair and black eyes; her features were profound. She also wore a black dress.

The intensity of her aura was clearly at lower-rank lord-level. Not only that, she gave Lin Huang the impression that she had just elevated not too long ago.

"Chief Lin, I've admired you for a long time. I didn't expect our first meeting to be during such an occasion." The black-haired lady walked over to Lin Huang with a glass of wine in hand.

Lin Huang tried to recall carefully, but could not for the life of him figure out who the person was.

It was only after seeing the doubt on his face that the black-haired lady introduced herself with a smile.

"I almost forgot to introduce myself. I'm Beth from Xeno."

"Hi, Miss Beth."

Lin Huang recalled that this person was Xeno's newly-assigned federal vice president.

He also recalled that, in the guest information that Sword 1 had sent over, this person was the only one who had no picture attached.

The reason was that Beth had been in closed-door cultivation for many years in order to break through to lord-level. Her information was not available on the internet at all.

She had only appeared again during recent months. Not only that, she returned to Xeno as a Lord. She was then elected as the vice president directly.

"Now that I think about it, our meeting was quite fated, Chief Lin." Beth took a small sip of the red wine.

"Fated?" Lin Huang was stunned. He was sure that he had never seen this lady before.

Beth extended a finger. A black mist spread out from her fingertip.

Lin Huang frowned as he sensed the aura of her Divine Power.

The aura was rather familiar indeed. After feeling the aura and running it through his memories quickly, he instantly remembered the imperial monster under him—Evil Dominator!

"You are…"

Without waiting for Lin Huang to finish speaking, Beth raised her eyes and whispered into Lin Huang's ear, "I'm Death Goddess who left behind an imprint on you back then…"

As soon as Beth was done speaking, she backed off while staring at Lin Huang with her beautiful eyes, waiting for his response.

"Your aura is a little different. Not only that, you're more powerful than her." Lin Huang had a rough estimate of what was going on with this person.

"To be exact, Death Goddess is a clone of mine. After I went into closed-door cultivation, I left behind a couple of clones to help me handle matters in the outside world. The Death Goddess was one of them. During the final two to three years of my closed-door cultivation, I recalled all of my clones as I had a feeling that I might be able to perform unification at any moment. Therefore, I absorbed all of my clones' experiences and memories. Thus, I found out about this part of her memory."

"I was wondering why she left an imprint behind when she wasn't going to stir up trouble with me. I should thank you, then." Lin Huang finally unraveled the entire story when he listened to her explanation up to this point.

When he killed Evil Dominator in the gravel world back then, a powerhouse named Death Goddess left an imprint on his body.

In reality, after arriving in the great world, he had been a little worried that Death Goddess would stir up trouble with him. The reason for that was because he was sure that the person was at least a high-rank True God, or even a Heavenly God. However, up until he removed the imprint, Death Goddess had not shown up at all. He was actually quite confused about this matter for some time.

Only now did he find out that Beth had recalled that clone, which was how he escaped a disaster.

"If I knew that you possessed such great talent and potential, I would've recalled my clones one to two years later," Beth said with a smile while covering her mouth.

Naturally, Lin Huang knew that she was just kidding.

If he considered things properly, he should actually thank Beth.

He killed the evil spirit type monster back then and obtained a gush of tinder from Beth's Divine Fire. That was how he managed to light his Divine Fire while only being at imperial-level, at the same time obtaining a cultivation foundation that surpassed everyone else.

Although the person had left behind an imprint on him with ill intentions, she did not do anything meaningful later on, nor did she influence his development negatively either.

Therefore, he held no ill-will toward Beth.

Moreover, given that she was now taking the initiative to tell him all this, she clearly had intentions of reconciling.

"No acquaintance is made without a fight, I guess." Lin Huang raised the wine glass in his hand.

Beth happily clinked Lin Huang's glass. "That's right. It's just a little story from the past."

Although she had been elevated to Lord, she could actually sense that she was not Lin Huang's match. She did not want to become enemies with Lin Huang. She took the initiative to make this clear as she was worried that Lin Huang would find out about the matter in the future, and that she was the mastermind behind it.

After clarifying things, she realized that Lin Huang really did not take the matter to heart.

Lin Huang felt warm from the chat he had with Beth.

It had been a short few years. The Primordium of an entity, whose clone had been enough to scare him and make him fearful in the past, now had lower ability than he did.

He also thought that fate was magical. He could not believe that he had such an encounter with Beth in the past, and that he was now seeing her Primordium on such an occasion.

Many saw the scene of the two chatting.

As the chat happened through voice transmission, the others could not hear the content of the conversation. They could only come up with their own guesses.

They thought Beth was carrying out Xeno's mission and talking business with Lin Huang.

"As expected, Xeno came prepared. I can't believe they're using beauty to seduce him?!"

"Xeno's newly assigned vice president is really something. Chief Lin seems to be very interested in her."

"I wonder what kind of collaboration will Xeno and Sword Alliance come up with. They seem to be happy from the way things are progressing."

…

Shen Tu had been secretly watching Lin Huang's movements.

He looked down on Lin Huang even more now that he saw him chatting with Beth for a long period of time.

"As I expected, he's a fool. He's helpless when it comes to women. When a man has money and power, he can have any woman he wants, no?! His flaw is too obvious. He's too timid in the presence of women…"

Lin Huang and Beth had no idea that they were being misunderstood by everyone at the scene, who believed that Xeno and the Sword Alliance were talking business when in actual fact they were chatting about some personal matters from the past.

Even the few people from Xeno were rather dumbstruck. There were already some organizations trying to find out their intentions in collaborating with the Sword Alliance.

However, they had not planned on entering a serious collaboration with the Sword Alliance, and had not given Beth any assignments in this regard.

Once Beth returned to the group, the president Link immediately asked through voice transmission, "What have you been talking about with Chief Lin?"

"Just some personal matters," Beth said rather helplessly.

The banquet was coming to an end when night fell.

The preliminary discussion on the collaborations with the various organizations was almost done. Lin Huang and Sword 1 sent the guests out in batches.

Most of the guests left directly, while some of them chose to stay in the Pilgrim Star Zone for a few days for vacation.

Sword 1 got the Sword Servants to arrange the accommodation for the guests that stayed.

After all, it was the Sword Alliance's territory. They had to do their best as the host.

After arranging all that, Lin Huang spared some time to contact Bloody, asking about Kylie's condition.

"She has found a safe place and has begun her breakthrough. I'll guard her at all times."

Bloody's reply was simple and short, but it made Lin Huang relieved.

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Chapter 1716: In Full Swing

The media revealed the grand lineup of the Sword Alliance's banquet on that day itself.

Not only were there many photos, but also many videos as well.

Everyone was discussing it on the internet at the moment.

After all, those who participated in the banquet were the cream of the crop from grade-5 organizations at the very least.

Regular people were not worthy of participating.

Moreover, there were many bosses present at the banquet.

Aside from the top Heavenly God-level powerhouses ranked on the Heavenly God Leaderboard, many half-step lord-level and lord-level powerhouses attended.

Including God Capital, all of the leaders of the grade-7 organizations in the God Territory were there. None were absent.

It could almost be described as an unprecedented grand occasion in this era of the God Territory.

The netizens started a party on the internet and indulged in gossip.

The first thread that went viral was posted by a true god-level netizen—"The Sword Alliance's Chief and the Wanted Mysterious Man".

There was a sentence in the thread that went, "Don't you guys think that the Sword Alliance's chief looks a lot like that mysterious powerhouse called Lin Huang who was wanted by all organizations?!"

The thread soon started heated discussions among many netizens.

"I thought I was the only one who thought that way."

"I thought they looked a little alike when I saw his picture just now, but I didn't think too much about it."

"There's a high chance that they're the same person!"

"Did you guys notice that the wanted order from before has been silently removed?"

"Now that you said it, I suddenly realized that I really haven't seen that wanted order lately."

"Oh, my. It gets scarier the more I think about it!"

…

In the end, an anonymous netizen replied in a thread below.

"They're the same person. The Sword Alliance's chief is called Lin Huang as well. All organizations removed the wanted order because they found out about his identity."

Many netizens replied to the thread, attempting to ask for more information, but the anonymous netizen did not reply further.

Within half an hour of the thread being posted, an insider revealed that the Sword Alliance's chief was called Lin Huang!

This had become the first hot topic of the night.

Meanwhile, the second hot topic was—"Who is That?"

As there were many powerhouses who hardly appeared in the media, many netizens had no idea who they were. It had prompted the most frequent question that everyone asked once the photos and videos were revealed—"Who is That?".

Among those, Lancelot was the one that most people asked about.

The reason was because some media personnel who were present leaked the videos of Lancelot beating Shen Jue in one hit.

Many knew about Shen Jue from God Capital. They knew that he was a veteran Lord from God Capital, and that he was even the current God Emperor Shen Tu's senior.

Therefore, Lancelot's performance placed him in the limelight.

However, not many could answer that question.

Only an anonymous netizen replied to that, "This person is called Lancelot. He's the Sword Alliance's chief's confidant. His details are unknown, and he's suspected to be a middle-rank Lord from the universe."

There was no other information apart from that.

The netizens did not really want to give up at the beginning. They wanted to find out more.

However, they could only give up since they could not discover anything. They shifted their attention to someone else.

Apart from Lancelot, the person who was asked about the most was Xeno's Beth.

Unlike Kylie, who had been the subject of news on the internet before, it was the first time Beth had appeared in public after many years.

She had a unique charisma about her. Not only that, she was Xeno's vice president. She was mysterious and powerful. Naturally, she attracted the attention of the netizens easily.

"I've never heard about this beauty named Beth before. She was elected as Xeno's vice president directly. There's obviously something fishy about this!"

"Perhaps she is in an affair with Old Man Link o(*3)o"

"Whether that's true or not, her ability is definitely powerful enough to be able to sit in this position."

"Which one of you jerks will find out about it?!"

…

Very soon, someone answered that anonymously.

"Beth is a super genius who ranked top three on the Heavenly God Leaderboard when she was a Heavenly God. Many people might not remember her now, but she rose to fame before Buried Heaven and King Kong did. However, she suddenly vanished over 7,000 years ago, and there has been no news about her since then. She only reappeared a few months ago, and her combat strength has broken through to lord-level. As she was Xeno's core member before, Xeono made her the vice president directly after her return."

The person who replied was clearly an insider.

"So she's a lord-level boss. We've been rude!"

"As I thought, Old Man Link doesn't deserve her…"

"A capable beauty, I love her already!"

"Sister Beth, please marry me!"

…

After Beth, the person who was being asked about a lot was Sword 1.

Many female accounts posted threads to ask, "Who is that handsome man standing next to the Sword Alliance's chief?!"

In reality, the men and women who attended the banquet were quite good-looking.

However, Sword 1 managed to attract all of the ladies' attention among all the men present.

Lin Huang was handsome himself. Based on his own aesthetic sense, he rated himself 95 points.

However, the impression he had when he first saw Sword 1 was, "He's more handsome than I am!"

Sword 1 was not the kind of soft, feminine man that many ladies liked. He was the handsome and cool kind of man.

As many ladies asked about that, someone soon answered them anonymously.

"Sword 1, a Sword Servant under Lin Huang and Sword Alliance's current vice chief. His combat strength is at the ninth-rank heavenly god-level. We have no precise information about him. Judging by his aura, he's only half a step away from breaking through to lord-level. His ability should not be below King Kong and Peerless Overlord."

"So my husband is called Sword 1!"

"I've made up my mind to cultivate Sword Dao and to join the Sword Alliance!"

"Sister, you don't have to cultivate Sword Dao in order to join the Sword Alliance. Cultivators of other Daos can apply to join as well."

"Who said that I'm cultivating Sword Dao to join the Sword Alliance? I'm doing that for my Sword 1!"

…

Sword 1 had never thought that he would gain many female fans overnight.

Since the topic "Who is That?" started, the identity of most of the people at the banquet were eventually uncovered by the netizens.

The Lords' and half-step Lords' pasts were exposed.

Naturally, some of this information was true, and some of it was fake.

The netizens did not care though. They took each story seriously.

"I don't care. If I think the threads I read are the truth, then they're the truth."

"God Capital's God Emperor Shen Tu wet his bed when he was 30. True!"

"God Capital's God King Shen Lu can't get hard. True!"

"God Capital's God King Shen Jue likes young men. This is definitely true!"

…

They discovered many things about all of the organizations. The Sword Alliance was the only one that nobody could find anything about.

The most they found out was that Lin Huang was a human, and that he might have the backing of a major organization in the universe.

However, there was no useful information about his Sword Servants like Sword 1, nor anything about his imperial monsters like Lancelot.

Many were making up stories on the internet, but they were soon criticized by someone from Divine Clapnet.

"The tens of thousands of members from Divine Clapnet have been gathering information for over a month, and we didn't find any information about these people from the Sword Alliance. You guys sure are amazing at making up stories!"

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Chapter 1717: Buried Heaven Snapped

The Sword Alliance's fame increased again after the banquet.

Lancelot defeating God Capital's Shen Lu within a second was the equivalent of stomping on God Capital's reputation.

Although Shen Tu and the rest from God Capital were extremely pissed, they could only bite the bullet in silence. After all, they were the ones who had sent themselves to the opponent's doorstep to be humiliated.

Moreover, it was not only Lancelot; the Sword Alliance had a mysterious powerhouse who easily suppressed Shen Jue.

They had at least two powerhouses with middle-rank lord-level ability guarding them. God Capital really could not afford to offend them.

Furthermore, they speculated that the Sword Alliance had Royal's backing in the universe. They dared not take revenge on the Sword Alliance.

In the cultivation world, countless sword cultivators were anticipating joining the Sword Alliance.

After all, it was called the Sword Alliance, and the chief Lin Huang was a sword cultivator. Naturally, countless sword cultivators were keen to join them.

It was a grade-7 organization with a sword cultivator leader. If one could join them, they would definitely obtain many good-quality Sword Dao inheritances.

Many sword cultivators were inspired by Lancelot's sword attack.

He was a lord-level supreme sword cultivator; a supreme powerhouse who defeated Shen Lu of God Capital within a second.

If he could give them some pointers, they would definitely benefit significantly!

Apart from sword cultivators, there were many saber cultivators who applied to join as well.

Sword cultivators and saber cultivators aside, there were many female cultivators who applied.

Many of them came for Sword 1's good looks. Naturally, a portion of them came for the chief Lin Huang.

The applications Sword 1 received daily nearly filled up his mailbox.

Lin Huang allowed him to share all of the mails to the other Sword Servants, getting the 300 or so Sword Servants to oversee the preliminary selection.

Later on, Sword 1 to Sword 12 would conduct the second round of selection.

After the two rounds of selection, they would send the successful applicants to Sword 1, who would conduct the final selection.

Initially, Lin Huang thought he would get the 12 Swordmaster's bodyguards to go into closed-door cultivation as soon as possible after the banquet ended so that they could break through to lord-level as soon as possible.

However, seeing the millions of applications daily, he could only put that plan aside.

Sword 1 and the rest did not have many complaints.

It would not matter if they entered into closed-door cultivation a few days later.

As they went through the applications, the Sword Servants very soon reported the millions of applications everyday were just going along with the trend.

Lin Huang had only noticed that a viral trend had started on the internet in the past few days.

Everyone would show off the application they sent to the Sword Alliance.

The most viral thread even obtained hundreds of millions of likes.

Apart from some cultivators without an organization, there were some people who already belonged to an organization among the applicants. Some of them were the upper echelons of some top organizations. Even they were going along with the trend.

Even Xeno's vice president Beth showed off the screenshot of her mail application. She even mentioned Lin Huang and the Sword Alliance's official accounts.

Lin Huang replied helplessly, "Even if I dare to accept you, is Xeno willing to let you go?"

Xeno's official account soon gave a weak reply, "We wouldn't dare… (scared emoji)".

Although the trend increased the Sword Servants' workload immensely, Lin Huang and the Sword Alliance's official accounts did not stop them. They would even interact with them occasionally.

Lin Huang and Sword 1 knew very well that they were just having fun. The trend would only last a few more days at most, and it would blow over after that.

The netizens who were joining this trend showed that they felt positively about the Sword Alliance at least.

Though the trend was ridiculous, it increased the Sword Alliance's popularity.

Though the other grade-7 organizations were envious of the Sword Alliance's popularity, there was nothing that they could do. God Capital had been humiliated on the spot, and the remaining organizations dared not poke the hornets' nest.

Furthermore, the Sword Alliance was at the peak of their fame at the moment. No matter what the other organizations did, it would be difficult for them to attract the attention of the netizens.

Within those few days, things had been heated among the upper echelons of Death Sickle. They had been fighting.

It made sense that a couple of Blood Sickle members were jealous of the Sword Alliance taking all of the fame.

After all, Death Sickle was a grade-7 organization that had just been upgraded two to three months ago. However, they did not enjoy the similar popularity and fame from the upgrade.

Everyone was giving their opinions, and everyone thought their plans were the best.

One day, Buried Heaven finally could no longer hold back and called all the Blood Sickle members to the meeting room.

Everyone was present at 9am.

Buried Heaven, who was in the form of a young man, projected the viral topics that countless netizens had been discussing recently.

The Blood Sickle members looked at the various threads discussing the Sword Alliance. They had no idea what Buried Heaven was trying to do.

"Are you envious?" Buried Heaven glanced at everyone present.

They kept their silence and said nothing.

They were definitely envious, but they could not say so out loud.

"Do you guys know why the Sword Alliance enjoys the benefits of all sorts of news and traffic when they were upgraded to grade-7, while our Death Sickle didn't despite upgrading to grade-7 as well?"

The couple of Blood Sickle members lifted their heads to look at Buried Heaven. Indeed, they could not understand why that was the case.

Death Sickle organized a banquet as well when they were upgraded, and also invited all the organizations. Although they did not have as many participants as the Sword Alliance's banquet had, it was still a large-scale banquet. Not only that, the number of media groups that came to report was no lesser than those who went to write about the Sword Alliance.

However, the discussions around Death Sickle only went on for two to three days. It was not worth mentioning at all compared to the Sword Alliance, who had been trending on the internet for more than a month.

"Because we're a pile of dust!" Buried Heaven did not care that he was humiliating the senior members at all.

The Blood Sickle members instantly looked terrible.

"Since Death Sickle upgraded to grade-7, all of you insist on having your own opinion on each major decision we make. You guys fight among each other every time, afraid that you'll receive less credit or lose authority! Not only that, you guys fought for Gold Sickle membership quotas, started your own gangs, and got Death Sickle's members to take sides. What the hell?!"

"Buried Heaven, you gathered us out of nowhere just to tell us this?" Boundless Blood asked with an unfriendly expression on his face.

He was one of Death Sickle's founders. He was the most experienced one. Buried Heaven was only considered a junior in his presence. Naturally, he was rather pissed that he had been scolded by a junior to his face.

"Senior Boundless, do you want Death Sickle to grow larger and stronger? If you do, then please, all of you, be patient and let me finish. If any of you feel that your personal interest is more important than Death Sickle's, you may leave now. I won't stop you."

What Buried Heaven said shut Boundless Blood up directly.

The Blood Sickle members all looked terrible, but none of them got up to leave.

Buried Heaven glanced around the room and only started speaking again after waiting for a moment.

"Seems like everyone still hopes for Death Sickle to grow stronger. At least we have the same vision."

"Do you know why the Sword Alliance is so outstanding?"

That question got everyone's attention immediately.

"You guys know that I'm quite close with Lin Huang. Therefore, I've discussed this issue with him, as well as the problems our Death Sickle has."

"I think he's right. He managed to point out the biggest difference between the Sword Alliance and Death Sickle—The current Death Sickle has no backbone!"

"While Death Sickle was still a grade-6 organization, although the seven Blood Sickle members had their own gangs, the seven of us still formed the backbone of the organization when we came together."

"However, since Old Sun and the rest died, the initial balance has been disrupted. Everyone started to fight for power. Especially since Death Sickle became a grade-7 organization, the infighting got worse."

The couple of Blood Sickle members fell silent when they heard his words.

"Today, this Blood Sickle member would give an order. Tomorrow, another Blood Sickle member will give another order. The subordinates have no idea who to listen to."

"It's been close to three months since Death Sickle upgraded to grade-7. Let me ask you guys this—Have you come to a consensus on how you'd like to develop Death Sickle in the future? It's good enough even if there's only one direction that all of us have come to a consensus on!"

"It's been almost three months, and we're still stuck in the same chaotic state from when we upgraded to a grade-7 organization back then. We're in an even worse mess than we were in three months ago."

"Do you know how many things the Sword Alliance has done since they upgraded to a grade-7 organization?!"

Although the Blood Sickle members were unwilling to admit it, they knew what Buried Heaven said was the truth.

"What do you need us to do, then?" After a long silence in the meeting room, Gao Ming was the first to speak.

"Firstly, rectify the mess. The few of you must clarify your responsibilities. Distinguish who takes care of what clearly. Don't intervene in everything. You guys wanting to be a part of everything is making it difficult for our subordinates to work."

"Secondly, formulate a detailed follow-up plan for the organization's development. You guys must reach a consensus on this. Don't come up with your own plan and then refuse to yield to each other. Use the plan that's the most effective and beneficial for Death Sickle's future development. Announce to the public that it was Blood Sickle who came up with the decision."

"Thirdly, catch up with the publicity. Try your best to draw attention and news traffic, even if you have to ride on the Sword Alliance's fame. We must recruit newcomers to join us."

"Fourthly, start collaborations with the outside world. Start discussions on which organization to collaborate with, and what kind of collaborations Death Sickle should engage in…"

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Chapter 1718: Great Expansion

Lin Huang and team had been busy recruiting new members for a few days after the upgrade banquet ended.

Throughout the entire week, the Sword Alliance had received millions of applications, and the numbers showed no sign of slowing down at all.

Fortunately, apart from a small number of the over 300 Sword Servants who were out on their own missions, the rest had joined the assessment team.

In reality, it was not only the Sword Servants; Lin Huang dragged Lin Xin and Lin Xuan into the assessment team.

Almost nobody in the entire Sword Alliance was idle.

Although many applications were obviously just people following the trend, there really were just too many applications. Lin Huang and the rest's workload was heavy.

Even after going through many rounds of filtering, throughout that one week, there were hundreds of thousands of applicants who passed Sword 1 and Lin Huang's assessment criteria, becoming official members.

Some of them showed off the screenshot of their approved applications on the internet when they received the news that they passed.

That behaviour sparked yet another viral trend.

Almost more than half of the hundreds of thousands of people posted their screenshots.

Therefore, "Did You Manage to Join the Sword Alliance Successfully?" became the new hot topic.

In less than half a day after that topic went viral, another strange trend appeared on the internet.

A bunch of people who failed their applications showed off their screenshots of rejection.

Another topic that was even more viral began to trend—"Have You Been Rejected by the Sword Alliance Today?"

There were even more netizens who posted the screenshots of them being rejected by the Sword Alliance. There were tens of millions of people who posted them.

The strange trend made even more netizens begin to send their applications to join the Sword Alliance.

For most, their goal was actually just to participate in the screenshot trend.

However, this increased the pressure of everyone at the Sword Alliance even more.

Not only did the millions of daily applications not decrease a week later, it had shot up to tens of millions of applications daily now.

Lin Huang was not sure whether to laugh or cry about that.

Noticing the insane workload, he thought about it and decided to make an appeal on the social media platforms.

"Thank you all for your love and interest in the Sword Alliance. We're receiving tens of millions of applications daily. I know that many of you are sincere in joining, but many passionate netizens have joined in the fun as well. This has caused a major increase in workload to us. Throughout the past few days, all of us have pretty much been inundated running application assessments all day."

"Let me suggest a little something here. Before applying, think about what you want or hope to gain from joining the Sword Alliance. Can the Sword Alliance give you what you want? If you think we're suitable for you, then send over your application. If not, you can totally go for other organizations. After all, there are many other outstanding organizations in the God Territory that you can choose from."

"I don't accept your suggestion."

"Tens of millions of applications daily is too little. Let us all apply and break a hundred million applications!"

"I don't care if the Sword Alliance suits me or not. I want to apply no matter what. The melon that's forcibly plucked before it's matured isn't sweet, but it sure is thirst-quenching."

"It doesn't matter if the Sword Alliance can give me what I want. The Sword Alliance has Sword 1, and that's the most important thing!"

"I want to apply. Don't stop me!"

…

As soon as Lin Huang posted the thread, countless comments were posted rejecting his suggestion.

He had never expected that his thread to halt the trend would backfire.

Throughout the next few days, the applications to join the Sword Alliance multiplied again.

The highest number of applications had exceeded 50 million per day.

The people at the Sword Alliance were speechless now. Lin Huang did not dare to speak up again.

He could only get everyone to remain silent so that the trend would pass faster.

As the Sword Alliance was recruiting new members in full swing, the other organizations that were envious rode on the fame and began to recruit their own as well.

Grade-7 organizations like the Combat God Temple and Xeno relaxed their recruitment requirements and increased their membership benefits.

Death Sickle, on the other hand, issued new policies consecutively. They made some adjustments to the organization's structure, and then joined the recruitment war as well.

Among the grade-7 organizations, God Capital was the only one who did nothing.

In reality, they were envious, but their pride did not allow them to lower their recruitment requirements.

God Capital had always recruited pure blood Protoss only.

That was definitely something that couldn't be changed.

Meanwhile, most of the pure blood Protoss in the God Territory who thought highly of themselves as pure blood had basically already joined God Capital. Most of them who did not join were those who disagreed with God Capital's philosophy.

On a certain level, as long as God Capital was not open to accepting non-pure blood Protoss, it was difficult for them to recruit new members on a large scale in this great world.

Also, organizations such as the Nephilic Judge Tribe that operated as a tribe could only watch as the other organizations recruited members in a frenzy.

Apart from marriage, it was basically impossible for a tribe like them to recruit members from the outside world through other methods.

Moreover, a conservative tribe like the Nephilic Judge Tribe valued the bloodline legacy more.

The outstanding bloodline had basically been bred within the tribe.

Those who were married off or who had married another tribe were those whose bloodline was not exactly pure.

Therefore, the outsiders who joined as a son-in-law or daughter-in-law would not excel in the Nephilic Judge Tribe.

It had caused a vicious cycle. Many talented young people with potential were unwilling to marry into the ancient tribe.

Naturally, their obsolete concepts had restricted their development.

Such restrictions could not be solved by having a lord-level Virgen at all.

The vital thing was to change their concepts. Their entire tribe needed to gladly welcome change instead of refusing to adapt to the times.

…

The number of applications finally began to drop after the people at the Sword Alliance had been busy for half a month.

Lin Huang and the rest were finally relieved when they saw the number of applications dropping.

It had been almost a month, and the number of applications had finally dropped below a million applications daily.

Lin Huang could remove himself from the operation entirely and got Sword 1 to handle the remaining application filtering process.

Throughout the month, he began feeling the side-effects of the operation. He would now feel sleepy whenever he saw applications…

However, the Sword Alliance had gained many new members throughout the month.

Most of them were sword cultivators and saber cultivators. There were also many female cultivators.

Though they went through many rounds of filtering, the number of new Sword Alliance members had increased by over 800,000 people.

Among them were over 3,000 heavenly god-level powerhouses.

Although the number was not worth mentioning at all compared to organizations such as the Combat God Temple and Death Sickle, compared to the Sword Alliance from before, it had undoubtedly expanded at least thousands of times over.

Bloody had done background checks for the over 3,000 heavenly god-level newcomers one by one before passing them eventually.

After passing the assessment, they joined the Sword Alliance's Heavenly God League directly.

Lancelot and Killer would train them.

Meanwhile, as there were too many members below the heavenly god-level, Bloody could not run a detailed investigation on their backgrounds one by one.

Lin Huang used Leech Pods directly to run a mass investigation.

Among the 800,000 people, over 1,000 of them were spies from all sorts of organizations.

He used Leech Pods to control them to forfeit themselves automatically and leave.

The other members did not find it strange that those people quit on their own.

The reason being was that they knew many had applied just for fun.

However, they did not know that those who had applied just for fun had been eliminated in the first round of the filtering process.

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Chapter 1719: Sword 1's Unification

All the affairs were moving forward accordingly on the Nephilic Judge Tribe's side.

Nobody knew that the Virgen who had been frequently participating in the formal affairs during this period of time was not Kylie herself, but one of Bloody's clones.

Meanwhile, Bloody's clone who was disguised as Kylie had a subordinate with her—Kina, Kylie's dependent.

Kina was the dependent that Kylie had mentioned to Lin Huang before. Her rank was at Pseudo Pure Spirit rank-5.5, while her combat strength was at sixth-rank heavenly god-level.

Under Bloody's arrangement, not only had Kina joined the Nephilic Judge Tribe successfully, she had recognized "Kylie" as her sister now.

She had even become the Nephilic Judge Tribe's Virgen whose status was only second to Kylie.

As Nephilic Judge Tribe's "Virgen Kylie" moved things along, the Nephilic Judge Tribe soon came to an agreement for an in-depth collaboration with the Sword Alliance.

Everything went better than what Bloody expected.

Meanwhile, Kylie had turned into a giant cocoon. She had begun her journey of elevation to lord-level.

Bloody was standing guard by her side.

…

The people at the Sword Alliance had not been able to stay idle at all.

The assessment for new members was ongoing.

Although Lin Huang had got himself out of it, he had merely rested for less than two days before becoming immersed in the Sword Alliance's tasks again.

The reason for that was the in-depth collaboration discussions with the Nephilic Judge Tribe and Death Sickle had entered the negotiation stage.

Due to the negotiations, Sword 1 got Sword 2 to take over the new members' assessment entirely.

Though Sword 2 was unwilling, he could only take it with a frown on his face.

For over one week, Lin Huang and Sword 1 spent most of their time in all sorts of video conferences.

It was going alright at Death Sickle's side. However, the Nephilic Judge Tribe only signed the agreement after it had undergone over ten different versions of amendments.

The negotiation with the Nephilic Judge Tribe was very tough. If not for Bloody, who helped to amend the terms and mediated things with Kylie's status, it might not have been signed even half a month later.

Apart from in-depth collaborations, the collaborations the Sword Alliance had with the other grade-6 and grade-7 organizations were developing gradually.

They had more intel and trading channels now.

…

Time flew and over a month had passed.

The Sword Alliance had been established in the God Territory for three months now, and they were finally getting things on track.

They had exceeded a million members. Among them were over 4,000 Heavenly Gods.

They would still have new applications everyday, but the number had reduced to over 10,000 applications per day.

As Yang Ling had created a smart filtering program, the applications that Sword 1 received was actually less than one-tenth of the applications sent. It reduced his workload significantly.

Lin Xin and the rest were excused from the filtering process of new members with the help of the smart filter program Yang Ling created.

Though that was the case, they vented their frustrations to Lin Huang.

"Brother, I feel like puking whenever I see emails now…" Lin Xin looked wronged.

"Don't ask me to do such a thing again." Lin Xuan looked quite terrible too.

"Please exclude me as well." Chan Dou looked cold.

"You can get me to fight, but administrative work isn't for me." It was Xiao Mo who said that.

"Just pretend that I'm illiterate from now on." It was Huang Wuji who said that.

Lin Huang took some time to comfort the few of them and promised that they would never be given administrative work again. He then sent them back into the Kingdom in his body to continue grinding the Bug Tribe instance dungeon.

Meanwhile, the imperial monsters like Bai and the rest entered the queue again to go into the virtual realm for cultivation as soon as they were excused from the administrative work.

All of them were unwilling to delay their cultivation for even a second.

Apart from those who had yet to complete their missions, Lin Huang got the rest of the Sword Servants to join the Heavenly God League.

Each of the Sword Servants after Sword 38 was a team leader who led a Heavenly God Squad of nine to ten people.

Sword 13 to Sword 37 were the commanders.

Each of them led over ten Heavenly God Squads.

Sword 11 and Sword 12 were the captains.

In the beginning, some of the new members from the Heavenly God League were upset about the group arrangements. They wanted to challenge the team leaders, but were subdued easily.

After all, the Sword Servants were at ninth-rank heavenly god-level now. Not only that, sword cultivators were experts in attacking after all.

Even if they were fighting someone who had the same level of combat strength, it was hard for them to meet a worthy opponent.

Moreover, some of these Heavenly Gods who had joined the Sword Alliance only had low to middle-rank combat strength. Barely over one-tenth of them had high-rank combat strength.

There was only one who was at ninth-rank.

This person was a rogue sword cultivator before. It was almost the limit to which he could cultivate. Though they had the same combat strength, his ability could not compare with the Sword Servants who had trained with the system.

After initiating the challenge, he lost to Sword 38 within a minute.

Seeing that he was defeated directly, those who wanted to challenge the team leaders dismissed their plan immediately.

Lin Huang did not assign Sword 1 to Sword 10 to the Heavenly God League. Instead, he handed the ten of them the Sword Dao inheritances tailor-made for the Swordmaster's bodyguards that he spent some time to prepare previously. After that, he sent the ten of them into the Great Heaven Palace, accelerating the time flow to 10,000 times faster.

One must know that Lin Huang had consolidated over 200 Sword seals.

This meant that he had created his own methods in the over 200 Sword Dao cultivation directions.

The Sword Dao he cultivated included Great Heaven and the Sword Servants' inheritances. He knew very well of each Sword Servants' capabilities, and which paths they were suited for in terms of cultivation.

Since Sword 1 and the rest obtained the inheritances, they immersed themselves in it quickly. Like a sponge soaked in water, they were absorbing the nutrients in the inheritances madly.

In the inheritances Lin Huang gave them, he chose at least three cultivation directions for each of them.

They could consolidate Sword seals no matter which direction they took and elevate themselves to lord-level.

Among them, it was Sword 1 who had the most comprehensive cultivation in Sword Dao, and he was given 12 different directions to consolidate Sword seals in the inheritances Lin Huang had customized.

The person who obtained the second most inheritances was Sword 8. She had the most talent and potential among all of the Sword Servants. Lin Huang picked nine ways for her to elevate to Lord.

This girl had the purest heart among all of the Sword Servants. To Lin Huang, she might even surpass Sword 1 and go further on the path of cultivation.

It was not discrimination for Lin Huang to do so. Instead, he curated it according to everyone's actual situation.

For instance, the Sword Dao Sword 10 cultivated only had three directions at most to consolidate Sword seals if he were to go further. In order to consolidate more Sword seals, he would have to rebuild his foundation all over again and cultivate more sword skills. Therefore, the inheritances Lin Huang gave him only contained the methods to consolidate three Sword seals.

Naturally, the Sword Servants knew that the inheritances each of them obtained were different. However, they had no idea the difference would be so great.

Lin Huang had also taken the effort to inform them not to share the inheritances they received with the other Sword Servants. The reason being was that each of them had different requirements. The inheritances he provided were customized to each of them. Them sharing amongst each other might result in them misleading one another, holding up each others' cultivation.

Under the 10,000 times accelerated time flow, within half a day, Lin Huang sensed Sword 1's aura fluctuation.

Without any hesitation, he directly teleported Sword 1 from the Great Heaven Palace to the barren star zone in his Kingdom.

He did not teleport him to the God Territory because a Lord's unification would create too big of a commotion.

It would still be fine if there were only one or two people performing unification. If ten people were to do that consecutively, people would definitely notice the abnormality of the situation.

It was within Lin Huang's expectations that Sword 1 would be the first one to perform unification.

In reality, he had been in the state where he had half his foot in unification this entire time. It was just that he could not find the exact direction that he wanted to venture toward for years. Therefore, he had been staying stagnant in the state prior to unification.

When he received Lin Huang's inheritances, he had actually only glanced at the 12 directions that Lin Huang chose for him and quickly picked out one that he had the most confidence in; that he would succeed in during the unification. He then began to absorb the information madly.

Within ten years, he had digested the inheritance of the chosen direction and began the unification process automatically…

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Chapter 1720: A Strange Feeling

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Lin Huang suddenly had a strange feeling as he watched Sword 1's God Territory project out automatically and the god sequence chains spread out of his body.

The faint strange feeling came from deep within the Kingdom in his body.

The feeling was indescribable, like something in the Kingdom had been awakened by something. It also felt a little bit like something was beginning to crack…

He spread his Divine Telekinesis instantly in an attempt to discover the source of the strange feeling. However, the effort was to no avail after he scanned his Kingdom over ten times.

He could only let it go and continued to watch Sword 1's elevation in silence.

When the 33 god sequence chains spread out of Sword 1's body, they seemed to control entirely. They began to show their fangs and claws as they fought against each other.

They even manifested into mutated beasts and started a chaotic battle.

Lin Huang was a little shocked to see the number of Sword 1's god sequence chains.

He had always thought that Sword 1's ability would be similar to Buried Heaven. He might even be slightly weaker.

Now it seemed the number of Sword 1's god sequence chains at the heavenly god-level was clearly more than Buried Heaven possessed. Buried Heaven had only consolidated 27 god sequence chains.

As he thought about it carefully, Lin Huang very soon realized his misjudgement in the past.

Sword 1's Sword Dao attainment was shocking. Among everyone Lin Huang knew, the reserve of sword skills Sword 1 possessed was only second to him and Great Heaven.

In reality, it made sense that the number of god sequence chains that Sword 1 consolidated exceeded Buried Heaven with the background he possessed.

Watching the god sequence chains' manifestations fighting, there was no change of emotions in Sword 1's eyes at all.

He had watched this scene play out more than once. Moreover, the inheritance of information Lin Huang gave him had related memories as well.

He did not panic at all as he removed the battle sword from its scabbard. He swung it at the beast that was manifested by a god sequence chain closest to him.

'What a firm attack!' Lin Huang could not help but exclaim secretly when he saw Sword 1's performance.

He was the one that he worried about least among all Sword Servants. It was not because he had powerful abilities, but mainly because he had a very firm character.

Lin Huang could even say that it was not an exaggeration to call Sword 1 the calmest guy among everyone he knew.

With his background and accumulation, he could have performed unification much earlier. However, he had always thought that he was lacking something, which resulted in him not having sufficient confidence to break through successfully. That was why he delayed things until now.

Fortunately, the wait was worth it. He received Lin Huang's inheritance of information that gave him enough confidence to do it.

Within 20 minutes, Sword 1 had subdued all of the god sequence chains. He began the second stage of unification.

However, the second he completed the psychic communication stage, Lin Huang suddenly lifted his head and looked into the distance again. He looked deep into his Kingdom.

The moment when Sword 1 completed psychic communication, he clearly felt that the strange feeling had intensified. Not only that, the feeling seemed to have multiplied in strength. It was tens of times more powerful now.

Lin Huang spread his Divine Telekinesis to look for it again, but it was still to no avail.

The feeling felt as if it appeared out of thin air and without a trace.

He could only let it be and continue to focus on Sword 1's unification.

The second stage of unification was the consolidation of his Dao seal. This was the stage that Lin Huang was most worried about for Sword 1.

The reason being was that, during the process of unification, a terrifying energy would be released when the god sequence chains integrated into the Dao seal.

Sword 1 had six more god sequence chains compared to Buried Heaven. The difficulty of unification would definitely be higher than Buried Heaven.

However, he remained calm and activated a white pearl to protect his God's soul.

It was a Soul Weapon, which was a low-grade Dao Weapon that Lin Huang lent him.

He borrowed it because Lin Huang would basically auction spoils such as Dao Weapons on Royal's site.

His God Weapon was bonded with his God's soul, so he could not lend him that.

This Soul Weapon was the gift God Capital gave the Sword Alliance recently.

Lin Huang took it out to let the Sword Servants use it during unification. There was only one, so they could only take turns.

It was not that Lin Huang was stingy and unwilling to buy a Soul Weapon of a higher grade.

With the strength of their God's souls, they could only activate low-grade Dao Weapons forcibly. They could not use Dao Weapons of a higher grade at all.

It was quite impossible for the low-grade Dao Weapon to be damaged during the process of unification, judging by the intensity of their unification. It was perfect for them to take turns using it.

Naturally, there was no guarantee that their God's soul would be affected at all during unification, even with this Soul Weapon.

They were not Lords after all. They had no Odyl in their bodies. They could only activate the most basic defense function.

Under the Soul Weapon's passive defense, it could only absorb 50% of the Odylic Force impact.

After protecting his God's soul, Sword 1 grabbed a handful of Divine Crystals from his storage ring so that he could replenish his drained Divine Power at any time.

Lin Huang had the urge to laugh when he saw that.

This guy was really cautious to the point that he was worried that his Divine Power would be insufficient.

As the stage of unification began, the 33 god sequence chains tangled themselves rapidly. They consolidated into Dao tattoos in the air at a high speed.

A moment later, the Dao tattoos gathered into a big, dazzling sun. The glaring golden glow was growing, spreading toward Sword 1's entire God Territory, releasing a terrifying amount of energy.

The instant the Dao seal took shape, the terrifying energy began to collide Sword 1's God Territory, God's soul and physical body.

The planets were destroyed one after the other in Sword 1's God Territory.

Planets aside, even the stars and black holes began to burn intensely…

Lin Huang could even feel the remnant energy from the unification penetrating his God Territory.

He was finally relieved when he saw no odd fluctuations coming from Sword 1's God's soul under the Soul Weapon's protection, and that the cracks that had appeared, instead of spreading further, were continuously being restored on its own at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.

As long as things remained in balance, and he held on until the unification stage ended, he would get through this process.

Lin Huang had been waiting patiently.

Sword 1 on the other hand was as firm as a log.

He would begin to absorb Divine Crystals to replenish the Divine Power in his body without them draining too much. He would maintain at least 90% of his Divine Power capacity at all times.

Not only was the Divine Power restoring his physical body quickly, it was also pouring into the Soul Weapon continuously.

He did not show any panic at all though the God Territory in his body was heavily damaged.

He had been tossing the God Territory Shell Remnants from his storage ring into his God Territory to refine them and to replenish what he had lost.

Fortunately, the stage of unification did not last long. Within ten minutes, Sword 1's Dao seal had been consolidated entirely. The release of energy was weakened.

At the same time, Lin Huang could clearly feel that the strange feeling deep in his Kingdom had grown tens of times more powerful than before.

He probed by spreading his Divine Telekinesis again. As he expected, it was still to no avail.

He began to speculate that this feeling should have come from Sword 1's unification. However, he could not figure out what it was exactly.. He merely had a faint feeling that the answer might be revealed when Sword 1's unification ended.

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Chapter 1721: The Restriction Has Been Lifted?

Lin Huang was finally relieved when the unification stage with the highest mortality rate had passed.

Theoretically, the most difficult stage of unification was the third stage—Dao plundering.

However, Sword 1 was performing the unification in the Kingdom in Lin Huang's body.

If Sword 1 could not defeat the Raptor, Lin Huang would not mind intervening.

He was not worried that his intervention would cause any abnormalities in the unification.

After all, he could suppress the situation with this current ability if it really happened, since it was just the unification of a Heavenly God elevating to a lower-rank Lord.

The unification stage had been completed in Sword 1's God Territory, and the Dao seal had been officially consolidated, and had retracted its aura entirely. It hovered in the air quietly, integrating with the God Territory.

At that moment, the third stage, Dao plundering, had commenced.

In the God Territory, a Dimensional Whirlpool that was like a Virtual Eye was formed at a high speed.

A monster with a muscular body walked out of the Dimensional Whirlpool.

It was a monster that was over three meters tall. Its lower body looked a little like a praying mantis. It had four powerful insect legs that made it look like the monster had excellent jumping capabilities. There was no head on its upper body, with only a section of spine that seemed to be made of bronze. It had 12 delicate joints that were connected to sword arms.

The monster looked like a praying mantis monster that had been mechanically modified.

It was also Lin Huang's first time seeing such a monster. He did not know its name at all.

Sword 1 merely observed it momentarily, without a trace of emotions on his face at all. However, he clearly exerted more strength into his right, sword-wielding hand.

Lin Huang probed it with Divine Telekinesis. The praying mantis monster's aura was slightly more powerful than Buried Heaven's. It was clearly a lower-rank Lord with only one Dao seal. It was just that it had more Dao tattoos than Buried Heaven.

Lin Huang guessed that it should have a similar number of Dao tattoos as Sword 1 did.

After the mechanical praying mantis monster passed through the Virtual Eye, it locked onto its prey—Sword 1.

Almost without hesitation, its body instantly turned into an aftershadow as it jumped hard with its legs. It arrived before Sword 1 almost instantaneously.

Its 12 sword arms controlled 12 battle swords, slashing at Sword 1 from different angles.

Sword 1 would be dismembered if he was hit by the attack.

Sword 1's pupils could not help but constrict slightly the second he saw its movements. "So fast!"

Nevertheless, his body reacted instinctively.

While he retreated frantically, he swung his sword consecutively as he used the Odyl that he had yet to familiarize himself with to defend against the praying mantis monster's attack.

His attack was crushed in one hit as expected, but he had managed to dodge the praying mantis monster's first round of attacks.

Lin Huang saw the gap of abilities between the two of them from that one exchange.

Sword 1 was significantly weaker in terms of speed.

The praying mantis monster was clearly an expert in speed-type attack techniques. Its speed exceeded most Lords with one Dao seal.

Not only its movement speed, but its attack speed was stunning too.

Its 12 sword arms attacked almost at the same time without any delays in between. It could adjust its attack speed as it wished.

These two factors gave it excellent flexibility.

Although Sword 1 was no match for it in terms of speed, he had great movement skills to make up for it.

In terms of attack speed, his rapid attack technique was no slower than the praying mantis monster.

In terms of flexibility, the praying mantis monster was slightly more capable, but it was not to the point where it would have the upper hand in suppressing Sword 1.

On the application of Odyl, the praying mantis monster was clearly more familiar with it. It was extremely smooth.

Sword 1 was rather new to that aspect.

The disparity was obvious. That was the reason why it defeated Sword 1's few sword attacks easily.

However, Lin Huang did not think that it was an issue.

With Sword 1's Sword Dao comprehension, and his abundant battle experience in the past, he should be able to familiarize himself with the application of Odyl in no time.

Although Sword 1 was weaker than his opponent at the moment, Lin Huang did not think that he would lose.

After all, the two of them were battling in Sword 1's God Territory.

As soon as he familiarized himself with the application of Odyl, he should be able to master using the other god sequence chains in his God Territory rapidly.

Just when Lin Huang was still evaluating Sword 1's probability of winning, the battle between the two had moved on to the second round.

Since the first attack had failed to defeat Sword 1, the praying mantis monster tried applying Odyl that the opponent was unfamiliar with.

It began its frantic attacks without hesitation. It teleported continuously and took the initiative to attack over and over again.

Sword 1 changed his previous strategy of tackling speed with speed. He began to defend instead.

At the beginning, Lin Huang was frowning a little bit as he watched. The reason being that pure defense would only accelerate the exhaustion of Divine Power and Odyl. He might drain his Divine Power and Odyl completely right in front of his opponent.

However, Lin Huang soon realized that his worry was unnecessary.

Sword 1 was very skillful in his defense. He mainly dodged by using teleportation. He would only defend when he really could not dodge the attack.

Although almost each of his defenses would be crushed with one hit, he could always dodge the attack that broke through the defense.

Not only that, Lin Huang could see that he was becoming more and more familiar with the application of Odyl with each defense.

"This guy has such a firm mentality. He didn't forget to use his opponent to increase his familiarity in applying Odyl at such a time."

Fortunately, this Raptor did not seem to be very smart. It did not notice what Sword 1 was doing.

It kept attacking over and over again, adjusting its attack angle and speed over and over again.

However, it soon realized that its opponent's defense was getting more and more stable.

Lin Huang watched the defensive battle for over half an hour. He had also witnessed the entire process of Sword 1 mastering the application of Odyl.

At the moment, Sword 1, who figured that he had gotten familiar with Odyl, finally retaliated.

At the beginning, he was only using the Dao tattoo power that was available in his Dao seal.

The opponent would still break each of his attacks easily.

Slowly, he began to borrow the available god sequence chains in the God Territory in his body.

Almost over an hour later, he could finally fight a fair and even battle with the Raptor.

He even began to suppress his opponent now, after figuring out the Raptor's combat tendencies.

Lin Huang was finally relieved as he watched up to this point.

He knew that it was certain that Sword 1 would succeed in his unification.

Less than half an hour later, Sword 1 had finally killed the mechanical praying mantis monster.

The Virtual Eye in his God Territory faded quickly.

The integration of the Dao seal with his God Territory was completed thoroughly, as if the reset button on the entire God Territory had been pressed.

The God Territory seemed like it was going back in time. The planets that were destroyed during the unification had returned to their original orbits.

Even the living beings that died in the God Territory were reborn one after the other…

Sword 1's God Territory began to expand further, transforming into a legitimate Kingdom.

As Lin Huang waited for the changes of the projection of Sword 1's Kingdom to complete its transformation, he had a faint feeling that the Kingdom inside his body seemed to have had a layer of restriction lifted.

This time, he did not spread his Divine Telekinesis to search for the source of the feeling. Instead, he checked the changes within his body directly.

Very soon, he could not help but raise his brows slightly.

"The restriction of 3,000 Dao seals has been lifted?!"

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Chapter 1722: Elevating to Dao-level

Lin Huang did not interrupt things when he saw Sword 1 standing where he was, taking the time to feel the changes thoroughly after elevating to Lord. He snapped his consciousness out of his body directly.

He glanced at his surroundings, and then got Mr. Gate to open the door to the virtual realm. His virtual body entered in a flash.

The virtual realm remained black and white. It was quiet without a sound.

Lin Huang scanned his surroundings with Divine Telekinesis. He did not sense any Voids. He then summoned a virtual realm cabin. He entered rather eagerly.

He was eager to verify whether the restriction on the 3,000 Dao seals in his body had been lifted.

After entering the virtual realm cabin, he sat with his legs crossed immediately. He began to simulate the god sequence chains that had yet to be converted into Dao tattoos in his Kingdom.

As expected, the god sequence chains that seemed to be encrypted previously began to revert to their usual state. They could be simulated once again.

Without hesitation, Lin Huang began a round of frenzied simulation.

He ran a reverse analysis on the god rules and sequences in the god sequence chains. After that, he replicated the entire process in reverse.

He converted the god sequence chains from the God Territories he plundered from others to his entirely.

It was unclear how many days had passed in the virtual realm cabin.

Lin Huang consolidated a million god rules and sequences again and began unification rather anxiously.

He was not anxious about the unification process. He was worried that the restriction from before would appear again to obstruct his unification.

However, the entire unification process went by smoothly.

Psychic communication, unification, Dao plundering. The three stages were completed extraordinarily well.

Many Voids coveted his Dao seal during the Dao plundering. Lin Huang killed them easily.

Just like that, he consolidated 3,001 Dao seals from the one million god sequence chains.

Watching the Dao seal that had just consolidated in the air, Lin Huang felt like he was in a daze at the moment. "Have I broken through to minor dao-level now?!"

He knew that many talents and geniuses would be stuck at the limit of ultimate-rank lord-level and had failed to move forward since the beginning of time. There were even many who failed to complete the breakthrough to dao-level before they died.

He had been ready to be stuck at this plateau for a long time.

However, the fact that he had broken through this plateau seemed a little too easy.

He felt the flesh and soul particles in his body were going through a major transformation, as if some restriction had been lifted. Shock filled his face.

He did not expect that his physical body and God's soul would go through such changes just because he had consolidated an extra Dao seal.

He could clearly sense that he was becoming more powerful by the second.

Even the Nirvana Trees that were connected to his God's soul were thriving. They were sending the Origin Energy fragments from the death spring into Lin Huang continuously.

At the moment, Lin Huang could no longer care about the source of the energy. He shut his eyes tight and immersed himself in the elevation of his physical body and God's soul completely, feeling the changes within each particle of his body.

It was unclear how long had passed when the sense of elevation finally slowed down.

The transformation of the flesh and soul particles had finally come to an end.

Lin Huang snapped out of his state of immersion.

He was sure that he had stepped into dao-level. However, he had no idea exactly how powerful he was.

After all, he no longer had a reference point like when he was at the limit of ultimate-rank lord-level before. Now, he felt like he could kill hundreds of his old self within a second.

He realized that his physical body and God's soul had transformed into a whole new state. His physical body and blood cells had been entirely transformed into particles, so had his God's soul.

The two types of particles could be interchanged as he desired.

Not only that, he could sense that as long as a particle still remained intact, he would be immortal.

Such particles could absorb all sorts of energies from the universe automatically.

Including the Divine Power of all attributes, radioactive waves from all materials, all kinds of god rules, sequences and even rule power.

Lin Huang was even a little suspicious that his old self at ultimate-rank Lord might not be able to break through his current defense.

The reason being was that each of the particles in his body were covered by the natural Odyl radiating from the 3,001 Dao seals. The natural consumption of this was almost equivalent to nothing to the current him.

After sensing the changes in his physical body and God's soul meticulously, Lin Huang very soon noticed the over 200 Nirvana Trees that were still sending Origin Energy fragments into his body.

"What's happening?!" Lin Huang was dumbstruck when he saw the size of the Nirvana Trees.

The Nirvana Trees' initial size had already been comparable to a giant celestial body. Now, each of them had grown to the size of a galaxy. They were even bigger than many star zones in the great world.

The over 200 trees could be gathered into a tiny universe when they came together.

What surprised Lin Huang even more was that each of the Nirvana Trees' surfaces were covered by a layer of energy that looked like a golden mist. He examined them closely and found out that the mist consisted of Origin Energy particles coming from the death spring.

"I'm afraid the value of these Nirvana Trees is comparable to spiritual treasures now."

Watching the Nirvana Trees still generating Origin Energy fragments, Lin Huang checked the inheritance fragments that were inserted into his God's soul.

Through the scanning of his Divine Telekinesis, he found out that among the vast amount of inheritance fragments, there were many that exuded dao-level auras. He did a rough calculation and found that the quantity was close to one-ten-thousandth of the total amount. Though it was only one-ten-thousandth, the total number was a lot.

Lin Huang tapped a few of them and checked them out casually. They were minor dao-level inheritances.

Some could not even be considered inheritances. They were just some memory images.

Lin Huang put those inheritance fragments aside and began to check out the other changes in his body.

The few God Weapons in his body had transformed again.

When he was elevated to ultimate-rank Lord, the God Weapons had transformed into spiritual treasures.

He did not know which rank they had elevated to now.

Nonetheless, the God Weapons were covered in Dao tattoos. The aura exuded from them was significantly more powerful than those Nirvana Trees.

Lin Huang could almost imagine the effect of him using his Divine Telekinesis to control the God Weapon flying daggers.

He controlled the few God Weapons to hide their aura, reducing them to the strength of ordinary supreme-grade Dao Weapons.

Later on, Lin Huang examined his body thoroughly and then tried to use the Dao seals in his Kingdom.

As expected, the Dao seals that had been seemingly restricted previously, where he could not even borrow even one, could finally be used now.

Lin Huang borrowed them one by one carefully.

One, two, three…

Ten…

A hundred…

1,000…

3,000…

10,000…

20,000…

30,000…

30,001!

Lin Huang had finally tested his limit. 30,001!

That was the limit of Dao seals he could use outside his Kingdom. It happened to be tenfold of the number of Dao seals he could master.

He returned his consciousness into his Kingdom again and began to test the number of Dao seals he could use in the Kingdom.

However, he did not manage to test the limit this time. The reason being was that he could use all of the 43,161 Dao seals he owned in the Kingdom.

His combat ability had undoubtedly been greatly increased. It was completely incomparable to before.

Lin Huang was over the moon. Soon, he calmed his mind and was going to continue to analyze the god sequence chains to consolidate more Dao seals.

Just when he was going to try, he could not help but frown.

"What's happening?! Why can't I analyze them again?!"

Something that made Lin Huang speechless happened. The god sequence chains in his Kingdom were once again encrypted. He could not retrieve any information from them at all.

It was the exact same situation he encountered when he was elevated to the limit of ultimate-rank lord-level and wanted to consolidate the 3001th Dao seal.

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Chapter 1723: Sword2 Got Out of Closed-door Cultivation

Lin Huang scanned through the hundreds of millions of god sequence chains in the Kingdom quickly with Divine Telekinesis. He realized that it was the same case as before; all of the god sequence chains and god rules were encrypted by an unknown power. They could not be analyzed anymore.

Feeling helpless, he could only give up on the plan to consolidate more Dao seals.

Although he had officially stepped into dao-level from the round of closed-door cultivation, and his ability had received a significant boost, he was quite pissed to be encountering the strange plateau again.

He was secretly speculating what the problem was exactly.

"I encountered the plateau before because I had reached the limit of ultimate-rank Lord-level. I was only a step away from stepping into dao-level. It was completely normal for the plateau to occur for such a major breakthrough point. But I've stepped into dao-level now, so why would the same situation happen again?"

Lin Huang began thinking about it from a different angle as his previous line of thought had been to no avail.

"The plateau being lifted just now seemed to be caused by Sword 1 consolidating the Dao seal in my Kingdom. Moreover, throughout the entire process of consolidating the Dao seal, there was a strange feeling in my Kingdom. It proved that his consolidation of the Dao seal might have a significant connection to my plateau being lifted."

"If I follow this logic, can it be that the lifting of the plateau encourages me to have others consolidate their Dao seals in my Kingdom and become Lords?"

Lin Huang made a rough guess.

Although he had no idea of the exact theory behind it, he deduced that conclusion following the logic of the earlier incident.

"Let's try that!"

Since he came up with that conclusion, it was only natural that he had to verify it.

It just so happened that Sword 1 was not the only one going into closed-door cultivation this time. Sword 2 to Sword 10 were all waiting their turn, which meant that he had nine chances to verify his speculation.

He left the virtual realm and went back to the material realm.

Lin Huang returned to his Kingdom immediately.

Seeing Sword 1 who had become familiar with his new powers, Lin Huang appeared next to him in a flash.

"Congratulations, you've finally broken through to lord-level successfully!"

"Lord Swordmaster…" Before hearing Lin Huang's voice, Sword 1 had not sensed his aura at all. He had only snapped back to his senses after being stunned momentarily when he saw Lin Huang standing in front of him. He bowed immediately, "Thank you Lord Swordmaster for training me!"

Although he had always respected Lin Huang, the person that he respected the most had always been Swordmaster Great Heaven. He had never expected that he would exceed Swordmaster Great Heaven one day.

"I've only given you a push. You managed to break through successfully primarily because of your talent and accumulation." Lin Huang patted Sword 1's shoulder.

"Lord Swordmaster, your aura…" Sword 1 could not help but raise his doubts anyway. He still could not sense Lin Huang's aura.

"Hmm?"

Lin Huang did not notice that his aura had almost been entirely integrated with the surroundings. In reality, he did not do it intentionally. It seemed to be a "special effect" that came with his elevation to dao-level.

He had only adjusted his aura after hearing Sword 1's reminder. He adjusted his aura to what a middle-rank Lord would have.

It was only now that Sword 1 could sense Lin Huang's existence.

"I had a tiny breakthrough earlier and didn't notice the abnormality that occurred," Lin Huang explained with a smile, "You can sense it now, right?"

"Yes, I can." Although Sword 1 said that, he was secretly guessing which level exactly the swordmaster was at now. His non-existent aura just now had exceeded the realm of his understanding.

"Sword 2 and the rest will be coming out of their closed-door cultivation sessions soon. Do you want to stay and watch their unification or would you like to return to the Pilgrim Star Zone?" Lin Huang asked.

"I'll stay. I can take this time to familiarize myself with being lord-level." Sword 1 made up his mind without hesitation.

Although he was a workaholic, he did not want to miss the important moment when his brothers performed unification.

Moreover, under the 10,000 times of accelerated time in the Great Heaven Palace, Sword 2 and the rest should have digested the inheritances the swordmaster gave them completely.

"I'll give you a lord-level inheritance. Study it when you have the time." Lin Huang lifted his hand and stretched out a finger as he spoke.

A blood-colored gleam flashed through the air instantly like an electric arc. It penetrated Sword 1's brows.

Sword1 did not manage to react at all, and he sensed that the inheritance had integrated with his God's soul.

He shut his eyes to focus immediately. He began to read the copy of the inheritance.

Lin Huang had prepared the lord-level inheritance earlier. It was also customized to each Sword Servant together with the inheritance for unification.

In reality, he thought Sword 1 and the rest might not have a cultivation direction after they had successfully elevated to Lords.

The copy of the inheritance could prevent them from taking many wrong paths when they got to lord-level.

Seeing Sword 1 get into cultivation mode, Lin Huang waved to envelope Sword 1 in a layer of transparent defense modified with Mirror.

Although he was right next to him, and it was quite impossible for any accidents to happen since Sword 1 was in his Kingdom, he thought he would do that as an additional safety measure and provide Sword 1 another layer of defense.

After setting up the defense, instead of interrupting Sword 1, he sat where he was with his legs crossed quietly, patiently waiting for the second Sword Servant to perform unification.

Approximately half a day later, a commotion erupted from the Great Heaven Palace again.

Sword 2 had come out of closed-door cultivation.

Lin Huang scanned him with Divine Telekinesis. Sword 2's aura was no weaker than Sword 1's before unification. Clearly, it had been a fruitful closed-door cultivation session.

With merely a thought, Lin Huang teleported him over.

At that moment, Sword 1 snapped out of his cultivation state when he sensed Sword 2's aura.

He saw the transparent protective layer before him as soon as he opened his eyes.

The next second, Lin Huang removed the protective layer directly.

Sword 1 nodded slightly at Lin Huang to indicate his gratitude, and then turned his head to look at Sword 2.

Sword 2 looked at Lin Huang first and bowed to him. "Lord Swordmaster."

He then turned his head to look at Sword 1. Sensing the changes in his aura, he was shocked and happy. "You made it?!"

"Yes, I have." Sword 1 nodded with a smile. "You'll definitely make it too."

"I'm counting on your blessing." Sword 2 smiled and looked around before asking, "Did you perform unification here just now?"

He could faintly sense the remnant aura in the surroundings.

"That's right." Sword 1 nodded.

"I'll do it here too. I think this is a feng shui treasured land!" Sword 2 laughed out loud. "Even if I fail and end up being buried here, I should be able to bless my descendants."

Sword 1 was speechless now. "Can you say something more auspicious?"

"I'm just kidding to ease my nerves." Sword 2 chuckled.

"There's no need to worry. The intensity of your aura is no weaker than Sword 1's before his unification. He almost didn't encounter any obstacles throughout the entire unification. You should be fine," Lin Huang comforted him. "All you need to do is to get rid of your stray thoughts and focus everything you have on the unification."

Sword 1 walked forward and passed the soul jewel and battle sword he had used during the unification to Sword 2. "These two Dao Weapons are amazing. Remember to hand them over to the rest when you're done."

Lin Huang was blushing a little when he saw the embarrassing scene. He could not help but emphasize to them:

"I'll get each of you a complete set of Dao Weapons when you're done with the elevation."

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Chapter 1724: Verifying His Speculation

The unification of the rabbit-headed man Sword 2 was a success as well. The number of god sequence chains he mastered was 31. It was only two fewer than Sword 1.

The difficulty of his unification process was no lesser than Sword 1. However, he passed through the stages relying on his stunning speed and explosive agility.

At the same time Sword 2 elevated to Lord, Lin Huang sensed the plateau in his body being lifted again.

"As I thought, my hypothesis was correct!" Lin Huang's eyes lit up.

He had found the way to continue consolidating more Dao seals.

"So all I need to do is get more people to consolidate Dao seals and elevate to Lord continuously in my Kingdom. With that, I can unlock the encryption of the god sequence chains over and over again, consolidating more Dao seals."

Although he could not understand the theory behind it, all Lin Huang needed to know was that his hypothesis was correct.

After elevating to Lord, Sword 2 merely familiarized himself with his increased strength while looking at Sword 1 in excitement.

"Let's spar?"

Naturally, Sword 1 was up for the challenge.

"Sure, I also want to check out my real combat capabilities."

Sword 2's rabbit ears turned a little red from the excitement. As soon as Sword 1 agreed, he exerted strength into his legs and vanished directly from where he was standing in a flash.

His main cultivation direction was extreme speed. The inheritance that Lin Huang had given him contained many extreme speed techniques.

Now that he had been elevated to Lord, there was a qualitative transformation of his speed. Given his increased confidence, he could not help but try to challenge Sword 1.

What he did not know was that Sword 1 had obtained another inheritance after elevating to Lord from Lin Huang.

Although he had only studied it for half a day, his understanding of combat was completely different from before.

Though he could not compare to Sword 2 in terms of speed, Sword 1's attack speed was no slower than his. Not only that, his defense remained flawless.

Lin Huang merely glanced at Sword 1 and Sword 2's conditions and he could already tell that Sword 1 would win.

He only had a one-word comment regarding the current Sword 1—stable.

That one word alone summed up the reason why Sword 1 was basically undefeatable.

Although Sword 2 had the upper hand in terms of speed and explosive agility, he was clearly not on the same level as Sword 1 judging by the overall progression of the battle.

It was as Lin Huang had expected.

After adapting to Sword 2's speed, Sword 1 very soon started seizing his opportunities to retaliate.

The frequency in which he took the initiative to attack was less than one-fifth of the time Sword 2 attacked but, each time he attacked, it would strike where Sword 2 was most uncomfortable. He disrupted Sword 2's battle rhythm over and over again.

Very soon, Sword 2 was dominated by Sword 1.

He could hardly showcase his speed and explosive agility as the battle went on.

The entire battle lasted less than 20 minutes. Sword 1 took over the rhythm of the battle completely, while Sword 2 lost unsurprisingly.

Lin Huang did not leave. He watched the entire battle.

It was not that he did not want to consolidate new Dao seals in the virtual realm. Mr. Gate could only make seven virtual bodies everyday. He had given six slots to his imperial monsters, which was why he could only enter the virtual realm once each day.

He could only wait for the next day if he wanted to enter the virtual realm to consolidate Dao seals again.

"Again!" Sword 2 was unwilling to yield. His pair of rabbit eyes were a little bloodshot from rage.

Sword 1 merely smiled and accepted the challenge.

He had finally broken through to lord-level. In this great world, his opportunity to fight against opponents of the same level would only decrease. Now that there was a battle opportunity sent to his doorstep, it was only natural that he would not let it slip by easily.

Lin Huang shook his head slightly as he watched the two fight again.

This time, Sword 2 lost even faster. He lasted less than 15 minutes before being defeated.

"Again!" He was still unwilling to yield.

Although he had never defeated Sword 1 before, the two spars he had since elevating to Lord-level were the two battles that he lost within the shortest span of time within his personal record. Not only that, he lost terribly in front of the swordmaster.

Sword 1 agreed as usual, but Lin Huang interrupted them.

"Don't rush into challenges just yet. Take the time to think about how you lost the previous two battles carefully. You'll only improve if you review the experience before challenging him again, otherwise you'll just be defeated in even worse ways."

Lin Huang was also worried that Sword 1 would crush Sword 2's confidence, so he stopped them.

Sword 1 understood Lin Huang's intentions instantly. "Calm yourself down and figure it out. You'll only lose faster when you're so emotional."

Sword 2 calmed down immediately after hearing what the two said.

He sat with his legs crossed in the air and began to mentally replay the two battles from before. He did not overlook any of the details.

Not long after Sword 2 started doing so, Lin Huang suddenly lifted his head to look toward the direction of Great Heaven Palace.

Sword 3 had exited closed-door cultivation!

With a thought, Lin Huang teleported Sword 3 over to where the three of them were.

Sensing Sword 3's aura, Sword 2 snapped out of his state of concentration instantly.

The aura of the tall elephant-headed man with a single arm had far surpassed the intensity he had before entering closed-door cultivation. He was close to the edge of unification.

"Lord Swordmaster." He merely bowed lightly toward Lin Huang then nodded at Sword 1 and Sword 2 respectively before beginning unification directly.

Lin Huang was not worried about him.

This guy was trained in force-type. His strong points were physical body and strength. His overall ability was no weaker than Sword 2. Judging by his physical strength alone, the success rate of his unification would only be higher than Sword 2.

That was the truth.

After obtaining Lin Huang's inheritance, Sword 3 was even more stable than before.

His unification went much smoother than Sword 2's.

Sword 2 could not help but chuckle softly when he saw the damage Sword 3 suffered on his physical body was much lighter than his during the unification process. "A crude man whose brain is made of muscle!"

Lin Huang sensed a further unlocking of the plateau in his Kingdom from Sword 3's successful elevation to Lord.

The three consecutive experiments confirmed his previous hypothesis completely—In order to consolidate more Dao seals, he would have to get more people to perform unification in his Kingdom.

As soon as Sword 3 completed his elevation, Sword 2 instigated him to challenge Sword 1.

"No. 3, you should spar with No. 1 to familiarize yourself with your increased strength."

Sword 3 did not think further and simply looked at Sword 1.

Naturally, Sword 1 knew what Sword 2 was thinking. Nevertheless, he did not say no either. He nodded at Sword 3. "Let's spar. It's indeed been a long time since we did so."

Sword 3 said nothing and charged forward directly after grabbing his sword.

The battle between the two soon broke out in the air.

It was much more interesting than the battle between Sword 1 and Sword 2.

Sword 3 was adept in the extreme force-type. Surprisingly, Sword 1 chose to fight him with force.

Naturally, it only seemed like he was doing that. In reality, Sword 1 had used more skills than Sword 3 did.

The battle lasted over three hours before Sword 3 was finally defeated.

"You must've gone easy on him, right?" Sword 2 said to Sword 1 while looking pissed.

Sword 3 lasted much longer than he did against Sword 1. It proved that Sword 2's ability was weaker than Sword 3.

"I didn't, I only changed the mode of response. I didn't fight him with anything that would suppress him," Sword 1 said while shaking his head.

He then turned to look at Sword 3. "Once more?"

Sword 3 nodded lightly and attacked without hesitation.

This time, Sword 1 changed to a more stable mode of response. He was using a defensive counter-attacking stance this time around.

Approximately half an hour later, Sword 3 was defeated again.

He chose to halt the challenge after being defeated twice. He walked to the side in silence and began to mentally replay the two battles.

Witnessing that, Sword 2 said nothing anymore and began to mentally replay the battles with his eyes closed.

Within half an hour, Lin Huang lifted his head again toward the Great Heaven Palace's direction. "Xiao Ba?"

It was Sword 8 who got out of closed-door cultivation this time.

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Chapter 1725: New Discovery

Among all of the Sword Servants under Lin Huang, the one who had the highest potential was actually not Sword 1, but Sword 8.

She was pure and had the least distracting thoughts. That was the best quality for cultivation.

She was Great Heaven's favorite Sword Servant in the past. He doted on her like a sister and had never forced her to cultivate.

That had resulted in her mischievous character. She did not take cultivation seriously.

Therefore, her ability was incomparable to Sword 1's, and even worse than Sword 2's and Sword 3's.

Since Lin Huang taken over the Sword Servants, he had been burying his head in work almost all the time. He had tasked Sword 1 with managing the Sword Servants' matters. Therefore, he did not focus much on Sword 8.

However, Sword 8 got his attention when she exited closed-door cultivation this time.

"The intensity of this girl's aura…"

He could never have expected that Sword 8, who had just exited closed-door cultivation, would have an aura that was more powerful than Sword 1's.

Lin Huang was in a daze momentarily before he snapped back to his senses. With a thought, he teleported Sword 8 over.

Sword 8's appearance did not change much. She still looked very much like a little girl who had yet to hit puberty.

"L-Lord Swordmaster…" Her character remained shy and timid.

Lin Huang nodded with a smile. "It seems like your closed-door cultivation was quite fruitful this time."

"Yes." Sword8's voice softened instinctively when she saw Lin Huang walking toward her. "There are many things that I didn't use to understand in the past. I understand them now after receiving the inheritance that Lord Swordmaster gave."

At that moment, Sword 1 who was standing to the side spoke up as well, "In reality, Xiao Ba's talent is better than ours. It's just that she just can't settle down."

Sword 1 did not criticize Sword 8 for slacking in cultivation in front of Lin Huang. Instead, he merely said that she was often distracted.

Lin Huang actually knew his Sword Servants' characters very well. He did not mind that. "I think Xiao Ba's character is pretty great. It'd be better if she's braver."

Sword 8's cheeks blushed a little.

At the moment, Sword 3 handed the battle sword and soul jewel to her.

Sword 8 looked at the two Dao Weapons in her hands and was stunned momentarily.

"You'll have to use them during the unification process later. Familiarize yourself with them first." Sword 1 who was standing aside explained, "When you're ready, you can perform unification right away."

"Do I do it here?" Sword8 looked around.

"Right here." Sword 1 nodded. "Sword 2, Sword 3 and I did our unification here too."

"Don't worry about us. We won't be affected by your unification," Lin Huang added.

Sword 8 only nodded and appeared in mid-air not far away in a flash.

After familiarizing herself with the application of the two Dao Weapons a little, she began the unification process without hesitation.

As soon as the first stage, psychic communication, began, Lin Huang aside, Sword1, Sword2 and Sword3 stared at the god sequence chains that were spreading out of Sword 8's body.

There were 36 god sequence chains. It had even exceeded the number of god sequence chains Sword 1 had mastered.

Not only Lin Huang, even the other three did not expect that.

"Has this girl been hiding her ability all this time?" Sword 2 could not help but ask Sword 1 and Sword 3.

Sword 1 and Sword 3 fell into silence as the both of them had no idea about the matter as well.

Lin Huang spoke right at this moment, "No, she was indeed not as powerful as you guys previously. However, she seemed to have had a major breakthrough during the closed-door cultivation session this time."

If Sword 8 hid her ability, Lin Huang would definitely sense it.

After all, with his ability, even an ultimate-rank Lord could not deceive him with a concealing technique.

There was only one possibility why he had not sensed it, which was that Sword 8 only became more powerful during the closed-door cultivation session.

Watching the 36 god sequence chains, the three of them remained stunned for a long time.

Lin Huang, on the other hand, noticed that Sword 8 seemed to have elevated half a rank from the closed-door cultivation session this time. She was at rank-5.5 now.

He did not think that it was the inheritance he gave her that caused Sword 8's elevation. The reason being was that his inheritance did not come with such a function. He figured that Sword 8 might have been at rank-5.5 initially, or rather incomplete rank-5.5. Since obtaining the inheritance he gave, she triggered something in her body unintentionally, restoring her to a complete rank-5.5 now.

It also explained why even though she was at rank-5 before, just like everyone else, her level of talent was clearly higher than the others.

Sword 8's elevation was a success as well. She went through even the most difficult Dao plundering stage easily.

Initially, everyone was a little worried that she could not defeat the Raptor. After all, her combat ability was much weaker when compared to Sword 1, Sword 2 and Sword 3.

However, the way she fought the Raptor shocked them. She almost suppressed the Raptor throughout the entire battle.

The Dao plundering stage was easier for her than it was for Sword 1.

Since Sword 8 elevated to lord-level, Sword 2 attempted to lure her into challenging Sword 1 in the name of familiarizing herself with her newfound lord-level powers.

However, Sword 8 shook her head directly to reject his suggestion.

Her elevation unlocked the plateau in Lin Huang's Kingdom further.

It had once again verified Lin Huang's previous hypothesis.

After that, Sword 4 and the rest performed unification one after the other within the next two days.

From Sword 1 to Sword 10, all of the Sword Servants had successfully performed unification and had all been elevated to Lords.

They returned to their initial jobs quietly instead of boasting.

Meanwhile, Lin Huang had ten extra Dao seals. The total number had reached 3,010.

After that, he was stuck at the plateau again.

He did not panic at all when he hit the plateau this time around.

The reason being was that he had already found out the way to resolve this plateau.

The ten experiments had proved his prior hypothesis completely.

In order to continue consolidating more Dao seals, all he had to do was to get people to perform unification in his Kingdom.

After confirming that, Lin Huang informed the imperial monsters under him about that.

He told them to enter his Kingdom first when they were going to consolidate Dao seals in the future.

Over the next few days, Bai was the first one who entered Lin Huang's Kingdom to consolidate Dao seals.

It was his fourth Dao seal this time.

The unification went extraordinarily well. After all, he had prior three experiences.

After sending Bai out of his Kingdom, Lin Huang entered the virtual realm immediately to start a new round of Dao seal consolidation.

This time, he realized that he could continue to analyze more god sequence chains after consolidating one Dao seal.

Without hesitation, he began a new round of analysis.

Later on, he successfully consolidated the second, third and fourth Dao seal.

After the fourth Dao seal was formed, the god sequence chains were encrypted again.

"Bai consolidated his fourth Dao seal in my body, which unlocked four Dao seals for me." Lin Huang deduced a new hypothesis. "If that's the case, I'll be able to unlock more Dao seals if Lords with more Dao seals consolidate Dao seals in my Kingdom?"

Over the next few days, Lin Huang verified his new hypothesis with Grimace and Lancelot, one after the other.

The unification of the two imperial monsters gave him the opportunity to consolidate eight Dao seals.

Until now, the total number of Dao seals he had consolidated had increased to 3,022.

Lin Huang could see the way forward to elevation in the future.

"If I invite many ultimate-rank Lords to consolidate Dao seals in my Kingdom, wouldn't I be given the opportunity to consolidate thousands of Dao seals at once?! If I could invite a hundred ultimate-rank Lords to consolidate Dao seals in my Kingdom, wouldn't I be able to consolidate 100,000 Dao seals and achieve major dao-level directly?"

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Chapter 1726: Extraordinarily Glamorous on the Outside

For the next few days, Lin Huang gave Sword 11 and Sword 12 the inheritances first. After they went into closed-door cultivation, they soon succeeded in the unification.

After the two of them got out of their closed-door cultivation sessions, Lin Huang spent some time customizing a set of Sword Dao inheritances for the 25 Sword Servants: Sword 13 to Sword 37.

The 25 Sword Servants entered closed-door cultivation together.

Lin Huang did not have high expectations for this batch of Sword Servants.

After all, they were merely at Pseudo Supreme God rank-4.5. With their levels of talent and potential, it was very difficult for them to elevate to Lords.

He thought it would be considered pretty good if more than 12 of them were elevated successfully.

Under the 10,000 times accelerated timeflow in the Great Heaven Palace, the 25 Sword Servants got out of closed-door cultivation and performed unification one after the other.

The final result was rather pleasing to Lin Huang.

Among the 25 of them, 18 were elevated to Lord-level successfully. Seven of them failed their unification and could only become half-step Lords.

The reason why the success rate was so high was because Lin Huang secretly helped a couple of Sword Servants in the last stage of Dao plundering.

Regarding the seven of them who failed, they failed in the second stage, which was unification.

Some had a God Territory that was less powerful, while some were lacking in physical strength or the strength of their God's soul.

Lin Huang could not help those who were innately lacking.

He could only protect them at the last moment to save their lives, making them half-step Lords.

The seven of them were regretful and vexed. They knew that they failed because of their own shortcomings.

Lin Huang could only comfort them, "There might be methods to elevate from half-step Lords. Perhaps someone in the universe will have a way to mend damaged Dao seals, elevating half-step Lords to Lords."

"You guys don't have to stop just yet. You should continue cultivating in preparation to mend your Dao seals."

In reality, Lin Huang had the Flawless Card that could repair their Dao seals. However, he was not going to tell them that for now.

The reason being was that, as soon as he told them that, the Sword Servants might not care if they could succeed in their unification or not; they could elevate to Lords even if they failed. In that case, there was no need for them to spend so much effort in cultivation.

With the couple of failed unifications, those Sword Servants who had yet to perform unification would definitely feel the pressure, and would work harder in their cultivation.

Regarding the function of the Flawless Cards, Lin Huang would only tell them before heading to the universe.

The seven Sword Servants who failed their unifications made Lin Huang realize that failed unifications would not unlock the plateau in his Kingdom further.

After the rank-4.5 Sword Servants performed their unifications, Lin Huang spent some time sorting out the remaining Sword Dao inheritances and sent the remaining rank-4.5 Sword Servants into the Great Heaven Palace where the flow of time was accelerated by 10,000 times.

Approximately half a month later, all of the Sword Servants had performed their unifications one after the other.

With Lin Huang's help, among the remaining 331 Sword Servants, 91 of them elevated to lord-level successfully.

If not for the fact that Lin Huang helped them in the last stage of Dao plundering, less than 20 of them would have been able to break through using their own ability.

Most of those who failed were stuck at the unification stage.

Only less than 20 of them found themselves stuck at the first stage of psychic communication.

Although only less than one-third of them had successfully been elevated to Lords, Lin Huang knew very well that it was a pretty good result.

For those who failed their unifications, Lin Huang made them cultivate into half-step Lords.

However, he did not tell them about the Flawless Card for now.

Among the 368 Sword Servants, 121 of them successfully elevated to Lords, which gave Lin Huang the opportunity to consolidate 121 Dao seals.

On the imperial monsters' side, 11 of them performed unification again to consolidate Dao seals, which gave Lin Huang an additional 37 Dao seals.

The number of Lin Huang's Dao seals increased to 3,158.

Compared to the time when he had just consolidated 3,001 Dao seals and had been elevated to minor dao-level, his ability did not undergo a qualitative transformation.

However, he knew that as the number of Dao seals increased, it was only a matter of time before the qualitative transformation would happen.

Seizing the opportunity, he refined all of the upper-rank Lords' and ultimate Lords' Kingdoms that he had yet to refine previously.

As he had yet to elevate to minor dao-level at that point, 3,000 Dao seals was the limit that he could use. Even if he was in his own Kingdom, he could not borrow even one additional Dao seal from the Kingdom. Therefore, he had not wasted time refining them.

Now that he had been elevated to minor dao-level, the restriction on his Godly Right had been lifted.

Not only outside the Kingdom, the number of Dao seals he could borrow was tenfold the number he personally mastered. In the Kingdom, he could use even more Dao seals. He had not even managed to test the limits within the Kingdom.

The round of refining 211 upper-rank Lords' and eight ultimate-rank Lords' Kingdoms boosted close to 80,000 Dao seals in his Kingdom. The total amount reached 121,163.

In reality, the number of Dao seals had exceeded the limit of minor dao-level.

However, Lin Huang realized there he could still use all of the Dao seals in his Kingdom. 121,163 Dao seals were still not the limit he could use.

In other words, theoretically, he could fight major dao-level powerhouses within his Kingdom.

Nevertheless, he did not think that he actually had the ability to fight if he really were to encounter a major dao-level powerhouse.

If he really did encounter one, he figured he would most probably be killed by the person directly before his Kingdom had even arrived.

However, this round of refining gave Lin Huang a new way of elevating his combat ability.

He required an outer force to unlock the restriction of consolidating Dao seals.

He could only take things slowly with this method.

He hypothesized that there was still a long way to go from 3,000 to 10,000 Dao seals.

The only Dao seals he could borrow came from the Kingdoms that he refined.

There were over 120,000 Dao seals, yet it had still not reached its limit.

There was ample room for an upgrade by elevating with this method of increasing his Dao seals.

"It seems that I can refine more Kingdoms to increase the number of Dao seals I can use in my Kingdom. I wonder what's the limit of this method…"

Lin Huang returned to the material realm after stepping out of the virtual realm cabin. He began to worry about resources.

Apart from necessities, he had exchanged all of the spoils that he obtained earlier for Kingdoms and refined them.

He looked like an extraordinarily extravagant grade-7 organization's leader with powerful abilities on the outside but, in reality, he could not even afford an extra low-grade Dao Weapon.

Even the over 300 Sword Servants would have to take turns to use the two low-grade Dao Weapons, the battle sword and soul jewel, for their unification.

From Sword 1 to Sword 368, the Dao Weapons were used over 300 times.

Fortunately, the Sword Servants were bonded to Lin Huang by a contract. They had an innate respect for him, so they would not gossip about him.

If the Sword Alliance's new members who had no contract with him saw that, they might have criticized him and quit.

"This has to change. I must think of ways to make money. If this goes on, it's going to be difficult to even operate the Sword Alliance." Lin Huang rubbed his temples hard.

He needed the resources to trade for Lords' Kingdoms. Aside from that, the Dao Weapons that he promised to the Sword Servants would cost a significant sum. Moreover, he needed a lot of money for the Sword Alliance's operations as well…

It was Lin Huang's first time worrying about money since stepping on the path of cultivation.

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Chapter 1727: Huang League

300 to 400 people sat in the Sword Alliance headquarters' meeting room in the Pilgrim Star Zone.

Since the Sword Alliance was founded, this was the meeting with the most participants.

None of the Sword Servants were absent.

"I got everyone to be here today mainly to divide and restructure a portion of the Sword Alliance's departments, which might involve you guys. Take this opportunity to voice out any opinions and suggestions that you might have. We'll discuss it together."

Lin Huang nodded at Sword 1 after he gave a brief opening speech.

Sword 1 nodded affirmatively and took over the discussion.

"I'll get down to business directly."

"The first item is the restructuring of the Heavenly God League."

"As many of you have been elevated to Lords lately, it would be rather odd for you to stay in the Heavenly God League. Therefore, I've discussed matters with the Swordmaster to set up an individual department for all of the Lords. The temporary name of the department would be the Huang League. If you guys have a better name, you may suggest one. We can change it if there's a suitable one."

"Sword 2 will be Huang League's team leader, and Sword 3 will be the deputy team leader. I won't be reading out the name list. All of the lord-level Sword Servants will be joining the Huang League automatically."

"The first mission for the Huang League would be arranging at least two people to guard the Swordmaster. Sword 2 and Sword 3 will select the bodyguards everyday. All you have to do is take turns following their arrangement. If something comes up, inform Sword 2 or Sword 3 at least a day before so that they can replace you with another bodyguard. Don't swap your duty positions on your own. The reason being is because Sword 2 and Sword 3 will take the two assigned bodyguards' cultivation direction into consideration. Usually, there'll be a higher level of efficiency when the two bodyguards are assigned to work together. I hope everyone will be responsible for the Swordmaster's safety."

Lin Huang felt rather speechless as he listened to the mission's contents.

He thought, 'I'll be responsible for my own safety. You guys take care of yourself."

In reality, he did not want a bodyguard. However, he could deny Sword 1 who insisted on arranging that for him.

Lin Huang could only compromise. He agreed that the bodyguards could follow him around only when there were outsiders present. When there were no outsiders present, he did not need any bodyguards with him.

Most of the lord-level Sword Servants were unusually excited as they listened to the mission's contents. That was the job of the previous Swordmaster's bodyguards. Before this, there were only ten bodyguards for the Swordmaster.

"The second mission for the Huang League would be for everyone to carry out the Swordmaster's orders unconditionally."

"The third mission, which is also a short-term mission for the time being, is for all Huang League members to be sent into Royal's instanced dungeon to obtain resources one by one before heading to the universe. You guys can team up on your own. However, before teaming up, I'd suggest that you guys take into account each other's strengths and how it would complement the team."

"I'll send the details of the missions to Sword 2 and Sword 3 later. They will make the necessary arrangements."

"There's something that I would like to say here. Among the spoils you obtain from Royal's instanced dungeon, everyone will have to submit 30% to the Sword Alliance."

"The Sword Alliance requires a lot of funds for operations and development. Moreover, most of the rewards that you guys obtain later on will be traded from the spoils that you submitted."

"The fourth mission…"

…

After going over the matters regarding the Huang League, Sword 1 then changed the subject to the Heavenly God League that had been divided.

As there were over a hundred Sword Servants who had been elevated to Lords and moved to Huang League, the Heavenly God League had lost many of its group leaders.

Lin Huang had thought about this with Sword 1 and decided to restructure the Heavenly God League completely.

"As the league has lost many group leaders, we've decided to restructure the entire Heavenly God League."

"On the Heavenly God League's side, Sword 11 and Sword 12 will still be the captains."

"Sword 11 and Sword 12, you guys will be guarding the Heavenly God League. Under normal circumstances, the Huang League will not assign any missions to the both of you."

"The team leaders will be all of the 247 half-step Lords present. All of the Heavenly Gods will be divided equally to join the 247 teams."

"Also, all team leaders, please do not showcase your half-step Lord's combat strength outrightly. Try your best to disguise your aura at ninth-rank heavenly god-level. By doing that, we can prevent spies from other organizations from spreading the news of our Sword Alliance having many half-step Lords."

"After the meeting ends, you guys can choose your own teammates, but you can't force them to join you."

"Also, there'll be Royal's instanced dungeon mission for the Heavenly God League. The requirement is the same as the Huang League, where you're required to submit 30% of your spoils."

…

"Apart from the Huang League and Heavenly God League, there's a new intelligence department that has been newly-founded."

"The name of this intelligence department is Heavenly Network."

"For the time being, Lin Xin, Yang Ling and Hong Zhuang would be the department heads. Those who are adept in intelligence work are welcome to join."

"Also, if any of your subordinates are skilled in intelligence work, you can recommend them to the three department heads as well."

The Sword Servants looked at Lin Xin and the other two when they heard that.

Naturally, they knew of the Swordmaster's sister. Yang Ling and Hong Zhuang who had been staying at the Sword Alliance's headquarters were no strangers to them as well.

It was just that they had no idea what Yang Ling and Hong Zhuang's roles were in the past.

Now they finally knew that the two of them were in the intelligence field.

Those Sword Servants who were skilled in intelligence work were a little excited now.

"If there are any team leaders in the Heavenly God League who are skilled in intelligence work, they can transfer to the Heavenly Network as well. You'll have the privilege of getting the members under you to join. After all, the Heavenly Network has just been founded, so there's currently a major talent shortage." At the moment, Yang Ling could not help but speak up, "There's one thing that I'd like to say. Our Heavenly Network's main direction is internet data browsing. There's no spy-related work, so the inherent risk is low. Currently, we need people to conduct information trades with other organizations' intelligence departments. We warmly welcome those who have related job experience."

Sword Servants among the crowd raised their hands one after the other as soon as Yang Ling was done speaking.

Great Heaven had trained talents in this field before. There were some ten people among the Sword Servants who were skilled in intelligence work.

Lin Huang and Sword 1 did not want to force them to join the Heavenly Network. Therefore, they gave them the opportunity to choose on their own.

Very soon, Yang Ling recruited 13 team leaders. Sword 1 would get them to discuss the details on their own later.

The meeting went on.

Approximately about half an hour later, the Sword Servants left after the agendas regarding them had been discussed.

Sword 1 and Lin Huang were the only ones left in the meeting room.

"Anything else?" Lin Huang asked.

"Hunt and Mysterious Item Pavilion contacted our branch in the human world. They would like to collaborate," Sword 1 said softly.

"Sure. We can develop the branch in the human world." Lin Huang agreed to that directly.

Hunt and Mysterious Item Pavilion were top grade-6 organizations among the humans. To the Sword Alliance, it was good that they were willing to collaborate.

"Do you think we can give in a little bit on the collaboration agreement since they're the same kind as you, Lord Swordmaster?" Sword 1 could not really decide on such matters.

"No need to. Just do it as we usually do." Lin Huang waved. "It depends on their effort as to what they'll get."

"Also, the headquarters has basically been settled now. Should we maintain what we have at the branch in the human world or do we start recruiting to expand further?"

"Let's recruit new members. There should be many worthy successors among the humans." Lin Huang decided without hesitation. "I'll get Bloody to draft a development plan for the branch within these two days. Please make the necessary arrangements."

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Chapter 1728: The Branch in the Human World

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The Sword Alliance's development could be said to be in full swing throughout these few months.

They had exceeded three million official members. Among them were over tens of thousands of Heavenly Gods.

As they did not openly accept registrations like Death Sickle and the Combat God Temple did, the total number of members they had could definitely not be compared with those two organizations.

However, the number of Heavenly Gods they had were on par with the veteran grade-7 organizations such as God Capital and the Combat God Temple.

Regarding the number of Lords and half-step Lords, there was no need to compare that with the rest of the organizations.

The reason being was that they would be a total bully for doing so.

Given that the Huang League and Heavenly God League had entered Royal's instanced dungeon to obtain a huge amount of resources, the Sword Alliance's financial crisis was lifted entirely.

The Sword Alliance's headquarters could finally be considered to have stabilized in the God Territory.

The different collaborations with the other organizations in the God Territory were progressing steadily.

On the other side, the Sword Alliance's branch in the human world had three Lords guarding it. They were Sword 4, Sword 5, and Sword 6.

One-third of the members from the Heavenly God League were assigned there to assist the three of them in managing the branch's affairs.

After stabilizing the operations of the branch, the Sword Alliance soon announced the recruitment notice for new members.

A heated discussion broke out in the entire cultivation world among humans as soon as the recruitment notice was published.

Only a small number of top organizations among the humans knew that there was a Sword Alliance founded in the God Territory.

Regarding the information about the Sword Alliance, fewer humans knew about it.

Even fewer people knew that the Sword Alliance's Chief, Lin Huang, was actually a human.

Meanwhile, in the recruitment notice, they revealed Lin Huang's human identity directly.

Naturally, that created a stir.

"A human founded a grade-7 organization in the God Territory?! Can you guys use your head before you come up with stories? Will the grade-7 organizations in the God Territory agree to this? What makes you think that a human deserves to found a grade-7 organization in the God Territory?"

"This recruitment notice is so exaggerated. Although the internet we have here is different from the God Territory's, it's not impossible for us to find news about what goes on in the God Territory. As long as someone inquires, they can even find out what color Lin Huang's underwear is."

"Let's report this deceiving advertisement. Let's wait for it to be banned."

"Let's sit down and wait for the insiders from the God Territory to expose the truth."

…

It was a one-sided criticism on the internet. Almost all of the netizens thought Lin Huang's story was made up and that there was no organization called the Sword Alliance in the God Territory at all.

There were a small number of insiders who exposed information about the Sword Alliance, and the netizens treated them as the internet ghostwriters the Sword Alliance hired to make up stories.

This went on until the organization Hunt among the three Saints and the seven sects reposted the Sword Alliance's branch's recruitment notice.

Only a small number of netizens began to suspect that it was real.

After Hunt reposted the notice, within two minutes, the Mysterious Item Pavilion reposted it as well.

Later on, a couple more grade-5 and grade-6 organizations that were collaborating with the Sword Alliance reposted it too.

The trend on the internet began to change.

"What's happening? Why did Hunt and Mysterious Item Pavilion's official accounts repost that?!"

"Are they mocking them on purpose?"

…

Almost at the same time, some netizens who inquired about the matter from the God Territory received replies one after the other.

"There really is a new and rising grade-7 organization in the God Territory called the Sword Alliance."

"The Sword Alliance's chief is called Lin Huang. He's a human Lord."

"The Sword Alliance is the most popular organization in the God Territory. They have over 10,000 heavenly god-level members and they are on par with the remaining veteran grade-7 organizations in the God Territory."

…

Some people posted screenshots of the God Territory's replies on the internet.

At first, most of them still did not believe it.

As more and more evidence emerged, soon there were more insiders who revealed the information.

The trend on the internet had finally changed.

"So the Sword Alliance is real, and Lin Huang is also real… So the Sword Alliance we have here is really just a branch?"

"Crap, is this Sword Alliance an imitation?"

"Did they give it the same name just to ride on their coattails?"

"This organization is gutsy. Aren't they afraid that the real Sword Alliance from the God Territory would send someone over to slap them?"

…

Since they found out about the Sword Alliance's existence, that Lin Huang was real and a human, most of them still thought that the Sword Alliance in the human world was definitely an imitation.

After all, similar incidents had happened in the human world before.

Lin Huang and Sword 1 were not sure whether to laugh or cry when they learned of the humans' reactions.

As they discussed it, they used the Sword Alliance's account in the God Territory to post a thread to verify the authenticity of their branch in the human world.

The netizens finally ceased their suspicions when someone posted a screenshot of the thread on the human world's internet.

"The Sword Alliance is real, Lin Huang is real, and this branch is real as well. What are you guys waiting for? Let's apply to join them immediately!"

"I thought we'd see a show of someone being humiliated today. In the end, I'm the one feeling embarrassed."

"After gossiping the entire day, it turns out everything is real after all."

"I have a question. Even if this Lin Huang is a Lord, the other grade-7 organizations in the God Territory have Lords too. How could they just allow Lin Huang to found a grade-7 organization in their God Territory?"

"Maybe they can't beat Lin Huang?" Someone replied to that instantly.

Later on, an insider revealed, "God Capital wanted to stir a ruckus at the Sword Alliance's upgrade banquet, but they were humiliated on the spot. Also, Lin Huang isn't the only Lord in the Sword Alliance. There's someone called Lancelot who is suspected to be a middle-rank Lord."

As more people revealed information about the Sword Alliance and Lin Huang, everyone was getting more and more curious about them.

Many netizens had learned to use VPN to browse for the Sword Alliance and Lin Huang's information on all the social media platforms in the God Territory.

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The Sword Alliance's popularity had just passed not long ago on the internet on God Territory's side.

Many viral threads were found quickly. Among them included threads with detailed notes of the entire process of how the Sword Alliance rose, which were made by some of the organization's supporters.

After reading those threads, the people in the human world suddenly realized that the news that was exposed earlier was merely the tip of the iceberg.

This Sword Alliance and its chief Lin Huang were much more powerful than what they had imagined.

Very soon, someone had posted a detailed thread with notes on the internet on the humans' side.

After reading the thread, everyone finally realized that there was really someone of their own kind who had been wandering in the foreign land, the God Territory, and hiding his identity just to avoid being killed. He achieved lord-level with his own ability and overthrew his enemy—the Myriad Tribe Palace, a top grade-6 organization in the God Territory—who had annihilated his native land. Later on, he founded a grade-7 organization—the Sword Alliance—with a group of Protoss friends upon the ruins of the Myriad Tribe Palace.

Most of the human cultivators admired Lin Huang after learning his story, while a small number of them felt regretful.

They thought if Lin Huang teleported to the human world directly back then, then there would be one more grade-7 organization among the humans.

Lin Huang's story was quickly spread among the humans.

Many cultivators were inspired after reading the story.. They sent their applications to join the Sword Alliance's branch in the human world.

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Chapter 1729: Mr. Fu Returns

Time flew by, and over a month had passed.

The Sword Alliance's headquarters in the God Territory was thriving. The branch in the human world had also begun to take shape.

The Sword Alliance's financial crisis had been solved earlier and, as Lin Huang promised, he got each of the Sword Servants in the Huang League a set of Dao Weapons.

Lin Huang even went to the human world and visited the three Saints and the seven sects of the human race.

All of the media channels were fighting to report about it in the human world.

It resulted in the Sword Alliance going viral in the human world again.

The Sword Alliance's branch among the human race recruited over 300,000 new members.

Although that was insignificant in the God Territory, it was still considered a pretty great start.

At the Sword Alliance's headquarters, not only had the Huang League been established, but the new department, Heavenly Network, as well.

Under Lin Xin, Yang Ling and Hong Zhuang's guidance, the Sword Alliance constructed a massive information network.

They were primarily collecting information at the moment, but Yang Ling boasted that it was only a matter of time before this network would become the information center of this great world.

As the Sword Alliance's development had been stabilized in all aspects, Lin Huang had become a boss who did nothing.

He had placed Sword 1 in charge after all, while all the departments also had a person-in-charge appointed, with Bloody as their adviser.

He was not worried about the future of the Sword Alliance's development at all.

No matter what, Sword 1 would inform him in advance if there were important occasions that required him to show himself. Sword 1 would prepare the rest on his side. All he had to do was to show up for the occasion.

Meanwhile, Lin Huang would enter the virtual realm every day to refine the inheritance fragments that the Nirvana Trees had sent over from the death spring. He obtained significant information about the universe from those fragments.

"So the great world is actually so small…"

Before this, Lin Huang had heard of the concept of the universe. It was an ocean with many great worlds that were connected to each other.

Only once he saw the memories of those powerhouses from the universe did he truly discover how vast the real universe was.

The great world that he was in was just an insignificant speck of dust compared to it.

In the universe, there were countless specks of dust like this.

Most living beings could not leave these specks of dust throughout their lifetimes.

One day, Sword 1 sent a message not long after Lin Huang left the virtual realm.

"Lord Swordmaster, please come to the small meeting room on the top floor."

"What happened?" Lin Huang replied instantly.

Sword 1 basically would not disturb him unless it was something important.

Therefore, the first reaction Lin Huang had was to think that an issue had occurred.

"You'll find out when you get here," Sword 1 replied immediately.

That confused Lin Huang a little.

Whenever he needed to show himself, Sword 1 would always tell him the information directly. Not only that, he would get into the details, worried that he would miss out on anything.

However, he asked him to go to the meeting room first this time?!

Lin Huang did not ask further after seeing Sword 1's reply. He appeared in the meeting room in a flash.

As soon as he arrived at the meeting room, he saw a familiar figure standing at the window.

Although it was the person's back, the expression on Lin Huang's face softened instantly. "Master?!"

The man at the window turned around and smiled at Lin Huang. He took a good look at him. "Your appearance hasn't changed much, kid, but the air about you has. You really look like a chief now."

"You've aged at least ten years compared to before, master," Lin Huang teased while chuckling.

"I have a beard now. Does it make me look very old? I'll shave it off later."

This person was Lin Huang's master who had seen him grow—Mr. Fu.

After Mr. Fu elevated to second-rank true god-level three years ago, he felt his cultivation progress begin to slow down. Thus, he bid farewell to Lin Huang and traveled alone.

In reality, there was a Sword Servant secretly following and protecting him throughout those years. He would report to Lin Huang on Mr. Fu's condition on a regular basis.

However, Mr. Fu had never returned throughout those three years.

He had finally returned now.

"You've really grown a lot throughout the three or so years that I've been away." Mr. Fu got Lin Huang to sit down and could not help but exclaim, "I thought no matter how stunning your talents were, you'd require at least 30 to 50 years to stand out in the great world. I thought it'd be perfect for me to return to help you in 20 to 30 years."

"Never would I have thought that I would hear about your name in the human world after a short three years." Mr. Fu had joy filling his eyes. "I only found out that the Sword Alliance had been elevated to a grade-7 organization when I saw everyone on the internet talking about you and the Sword Alliance."

Naturally, Lin Huang knew that Mr. Fu had been staying in the human world throughout the three or so years, burying himself in travels and cultivation.

Due to the restriction and isolation of the human world's network, Mr. Fu did not know much about what had happened in the God Territory.

It was only during the recent month that Lin Huang's name had surfaced among the cultivators in the human world, as the Sword Alliance began to develop their branch in the human world and recruit new members.

Mr. Fu had seen that information and verified that it was him. Only then did he contact the Sword Alliance's branch.

"The Sword Alliance has only been developing for less than half a year here. We've been focusing on the one in the Pilgrim Star Zone. Only once things were stable did we develop the branch in the human world to train some human talents. Therefore, we only started to recruit members at the branch in the human world last month."

Lin Huang gave a simple explanation.

"To be honest, I suspected that it was fake news when I first saw it. I was only less skeptical when I looked through the threads online these past few days and saw the reposts from a few organizations like Hunt and Mysterious Item Pavilion. Later on, I got a guy from the black market to ask around and confirm that the news was real." Mr. Fu was indeed slow when it came to receiving news.

"The internet also says that you've been elevated to Lord? Is that true?" Mr. Fu asked as if he was gossiping.

"I guess." Lin Huang coughed twice.

In reality, he had surpassed lord-level now.

Mr. Fu had a completely different understanding of what he said. He thought Lin Huang meant that his combat strength had yet to reach lord-level, but that he already possessed lord-level ability.

"Actually, there's one thing that I don't understand," Mr. Fu raised another doubt, "Why did those grade-7 organizations in the God Territory allow you to establish the Sword Alliance? Don't tell me they want another grade-7 organization in the God Territory to share their resources? None of them sent Lords to suppress you?"

Lin Huang smiled when he heard that question. "Suppress me? They would need to have the ability first."

Mr. Fu had a rough understanding of what happened after hearing that.

It was not that the grade-7 organizations in the God Territory had allowed the Sword Alliance to rise. Instead, they were lacking in abilities and could not do anything about them. They could only watch the Sword Alliance rise in prominence.

"Is the Myriad Tribe Palace you destroyed the organization behind the Thousand Snake Sect you mentioned before?" Mr. Fu continued to ask.

"That's right. The Thousand Snake Sect invaded the gravel world over and over again on the Myriad Tribe Palace's orders." Lin Huang nodded. He did not tell him about the secret behind the Myriad Tribe Palace.

After all, it was futile even if he told Mr. Fu about that. It would only worry him.

"Have you cleared them out entirely?" A ferocious gleam flashed through Mr. Fu's eyes.

"I've cleared all of them out, including the Thousand Snake Sect." Lin Huang nodded.

"That's great." Mr. Fu was relieved now.

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