The Era of Gods

by Cui Shi yi

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Chapter 131: Proactively Challenging

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Chatting with her felt incredibly comfortable and pleasing to the eye.

That's why he always couldn't help but sneak glances at her, and he did it quite openly.

Of course, he limited himself to looking at her charming face and didn't dare to look elsewhere, not because he didn't want to but because it wasn't allowed during the review process.

Yet, no matter how openly he looked, any girl, no matter how generous, would feel shy. When he once again looked at her so unabashedly, Shen Yuexin said somewhat indignantly,

"Do you chat with girls like this all the time?"

"No, because no one else is as pretty as you!"

"Do you always speak to girls with such slick flattery?"

"No, I'm telling the truth, feel free to check."

He puffed out his chest and put his hands on his hips while Shen Yuexin tilted her head and looked at him with distaste:

"You're behaving like a hooligan; I'm going to tell your grandma."

Lin Xiao shrugged his shoulders:

"Go ahead and tell her. Afterwards, my grandma will praise me for doing a good job."

"You…"

Shen Yuexin was at a loss for words for a moment. This guy was so slick; she really had no way to deal with him.

But Lin Xiao didn't wait for her to say anything else and immediately said,

"Alright, alright, I'll stop looking. Don't tell my grandma."

Whether she tattled or not wasn't important; what mattered was giving her an out. A bit of flirty banter was enough; he couldn't let her feel too cornered. It would be bad if she ended up actually getting angry in a moment of impulse.

Lin Xiao might not have been a love expert in either of his two lives, but he still knew some theoretical skills.

Shen Yuexin was the most charming girl he had ever met, and she was also extremely accomplished. Any normal man would harbor some improper thoughts and try his luck flirting with her, which was quite normal.

Whether he succeeded in wooing her was another matter; at least he wouldn't have any regrets in life.

Luckily, he had the chance to flirt with her because of his relationship with his grandma. Although they weren't blood-related aunts, strictly speaking, they almost had no blood relation—his grandma and Shen Yuexin's mother belonged to the same clan, distant relatives, just women of the same age who used to play well together, referring to each other as sisters.

Whether this distant relationship was considered close or not depended on how much one valued it, otherwise, they were the kind who might not even meet once in decades.

It was thanks to his relationship with his grandma, and his natural talent for living off women, which was why he was liked by girls and able to stand beside her and chat. If it were any other guy, it was hard to see anyone being able to talk with her.

The two chatted for a while, mostly about things related to the summer camp. Lin Xiao wisely never brought up romantic topics. With a beauty like her, there was no shortage of master flirts showing off themselves in her presence; with his level in this area, he didn't need to embarrass himself—talking about things she was interested in was enough.

Chatting with a beauty made time fly by quickly. More and more trainees arrived, and soon he heard a cold snort in his ear, and Shen Yuexin whispered,

"The instructor's here, let's not talk anymore."

"Okay."

He lifted his head and saw the instructor, Xie Yufei, shooting a stern glance their way. Her eyes swept quickly from them along the row behind, and the whispers that remained instantly disappeared.

She jumped down from a metallic platform dozens of meters high and landed heavily on the floor, her fitted military uniform perfectly outlining her figure. She strode towards them and said in a deep voice,

"I am very disappointed. Out of more than four hundred people, over eighty percent chose the lower difficulty level, and over thirty percent were eliminated, while more than half suffered heavy losses. Your performance is very disappointing!"

"Thirty percent eliminated, more than half suffered heavy losses…"

That meant in total, about sixty-five percent were effectively eliminated— thirty percent directly and from the remaining seventy, half had suffered heavy losses. Suffering heavy losses during the summer camp essentially meant no chance of advancing to the next stage.

Out of more than four hundred people, sixty-five percent would be… two hundred sixty?

Lin Xiao gasped, they had eliminated so many?

No wonder so many had been looking so down when he had arrived; so this was why.

As expected, the military was ruthless, eliminating so many in one fell swoop without blinking an eye.

And then they had to endure scolding; it was utterly heartless.

But such matters were completely normal in the military. The army wanted absolute elites, those with strong combat abilities. These summer camp members could be considered talented elites, but this 'elite' status was in comparison to ordinary people. Within the army, if their combat abilities weren't up to par, they were deemed unsuitable.

"The army has no need for waste, only for elites! Waste has but one pathelimination."

Xie Yufei spoke in a cold and merciless tone, showing no pity:

"I know many of you are dissatisfied, but don't say I didn't give you a chance. Those who haven't been eliminated yet can stay. During the upcoming team challenges, as long as you defeat any member of an opposing team, you may remain. Those who fail will be eliminated without exception!"

These words allowed most of the disheartened students to breathe a sigh of relief. Although the chance seemed slim, it was still a chance.

At that moment, Xie Yufei turned to face the group of ten before her, scanning them with a brief glance, then looked past them to the crowd behind and declared loudly:

"As mentioned earlier, every soldier who passes will receive two Mythical Quality Five Star Cards of a specified type. In addition, some soldiers have performed exceptionally well, completing additional challenges beyond the standard tasks. The military is never stingy in rewarding excellent soldiers. Now, all soldiers who have passed, step forward."

The crowd hesitated for a moment, many looking at each other. Lin Xiao saw the few people ahead of him in the row of ten all step forward together; he, too, stepped forward, and then, a beam of white light descended from the sky, and the familiar screen popped up in front of him, displaying a sixty-second countdown.

He immediately picked two cards he had thought about beforehand—a card named 'Basic Exotic Mechanical Construction' and another named 'Basic Exotic Alchemy,' both pertaining to knowledge in the fields of Engineering and Alchemy, perfect for the Clan support groups he planned to create for their learning.

No need for advanced knowledge at the moment; just the basic disciplines were enough for the newly awakened Goblins to study for a long time.

Of course, at this stage, he wasn't able to produce any better knowledge.

In any world, knowledge is the most valuable commodity. Simple Skills may come cheap, but systematic knowledge is hard to come by, even basic alchemy is of Mythical Quality. Advanced, high-level knowledge is something only available to Rank 2 Heroes and beyond, such as Demigod cards, which he couldn't obtain right now.

Only halfway through the second phase of the Summer Camp, Lin Xiao had already acquired seven Mythical Quality Five Star Cards, basically completing all required conditions envisioned for the third type of support Clan he had in mind. He only needed to attain another card slot, and he could immediately start the synthesis.

A minute quickly passed, and after everyone had finished selecting their rewards, Xie Yufei continued:

"The team's internal elimination has concluded. One hundred and twenty soldiers have been eliminated. The rest of you will soon head to the main venue to start the team PK. The PK rules will be sent to you shortly; read them on your way there. I hope that after the team PK is over, there will be over one hundred and fifty soldiers left in my team."

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That was a pretty direct way of showing her disdain for them, suggesting nearly half of these two hundred and eighty people would be eliminated.

But after thinking about it, it really was quite grim, considering half of the remaining personnel had suffered huge losses during the internal team elimination challenge. They would be at a severe disadvantage during the PK with other teams and were likely no match for their peers of the same rank anymore.

As Xie Yufei waved her hand, whether by the power of a True God or the Super War Fortress, Lin Xiao only felt a distortion of time and space before his eyes, and when he opened them again, he found himself returned to the initial venue, sitting in the same Stone Throne, with a blazing flame above his head representing the Fury Flame Team.

He instinctively looked around and was surprised to discover many empty seats, indicating that the owners of those seats had been eliminated during the internal team elimination.

Most of the empty seats were at his level, approximately twenty to thirty in total. There were only five vacancies in the Iron Throne section, none in Bronze or above, and naturally, the most eliminations occurred among those without seats.

From the densely-packed initial number of over one thousand six hundred people, they were down to less than one thousand, having lost the tail end.

"Huh?"

He was surprised to find that the elimination rate of the Fury Flame Team was not the highest, nor was it the military's Wolf Fang Team, but instead, it came from two academy teams, both with an elimination rate exceeding fifty percent.

Upon closer thought, he roughly guessed the reason.

The academy faction probably eliminated all those who didn't qualify straight away, while the military faction tended to give a second chance unless someone was immediately eliminated, which is why their elimination rate didn't surpass the academy's.

This wasn't to say that the military faction was more compassionate, but rather, for a soldier, as long as they weren't directly eliminated, as long as they didn't die, as long as they didn't give up, they'd always have second, even third chances. This was a belief from the military: in battle, as long as one isn't dead and the will to fight remains, miracles can be made.

The most memorable thing Lin Xiao recalled from his past life before his rebirth was an instance where he stumbled upon the achievements of a Super Grade Combat Hero. Those were truly magical feats, miracles that even novels wouldn't dare to fabricate.

After reading about the heroic deeds of many heroes, he felt that the screenwriters of some divine dramas could actually afford to let their imaginations run even wilder.

"Hello, dear students!"

An unexpected voice interrupted his wandering thoughts, and he looked up to see the host who had appeared on the platform:

"I'm delighted to see so many of you still here. Let's not waste time on small talk. The second phase of this year's Summer Camp, the team PK, now begins. I believe you're all aware of the rules by now, so I won't go into detail. Next, you will choose your opponents, and we will…"

"Shoot!"

Lin Xiao realized he had forgotten to read the rules and, like everyone else, quickly looked down.

Good, everyone had forgotten.

In less than ten seconds, he had a good grasp of the challenge rules.

They were simple. Previously, all players had been categorized by their team mentors into lower, middle, upper, and top tiers. Now, each team member had to challenge at least three different opponents, best of three rounds, with the loser—if seatless—directly eliminated.

If one had a seat, the seat would be downgraded by one level. For example, a loss from an Iron Throne results in a downgrade to a Stone Throne. If the seat ranks of both parties are unequal, they swap places. If defeated again, one becomes seatless, and seatless losers who face another defeat are directly eliminated from the Summer Camp; they don't linger around without a seat.

Victory in the first challenge will result in receiving one Mythical Quality Card.

Victory in the second challenge will result in two Mythical Quality Cards, along with the opportunity to challenge an opponent of a higher rank.

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Chapter 132: So we at Sky Blue College will take this student.

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Just like how Lin Xiao's school only releases a few cards at the end of each year exam, which is not nearly enough to go around, only the most excellent few students have the chance to snatch them.

Although descendants of True Gods are not necessarily short of Divinity, having Divinity doesn't mean it can be fused easily.

You should know that Divinity not condensed through one's own Power of Faith is impure, and Divinity doesn't just appear out of nowhere; it's all condensed by other Demigods or True Gods through the Power of Faith provided by their own followers, naturally containing a large amount of psychic energy from foreign followers as well as the spiritual Branding of the condenser.

This requires spending time to thoroughly Refine the spiritual Branding within before it can be assimilated into oneself; otherwise, under the influence of different spiritualities, at the very least it can affect character, and at worst, it can affect potential.

Lin Xiao previously fused with the Divinity of a Snake People Demigod because he used the Creation Magic Cube to directly extract pure Divinity, saving him this step.

Other True God descendants who obtain additional Divinity can only slowly Refine it; there's simply no fast way about it.

Anyone who wants to go further will not fuse a large amount of Divinity at once, as it can affect their very self.

Upon exiting the Divine Realm, Lin Xiao received a brief message from his mentor:

Challenge over, you may move freely but must not leave the Fortress; you must assemble on the morning of the third day."

There were hardly any restrictions, but he had nowhere to go anyway. After thinking it over, he sent a message to Lin Xu. He didn't wait for a reply after a while and went ahead and ordered a meal, while also applying to receive his reward.

He should be among the earliest batch of students to complete the elimination task for his team. Since the task was finished, naturally, he could claim his reward.

After waiting for a bit, the meal he ordered arrived, and he browsed the trade platform while eating.

Speaking of which, Lin Xiao found that even cards of ancient grades were available on the trading platform; however, Divinity Cards and Divine Realm Cards were rarely seen, and the few times they did appear, they were instantly snatched up. These cards were completely in short supply.

The reward of five Mythical Quality Five Star Cards for completing the mission, although it was said that he could choose freely from any category, did not include Divinity Cards or Divine Realm Cards.

Just as he was thinking about this, he received a message. When he opened the light screen, it displayed the reward he had just applied for, prompting him to select the category for his reward cards.

He put down his chopsticks and after contemplating for a moment, the first Card he chose was the Goblin Species Card.

A Mythical Quality Goblin Card represented a full three thousand Goblins, half male and half female.

Choosing this species, which couldn't even be considered cannon fodder, was mainly in preparation for the third race in his Divine Territory.

Currently, within the Divine Territory, both the Fishmen and the Supreme Naga could be considered combat Races, but a well-rounded Divine Territory cannot consist solely of combatant Races. There must be one or two advanced Races, and Goblins were the Auxiliary Race he had chosen.

Strictly speaking, Lin Xiao was already eligible to choose an intermediate race, but he chose Goblins for two reasons.

One reason is that an Advanced Race does not have to be very powerful; as long as it can reproduce well, it fits the criteria. Goblins meet this standard as they can eat anything, including grass roots, leaves, and even rotting flesh, which makes them exceptionally easy to sustain.

The second reason is that he possessed a Talent called Afterglow of the goblins, a rather extraordinary Talent. He wanted to try if he could use this Talent to recreate some of the brilliance from the epoch of the Ancient Goblin Empire.

Okay, the likelihood of that wasn't very high.

The brilliance of the Ancient Goblins lay in their fabrication of virtual gods, something no True God would tolerate, not even Lin Xiao.

If they were able to create deities themselves, how could one expect them to retain their faith and worship you?

It's more likely that the first thing they'd do would be to overthrow him as the perceived false deity.

Just like with humanity in the Main World, when they can open the Divine Realm on a large scale to create deities, the ordinary people of the Main World no longer worship gods. Thus, Divine Territory Players can only plunder foreign Races from Different Domains and then convert them into Divine Domain species to provide faith.

Unless Lin Xiao could become the Supreme god, the King of All Gods, the God Above Gods as spoken of in legends, perhaps only then could he control these virtual deities.

But that would be too troublesome, and frankly, if he really became the

Supreme god or the God Above Gods, he wouldn't care about these matters anymore.

Therefore, it was essential to limit their potential for growth from the very beginning.

Or to put it another way, not to unlock the curses of the gods within the Goblin Bloodline. As long as the curse remains unbroken, no matter how the Goblins develop, they could never replicate the splendor of ancient times.

After all, he only needed an Auxiliary Clan dedicated to forging weapons and constructing engineering machinery for the main combatant species of the Divine Territory. Being adept at these was sufficient; they need not aspire to anything more.

For the reward of five Mythical Quality Five Star Cards from the task of resisting the Blood Legion, aside from the Goblin Card, he chose two Talent Cards and two Specialty Cards that were very suitable.

Two Talent Cards—Higher Level of Enlightenment, High-level Enlightenment.

Two Specialty Cards—Spiritual Power Genius, Clever Heart and Skillful Hands.

Enlightenment and the opening of the mind are used to develop intelligence, and High-level Enlightenment and Higher Level of Enlightenment are the enhanced Mythical Quality versions. The current Goblins were very crude; without Enlightenment and the opening of the mind, they were practically useless; so these two Cards were essential.

Spiritual Power Genius was to exploit their spiritual power, a necessary Talent to create Magical Equipment, as without spiritual power, it is impossible to create magic items.

As for Clever Heart and Skillful Hands, it literally meant having a more vigorous mind and more dexterous hands and feet.

With these two Talents and two Specialties, a new Race full of potential sprang to life in Lin Xiao's mind.

With the items in hand, Lin Xiao did not use them immediately but put them away first.

He remembered his instructor saying that any student who survived the internal elimination round of the team would receive two Mythical Grade Five Star Cards. Although he was almost certain to stay, the other students had not yet finished their trials, so he couldn't get those two cards just yet.

Moreover, he didn't have any extra card slots, so…

He had to wait.

Speaking of which, the organizer of the summer camp was indeed very wealthy; Mythical Grade Cards didn't come without significant cost. During this trial alone, he had acquired a total of seven Mythical Grade Five Star Cards, five plus two, which was unimaginable back in Dongning No. 5 Middle School.

Of course, this did not mean that such cards were so common as to be worthless; they were still quite valuable.

It's just that the organizers of the summer camp came from over a hundred higher education institutions in the HuaXia District, supported by the military as well, so they had these resources available.

No matter how rare the resources, they ceased to be rare at a higher level.

When he returned to Dongning No. 5 Middle School, when the second year started, he probably wouldn't come across such good opportunities again. Then, the situation would revert to where even one Epic Grade Card would be considered good, and Mythical Grade Cards would only be seen during midterms or final exams.

With different levels, comes different experiences. Lin Xiao suspected that, after the summer camp, he wouldn't be very impressed by the rewards offered by the school.

So, he planned to take full advantage of this phase of the summer camp and do his utmost to earn more resources, to quickly narrow the gap between himself and those top elite scions when it came to resources during his freshman year.

Two days flew by in the blink of an eye, and this morning, after Lin Xiao finished washing up, he received a message from the instructor—

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The three-day period has ended, immediately head to the field for assembly!

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He immediately went out, took out a flying skateboard, set the route, and arrived at the square where he first came. From a distance, he saw that many people were already gathering there, chatting in groups. He noticed that everyone's faces didn't look very good.

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Could it be that everyone performed poorly?

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At this moment, he saw a graceful silhouette among a few figures standing apart from the other students on the other side; it was none other than Aunt Shen.

Not far away, there were a few acquaintances, but they stood on the other side and did not interact with Shen Yuexin.

After some thought, he decided not to go over and greet them.

By this second phase of the summer camp, everyone was pretty much looking out for themselves. Even most of those who had come from Yunmengxing Province together had already been eliminated, and the ones left had been divided among four teams. Now, apart from Shen Yuexin, there were only a few not-so-familiar faces in the Fury Flame Team.

Since helping others during team eliminations was impossible, and because they were not very familiar with each other, there was naturally no need for contact.

He had contacted Aunt Shen during the period, but at the time she was still undergoing a trial and did not respond.

The flying skateboard stopped beside Shen Yuexin. These people were the few that the instructor had taken a special interest in, and even the weakest of them was a Silver Contestant, with Lin Xiao being the weakest among them.

Of course, that was in the past; now, he certainly wouldn't be considered the weakest.

Lin Xiao self-evaluated that his current strength could definitely reach the level of a Silver Contestant, and even one of the strongest, now qualifying to compete for the three Golden Thrones.

The reason he said he was qualified and not that he could snatch one was because of his inadequate Clan equipment.

The problem with weapons had been resolved, but not the armor; the Fishman's body was different from that of Humans, so he couldn't wear the armors they'd taken.

There were armors suited for different races available on the market, but the problem was that both his Fishman and Naga were unique creations; their body types were not the same as the normal Fishmen and Naga, so there was no fitting armor. He either had to find someone to tailor-make it for him or…

Or, there was no or. There were no Fishmen armors for sale on the market at all; there simply wasn't anyone dedicated to crafting armor for Fishmen, who were considered to be just cannon fodder.

That also explained his reason for wanting to procure a third Advanced Race— he wanted to be self-sufficient.

Without armor, facing an equally matched opponent would put him at a major disadvantage—one protected by thick armor, the other left to withstand blows with his flesh and blood, the outcome would naturally be grim.

Shen Yuexin greeted him openly, and he responded with a smile and a wave; others just nodded slightly in acknowledgment: some returned the gesture, others acted as if they hadn't seen it.

Clearly, these people hadn't noticed nor acknowledged his strength; if there had been an opportunity, it's likely someone would have wanted to challenge him.

Lin Xiao didn't bother with them—whether they acknowledged him or not, they would come to know the truth through actual confrontation. If they really wanted to challenge him, he would give them a surprise.

Ignoring them, he stood beside Shen Yuexin, speaking in low voices.

After talking a few times, he found that although he should call her Aunt because of seniority, she was not much different from other girls. Strictly speaking, she was indeed a young girl, not very old, but just from a higher generation. They were the same age, and he found their conversations quite agreeable.

While talking, he couldn't help but discreetly look up, openly admiring her charming face.

Yes, charming!

He thought that describing her as pretty or beautiful was inadequate for her appearance and demeanor. Under the influence of Divinity, it was difficult for female deities to be ugly; one might say they could all be goddesses. But with her outstanding looks, figure, and presence, Lin Xiao thought that only the word "charming" could describe her.

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Chapter 133: The Dominator's Body Talent That Astonished All Observers

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Just like Lin Xiao's school, which only handed out a few cards at the end of each year, there were never enough to go around—only the very best students had a chance to snatch one.

Descendants of True Gods might not lack Divinity, but having Divinity doesn't mean it can be integrated easily.

You see, Divinity not obtained through one's own Power of Faith is impure. Divinity isn't created out of thin air; it's the accumulation of the Power of Faith from other Demigods or True Gods' worshippers, replete with plentiful spirits of different believers and the spiritual Branding of the condenser.

To fully integrate it, one must spend time completely Refining the spiritual Branding within, or else risk being influenced by the spirit embedded in the different Divinity—minor influences could affect personality, while serious ones could impede potential.

The reason Lin Xiao was able to integrate the Snake People Demigod's Divinity before was that he used the Creation Magic Cube to directly extract pure Divinity, bypassing this step.

For other True God descendants to acquire additional Divinity, they could only refine it slowly—there's no quick way around it.

Anyone looking to achieve greatness wouldn't integrate a large quantity of Divinity all at once, as it could affect them personally.

Upon stepping out of the Divine Realm, Lin Xiao received a brief message from his instructor:

You may move freely after the challenge is over, but you must not leave the fortress and must gather on the morning of the third day."

There were virtually no restrictions. But since he had nowhere else to go, after pondering for a moment, he sent a message to Lin Xu. When there was no reply after a long wait, he didn't linger but instead ordered a meal and applied to receive his reward.

He should be among the first batch of students to complete the elimination task for this team. Naturally, having completed the task, he was entitled to collect his reward.

While waiting for the ordered meal to arrive, he browsed the trading platform as he ate.

Speaking of which, Lin Xiao discovered that even Cards of ancient-grade were available on the trading platform, but Divinity Cards and Divine Realm Cards were rarely seen. Those that did appear were instantly snapped up—the demand for these cards far outweighed the supply.

The reward of five Mythical Grade Five Star Cards for task completion were supposed to be freely chosen, but they didn't include Divinity Cards or Divine Realm Cards.

Just as he was thinking about this, he received a message. Clicking on it, the holographic screen popped up showing exactly the reward he had applied for, prompting him to choose the type of Card he wanted.

After setting down his chopsticks and pondering for a moment, the first Card he chose was the Goblin Species Card.

A Mythical Quality Goblin Card represented a total of three thousand Goblins, half male and half female.

Choosing this species, which couldn't even count as cannon fodder, was mainly to prepare for the third race in his Divine Domain.

Both Fishmen and Supreme Naga in his Divine Domain were considered combat Races, but a well-rounded Divine Domain couldn't consist solely of combat Races. It had to include one or two Advanced Races, and Goblins were the Advanced Race he chose.

Strictly speaking, Lin Xiao was now eligible to select an Intermediate race, but there were two reasons for choosing Goblins.

One reason was that an Advanced Race didn't have to be very powerful; as long as it was prolific, Goblins met the criteria. They could eat anything including grass roots, leaves, and even rotten flesh, so they were easy to raise.

The second reason was the Talent of the Afterglow of the Goblins he had in his possession—a particularly remarkable Talent. He wanted to try and see if he could use this Talent to recreate the glory of the Ancient Goblin Empire.

Okay, that was not very likely.

The glory of the Ancient Goblins lay in their creation of artificial deities, something no True God would permit, not even Lin Xiao.

If they could create deities, could you expect them to maintain their faith in you?

The first thing they would likely do was overthrow him, whom they'd consider a false god.

Just like the Humans in the Main World, once they could massively open Divine Territories and create deities, the common people of the Main World wouldn't believe in gods. Hence, Divine Territory Players had to Plunder Other Races from Different Domains and then convert them into Divine Domain species that provided faith.

Unless Lin Xiao became the Supreme God, King of All Gods, or God Above Gods, as the legends say, perhaps he would be able to control these artificial deities.

But that would be too troublesome, and if he really became the Supreme God or a God Above Gods, he wouldn't care about these matters anymore.

Therefore, it was necessary to limit their growth potential from the very beginning.

Or in other words, not to lift the curse of the Gods within the Goblin Bloodline. As long as the curse wasn't lifted, no matter how much the Goblins developed, they could never replicate their Ancient glory.

After all, what he needed was an Advanced Clan specifically for forging weapons and Engineering machinery for the main combat Races of the Divine Domain—that was enough, and there was no need for more ambition.

The reward of five Mythical Grade Five Star Cards for the task of defending against the Blood Legion, in addition to the Goblin Card, included two very suitable Talent Cards and two Specialty Cards.

Two Talent Cards—Higher Level of Enlightenment and High-level Enlightenment.

Two Specialty Cards—Spiritual Power Genius and Clever Heart and Skillful Hands.

Enlightenment and High-level Enlightenment served to develop intelligence. The Mythical Quality Higher Level of Enlightenment and High-level Enlightenment were enhanced versions. Current Goblins were very foolish, and without Enlightenment and High-level Enlightenment, they wouldn't be of much use—these two Cards were essential.

The Spiritual Power Genius was to tap into their spiritual power, a necessary talent for crafting Magic Items. Without spiritual power, it would be impossible to craft magical Equipment.

As for Clever Heart and Skillful Hands, it's literal—having a more active mind and more dexterous hands and feet.

With these two talents and two specialties, a new Race full of potential sprang to life in Lin Xiao's mind.

With the items in hand, Lin Xiao did not use them immediately, choosing instead to put them away for now.

He remembered his mentor saying that any student who survived the team elimination round would receive two Mythical Grade Five Star Cards. Although he was almost certain to remain, the other students had not yet finished their trials, so the two cards were not yet available to him.

Moreover, he didn't have any extra card slots available, so…

He would have to wait.

Speaking of which, the organizers of the Summer Camp were indeed rolling in wealth. Mythical Grade Cards were usually doled out on a punch basis, and during this trial alone, he had received a total of seven Mythical Grade Five Star Cards—five plus two—an inconceivable bounty back at Dongning No. 5 Middle School.

Of course, this didn't mean that such cards were ubiquitous and worthless; they were still quite valuable.

It's just that the Summer Camp was organised by over a hundred higher education institutions from the HuaXia District, with military support, hence the abundance of resources.

No matter how rare a resource was, it wouldn't seem so rare at higher levels.

When he returned to Dongning No. 5 Middle School and the second year began, he probably wouldn't encounter such good fortune again—returning to a stage where seeing a single Epic Grade Card was a treat, and Mythical Grade Cards only surfaced during midterms or finals.

Different levels come with different experiences, and Lin Xiao suspected that once the Summer Camp was over, he wouldn't be as impressed by the school's rewards anymore.

Therefore, he should make the best out of this Summer Camp and earn as many resources as possible to close the gap between himself and the elite scions of top-tier families during his freshman year.

Two days had passed in the blink of an eye. That morning, after freshening up,

Lin Xiao received a message from his mentor—

The three-day period is up; report to the training ground immediately for assembly!"

He went out at once, took a flying skateboard and set the route to the plaza he had first arrived at. From a distance, he saw many people already gathered there, chatting in groups of twos and threes. He noticed that everyone's face was generally not very cheerful.

Is it that everyone performed poorly?

At that moment, he caught sight of a svelte and graceful silhouette standing apart from the other students—Aunt Shen.

Not far away, there were a few acquaintances, but they stood on the other side, not interacting with Shen Yuexin.

After some thought, he did not go over to greet them.

By the second phase of the Summer Camp, it was every man for himself, and most of those who had come from Yunmengxing Province had already been eliminated. Those remaining were divided among four teams, and now, apart from Shen Yuexin, he knew few others in the Fury Flame Team.

Since no one could help with the team eliminations and they weren't very familiar with each other, there was naturally no need to make contact.

As for Aunt Shen, he had tried to get in touch with her once during the period, but she was undergoing her trial and did not respond.

The flying skateboard stopped beside Shen Yuexin. These few people were the ones the mentor had taken a particular liking to. At the very least, they were Silver Contestants, with Lin Xiao being the weakest among them.

Of course, that was in the past. Now, he was definitely not the weakest.

Lin Xiao self-assessed that his current strength could definitely reach the level of a Silver Contestant, and he was among the strongest of that group. He now had the qualifications to compete for those three Golden Thrones.

The reason he only said "have the qualifications" and not "could seize them was because of the inadequacy of his Clan equipment.

The weapon issue had been resolved, but he still lacked armor. The body shape of Fishmen differed from Humans, so any armor looted could not be equipped.

Although there were armors on the market specifically designed for different Races, the problem was that his Fishmen and Naga were custom-created Races with body shapes differing from the regular Fishmen and Naga, meaning no ready-made armor would fit, and he had to either find someone to custommake it for him, or…

There was no or; there were simply no Fishman armors for sale on the market.

Nobody crafted armor specifically for a Cannon Fodder Race like Fishmen; it simply didn't exist.

This was also the reason he planned to develop a third Advanced Race, to be self-sufficient.

Without armor, encountering an equally strong opponent could be very disadvantageous—one protected by thick armor, the other forced to rely solely on flesh and blood—leading to a dire outcome.

Shen Yuexin greeted him openly, and he waved back with a smile. The others just nodded slightly as a greeting, some reciprocating, some as if they had seen nothing.

It was clear that these people neither saw nor acknowledged his strength, and if not for the lack of opportunity, some might have wished to challenge him.

Lin Xiao paid them no mind. Acknowledgement or not, the truth would tell under their hands. Should they actually issue a challenge, he would be ready to surprise them.

Ignoring them, he stood next to Shen Yuexin, speaking in a low voice.

After several conversations, he found that although he had to address her as "Aunt" in terms of seniority, she was no different from other young girls. Strictly speaking, she was a young girl, not much older, just of higher seniority. They were the same age, and he enjoyed their chats.

While speaking, he couldn't help but lift his gaze discreetly, boldly admiring her attractive face.

Indeed, attractive!

He thought that descriptors like pretty or beautiful hardly did justice to her looks and aura. With the alterations of Divinity, female Deities were hardly unattractive, each could be a goddess, but with such outstanding looks, figure, and aura like hers, Lin Xiao felt that only the word "attractive" would suffice.

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Chapter 134: Special Recruitment Invitation and Rejection

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Just as Lin Xiao's school only handed out a few cards at the end of every academic year, which were far from enough to go around, only the most outstanding few students had the chance to snatch them up.

Although the descendants of True Gods didn't necessarily lack Divinity, possessing Divinity didn't mean it could be integrated randomly.

It's known that Divinity not condensed through one's own Power of Faith is impure. Moreover, Divinity doesn't appear out of nowhere; it accumulates through the condensation of the Power of Faith provided by the followers of other Demigods or True Gods. Naturally, it contains a plethora of the spirits of different believers, as well as the condenser's own spiritual Branding.

To fully integrate it into oneself, one had to spend time completely refining the spiritual Branding within. Otherwise, influenced by the different spirits within the Divinity, at best it could affect one's personality, at worst it could limit one's potential.

Lin Xiao had previously integrated the Divinity of a Snake People Demigod because he used the Creation Magic Cube to directly extract pure Divinity, thus bypassing this step.

Other True God descendants who acquired additional Divinity could only refine it slowly; there was no quickening this process.

Anyone aspiring to go further wouldn't integrate a large amount of Divinity at once, as it could affect themselves.

Upon leaving the Divine Realm, Lin Xiao immediately received a brief message from his mentor:

The challenge is over, you may move freely, but do not leave the fortress. Must be assembled by the morning of the third day."

This hardly imposed any restrictions, but he had nowhere else to go. He simply sent a message to Lin Xu, and without waiting for a response, he ordered a meal and applied to receive his reward.

He must be one of the earliest students to finish the elimination task for his team. Having completed the mission, he was naturally entitled to claim his reward.

After a little while, the meal he ordered arrived, and he browsed the trading platform while eating.

Speaking of which, Lin Xiao found that even Ancient Grade Cards were available on the trading platform, but Divinity Cards and Divine Realm Cards were rarely seen. If they ever appeared, they were snapped up instantly. Such cards were in extremely high demand and short supply.

The reward of five Mythical Quality Five Star Cards for completing the task allowed him to choose any species, but this did not include Divinity Cards or Divine Realm Cards.

Just as he thought of this, he received a message. He opened the holographic screen which popped up showing exactly the reward he had applied for, prompting him to choose the type of card for the reward.

He put down his chopsticks and pondered for a moment before selecting a Goblin Species Card as the first.

A Goblin Card of Mythical Quality represented three thousand Goblins, split evenly between males and females.

The primary reason for choosing this race, which wasn't even considered fit for cannon fodder, was to prepare for the third race in the Divine Realm.

At present, both the Fishmen and the Supreme Naga in the Divine Realm were considered combat races, but a well-rounded Divine Realm could not only consist of combat races. It had to have one or two Advanced Races. The Goblins were the Advanced Race he had chosen.

Strictly speaking, Lin Xiao was already eligible to pick an Intermediate race at this time, but he chose the Goblins for two reasons.

The first reason was that Advanced Races didn't need to be too powerful; it was sufficient if they were prolific breeders. Goblins met this standard well. They could eat anything, including grass roots, tree leaves, and even rotten flesh, making them remarkably easy to maintain.

The second reason was that he possessed a talent called the Afterglow of the Goblins, which was an incredibly powerful trait. He wanted to try and see if he could use this talent to restore the glory of the Ancient Goblin Empire.

Well, that likelihood was not great.

The splendor of the Ancient Goblins was due to their creation of artificial deities, which is something no True God would permit, even Lin Xiao himself.

If they were capable of creating deities, could you expect them to keep their faith and worship you?

Chances are, the first thing they would do would be to overthrow him as a false deity.

It's like the Humans of the Main World who can extensively Open the Divine Realm and create deities—the common people of the Main World don't worship deities, hence Divine Territory Players can only Plunder from Different Domains, converting Other Races into Divine Domain species to provide faith.

Unless Lin Xiao became the legendary Supreme God, the King of All Gods, the God Above Gods—only then might he be able to control these artificial deities.

But that would be too troublesome, and once he truly became a Supreme God or a God Above Gods, he wouldn't care about these matters anymore.

Therefore, it was essential to limit their growth ceiling from the very beginning.

Or to put it another way, not to lift the curse of the gods within the Goblin Bloodline. As long as the curse remained, no matter how much the Goblins developed, they could never return to their ancient glory.

After all, he only needed an Advanced Race specialized in forging weapons and engineering machinery for the main combat species of the Divine Realm. That was sufficient—he didn't need them to aspire to anything else.

For the reward of five Mythical Quality Five Star Cards from the task of resisting the Blood Legion, besides the Goblin Card, he chose two very suitable Talent Cards and two Specialty Cards.

The two Talent Cards—Higher Level of Enlightenment and High-level Enlightenment.

The two Specialty Cards—Spiritual Power Genius and Clever Heart and Skillful Hands.

Enlightenment and High-level Enlightenment were used to develop intelligence; the enhanced Mythical Quality versions were particularly significant. The current Goblins were very ignorant, and without Enlightenment and High-level Enlightenment, they were basically useless. These were two essential cards.

The Spiritual Power Genius was for tapping into their spiritual power, a talent necessary for creating Magical Equipment. Without spiritual power, it would be impossible to fashion Magic Items.

Clever Heart and Skillful Hands, as the name implies, suggests a more active mind and more dexterous hands and feet.

With those two talents and two specialties, a new species brimming with potential took form in Lin Xiao's imagination.

Having secured the items, Lin Xiao didn't use them immediately but stored them away for now.

He remembered his mentor mentioning that any student who remained after the team elimination rounds would receive two Mythical Quality Five Star Cards. Although he was almost certain to stay, the other students hadn't finished their trials yet, and he couldn't claim those two cards at this time.

Moreover, he didn't have extra Card slots available, so…

He had to wait.

The organizers of the summer camp are indeed rolling in wealth—mythical quality cards are really counted by numbers, and this time the trial has already earned me a total of seven five-star mythical quality cards, which is unimaginable at Dongning No. 5 Middle School.

Of course, this isn't to say that such cards are so common they're worthless; they're still quite valuable.

It's just that the summer camp sponsors come from over a hundred high-level colleges in the HuaXia District, and with military support, these resources are available.

Even the rarest resources aren't considered rare at a higher level.

When I return to Dongning No. 5 Middle School, when the sophomore year begins, I guess there won't be any chance to come across something as good as this, and it will be back to the stage where even a card of epic grade is a great thing, and mythical grade cards are only seen during mid-terms or final exams.

With different levels come different experiences. I suspect after the summer camp ends, I won't be too impressed with the rewards offered by the school.

Therefore, I should take advantage of this phase of the summer camp and do my utmost to earn more resources to close the gap between myself and those top elite families from the first phase.

Two days flew by in the blink of an eye. This morning, after washing up, Lin

Xiao received a message from his mentor—

The three-day period is up, immediately head to the playground for assembly!"

He went out at once, took out a flying skateboard, set the route, and arrived at the plaza where he was first introduced. From a distance, he saw many people already gathering there, chatting in groups of threes and twos. He noticed that everyone's expressions didn't look very good.

Did everyone perform badly?

At this moment, he spotted a slim figure standing apart from the other students on the other side—it was Aunt Shen.

Not far away were several acquaintances, but they stood on another side and didn't interact with Shen Yuexin.

He thought about it and decided not to go over to greet them.

In this second phase of the summer camp, everyone was pretty much on their own, and most of those who had come together from Yunmengxing Province had already been eliminated. The remaining few were distributed into four teams. Now, within the Fury Flame Team, apart from Shen Yuexin, there were a few others who he wasn't very familiar with.

Being unable to help others be eliminated from within the team, plus not being very familiar with them, naturally there was no need for contact.

As for Aunt Shen, he did reach out to her once during this time, but she was undergoing a trial and didn't respond.

The flying skateboard stopped next to Shen Yuexin, and these people were the few that the mentor had particularly favored before. At the very least, they were silver contestants, and Lin Xiao was the weakest among them.

Of course, that was before, and now he certainly wouldn't be considered the weakest.

Lin Xiao self-assessed that his current strength could definitely reach the level of a silver contestant, and even among the strongest of that batch, he was now eligible to compete for those three golden thrones.

The reason he said he was eligible and not that he could definitely snag one was because of his clan equipment.

The weapon issue had been resolved, but not the armor. The Fishman's body shape was different from Humans, so the armor looted couldn't be worn.

There were armors specifically designed for different races on the market, but his created Fishman and Naga species had different body shapes from the standard Fishman and Naga, so there were no suitable armors available. He'd have to find someone to custom-make one or…

Or nothing. The market didn't have Fishman armor for sale at all. No one would bother to tailor-make a set of armor for Fishmen, who were considered cannon fodder. Nonexistent.

This was also the reason he was preparing to create a third advanced race—so that he could be self-sufficient.

Without armor, it would be a disadvantage when facing an equally matched opponent—one clad in thick armor, the other relying on his flesh to withstand blows. The outcome would naturally be quite grim.

Shen Yuexin greeted him generously, and he smiled and waved back, while others just nodded slightly in acknowledgment. Some responded, while others acted as if they hadn't seen.

Clearly, these people neither saw nor recognized his abilities. Had there been a chance, it is likely some would have wanted to challenge him.

Lin Xiao ignored them. Recognition didn't matter; results would be shown through action. Should they really challenge him, he'd be sure to give them a surprise.

Not paying any more attention to them, he stood with Shen Yuexin and spoke softly.

After talking a few times, he found that although he had to call her "Auntie" in terms of seniority, she wasn't much different from other girls. Strictly speaking, she was indeed a young girl, not much older in age, just higher in seniority. They were the same age and got along quite well.

When talking to her, he always couldn't help but quietly look up, staring openly at her charming face.

Yes, charming!

He felt that words like "pretty" or "beautiful" hardly did justice to her appearance and temperament. With the changes brought by Divinity, female deities are rarely ever unattractive, and each could be considered a goddess. But with her exceptional looks, figure, and temperament, Lin Xiao thought that "charming" was the only way to describe her.

Talking with her always felt very comfortable, very pleasing to the eyes.

So he always couldn't help stealing glances at her, and moreover, he did it openly.

Of course, his gaze was limited to her charming face and did not stray to other places. Not that he didn't want to, but the review process wouldn't allow it.

However openly he stared, it would still make the girl shy, and during one such unabashedly open stare, Shen Yuexin said somewhat bashfully and angrily:

Do you talk like this with all girls?

No, because they aren't as pretty as you!"

Are you always so smooth-talking when speaking to girls?

No, I'm telling the truth. If you don't believe me, feel free to check.

He stood with his hands on his hips and chest puffed out, while Shen Yuexin tilted her head and looked at him with disdain:

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Chapter 135: Transcendent Two-Headed Ogre Mage

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Li Xiangyang, with unwillingness written all over his face, looked down upon the plane. By now, his Clan had been utterly defeated under the enemy's offensive.

The Central Army's Minotaur legions were thrown into utter disarray by thirteen transcendent Supreme Nagas, and both flanks were already at a disadvantage. With the addition of two Whale-Riding Knights on each side, the flanks mainly composed of Hyenaman cannon fodder collapsed outright.

The Minotaurs, with their thick skin and heavy armor, could still withstand some punishment, but the Hyenamen were crushed into a mash on the spot when swept over by the more than ten-meter-tall Supreme Nagas, dying particularly gruesomely.

The defeat was certain, and even if he didn't want to admit it, there was nothing he could do. Watching Supreme Naga after Supreme Naga rampage through his ranks as if unchallenged, he was filled with unwillingness; suddenly, he issued a Divine-mandate, ordering the ballistas that had arrived to unfold.

Although lacking transcendent troops, these ballistas were immensely powerful, capable of inflicting fatal damage on transcendent troops.

A transcendent Supreme Naga, seeing this, used its strong and hefty serpentine tail to knock away several nearby Minotaurs and quickly charged at the ballistas.

Ready, fire!

The strings of a dozen ballistas snapped fiercely, blurring into shadows, and the large armor-piercing arrows on the bed crossbows disappeared in a flash, with a loud whizzing sound, so fast that not even their afterimages could be seen.

Then, the Supreme Naga charging at the ballistas suddenly arched backward sharply, its body nearly touching the ground as it completed a large circle backward, before waveringly regaining its stance.

Impossible!

Damn it!"

Damn it, are we doing 'Straw Boats Borrowing Arrows'?"

When Li Xiangyang realized the state of the Supreme Naga, his eyes almost bulged out of their sockets.

The expletives that followed came from the observers witnessing the battle; they all stared wide-eyed at the towering figure within the plane, swaying back and forth as if about to fall at any moment, yet stubbornly not collapsing.

At that moment, the transcendent Supreme Naga looked like a porcupine, its chest bristling with large armor-piercing crossbow bolts, blood streaming down from the exposed tails of the arrows, appearing as though its entire body was bleeding profusely due to the countless hits.

Eighteen ballistas, each armed with fifteen two-meter-long armor-piercing fine steel crossbow arrows, over eighty percent, or more than two hundred arrows, hit their mark, with no less than ten striking the head alone.

What does this signify?

… Lin Xiao momentarily didn't know how to describe it and after some thought, squeezed out the allusion of 'Straw Boats Borrowing Arrows.'

However, despite such terrifying injuries, the fact that it hadn't instantly died, that it could still stand, indicated an extraordinarily aberrant level of vitality.

This was no mere show of stubbornness on the brink of death, it was truly still alive. Lin Xiao could see it, and so could the many observers, which was why they couldn't help but exclaim in astonishment.

Talent – nominator's Body: Beings with this talent are incredibly powerful; Constitution 3, Strength 3, they will remove all their own weaknesses, become immune to fatal and mortal effects, greatly mitigate negative statuses and damage from spells, reduce a certain degree of physical damage, and possess very strong regenerative capabilities and vitality.

Such a talent comparable to a BUG, coupled with the transcendent life's powerful Constitution, meant that not dying even after over two hundred piercing arrows hit, this domineering feature immediately made Li Xiangyang lose the will to fight, choosing to surrender.

The battle was over, but the discussions among the many observers continued.

Well, to be exact, it was more like a scramble that had just begun after the conclusion of the fight.

As widely experienced observers, they could guess Lin Xiao's situation with just a bit of information.

For instance, the Supreme Nagas were a newly created species rather than an existing race, the Supreme Nagas had already become a high-tier race, the fact that he had acquired the Creationist title, and so on.

Having the title of Creationist wasn't particularly remarkable for them since human civilization boasts numerous talents that emerge each year. There were others like him who had created new races, and the title of Creationist didn't necessarily require creating new species; there were other methods.

Lin Xiao possessing a Creationist title at a high school stage was merely an additional credit; what really made many observers, seasoned by witnessing countless talents, interested was the strength and potential of the Supreme Nagas.

Having potential alone can only earn goodwill, but if part of that potential has already been transformed into strength, then its value surpasses any who simply have potential with no strength, or have great strength but little subsequent potential.

Even though everyone knows that fully harnessing that potential would be earth-shattering.

So, when Lin Xiao just emerged from the virtual plane and was still disoriented, he received several private chat invitations.

The senders directly identified themselves as observers from various colleges, and the corners of his mouth curved slightly, he had an idea.

But he didn't respond immediately because, at that moment, everyone in the hall was shocked to see him and Li Xiangyang emerge from the virtual plane and suddenly switch places.

Lin Xiao, holding onto the silver armrest of his seat, was somewhat surprised himself since normally the rules dictated best two out of three, and he had only won one game so far; there should have been another win required before a switch.

The only possibility for the current situation was that Li Xiangyang believed he was completely no match and had completely conceded.

If I'm not mistaken, they should have fought only once. How come they've switched positions already?"

Could it be a glitch?"

The people who said this didn't even believe it themselves, but apart from that reason, they really couldn't think of another.

Or rather, they did think of the real reason, but didn't dare to believe it and preferred not to.

Especially another contestant named Huo Yaji was almost panicking. He hurriedly sent a private message to Li Xiangyang, asking:

Xiangyang, what's going on with you guys?

Li Xiangyang remained silent for a long time before speaking in a low and powerless voice:

It's just as you see, I lost.

He paused for a moment, and then continued:

If you're asking me what to do, my advice is not to challenge him, you can't beat him, there's no chance at all."

Huo Yaji was stunned for a moment, and asked in a lowered voice:

But everyone knows we want to challenge him to prove our strength, if we don't even dare to challenge, our reputation will surely be greatly diminished in the eyes of the instructors and observers."

Hehe, if someone is more skilled than you, it's wise to admit defeat. Sometimes, making the prudent choice is also a merit. Don't worry, the observers are well aware of his strength, no one will laugh at you for not daring to challenge him."

Huo Yaji wanted to ask more, but seeing his companion's dejected look, he decided not to inquire further.

Looking up, he glimpsed Lin Xiao who just happened to look over. Lin Xiao grinned, showing his neat, white teeth and said:

Didn't you say you wanted to challenge me? I'm waiting!

Huo Yaji opened his mouth, then noticed many people around him were watching, putting him in a difficult position to either advance or retreat.

His companion's discouragement and advice made him consider beating a retreat, but the expectant gazes of the crowd prevented him from voicing his withdrawal. To speak now would bring the laughter of everyone upon him.

Nobody would care how strong your opponent was, they would only say you were too timid to even issue a challenge, all you do is boast….

Wait, winning or losing, that has nothing to do with others, right….

A spark of realization flashed in his mind, and as he pondered, his thoughts became clearer. Soon he burst into laughter and mumbled to himself:

I've let rage cloud my judgment, why should I do something pointless just because of what others think? Besides, if the instructor chose to exchange us for him because they see potential in him, that has nothing to do with him. Why should I specifically target him?"

Huo Yaji had earned his place as one of the elites in the Summer Camp, not only because of his background but because he was extremely capable. He quickly understood the essence of the matter.

Of course, the key point was that he couldn't beat him. If he could, he definitely wouldn't hesitate to challenge Lin Xiao and teach him a lesson.

Since he couldn't win, he very wisely chose to back down, gesturing a cupped-hand salute to Lin Xiao and said earnestly:

My ability is not much different from Li Xiangyang's, and since you have made Brother Xiangyang willingly concede with full conviction, I am naturally not your match. We have no quarrels between us, so let us end this here."

Lin Xiao was somewhat surprised, nodding slightly after a moment:

That would be for the best.

And so, the matter between them was put to rest.

But those around who were keen on seeing a commotion were very disappointed. Immediately, someone mockingly whispered:

Tsk, I thought they were all that, but they're just chickens. I don't think you guys should even stay up there anymore, lest…."

The voice abruptly ceased as the person stared wide-eyed at Huo Yaji, who emotionlessly said:

You talk too much, if you look down on me that much, then let's have a go.

Even though Huo Yaji was Silver Level and the other was Bronze Level, in the division of the top-middle-lower-elite tiers among the various teams, they were both on the same tier, so the man could not refuse Huo Yaji's challenge.

Challenged by someone of a higher tier, he regretted why he had to be so mouthy, and what made him most desperate was the indifferent look from Li Xiangyang sending chills from the other side.

Lin Xiao chuckled, the person with a loose tongue was now tasting the bitter consequences. Under the best two out of three rules, with both Huo Yaji and Li Xiangyang issuing challenges, he was unlikely to win and was basically out of the competition.

Having witnessed this example, others who had wanted to mock hastily held their tongues. They might still have contempt in their hearts, but they dared not show it.

I thought they were all so capable, just a bunch of cowards!

Tang Ling withdrew her gaze somewhat disappointedly, careful not to let the two men notice.

Surveying the surroundings, Lin Xiao made eye contact with each person confidently, his eyes showing no sign of fear.

Scanning the Ancient City, the strongest student from Yunmengxing Province nodded and smiled at him, a significant change in attitude from before.

Upon seeing Lin Xu, this fellow clansman looked extremely surprised, his eyes sparkling with inquisitive meaning. Lin Xiao responded with a light smile, gesturing 'later' with his hand.

When Lin Xiao's gaze fell upon Shen Yuexin, the pretty auntie blinked her large eyes, though surprise was still evident in her expression.

Finally, as he swept his gaze over the highest Gold Tier, it was clear they were… slightly surprised.

Just a little surprised, not shocked, and they didn't care too much, especially certain individuals.

Indeed, those few who had seemed to look down on all present except for them and Wu Zhonglin, these geniuses from who knows where. Even Qin Fengyan, despite being in the same team, hadn't been seen mingling with anyone else. It was obvious from their demeanour that, in their eyes, everyone else was garbage.

Just then, his gaze coincidentally met with the black-haired young man seated on the central Golden Throne amidst the hundred thrones of the Gold Tier. The young man smiled warmly at him.

His smile was comforting, genuinely pleasant.

Lin Xiao could feel that it wasn't fake, nor was there any need to pretend.

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Chapter 136: Slight Advantage

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One powerful will hesitated for a moment as it focused on the Naga within the

Fishman group, each of remarkable size, before speaking:

Something about this Naga seems off.

Yes, I feel the same. This doesn't quite resemble a Naga.

Although the statement appeared contradictory, amazingly all other wills understood its meaning. After a pause, one of them spoke up:

While I don't possess a Clan of Naga, I do know that a normal Naga would not grow so large."

Exactly. Although normal Naga grow in size as they advance, the increase is not this significant, nor would they appear so unnaturally large. Similarly, a Transcendent-level Naga should emit a much more powerful aura."

That's precisely what I was thinking, this Naga's size is too excessive.

His eyebrows raised dismissively, ignoring the agility with which numerous

Supreme Nagas dodged trees and rocks, he said:

Such a massive size would easily make one a living target on the battlefield, not highly adaptable."

Makes sense!"

A domineering will spoke with a tone of agreement then swiftly changed the subject, saying:

It's such a waste for a student to summon a familiar that's all show and no substance. I must seize the opportunity to criticize this squarely. Therefore, we at Sky Blue College will take this student; I'll mark him first."

Hold on!"

Someone immediately objected:

No need to trouble yourself with that. Who doesn't know that my favorite thing is giving guidance to newcomers? You scare the poor kids too easily. This job is better left to me."

Come off it, as I recall, you once made a female student cry in training. You're not suitable for this."

Nonsense, that was my granddaughter.

Wasn't she also your student?

Hey, there are others here too, have you asked for our opinion?

Imitated noises of banging on the table resounded, but the two ignored it, with the first person saying:

You are welcome to send a formal letter of complaint to our school later. I am merely performing my duties in an official capacity at the moment."

Damn, how shameless can you be? With everyone here, do you think you can monopolize this?"

The person replied with a nonchalant tone:

Did I snatch him? I'm merely marking him, that's all. If you wish, you're welcome to leave a mark too. Once Summer Camp is over, we'll see who can snatch him fair and square."

As the conversation unfolded, in a realm unseen by Lin Xiao, a plethora of marks were instantaneously placed on him.

Then, everyone fell silent, intently watching the rapidly approaching armies, especially those over eight hundred colossal but extraordinarily agile Supreme Nagas.

Facing each other at about a hundred meters apart, the four thousand Minotaur's facemasks were already down, their pointed horns facing forward as they raised their Wagon-wheel Axes aloft, ready for combat. Within the ranks of Cannon Fodder Lizardmen on the flanks, a few hundred Minotaur were interspersed, and the Lizardman Archers from the rear had already started to draw their bows and take aim from afar.

Bang, bang, bang!

The bowstrings trembled, releasing phantom-like traces as the arrows soared high, turning into a dense rain of arrows shot towards the Fishman vanguard.

Thousands of Fishman Magicians simultaneously raised their hands, and as the air twisted high above the several-kilometer-long frontline, a layer of blue Seawater Essence appeared atop the Fishman's heads, blocking all the incoming arrows with a burst of blue light.

Whoa!

So many Fishman Magicians?

The gathered wills finally took notice of the Dragonweaker Dragonmen in the back.

It wasn't that their perception was lacking; rather, their attention had been entirely captivated by the Supreme Nagas, leading them to overlook the Fishman Cannon Fodder.

After all, as Fishmen—even among the lowest ranks of Cannon Fodder Races— this pitiable race hardly caught one's attention. Even if Lin Xiao's Fishmen were stronger than their ilk, they were still Fishmen, and it was natural to ignore them.

The vanguards of both sides closed in rapidly. After blocking six volleys of arrows, when the distance fell below fifty meters, the front row of Fishmen suddenly burst forward, crossing the fifty meters in the blink of an eye. A series of muffled impacts followed, knocking down a large number of Hyenamen on the flanks. The Central Army's Minotaur, relying on their formidable constitution and Strength, along with strong defense, somehow withstood the assault. Though knocked over, they quickly got back up without fatal injuries.

Lin Xiao was quite surprised; this was the first time he had seen an opponent withstand the Fishmen's Salted Fish Charge.

Clearly, Li Xiangyang's Minotaur had better equipment than Lin Xiao's previous adversaries, with Armor that provided higher defense.

If his past opponents' Armor was made of iron, then Li Xiangyang's Minotaur was clad in steel Armor.

And steel is further divided into inferior steel, quality steel, refined steel, high carbon steel, magic steel, and so on. The higher the material quality, the more expensive it is, especially for customized Minotaur equipment. This Li Xiangyang must be quite wealthy, no wonder he is one of the thirty-six Silver Contestants.

Personal strength is one part, and good equipment is another.

In this First Level where strengths do not differ much, the quality of equipment can completely determine the power gap between Silver Contestants.

Fortunately, Lin Xiao's strength is now different from before; though a bit poor, his strong abilities are enough.

Since it's a simulation battle without fear of battle damage, Slarda's commands were even more unrestrained than usual, directly ordering the vanguard Fishmen to split left and right, with the Central Army Nagas charging from the center of the split vanguard, directly colliding head-on with the unyielding Minotaur phalanx.

It's starting!

Dozens of strong willed and fervent spirits were uplifted, with Lin Xiao highly focused, overlooking the battlefield.

A Minotaur hero in the center of the phalanx raised a Wagon-wheel Axe and bellowed:

Charge!

The Minotaur, loaded with a warrior job template, slightly leaned forward, the grass beneath his feet bursting apart as his speed sharply increased, dragging an afterimage and ferociously colliding with the Supreme Naga whose serpentine tail was swiftly oscillating.

Boom!

Slarda fiercely smashed his anchor into the ground; the front row Supreme Nagas each held a fine iron weapon in both hands, whether it was a Dual Hand Greatsword or battle axe. Their substantial tails lashed out, smashing the grass into a large depression, and with a flash of movement that took them from being behind to striking first, they collided harshly with the charging Minotaurs mid-way.

"Bang, bang, bang…."

Each Minotaur dragging an afterimage collided out of nowhere with the Supreme Nagas, an invisible surge of energy rippled from the center of impact, the ground's wild grass was flattened by the unseen fierce wind – a momentary deadlock followed by every Minotaur being knocked back dozens of meters, like bowling pins struck down by a ball.

All Supreme Nagas stood their ground, with a fist-sized, gory, puncture wound in their abdomen, occasionally with waist scales shattered leaving a large wound over half a meter in length… not very deep, and then in Li Xiangyang's shocked gaze, the wounds healed at an incredibly fast rate.

Shit, High-level regeneration!

Such tough flesh!

Li Xiangyang only noticed the incredibly fast healing speed, unlike the observers who possessed more seasoned experience and attention to detail. The surprise from the dozens of observers was not about the Nagas' restorative ability but rather their unexpectedly Strong Physique.

With their vision, one glance was enough to estimate the rough strength of a target. They had already been quite optimistic about the Supreme Nagas' abilities, but their performance in proper combat still exceeded expectations.

It should be noted that the Minotaurs were charging with axes, forged from quality steel. Given the tremendous force of both sides charging together, the destructive power could sever a thick iron pillar in half.

Based on their initial estimates, a hit with such an axe should have caused massive damage to the unarmored Supreme Nagas. In reality, the wounds inflicted by the axes were less than half what they anticipated, which was quite remarkable.

A half less might seem minor, but in battle, it often makes the difference between life and death.

Take a simple example: a stab into the chest, just an inch short from the heart due to insufficient strength. If the force increased by fifty percent, the additional penetration would be more than an inch, a matter of life and death.

Li Xiangyang's face changed on the spot. From just one trial, he knew these large-bodied Nagas were by no means showy and ineffectual, and his main Minotaur corps probably couldn't handle these freaks head-on.

Even with an overwhelming numerical advantage, when the individual power difference is too great, numbers are no longer an advantage.

But he didn't lose heart and commanded the Clan to slow down the offensive through Divine-mandate, waiting for the Ballista to arrive.

The Ballista was specifically designed to deal with strong individuals, the heavy armor-piercing bolt wound by winch. If fired, the force could penetrate thick city gates. He refused to believe the Supreme Nagas' bodies were harder than city gates.

However, as good as his plans were, they couldn't work if Lin Xiao didn't cooperate.

While the first wave of injured Supreme Nagas were catching their breath, the second wave had already charged over their comrades, especially the thirteen Transcendent Level Whale Knight, their twelve-meter statures like Giant Beasts, moving faster than their peers. Now unrestrained in speed, like thirteen tanks, they crashed into the Minotaur phalanx, braving the Minotaur's axe blows, and barreled deep into their ranks. With powerful tails, they struck with absolute force, sweeping away a swath of enemies.

Then their large, muscular serpentine bodies coiled and sprung tens of meters high like Meteors crashing down, creating a deafening blast as the savage shockwaves, along with a shower of dirt, mercilessly pounded in all directions.

From a high vantage point, one could see the Minotaur phalanx as it was disrupted by the Whale Knights' Thunder Strikes, blasting thirteen holes, each over thirty meters in diameter, instantly disrupting the once orderly formation.

Transcendent creatures are so domineering – without an equal Transcendent adversary to check them, they are virtually unstoppable, rampaging like tanks before they are taken down.

Li Xiangyang was forced to gather a large number of Lizardman Archers, countless arrows fired at each rampaging Supreme Naga on the field, their pinging and ringing incessant. Most of the arrows couldn't even penetrate the scales of the Whale Knights.

Theoretically, with a good bow and arrow, even a Rank 1 Lizardman Shooter could pierce the scales of a Transcendent Level Whale Knight.

But there are conditions for that, namely remaining still to allow for the shot, and also requiring a full draw.

These preconditions were, of course, impossible to meet on the battlefield.

When moving at high speed, the arrows need even greater force to ignore inertia and penetrate the target's armor, something beyond what a lower Race like Lizardmen could achieve.

So in less than a minute, thirteen Transcendent Level Supreme Nagas had broken through Li Xiangyang's Central Army.

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Chapter 137: Bad Hidden Rules and Retribution

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The result was indeed a hit on his own companion. The Supreme Naga took the chance to bounce the two Ogres away. With its strong and powerful serpentine tail, it violently whipped the ground to support itself, and once again from a superior position, it brought down its sword. Accompanied by a crisp 'crack,' the fierce and ugly head of an Ogre flew out, and the Dual Hand Greatsword sank deeply into the ground, all the way to the hilt.

Even with the Ogre's tenacious vitality, decapitation meant certain death.

With one Ogre dead, the remaining two Ogres let out angry roars and fearlessly charged at the Supreme Naga, engaged in a tangled battle.

"Combat power is decent, upper rank in the same tier!"

An observer initially commented before pausing and adding,

"Not sure about their reproductive ability, hope it's not too low."

Immediately, another observer chimed in,

"I have a feeling their reproductive capability isn't high; their numbers still haven't reached a thousand."

The first observer's gaze flickered, then casually remarked,

"Then its practicality gets a discount."

"Indeed, while strong in power, if the numbers are scarce, the utility indeed falls short. However, a flaw does not obscure the virtues of the rest—worth to be sculpted. I'll watch a bit longer, and if possible, I can give out a special recruitment invitation."

Once these words dropped, immediately an intention revealed a sense of surprise,

"Your Ether only has five special invites this year, right? You're willing to spend one on him?"

The first intention didn't answer, but instead retorted,

"What, does Heart of the Holy Dragon also want them?"

"That's the idea, but we need to observe more."

"Alright then."

The will from Ether nodded and shifted its focus back to the battlefield.

The battlefield was now in complete chaos. From time to time, two or three, sometimes four Ogres would gang up on a single Supreme Naga. Especially as both sides' transcendent level combatants—the Two-Headed Ogre Mage and the Supreme Naga Whale Knight—entered the fray, the fight escalated to a fever pitch.

At this point, there was basically no need for commands; it was entirely up to the strength of each Clan. Slarda picked up an anchor and swiftly swam toward the battlefield. Suddenly, his body sprang dozens of meters high, aiming headfirst at a tall figure ahead.

Just as he leaped, a massive Flame Burst Fireball landed right where he had just touched down. Accompanied by a thunderous blast, a firestorm erupted, covering over half a basketball court's area, obliterating every Small Fishman and Hyenaman within it into dust.

This was a five-meter-tall Two-Headed Ogre with two hideously ugly heads, casting a Flame Explosion Fireball. Although its power was not comparable to that of the Kobold's Dragon Breath Flame Explosion, it was still not something that a Small Fishman could withstand.

Holding a huge steel shield, as large as a banquet round table, in one hand and a colossal Wolf Fang Club in the other, the Wolf Fang Club, over five to six meters long, thicker than an average person's waist and studded with steel spikes over ten centimeters long, he moved forward like a tank, charging at Slarda.

Slarda, falling from the sky, flicked his tail to sweep away the surrounding small fry, his massive body turning to face the Two-Headed Ogre charging at him. With a powerful whip of his tail on the ground, he created a massive pit. His over twenty-meter-long colossal body shot out like lightning, and in a blink, he crossed over two hundred meters to brutally collide with the Two- Headed Ogre.

Slarda's Salted Fish Charge had been transformed into a Hero Skill, significantly increasing the charge distance.

The Two-Headed Ogre Mage reacted quickly, and its repulsively grotesque faces revealed cruel and vicious smiles. One of the heads spoke an indecipherable incantation, and a layer of red fire appeared, enveloping its entire body in protection as it held up the massive shield and took a big step forward.

"Boom!"

The two massive beings collided fiercely. The anchor smashed into the center of the huge shield, and with a sound shattering to the ear, an invisible distortion exploded outward like lightning. The ground beneath their feet suddenly collapsed, and a thick layer of broken earth and grass lifted like waves, rushing to all sides.

In a short struggle lasting less than o.i second, both heads and all four eyes of the Two-Headed Ogre Mage widened. The fire covering the shield fractured, the central part of the shield indented inwards with the impact, deformed and exploded with the hit.

Slarda's terrifying strength, comparable to a High Transcendent level of rank 7, amplified fivefold by his Hero Skill with the anchor strike, caused such a distortion in space in Lin Xiao's eyes from above the Vault of Heaven. It was as if he was seeing a transparent film being indented, creating a pulling effect downward—an anomaly forming distinct layers of spatial impressions as the anchor brutally struck the Two-Headed Ogre Mage.

"Bang!"

The gargantuan Two-Headed Ogre Mage exploded as if a regular person hit in the abdomen by an anti-materiel sniper rifle, tearing into pieces that scattered and flew in all directions, instantly killed on the spot.

The terrifying violence of Slarda made Li Shengyuan's eyelids twitch slightly above in the Vault of Heaven. He commanded the dispersed Two-Headed Ogre Mages to reassemble at the center, with the remaining eight lined up. They began casting spells together, rolling out spell after spell of Flame Explosions as big as wash-basins into the enemy ranks. In an instant, hundreds of Fishmen were blown into bone and dust.

Seeing this, Slarda roared loudly, and the seventeen dispersed Transcendent-level Supreme Naga Whale Knights began to gather around him and charged towards the far-off Two-Headed Ogre Mages, who were continuing to cast their second round of spells.

The Whale Knights, with their enormous size, rammed through the battlefield like heavy cavalry, easily pushing aside the small troops as they pierced the enemy's ranks. Seeing this, Li Shengyuan ordered the Two-Headed Ogres to cast again, and a deluge of red light rained down. The Hyenamen and Ogres affected roared in wrath and charged fearlessly towards the enemy.

This was one of the Two-Headed Ogre Mage's two signature spells, the Bloodthirsty Technique, which was similar to Berserk, but was less powerful. It could stimulate the receiver's potential, increasing strength and speed, reducing some damage taken, and bolstering resistance to mental spells, but at the cost of a slight reduction in intelligence. However, unlike Berserk, it didn't make them unable to recognize allies from enemies.

The Ogres and Hyenamen, bolstered by the Bloodthirsty Technique, fearlessly faced the charge of the dozens of Whale Knights, and even though they were thrown into disarray or trampled to death, they fought without fear. More and more Ogres, Hyenamen, and Grey Dwarves rushed in, so much so that even Slarda was held back by this endless resistance.

These little guys fearlessly attacked Slarda with their weapons, prying into his scales with swords and many even trying to climb onto him.

The enraged Slarda swung his tail fiercely, smashing down his Hero Skill Thunder Shatter. Accompanied by a blast like a dust explosion, a white mist erupted, and all enemies within a fifty-meter diameter around Slarda turned into a rain of blood mist that scattered on the ground.

Meanwhile, the other Transcendent Supreme Nagas did the same, setting off Thunder Explosions one after another.

The physically strong Ogres and Grey Dwarves could still endure, but lower races like the Hyenamen could not withstand the skills of the Transcendent troops and were blown to pieces in large numbers.

But by then, the group of Two-Headed Ogre Mages had already cast three rounds of Flame Explosions, killing a large number of Fishmen and even dozens of Supreme Nagas.

Li Shengyuan did not want his Transcendent troops to engage the enemy directly. He was well aware that if they fought head-on, his Two-Headed Ogre Mages would definitely not win. So, he played to the strengths of the Two- Headed Ogre Mages, using spells to clear the battlefield.

Thus, a peculiar balance was reached. On one side, they continuously bombarded the Fishmen with spells, while on the other, they used a large number of cannon fodder to withstand Slarda and the Supreme Naga. The huge battlefield turned into two bloody meat grinders, with cannon fodder from both sides continuously drawn in and slaughtered.

Lin Xiao was helpless in this situation. He couldn't break the stalemate in a short time and could only wait for the ten-minute cooldown of Salted Fish Charge to see if he could break the deadlock with a burst of energy.

But in these ten minutes, who knew how many Clan members would die.

As Transcendent creatures, each Two-Headed Ogre Mage had enough Magic Power to cast dozens of Flame Explosions. With eight of them combined, that added up to several hundreds of Flame Explosions, which could kill off most of his Clan members.

This was the first time Lin Xiao had encountered such a formidable opponent. He had to admit that Magic based Transcendent troops were indeed powerful, whether they were the Two – Headed Ogre Mages or the Kobold Dragon Vein Magicians. They were both formidable forces.

His own force of over fifteen hundred Fishman Magicians seemed rather weak in comparison to these two types of Magic based troops. Their Sea Water Boundary could barely withstand one or two Flame Explosions before failing, and the summoned Fire Elements were no better than the Fishmen, disintegrating upon the slightest blast. Other spells were not even worth mentioning, as they didn't have the range.

Lin Xiao stroked his chin, already considering the idea of adding a powerful Magic based Clan to his own Divine Realm.

Otherwise, without such formidable Mages as others had, he would be at too great a loss.

At the current stage, it was still manageable, but things would become terrifying once Legendary level Magic based troops appeared in the future. A single legendary spell could wipe out his entire force, and without a Legendary level Magic based of his own, he would be unable to resist.

"Boom!"

A Flame Explosion erupted among the Supreme Naga Group, and even though the Supreme Nagas reacted quickly and scattered, the shockwave still flipped over a dozen who were too slow to escape.

When they surged out from the flames, their scales were cracked and charred, severely injured.

At this point in the battlefield, very few Clan members remained on both sides. Li Shengyuan had only about fifteen or sixteen hundred Ogres left, with less than two thousand Hyenamen and Grey Dwarves left, including the eight Two- Headed Ogre Mages.

On Lin Xiao's side, there were only a little over five hundred Supreme Nagas, less than a thousand Small Fishman, and all seventeen Supreme Naga Whale Knights were still present. Until now, both sides had been clearing each other's cannon fodder and hadn't made moves against the upper echelons of troops.

But as the cannon fodder on both sides were almost depleted, a decisive battle was imminent.

Li Shengyuan gathered all the remaining troops, protecting the eight Two- Headed Ogre Mages in the center, particularly one Two-Headed Ogre Mage leader. Lin Xiao found it surprising that his opponent had such strength but didn't possess a single Hero; if there had been a Two-Headed Ogre Hero, it would have been much more difficult. Heroes were generally much more formidable than their troop types.

His own maneuvers were simple: the remaining Clan members were lined up in a single file, spreading out to avoid being wiped out by a single spell.

Lin Xiao wore a fairly normal expression, not overly concerned. Although his side had fewer remaining Clan members, ten minutes had passed, all skills had cooled down, and considering that his remaining forces were essentially elite, he was not the least bit intimidated by the opponent.

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Chapter 138: Suddenly Hearing about the Ivy League Alliance of High Schools

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The player he had challenged was named Li Shengyuan, who had already defeated three different opponents and was considering which Golden Contestant to challenge next.

Although he, like Lin Xiao, was a Silver Contestant, his role within their respective teams was top-tier, so if he wanted to challenge above his level, he could only challenge a Golden Contestant, to be precise, only those three Golden Contestants, as no one else dared to challenge the other six at this time.

When Li Shengyuan received the challenge from Lin Xiao, he was stunned at first and then inexplicably became angry.

Out of so many people to challenge, you pick me? Do you think I'm an easy target?

"Don't think you're someone special just because you've beaten one Silver Contestant. Today, I'll let you know that there's a huge gap even between Silver Contestants!"

"???"

Lin Xiao watched in utter confusion as his opponent on the other side of the challenge interface rattled off this nonsensical rant.

Just entering the challenge screen, that person lashed out as if he had consumed gunpowder, making Lin Xiao pity him; he had no intention of looking down on the opponent—it was just a random choice of challenger. Was it really a matter of luck, and what did it have to do with respect?

However, the opponent obviously didn't want to hear his explanation and quickly began to deploy troops on the randomly chosen battlefield.

Lin Xiao could only shrug helplessly and quickly organized his projected Clan onto the default plain battlefield, while observing the forces of the opponent.

The sight took him by surprise, and the relaxed expression on his face vanished instantly, replaced by a serious one.

Li Shengyuan's main fighting Clan was, surprisingly, the notorious Ogres—a species rated in the high school textbook 'Exotic Species Register' as one of the ten strongest yet most cumbersome Intermediate races.

Ogres are simple-minded, physically robust creatures, typically standing around three and a half meters tall and weighing three to four hundred kilograms. They are savage, violent, cannibalistic, cruel, lustful, incestuous, etc., with an unsightly appearance and extremely low intellect.

Although rated as one of the strongest Intermediate races, in reality, few people choose Ogres as their Clan due to the aforementioned drawbacks.

The most critical flaw is the Ogre's low intelligence, which results in one of the lowest Faith values among Intermediate races. Along with their large appetites and destructive impulses, which make them hard to control, it's rare for anyone to develop them as their main Clan.

Of course, another significant reason for this is that as Divine Beings worshipped by Ogres, one will inevitably be influenced by their Clan to some extent.

The most obvious manifestation is a propensity for anger, which Lin Xiao now understood to be the likely reason behind Li Shengyuan's sudden outburst—it was probably the influence of his main Ogre Clan.

The reason Ogres are rated as one of the ten strongest Intermediate races is that the lowest level Ogres are Level 3 soldiers, on par with Supreme Naga; they can advance as high as Level 5 Ogre Leaders, and there is a very small chance of mutation or, rather, awakening as a Two-Headed Ogre Mage, an even more monstrous Transcendent species than Kobold Draconic Magicians.

Such Two-Headed Ogre Mages are truly Transcendent beings, possessing Transcendent Level physiques, strength, melee combat power, and magical combat abilities. They are exceptionally powerful.

And amongst those more than three thousand Ogres, Lin Xiao saw no less than ten of these formidable Two-Headed Ogre Mages within Li Shengyuan's ranks.

"This battle is going to be dangerous!"

Three thousand Ogres slightly less powerful than Supreme Naga, ten Transcendent Level Two-Headed Ogres, nearly ten thousand Hyenamen, along with over four thousand Grey Dwarves, likely there to forge weapons and equipment for Hyenamen. Ogres do not commonly wear Armor due to their brutal, bloodthirsty nature and their extraordinarily high Vitality, requiring only a single weapon to leverage their monstrous strength.

The Grey Dwarf is a race of Dwarves, inherently more powerful in combat than the Hyenamen.

Quite the lineup, two Intermediate races, plus ten thousand Hyenamen—Li Shengyuan's forces tallied up to seventeen thousand, exceeding Lin Xiao on paper.

No wonder he was considered a top-tier player, and recognized as an elite who once held a seat on the Golden Throne; he was far stronger than Li Xiangyang, another fellow Silver Contestant.

Gathering his wits, he issued a Divine-mandate to all his followers, his authoritative and grand voice booming like thunder:

"Evil has never been so formidable. My bravest warriors, grip your weapons tightly and deliver Judgement upon evil. I watch over you from the heavenly domain!"

All Fishmen and Naga immediately knelt in reverence, praying softly:

"Praise to You, the Supreme Creator, King of the Great Sea, God of Naga and Fishmen, Your might is unrivaled, Your glory enlightens the world. Your most devout followers have heard Your call, prepared to defend Your honor and devote everything to our Lord!"

"Your courage is felt by me. I watch over you from the heavenly domain, awaiting your triumphant return!"

"Woo "

The elongated horn sounds echoed within the plane, and the clans at both ends of the plane began to deploy troops. The armies of both sides, equally gigantic, slowly expanded and soon covered the entire plane.

In the pupils beyond the visible plane, more than a dozen powerful wills were observing the battlefield.

Compared to the over fifty powerful wills that observed Lin Xiao's battle with Li Xiangyang last time, there were much fewer observers this time. If he could sense it, he would realize that those missing were the very colleges that he had rejected.

Indeed, that was the case. When he turned down their special recruitment invitations, the observers from those higher-level colleges gave up on watching him.

This isn't fiction, but reality. Unless he was someone like Wu Zhonglin, who was ranked on the Divine-mandate list as a vice lister at a very young age, he would have the privilege of colleges still trying to win him over after his rejection. Normally, one rejection meant no further invitations; after all, prestigious colleges have loads of geniuses clamoring for their invitation letters. Why would they tirelessly pursue someone like in the novels? They do have their dignity to consider.

The ones who continued to observe were mostly colleges that had only shown interest but not offered a special invitation, along with a few new observers.

They were more interested in the challenge against Li Shengyuan than the previous challenge against Li Xiangyang.

The terrain of the plane was the default plains, fair for both sides, with almost no undulation or other terrains, a flat expanse ideal for large-scale battles.

The vast armies took nearly half an hour for the vanguards of both sides to approach each other. Over two thousand Small Fishmen and more than four thousand Hyenamen made contact, charging at each other simultaneously.

As expected, the Small Fishmen, with their Salted Fish Charge, easily overturned the Hyenamen, who only possessed the basic warrior profession. A wave of them overturned a swath of enemies, and after breaking into the Hyenamen ranks, successive Thunder Strikes exploded, completely disarraying the formation of the four thousand Hyenamen vanguard, turning it into a mess with no formation, and allowing for organized extermination by the Small Fishmen.

Li Shengyuan immediately ordered the vanguard to retreat, at the same time ordering the Ogre troops to speed up their charge. The left and right flanks, along with the rear forces, also accelerated, aiming to use their numerical advantage to provoke an all-out melee.

This suited Lin Xiao just fine; both the Small Fishmen and the Supreme Naga were races designed for head-on combat.

In less than ten minutes, the main forces of both sides approached a distance suitable for a charge.

As the saying goes, with more than ten thousand soldiers, there was no end in sight. Viewed from the sky above, the two colossal armies slowly came into contact, quickly entangling into one mass, with heads blanketing the hills and fields.

A towering, four-meter-tall Ogre Leader brandished a thick Wolf Fang Club and swung it fiercely. With a 'boom,' a Small Fishman was smashed into the ground, broken weapons scattered over him and blood and broken bones flowing out.

With a backhand swing, another Small Fishman was sent flying over ten meters. The Leader grabbed the flesh and blood stuck to the Wolf Fang Club and stuffed it in his mouth, his small eyes filled with cruelty and bloodthirstiness. He bellowed and rushed toward another Small Fishman a few meters away.

Just then, a massive dark shadow charged over and sent the Ogre Leader flying —it was a Supreme Naga warrior.

After landing, the Supreme Naga warrior lashed out with his thick snake tail, smashing a Hyenaman nearby into a meat patty. He lifted two Dual Hand Greatswords and chopped down fiercely, followed by a piercing sound of metal tearing, two Grey Dwarves, armor and all, were cleaved in half, with blood and entrails splattering the ground.

Both Ogres and Supreme Naga were incredibly tough and strong, turning into killing machines on the battlefield. Compared to them, the somewhat capable Small Fishmen and Hyenamen appeared to be mere trinkets and stood no chance at all.

After wiping out a circle of Small Fishmen or Hyenamen, the Level 5 Supreme Naga warriors and Level 5 Ogre Leaders roared as they charged at each other. With a 'bang,' they collided, unleashing an invisible shockwave that sank the ground beneath their feet.

Both of these large creatures tangled together; the Supreme Naga warriors, three meters tall and four meters long, and the four-meter-tall Ogre Leaders were both monstrous in strength. Their tussle deterred any smaller soldiers from coming close.

Such battles were ubiquitous on the chaotic battlefield.

The Ogres far outnumbered the Supreme Naga, nearly tripling them in number. However, the average strength of Ogres couldn't compare to all the Level 5 Supreme Naga.

Lin Xiao's Divine Realm featured an ancient arena that could be used to train and enhance the combat experience and professional experience of a species, but Li Shengyuan's Divine Realm had no such facilities. The Ogre and Hyenamen levels within his Divine Realm were obtained through regular combat to accumulate professional experience, allowing only for professional level upgrades, making it difficult to enhance species experience.

Thus, whether Ogres or Hyenamen, their levels were inconsistent. Of the three thousand Ogres that reached the fifth level, there were less than two hundred leaders.

Moreover, even if they reached Level 5, the Ogre Leaders could not win against the Supreme Naga that Lin Xiao had adjusted multiple times with the Creation Rubik's Cube and had undergone transformative evolution. Even at the same level, the strength difference was substantial.

In battle, this was shown by the Supreme Naga using their bulky tails to wrap around and trip the Ogre legs, causing them to fall. With a powerful serpentine waist, they withstood the heavy blows from the Ogre's Wolf Fang Club, raised up and plunged the sharp Dual Hand Greatswords down, with blood spurting everywhere.

But immediately, other Ogres lunged forward, clubbing the Naga down. The Ogre beneath had not yet died but instead became even more vicious from injury, grabbing onto the Supreme Naga and biting down with its misaligned, meat and stench-laden yellow teeth, piercing through the sturdy scales on the spot.

Although the vitality of the Ogres was not as domineering as the Supreme Naga's Dominator's Body, they were still known to be tremendously strong. They weren't easily killed by these two slashes.

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Chapter 139: Ancient Card — Frost Magician Profession Card

Translator: 549690339

The battle unfolded just as Lin Xiao had anticipated. Slarda promptly ordered a full charge, and after sustaining some losses while withstanding two rounds of Flame Explosions from the Two-Headed Ogre Mage, they closed in for a charge. A wave of Salted Fish Charges immediately flipped the Ogre's situation.

Around a dozen Transcendent Supreme Nagas confronted the Two-Headed Ogre Mage. Li Shengyuan sent out numerous Ogres to block them. However, they did not focus on the Two-Headed Ogre; instead, they utilized the Salted Fish Charge's ability to charge without a target, breaking through the interception to reach the Two-Headed Ogre Mage with a long-distance charge.

After that, the Two-Headed Ogre Mages were rendered powerless. With more formidable Transcendent opponents close at hand, they simply had no chance to continue bombarding the battlefield.

Although his forces suffered greatly from the two waves of Flame Explosions, their total strength was less than a quarter of Li Shengyuan's, Lin Xiao still had seventeen Transcendent Supreme Nagas left. The remaining main force of Supreme Nagas was also far stronger than the Ogres, so their sheer strength still surpassed that of their opponent.

The situation was essentially decided, and victory was in sight.

Lin Xiao smiled down at the battlefield, occasionally glancing at Li Shengyuan in the distance. It had been a tough battle, but in the end, he had won.

The final melee dragged on for a full three hours, mainly because the Ogres were incredibly resilient, especially the eight Two-Headed Ogre Mages, whose vitality alone was on par with that of the Transcendent Supreme Nagas, even if they didn't have the same kind of dominating presence.

Even when struck by the Salted Fish Charge of the Transcendent class Whale Hunting Knights, they couldn't be killed with a single blow.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao discovered a weakness in the Salted Fish Charge during this battle. This skill dealt piercing damage, which was miraculous against weaker enemies, but against large opponents with strong vitality, its lethality was a bit lacking.

A strike could easily pierce through the body of a Two-Headed Ogre Mage, but with their Transcendent physiques and vitality, it was not fatal.

Lin Xiao squinted his eyes, considering internally that perhaps he could develop a powerful slashing skill tailored for Supreme Nagas to deal specifically with large-sized opponents with strong vitality.

After all, there were still two units of Creation Energy left to experiment with in the future.

"Hmm, I'll make a note of it as an option to consider," he murmured, nodding his head and focusing back on the battlefield.

About half an hour later, with a few Transcendent Supreme Nagas finally free to gang up on the toughest Two-Headed Ogre Mage Leader, Li Shengyuan's entire army was annihilated.

But Lin Xiao was also not faring well. In the end, he had less than three hundred Fishmen and just over two hundred Supreme Nagas left. Even two of the Rank 6 Whale Hunting Knights had died—they were killed outright by the Two- Headed Ogre Mages' focused Flame Explosions.

Though a Dominator's Body was strong, it wasn't invincible.

After the battle ended, Lin Xiao reflected on the fight. Li Shengyuan was indeed the strongest opponent he had ever faced, the gap in strength between them was very small.

Don't be fooled by the remaining forces he had left—that was because this was a wild battle on a map without any terrain advantages, completely unable to showcase the opponent's strengths. If the battle took place on different terrain, even a terrain with slight advantages would have made it much harder for him towin.

Once the battle concluded, they rested briefly before the second game began quickly.

As part of the routine, they had to select a plane terrain. Lin Xiao casually picked the default option and looked up at Li Shengyuan in the distance, only to see the corners of his opponent's mouth slightly curled up in a sly smile. Lin Xiao frowned, unable to figure out what he meant for a moment.

But he quickly understood why his opponent smiled like that. When their terrains were confirmed and the virtual plane displayed a map of a canyon cutting straight from the bottom left corner to the top right corner of the map, he knew what Li Shengyuan was planning.

Yes, feeling he could not overpower him with absolute strength, Li Shengyuan had played a clever trick by selecting the Sheep Intestines Canyon terrain during the map choice phase.

According to the default rules of the Summer Camp, the initial maps generally started with plains, wastelands, and other flat terrains.

Should both parties select terrain, the resulting terrain would be an ultra-complex composition of both choices, which could easily result in terrains unsuitable for either side. So most people would stick to the initial plains or wastelands.

If one side chooses a terrain advantageous to them during the challenge, it's generally an admission that they can't beat the other.

Of course, it doesn't really matter. Not sticking to the default won't affect the outcome of the challenge—it's all about the results.

Sheep Intestines Canyon…

Lin Xiao frowned as he glanced at the map, filled with peaks and just the narrowest path down the center, barely a hundred meters wide at its widest point and just a few meters at its narrowest, flanked by sheer cliffs. He looked again at the smug Li Shengyuan and chose to surrender.

It was an impossible fight.

With just cannon fodder placed in the front and ten Two-Headed Ogre Mages standing in the middle continuously throwing Flame Explosions, they could easily dominate the battle, leaving no chance for engagement.

He couldn't say much about it since Li Shengyuan had only bent the default convention and not broken any of the Summer Camp rules. He could only blame himself for not paying close attention when confirming the terrain.

Each winning one of the first two battles, Lin Xiao immediately chose the aquatic terrain for the crucial third match.

If his opponent wasn't going to play by the rules, he certainly didn't need to hold back and directly chose the terrain his clan was most skilled at.

Once both made their selections, a terrain layout that could leave anyone dumbfounded appeared before him.

Lin Xiao's mouth hung open as he stared at the simulated terrain in the plane before him, his lips slowly curving into a long arc. Looking up at Li Shengyuan, who was just as stunned, Lin Xiao suddenly pressed his forehead and burst into laughter.

"This is really karmic retribution!"

His choice of terrain was aquatic, while Li Shengyuan most likely chose mountainous canyons again. Thus, combining both their choices resulted in a bizarre terrain of countless fragmented mountains, water areas, and flatlands mixed together.

Several small, flat-topped hills were surrounded by water. Occasionally a piece of land sat in the midst of water, or sometimes grasslands were submerged by shallow waters; or a large expanse of flatland was bordered by mountains on one side and water on the other, and reaching other landmasses required swimming across.

In short, this was a chaotic terrain. Although different spaces, such as clearings and grasslands, weren't completely blocked off by mountains and there were paths to walk through, many areas were intercepted by bodies of water that required swimming to cross.

That's why Lin Xiao, upon reviewing the terrain, called it karma, because this terrain was almost like a bane to Li Shengyuan, just as the opponent had chosen Sheep Intestines Canyon as his bane before. Now, Li Shengyuan's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.

This is one of the reasons why selecting terrain by default is necessary: because different races are suited to different terrains. If both sides choose terrains that are suitable for their own clans, they end up with this sort of problematic terrain when combined.

And that's not even the most bizarre part. If one side selects terrain from the Underground World and the other chooses a normal ground terrain, an even more ridiculous map results where one side is completely unable to fight.

At the moment, Li Shengyuan, with a darkened face, sent his clan onto the battlefield. Fortunately, despite the odd terrain, there was a large clearing at each end of the plane where the clans of both sides could enter. It was basically surrounded by mountains on three sides with only one narrow valley exit leading out to a vast body of water.

Li Shengyuan released all his clan members and had the cannon fodder block the valley's mouth, seemingly intent on holding his position and countering the attacks.

Unfortunately, that was not going to happen.

At the command of the epic hero Slarda, numerous Fishman Great Nagas swarmed out of the valley mouth, cheerfully diving into the water, winding through both land and water pathways within the plane.

The path was extremely convoluted. Although the straight-line distance wasn't very long, winding around like that made it much longer.

After nearly an hour of marching, the army stopped by a body of water not far from the canyon where Li Shengyuan's clan emerged.

Slarda climbed up a mountain to survey the terrain and then ordered the Naga magicians to begin summoning Water Elements.

Wave after wave of Water Elements was summoned, and after four waves, nearly five thousand Water Elements had accumulated. Then the magicians rested a while before starting to use Mockery, slowly causing the nearby lake water to rise.

The summoned Water Elements also had the power of Mockery, and with the combined forces of over a thousand magicians, they gathered water from even farther reaches, ultimately creating a wave more than thirty meters high that surged towards the valley mouth.

From the Vault of Heaven above, there was a murmur of admiration as someone said with certainty,

"Li Shengyuan is doomed to lose!"

"The moment the terrain was revealed at the start, he was doomed."

"That hero is quite formidable, isn't he? He has such excellent command and adaptability."

"By defeating Li Shengyuan, this lad's strength is already among the strongest of the second tier in this Summer Camp. Both in terms of ability and potential, he is outstanding enough to warrant a special recruitment invitation."

"Are you sure you want to offer one?"

Someone asked,

"I remember that Ether only has five special recruitment spots this year, right?"

"Yes, I have two on hand, but in reality, I might not even need the second one." "That's true. Those six have been predetermined, and it's already quite good to grab one among the dozen or so people in the second bracket. Those below tier two lack enough strength and potential for a special recruitment spot."

"You don't want it?"

"Ido, but I only have one special recruitment spot in my hand. I was planning to offer it to him, but I just discovered another good seedling, and they have accepted the invitation."

"Then that's unfortunate."

"Isn't it? It's a pity there are so few special recruitment spots, otherwise I would definitely compete with you."

"Hehheh…"

While they chatted idly, the battle within the plane was drawing to a close.

The Naga magicians had only summoned two tides. The first wave surged into the enclosed valley and swept out most of Li Shengyuan's cannon fodder. The second tide swept away all but ten Two-Headed Ogre Magicians. The torrential river waters formed a whirlpool outside the valley under the urging of the Fishman magicians and Water Elements. Many Great Nagas submerged and dragged the enemies who were pulled out into the water, drowning them alive. After that, there was no after.

With only the ten Two-Headed Ogre Magicians left, there was absolutely no chance for a turnaround. They were slaughtered by the swarming Fishmen who rode the crashing waves into the valley.

Thus, the battle ended. Lin Xiao's seat was raised to the position of Li Shengyuan while the latter's seat plummeted to the Bronze Tier.

With that, all the challenges for this stage were over. Six divine cards of mythical quality and five stars, one Ancient Godly Card, and two extra card slots were now in hand.

Hmm, it was not settled yet, as there were still challengers whose battles were unfinished, but he was now secure. Now Lin Xiao comfortably sat fishing, perched just below the nine Golden Thrones on the top Silver Throne, watching other contestants still challenging each other and occasionally glancing at the chairman's stand.

By this time, most contestants had finished their challenges, and over two- thirds of those without seats had been eliminated. Below the five-tiered seating, only two or three hundred people were standing there.

The host, Instructor Mo, had also stepped onto the chairman's stand, smiling as he watched the few remaining challenges, occasionally communicating with the observers from various colleges in the Void, now and then showing a grin. Suddenly, he cocked his head to one side, his ear…

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Chapter 140:140 The Clan of the Wise Goblins

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The result was indeed a hit on a teammate, and the Supreme Naga took the opportunity to bounce off two Ogres. With a powerful flick of its serpenne tail, it propped itself up off the ground, sword coming down from above once more. Accompanied by a sharp 'crack,' a ferocious and ugly Ogre head flew off, and the Dual Hand Greatsword plunged deeply into the ground, hilt deep.

No matter how tenacious an Ogre's vitality, decapitaon meant certain death.

With one Ogre dead, the remaining two let out furious roars and fearlessly pounced to engage the Supreme Naga in a fierce melee.

Combat power is good, upper er for its rank!

An observer evaluated first and then paused before adding:

I'm not sure about its reproducve ability, I hope it's not too low.

Immediately, another observer chimed in:

The feeling is that its reproducve ability isn't high, with currently less than a thousand in number."

The observer who spoke first had a glint in his eye as he casually said:

Then we must discount its performance.

Indeed, while it is strong, its usefulness is indeed limited if their numbers are low. However, a single flaw does not negate the many virtues. It has value worth sculpng; I'll keep watching. If possible, I could extend a special recruitment invitaon."

No sooner had those words fallen when another will expressed astonishment:

You guys at Ether only have five special recruitment spots this year, right? You're willing to use one on him?"

The first will didn't answer, instead counter-asking:

What, does the Heart of the Holy Dragon also want it?

That's the idea, but we want to observe a bit longer.

Alright then.

The will from Ether nodded and redirected its gaze back to the battlefield.

At this point, the battlefield was in utter chaos. Every now and then, two, three, or four Ogres would be seen ganging up on a Supreme Naga, especially as the battle entered a fever pitch with the arrival of Transcendent-level Two-Headed Ogre Mages and Supreme Naga Whale Knights.

There was no need for commands at this me; it was purely a display of the inherent strengths of each Clan. Slarda hefted an anchor and swam quickly towards the battlefield, then suddenly leaped dozens of meters high, charging headfirst at a tall figure ahead.

Just as he sprang up, a massive Flame Burst Fireball landed exactly where he had just been, followed by a thunderous explosion. A violent fireball erupted, covering half a basketball court, instantly crushing every Small Fishman and Hyenaman within it to dust.

Standing at five meters tall and sporng two grotesque heads was a Two- Headed Ogre, whose Flame Explosion was less powerful than the Dragon Breath Flame Explosion of Kobold Magicians but sll well beyond the defensive capabilies of a Small Fishman.

With one head holding a steel shield as large as a banquet table and the other clutching a huge Wolf Fang Club—over five or six meters in length and thicker than most waists, studded with steel spikes over ten cenmeters long—it advanced like a tank toward Slarda.

Slarda, falling from the sky, swept his tail to clear the minions around him and turned to face the oncoming Two-Headed Ogre. With a powerful slam of its serpenne body, it burst from the ground, creang a large pit. Its massive form shot out like lightning, traversing over two hundred meters in an instant, colliding fiercely with the Two-Headed Ogre.

Slarda's Salted Fish Charge had been elevated to a Hero Skill, greatly increasing the distance of the charge.

The Two-Headed Ogre Mage reacted swiftly, its repulsively ugly face twisted into a cruel, savage grin. One head spewed incomprehensible spells as a layer of red flame surrounded it, guarding its enre body as it pushed forward with a huge shield.

Boom!

The two colossal beings collided with brutal force; the massive anchor smashed into the center of the shield, causing an eardrum-shattering explosion. An invisible distoron exploded out like lightning, the ground beneath their feet sunk suddenly, and a thick layer of upturned soil and grass burst out in all direcons like waves.

After a brief struggle, lasng less than o.i seconds, both heads and all four eyes of the Two-Headed Ogre Mage widened in alarm, the red protecve flames around its shield collapsed, and the center of the shield caved inward, deforming and bursng with a blast.

Through the Hero Skill that magnified his strength fivefold, Slarda's terrifying power—comparable to a Rank 7 High Transcendent—was unleashed with a single strike of the anchor. High above the Vault of Heaven, Lin Xiao saw as the anchor shattered the Two-Headed Ogre Mage's shield, the very space around it distorted, as if it struck a transparent film, creang a downward drag resulng in disnct spaal imprints, as the anchor crashed into the Two-Headed Ogre Mage.

Bang!

The massive Two-Headed Ogre Mage was like an ordinary person hit in the abdomen by an an-material sniper rifle, exploding into several pieces and instantly killed on the spot.

Slarda's terrifying brutality made Li Shengyuan's eyelids on the Vault of Heaven twitch slightly; he ordered the dispersed Two-Headed Ogre Mages to converge at the center. Eight Two-Headed Ogre Mages stood in a row, casng spells simultaneously, creang flame explosions as large as washbasins that flew into the enemy ranks, instantly turning hundreds of Fishmen to dust and bone fragments.

Seeing this, Slarda roared loudly. The similarly dispersed seventeen Transcendent-Level Supreme Naga Whale Knights began to gather around him and charged the Two-Headed Ogre Mages, who were connuing their second round of casng from afar.

The Whale Knights, with their massive size akin to heavy cavalry, effortlessly knocked the smaller soldiers on the battlefield aside as they plunged into enemy lines. Seeing this, Li Shengyuan commanded the Two-Headed Ogres to cast again; a shower of red light descended, causing the Hyenamen and Ogres to roar in unison and fearlessly charge forward.

This was one of the Two-Headed Ogre Mage's two signature spells, the Bloodthirsty Technique, similar to Berserk but less powerful. It could smulate the potenal of those affected, increasing their strength and speed, reducing some damage, and enhancing resistance to mental magic, though it also slightly reduced intelligence, but not to the extent of Berserker's uncontrollable rage.

The Bloodthirsty-enchanted Ogres and Hyenamen fearlessly met the charging group of Whale Knights. Even as they were knocked around or trampled to death, their resolve did not waver, and more and more Ogres, Hyenamen, and Grey Dwarves surged forth. Even Slarda was held back by this endless resistance.

These fearless little guys attacked Slarda with their weapons, driving swords into the gaps between his scales and many even tried to climb onto him.

An enraged Slarda swung his tail fiercely; his Hero Skill, Thunder Shatter, smashed down, and with an explosion akin to a dust blast, all enemies within a fifty-meter radius centered on Slarda were reduced to a shower of blood mist splattered across the ground.

At the same me, the other Transcendent Supreme Nagas followed suit, setng off consecuve thunder blasts.

Ogres and Grey Dwarves, with their strong physiques, might hold up against the onslaught. Lesser races like the Hyenamen simply couldn't withstand the Transcendent troops' skills, being killed off in droves.

By now, the Two-Headed Ogre Mages had cast three rounds of Flame Explosion, killing a large number of Fishmen and even dozens of Supreme Nagas.

Li Shengyuan had no intenon of letng his Transcendent troops engage in direct combat; he was well aware that in a head-on fight, his Two-Headed Ogre Mages would surely be outmatched. Instead, he used their advantage: casng spells to clear the field.

Thus, an odd balance was formed: on one side, connuous spell bombardments decimated the Fishmen, while on the other, cannon fodder was piled against Slarda and the Supreme Nagas to hold them off. The vast battlefield turned into two bloody meat grinders, with cannon fodder from both sides being relentlessly drawn in and slaughtered.

There was nothing Lin Xiao could do about this; he couldn't break the deadlock in a short me, only awaing the second cooldown of the Salted Fish Charge after ten minutes to see if he could break the stalemate with a burst of power.

But within these ten minutes, who knew how many of his Clan members would die.

As Transcendent creatures, each Two-Headed Ogre Mage had enough Magic

Power for dozens of Flame Explosions, and together, eight meant hundreds of

Flame Explosions. This was enough to kill off most of his Clan.

This was the first me Lin Xiao had encountered such a formidable opponent. He had to admit, the Magic-based Transcendent troops were indeed powerful, whether it was the Two-Headed Ogre Mages or the Kobold Dragon Vein Magicians; both were formidable foes.

His own group of over fifteen hundred Fishman Magicians was like a younger brother compared to these two types of Magic-based troops, with their Sea Water Boundary falling apart after one or two Flame Explosions, and summoned Fire Elements dispersing like the Fishmen at the first blast. Not to menon the other spells, which didn't even have that range.

Lin Xiao stroked his chin, already contemplang the idea of adding a powerful Magic-based Clan to his Divine Realm.

Otherwise, if others had such powerful Mages and he didn't, wouldn't that be a huge loss?

At the current stage, it's manageable, but in the future, when Legendary-level Magic-based troops appear, that would be truly terrifying. A powerful spell from a Legendary-level Magic-based troop could annihilate an enre army; without a similarly ranked Legendary-level Magic-based troop, there would be no resisng it.

Boom!

A Flame Explosion detonated amidst the Great Naga Group. Even though the Supreme Nagas swiftly scattered to escape, the aftermath sll flipped over a dozen who were too slow.

When they emerged from the flames, their scales were shattered and charred, and they were severely injured.

At this point on the battlefield, there were very few Clan members left on either side. Li Shengyuan's forces were down to about one thousand five or six hundred Ogres and less than two thousand Hyenamen and Grey Dwarves, including the eight Two-Headed Ogre Mages.

On Lin Xiao's side, there were just over five hundred Supreme Nagas and fewer than a thousand Small Fishmen left. All seventeen Supreme Naga Whale Knights were sll present; before, both sides had been clearing each other's cannon fodder and hadn't attacked the upper er troops.

But now, as the cannon fodder was nearly all dead, a decisive battle was imminent.

Li Shengyuan gathered all the remaining forces, placing the eight Two-Headed Ogre Mages at the center to protect them, especially one leader among the Two-Headed Ogre Mages. Lin Xiao was surprised by his opponent's strength, but noted there wasn't a single Hero among them. If there had been a Two- Headed Ogre Hero, it would have been difficult to fight; Heroes were generally far more formidable than ordinary troops.

His side's strategy was simple: the remaining Clan members were arranged in a straight line with a spread formaon to avoid being wiped out by a single wave of spells.

Lin Xiao's expression remained composed, showing little worry. Although his remaining Clan were fewer in number, the ten minutes were up, and all Skills had cooled down. Plus, those left were essenally the elite of his forces. He did not feel inferior to the opposion at all.

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Chapter 141: Inter-school Competition Rules

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Next, Lin Xiao remained calmly seated at his fishing spot on the silver throne, just beneath the top-tier nine golden thrones, watching as the other contestants continued to challenge each other, occasionally glancing at the chairman's stand.

By this time, most of the contestants had completed their challenges, and more than two-thirds of those without a seat had been eliminated, leaving only two to three hundred people standing below the fifth level of seats.

Instructor Mo, the host, had already taken his place on the chairman's stand, smiling as he watched the remaining few challenges, occasionally communicating with observers from various colleges in the Void, and now and then showing a smile.

Suddenly, he cocked his head to one side as if listening to something, and the smile on his face faded away progressively, his brows furrowed, as he looked up in an unknown direction.

Lin Xiao did not notice this, as he was currently communicating with an observer from the Ether Institute, the thirteenth-ranked institution among higher education facilities.

Or it could be called a top-tier college.

Strictly speaking, the Ether Institute is also a higher education facility, but people prefer to call the top twenty colleges as top-tier colleges, to distinguish them from the rest of the higher education institutions.

After the battle with Li Shengyuan, the observer from the Ether Institute had sent Lin Xiao a special recruitment invitation, explaining that if he accepted the special invitation from "Ether," he would not receive any more special invitations from other top-tier colleges. By the same token, if he declined, Ether would not extend a special invitation again in the future. This is an understanding among the top-tier colleges.

In other words, if he refused "Ether," he would have one fewer option to choose from.

Of course, he could still earn his way into a top-tier college such as Ether on his own merit, but he wouldn't receive the generous special recruitment treatment, which would be a big loss.

Lin Xiao fell into deep thought; this was something he had not expected, meaning that he did not have many options to choose from.

Of the top twenty top-tier colleges in the HuaXia District, there were only seven, and discounting the two that were not suitable for him, and others that may have already chosen their special recruitment candidates early on without extra spots available, the opportunities he could choose from were few—he might have only two or three options, actually very limited.

Lin Xiao was not certain that after all phases of the Summer Camp, a super college would take notice of him and offer a special recruitment spot. If not, and they were only willing to express interest, turning them down would be a great loss.

After all, special recruitment is not just a title; it represents substantial resource allocations. Each special recruitment spot comes with a rich supply of resources, which is why even the top-tier colleges offer only a limited number of special recruitment spots each session.

For example, the resource package that comes with a special recruitment spot from Ether includes—

Firstly, as soon as one accepts the special recruitment, they will immediately receive two extra card slots, one suitable Ancient Quality Card, one Divinity Card, and one Golden Mythical Quality Divine Realm Card.

Afterward, every quarter, one gains an additional card slot and, every month, one Golden Mythical Quality Divine Realm Card.

Beyond that, each year, another suitable Ancient Quality Card, one Divinity Card, and one Golden Mythical Quality Divine Realm Card are granted, on top of the provisions stipulated in the second point.

These are the basic resources, the fixed resources that come with any special recruitment spot from any higher education institution, guaranteed.

On top of that, there are unique resources from each college, varying with the institution's ranking, generally richer for those higher-ranked, what exactly they are Lin Xiao was not sure of, but it was certain they wouldn't be lacking.

As a top-tier college ranked thirteenth among higher education facilities, the resources given by Ether would definitely not be inferior, honestly speaking, they had already met Lin Xiao's requirements.

After all, with only five super colleges and seven top-tier colleges in the HuaXia District, and Ether being in the top ten, he had no reason to turn his nose up at such a top-flight school.

So, he replied very straightforwardly:

"Thankyou for 'Ether's' recognition. I am honored to become a member of Ether!"

The observer from Ether immediately responded:

"With the aspiration to soar among the clouds and the speed of lightning, your choice is the right one. See you on campus next term!"

Lin Xiao humbly replied:

"Lin Xiao is also looking forward to that day!"

From that moment on, barring any major mishaps, after the holidays, he would be a member of Ether's affiliated Number One Middle School.

Correct, the Number One Middle School.

As a special recruitment student, he would naturally proceed to the affiliated middle school, just like Wu Zhonglin will be heading to the War Throne Super Academy's affiliated Number One Middle School next term. This is standard for all special recruitment students, and it is a part of the resources that come with the special recruitment spot. The transfer application would be sent to Dongning's No. 5 Middle School after the Summer Camp is over,

Because if one is capable enough to receive special recruitment from a higher education facility, their strength is undoubtedly far beyond that of their classmates, and the standard of cultivation at their original school would not keep up.

Dongning's No. 5 Middle School would also be more than happy to send him on his way, as this would enhance the school's reputation even further; after all, the primary purpose of ordinary high schools is to cultivate outstanding talents for higher education facilities, whether one leaves early or not.

The reason this arrangement waits until after the Summer Camp is mainly because the five super colleges have priority. Even if a student has already reached an agreement with a higher education facility, if a super college expresses interest in them, they have the option of transferring the student first.

Of course, it must also be a special recruitment invitation; if it's merely an expression of interest, they must ask for the student's opinion.

Generally, mere prospective students would not even consider it, even though the intention invitation letter comes with certain resource bias, but it cannot compare to special recruitment.

As the saying goes, it's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix. Isn't it more appealing to be the most valued special recruit at another elite college?

Given the choice, Lin Xiao would definitely prefer being a special recruit at another elite college, even if it was one of the lower-ranked ones.

Lin Xiao did not feel that he was currently qualified to receive a special recruitment spot from the Super Academy. He would definitely have been a shoo-in next year, but even now, he was well aware that he lacked the necessary credentials.

At this point, the second phase of the Summer Camp was drawing to an end. Those who remained had basically completed their challenges, and those who were to be eliminated had already left. The ones who had survived possessed certain capabilities.

From Yunmengxing Province, the group that initially arrived together, including Lin Xu from Ancient City, has dwindled to less than ten. The rest, including Bai Ze, ShangXiaoxue, and Tang Ling, had all been eliminated without exception.

The elimination phase of the Summer Camp's second stage had only one round and did not continue with further eliminations. The third and final phase, historically overseen by the military, was likely to be practical combat.

This meant they were sent to war zones within the Crystal Wall System controlled by the military, or even areas not yet under control, to gain experience. It was somewhat dangerous, certainly more so than the academystyle combat training, but it was very formative, exposing them to the Main World's methods of conquering planes within the Chaos Sea of Void, and under the military's supervision, how to practically take over a plane.

Remember, the planes in question here are civilized planes with established societies and entities above the level of a Demigod. There's no need to conquer plain, uncivilized planes.

In this final stage, no one came to challenge Lin Xiao, or to put it another way, none of the nine Golden Contestants and the top twelve of the thirty-six Silver Contestants, who were the elite among the contestants, faced any challenges.

Among the strongest batch of this season's Summer Camp, three from this group were selected: Lin Xiao, Ancient City, and Shen Yuexin. Although Lin Xu was also a Silver Contestant, he was not among the strongest batch.

Indeed, if you also count Wu Zhonglin, Yunmengxing Province actually has five people ranked Silver or higher this year, which is quite impressive.

As time passed, until the end of a certain challenge, a sudden loud bell ringing notified everyone that this phase had come to an end.

Instructor Mo's voice resonated in everyone's ears:

"First of all, congratulations on reaching the final round. You may claim your rewards later, but before that, let me announce the rules for the final stage of this year's Summer Camp."

Lin Xiao listened intently as Instructor Mo continued in a grave voice:

"Many of you may have guessed that the final round is practical combat. It was meant to be the same as in previous years, but we have just received new information, so there will be a change for this season's final stage of Summer Camp. You will be engaging in exchanges with the winners of the Ivy League Alliance of High Schools' Super Newcomer Showdown."

"Wow!"

As soon as the words were out, a wave of noise erupted. Everyone was shocked and buzzing with conversation.

Lin Xiao was also stunned for a while before he could collect his thoughts, filled with surprise.

Engaging in exchanges with the victors of the Ivy League Alliance of High Schools' Super Newcomer Showdown meant direct competition between the younger generations of the HuaXia District and the Ivy League Alliance of High Schools, didn't it?

This so-called Ivy League Alliance of High Schools is not what most people would first imagine. It's a major power in the Main World, comparable in strength to the HuaXia District.

Speaking of which, we need to first explain the power structures of the Human Main World.

The Main World has four colossal forces:

HuaXia District: Founded on Ancient HuaXia civilization, this is a grand power comprising all friendly ethnic groups from Ancient China, currently ranked first.

Ivy League Alliance of High Schools: Formed on the basis of the Ivy League Alliance of top schools from the old Earth era.

When the Divine Realm game emerged, outstanding students cultivated by these top schools became True Gods with relative ease. Later, as the initial concept of nations disappeared, these graduates from their respective Ivy League schools, using their alma maters as a nexus, allied with other first-rate universities to establish a new Ivy League Alliance of High Schools, and this name also became that of the power.

Giant Enterprises Alliance: Composed of giant corporations, super conglomerates, and top capitalists.

With enormous human and financial capital, a number of huge enterprises, conglomerates, and top capitalists have banded together to form this substantial power.

Aristocracy Council: Consists of great clans that uphold ancient aristocratic systems.

These clans boast venerable histories, some of which originated from super clans that existed tens of thousands of years ago, during Earth's ancient times.

Among these four great forces, the HuaXia District is the strongest, the Ivy League Alliance of High Schools comes next, followed by the Giant Enterprises Alliance ranking third, and the Aristocracy Council fourth.

Within the Main World, the Ivy League Alliance of High Schools maintains a very close relationship with the Giant Enterprises Alliance and the Aristocracy Council, and there are occasional frictions with the legacy of the tens of thousands of years old cultural heritage of China.

They stand united when facing certain powerful Crystal Wall Systems outside of the Main World, but the internal conflicts have never ceased, persisting from tens of thousands of years ago up to the present.

And this Super Newcomer Showdown of the Ivy League Alliance of High Schools is akin to the Super Newcomer Summer Camp in the China District, a top event for fresh talent and also a platform for selecting the best geniuses.

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Chapter 142: Wu Zhonglin with an Astoundingly High Divinity

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He pondered for a moment and spent a unit of Creation Energy to remove most of the redundant and hidden genes from the Goblin Bloodline gene pool, as there was no need for selective pruning, so a unit of Creation Energy was enough to accomplish the task. He retained only one forgotten talent—time is

money.

This talent was from the goblins of the Goblin Empire at the height of its glory, which allowed goblins to do everything with maximum efficiency, almost like obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Unfortunately, with the destruction of the Goblin Empire and the curse of the gods, this talent disappeared.

Though this talent had no specific metrics, it was quite powerful, especially for an advanced race.

Then, Lin Xiao threw three talent cards into the Creation Rubik's Cube—Higher Level of Enlightenment, High-level Enlightenment, and Afterglow of the Goblins—and loaded them all.

Up next were two specialties, Spiritual Power Genius and Clever Heart and Skillful Hands, also loaded into the Magic Cube.

The last skill card—Basic Meditation—was likewise loaded.

As for those basic knowledge cards—

Basic Exotic Mechanical Construction.

Basic Exotic Alchemy.

Basic Exotic Engineering.

Basic Weapon Forging.

Basic Armor Forging.

Basic War Machinery Manufacturing.

Since these are knowledge cards and not skill cards, they couldn't be loaded directly; they had to be learned by the individuals themselves.

Lin Xiao planned to fuse several knowledge cards later into one that contained all the knowledge, thus saving the slots in the Divine Realm reserved for individual cards.

As he eagerly anticipated the formation of the card, Lin Xiao suddenly realized that the genetic strength of the goblin race was not capable of bearing so many powerful talents and specialties.

emmm.

He stroked his chin thoughtfully, his gaze landing on the last unit of Creation Energy, and after some contemplation, merged it into the Bloodline Origin of the goblins.

He did nothing else but increased the upper limit of the goblins' genetic capacity.

Five minutes later, the fusion was complete, all talents, specialties, and skills merged into one mass, barely reaching the limit and not able to bear even one more card.

He quickly formed it into a card, and as a burst of crystal light burst forth, unsurprisingly, it transformed into an Ancient Card. Its attributes were as follows.

Five-Star Species Card—Wise Goblins (Ancient): Use this card to summon two thousand Wise Goblins.

Note: Half male and half female.

Race: Wise Goblins.

Category: Sub-human Species.

Rank: Intermediate race.

Occupation: None.

Talents: Extraordinary wisdom, time is money, Afterglow of the goblins.

Skill: Basic Meditation LV1.

Specialties: Spiritual Power Genius, Clever Heart and Skillful Hands.

Constitution: 0.6 (a minor might be stronger than you).

Strength: 0.7 (the outburst of anger from an eighty-year-old man might be stronger than you).

Agility: 1.2 (slightly more agile than the average person).

Spirit: 232 (Wise Goblins possess extraordinary wisdom and have exceptional innate spiritual power).

Evaluation: The scientific academy of the Ancient Goblin Empire once researched a topic on how to endow goblins with greater wisdom, more powerful spiritual strength, and more formidable magic abilities. Clearly, you've achieved it.

Good fellow, the spirit's gone over five!"

Basic two points, talent of extraordinary wisdom adds three points, and the specialty of Spiritual Power Genius adds two points, totaling seven points.

At this moment, Lin Xiao somewhat regretted not choosing the Wrathful Magician. The Frost Magician only pairs well with the Fishman Magician and the Supreme Naga who deal with water all day, but not so much with the goblins who deal with forges all the time; they are better suited to the Wrathful Magician.

But he couldn't have anticipated such a thing; how could he have known that a goblin, born from the fusion of so many Mythical Grade Cards, would be so extraordinary, with an innate spiritual base as high as seven points, even surpassing the Fifth Level Supreme Naga.

With an amused and helpless feeling, he loaded the card and then issued a Divine-mandate to the Supreme Naga Slarda. After that, he didn't need to worry about it. He believed Slarda would handle the two thousand newly emerged Wise Goblins just fine.

The Wise Goblins temporarily had no combat power, although they could become Frost Sorcerers right from the start. Due to the initially small numbers, they had to be kept for breeding purposes, so they couldn't join the fight that would soon follow.

However, the Frost Sorcerer profession might come in handy in a few days. According to the time conversion of one day in the Main World equaling one year in the Divine Realm, there was more than a year before the exchange meeting would begin. If he spent a bit more Power of Faith, he could get the newly born Naga Clan to enter the ancient arena and see if he could produce a batch of Transcendent-grade Frost Sorcerers.

He was quite looking forward to this; both Li Shengyuan's Two-Headed Ogre Mage and the Kobolds' dragon lineage Sorcerer had left a deep impression on him. Masters of Law were indeed overwhelmingly powerful.

By now, the two extra card slots were used up, and all the Creation Energy had been spent.

The third phase of the Summer Camp would definitely bring more card slot rewards, and because of the unexpected exchange meeting, the rewards might be even more generous.

Although the rules of the exchange meeting had not been announced, generally the later it gets, the harder it becomes and the higher the rewards. With a good performance, there's a high probability of gaining at least two additional card slots as well as Ancient-quality cards.

In the Divine Realm, as the Species Card of the Wise Goblins was loaded, a portal opened in the upper left corner of the Divine Realm. A group of short humanoid creatures walked out of it.

These short humanoid creatures were only about one meter twenty-three in height, even shorter than the Fishmen, and they resembled Goblins only slightly, looking more like shrunken versions of Humans.

Although they appeared to be refugees, they didn't seem ragged. The procession was orderly; their clothes were tattered but not messy. The many refugees among the Wise Goblins curiously looked around the wilderness filled with lush foliage, their clear eyes reflecting the light of wisdom.

To be honest, if he wasn't sure they were derived from Goblins, even Lin Xiao himself would not believe these were the deceitful and dirty, cowardly and barbaric Goblins that people commonly imagine, they were simply like two different species.

The refugee procession moved through the wilderness, occasionally seeing wild bushes growing recklessly and the wild fruits glowing red within them. Strong adult male Goblins in the guard team picked the fruits, wiped them clean, and passed them to the female Goblins in the group.

When they passed a garden encircled with thorny bushes, they saw more than a dozen Flower Fairies dancing elegantly amongst the flowers in the center of the vast blooming garden. The fairies curiously watched the passing Wise Goblins from afar.

Lin Xiao, who was paying close attention to the Wise Goblins, had a thought. Unexpectedly, without his realizing it, more than a dozen little spirits had been born in the Divine Realm, all of them Flower Fairies.

Under the care of these Flower Fairies, the wilderness garden was very beautiful and full of life.

He stroked his chin in thought and issued a Divine-mandate to Slarda to list any little spirits within the Divine Realm as protected creatures.

These little guys were still young now, and the Divine Realm was not vast either. In the future, when the Divine Realm expanded and the energy was rich enough to give birth to Elemental Sprites, that would be remarkable.

Meanwhile, the Wise Goblins had long passed through the flowering shrubs, and as they were crossing a patch of lush weeds, a large wild orchard suddenly came into view. The Wise Goblins rushed over excitedly. The adult male Goblins spread out to stand guard, while the female Goblins went to pick fruit.

Just then, a dull sound came from afar, like that of a heavy object hitting the ground.

The male Goblins looked towards the low fruit orchard warily, at the large expanse of wilderness beyond. As time passed, the sound slowly approached, and a feeling of unease filled the void.

Suddenly, a goblin let out a loud cry, and all the Wise Goblins agilely jumped down from the trees and ran back. Many male goblins, armed with weapons fashioned from sharpened broken branches, huddled together, warily watching ahead.

Boom!

The earth trembled slightly, and immediately after, a figure as tall as a mountain to the goblins emerged from behind the jungle. A huge hand covered in scales easily snapped a tree trunk as thick as a thigh, and then a gigantic anchor fell from the sky with a 'crash,' smashing a large hole in the ground.

The Giant Beast stopped a hundred meters away from the Wise Goblins, but the rustling sounds didn't cease; the dense jungle parted, revealing one enormous human-bodied, serpent-tailed creature after another, each of them just as massive to the Wise Goblins.

Goblins from the unknown realm, the Supreme Creator, the King of the Great Sea, the Divine-mandate of the Nagas and Fishmen has ordered me to welcome you."

Slarda, who had received the Divine-mandate and come hurrying over with a large contingent of Supreme Nagas, looked down from on high and addressed the tiny beings before him.

And then, there was nothing else to report.

Having a bunch of ferocious creatures, resembling Giant Beasts, specifically coming to pick you up, is like humans venturing into the unknown, only to be approached by a group of monsters dozens of meters tall, telling you with a friendly face that they are there to pick you up — do you go, or do you go?

For the Wise Goblins, the situation they faced was exactly like that, with no choice at all. After weighing their own size against the others, they were sure they couldn't outrun them and obediently followed Slarda back to Naga City.

Subsequently, the Wise Goblins settled in Naga City under the notion of being a servitude clan.

Just like the Small Fishmen, they were treated as servants by the Supreme Nagas.

This was the best arrangement and allowed the Wise Goblins to settle down.

After all, even if they were asked to sit as equals with the Supreme Nagas, they wouldn't be comfortable.

Going forward, it was about guiding them to worship the Creator God and to reproduce in Naga City.

Lin Xiao didn't guide them to do anything; trusting in their exceptional intelligence, he believed they would find their own work.

It's like highly intelligent humans going back to the primitive times, seeing a primitive tribal society with nothing at all. They would definitely find ways to create various tools to improve their lives. This is the instinct of intelligence, and Lin Xiao didn't plan to intervene.

After withdrawing his consciousness from the Divine Realm, Lin Xiao received a message from Lin Xu — an invitation to join a new group chat.

Upon joining, he found himself among six people: Ancient City, Lin Xu, Shen Yuexin, and a few others from Yunmengxing Province.

At that moment, there was already a conversation happening. When he entered, the talking stopped, and after about ten seconds, a guy he didn't know well named Su Tong said:

So the big boss has arrived, everyone move down a rank in the group status!

So the big boss has arrived, everyone move down a rank in the group status! The old group was useless now, and only a few of them had entered the final phase of the Summer Camp, so there were many things that were not convenient to discuss in the other group.

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Chapter 143: Communication and Probing

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As each cadet emerged from the transport platform, uncontrollably revealing their True Bodies before quickly concealing them again, Lin Xiao watched several and combined his own experiences upon arrival to astonishingly discover that the golden Divine Power auras expanding beneath the feet of all the cadets as they stepped out were actually related to their Divinity.

Put simply, the more Divinity one possessed, the larger the radius of the Divine Power aura under their feet.

Lin Xiao, who had four points of Divinity and two points of uncondensed Divinity, therefore had a four-meter radius for his Divine Power aura, with an additional two meters of semi-transparent aura.

And these cadets who were arriving successively all had auras ranging from four to six or seven meters, a small difference overall.

Even Lin Xu had only six points of Divinity, and Ancient City seven points of Divinity, while the others in the group each had five points of Divinity. In contrast, Lin Xiao's four points were the least among them, but he had two more points of unsettled Divinity, which only needed enough Power of Faith to stabilize and coalesce, and thus overall he was considered upper-class within the squad.

As for Shen Yuexin, she emerged early on, so her consolidation of Divinity wasn't seen, but considering she effortlessly secured the Silver Seat and later became one of the strongest twenty-one, her strength is certainly formidable.

In fact, Lin Xiao had always been unable to clearly discern her strength, suspecting it was stronger than imagined, yet he had no proof.

As one cadet after another teleported in, and having watched for a while, Lin Xiao turned back to casually chat with the others. He hadn't said much when suddenly a chorus of surprised voices came from the side. He swiftly turned his head and saw a figure shrouded in an invisible distortion, standing on a Divine Power aura that reached over ten meters.

"Goodness, twelve points of Divinity!"

That gap was a bit exaggerated. Compared to Ancient City and the rest, this was a whole major level stronger.

As the Divine Power swiftly retracted, an extraordinary and somewhat proud young man was revealed. It was Ding Ye, one of the five who had arrived with Wu Zhonglin.

Although the young man had concealed his Divine Power, there was a cluster of distorted Divine Power behind his head that he couldn't completely retract. He walked out expressionlessly and stood alone in a corner, causing the surrounding cadets to involuntarily clear a space for him.

Shortly after, Zhang Guan, also one of the Six Elites, emerged with Divine Power under his feet, exceeding ten points of Divinity, eleven to be exact, just one point fewer than Ding Ye.

Within a minute, a third young man with more than ten points of Divinity exited the portal.

Then came Qin Fengyan with ten points of Divinity and another young man named Gao Yongsheng, who also possessed ten points of Divinity.

With that, five of the Six Elites of this Summer Camp appeared, each with slight anomalies, indicating that their Divinity was so overwhelming that they couldn't fully contain it. Now only Wu Zhonglin had yet to show himself, with nearly everyone's gaze fixed on the transport platform, even the three towering figures whose indistinct faces were shrouded in surging Divine Power occasionally glanced over.

"What do you think, each of them has eleven or twelve points of Divinity. Wu Zhonglin is evidently stronger than them by a margin; how many points of Divinity do you think he has condensed now? Has it exceeded fifteen points?" Su Tong asked softly while looking at them with envious eyes.

Ancient City replied seriously,

"Definitely."

Lin Xu also nodded,

"At least fifteen points, maybe even seventeen or eighteen."

" Isn't that a bit too exaggerated? We're not even close to one-tenth of his strength?"

Lin Xiao chuckled,

"Have some confidence, we're not even close to one-tenth of his strength."

Shen Yuexin also commented,

" If he didn't have a potential and strength far exceeding ours, how could he be listed on the Vice-Talent list with those senior students from grades two and even three while still in grade one?"

"So powerful!"

Everyone exclaimed in awe.

Just then, a Divine Power aura within the transport portal suddenly exploded, and a blinding golden light covered a much wider area than any before. Lin Xiao had not yet seen who was enveloped by the distorted Divine light when someone next to him gasped,

"Damn, twenty-one points of Divinity!"

The Divine Power aura quickly contracted towards the towering figure at the center, forming into a man three meters tall, his body adorned with golden dragon patterns. This person bore a resemblance to Wu Zhonglin, with a stern countenance and a defiant look, and atop his head, a pair of flame-ignited dragon horns, radically different from his previously mild appearance.

No, this was the true appearance of Wu Zhonglin.

Compared to the other people whose appearances after retracting their Divine Power didn't differ much from how they looked in the Subspace, Wu Zhonglin's appearance, even when his Divine Power was restrained, was utterly unlike his former self.

With a three-meter stature that stood out from all the others, a layer of Divine Power distortion that he struggled to contain still clung to him, and atop his head blazed a pair of fiery red curved dragon horns that appeared like ruby red crystals. The surrounding Void seemed to collapse subtly towards the dragon horns, and anyone focusing on them could feel a scorching sensation assail them.

"Terrifying!"

Such an intense aura was exuded unintentionally; if he were to release his Divine Power without restraint, who knew how terrifying it would be.

Lin Xiao could be one hundred percent certain that Wu Zhonglin definitely held a godhood related to dragons.

Just like the Creator godhood he had obtained in advance, waiting only for the moment he became a demigod to immediately coalesce it.

"Hiss!"

At this, Lin Xiao suddenly realized that Wu Zhonglin had already gathered twenty-one points of Divinity; when he became a demigod two years later, wouldn't he easily amass over fifty points of Divinity? Wouldn't that mean he could start with at least two powerful godhoods?

"That's terrifying!"

This was simply being too powerful without equals, no wonder he was listed among the prodigies in the secondary rankings during his high school phase. And there were so many young prodigies like him; with his current strength, Lin Xiao couldn't even make it onto the weakest, three-thousand-strong secondary prodigy leaderboard—the gap between them was indeed huge.

Once Wu Zhonglin appeared, three of the five elites stepped forward and stood together with him, all willingly standing behind him, taking him as the leader.

Only Qin Fengyan and Ding Ye were unwilling to be subordinate to him; after giving Wu Zhonglin a silent glance, they each left with a few companions.

With two taking the lead, the others began to disperse in succession, and Ancient City clapped his hands, saying,

"See that? Everyone's forming groups now. Let's move on too."

The group withdrew their gazes, following the signs floating in the air and the markings on the ground toward a certain direction of the platform that extended for who knows how many kilometers.

Their destination seemed to be a military war fortress located in some unknown Exotic Crystal Wall, its size unknown; this platform alone was thousands of meters wide, perhaps over ten kilometers long, and more than one hundred meters high.

This ten-kilometer-long platform, resembling a runway, was flanked on both sides by numerous gigantic semicircular metal gates. From time to time, one could see flying vehicles emerging from one of these metal gates, turning into another, or passing straight through one gate to the one opposite.

The soldiers passing by all slowed down curiously to observe them, envy apparent in their eyes.

Lin Xiao knew that these soldiers envied their status, the status of Divine Territory Players.

These were ordinary soldiers, not Divine Territory Players.

Many believed that all the military's soldiers were Divine Territory Players like them, but that wasn't the case; the vast majority were normal people who nevertheless practiced various powerful force systems from Extra-dimensional planes, each possessing at least transcendent-level combat strength.

These non-Divine Territory Player soldiers were called "soldiers," making up the bulk of the military's bottom-ranked cannon fodder, using regular military ranks.

As for soldiers like Lin Xiao who had opened their own Divine Realm, they were referred to as "non-commissioned officers," the elite of the armed forces, using elite military ranks. If they joined the army in the future, they would start as elite non-commissioned officers.

At the same rank, elite military ranks were one major level higher than regular military ranks and had higher priority.

For instance, an Elite Second Lieutenant held the same level as an ordinary Lieutenant Colonel and had a higher priority. Typically, an Elite Second Lieutenant was considered half a rank above an ordinary Lieutenant Colonel and could give orders to them.

This wasn't discrimination but rather a recognition that the tasks undertaken by officers with elite military ranks were far more difficult and dangerous than those of ordinary soldiers, and thus they received higher treatment.

However, correspondingly, if an ordinary military rank surpassed a major level above the elite rank, it would still be considered higher. For example, a common Major General could command any officer below the rank of Lieutenant Colonel with an elite rank.

The command priority of this kind of order was as high as that of elite ranks commanding regular ranks; there would be no instances of elite officers arrogantly refusing to heed the orders of ordinary Lieutenant Colonels. Anyone daring to do so would unequivocally face severe consequences.

After all, ordinary soldiers who rose to the rank of general had become True Gods through their own abilities, and their God Level was not low.

They might not be able to defeat Divine Territory Players of the same rank, but those one or two ranks lower would be a different story.

Despite the enormous disparity between ordinary soldiers and elite non-commissioned officers, with all ordinary soldiers at least at the transcendent level, there were still not a few legendary-level powerhouses who could threaten them. Yet, their gaze unanimously expressed one thing – intense envy.

Amidst numerous envious stares, they followed the signs and walked several kilometers forward until they reached a turning point pointing directly at one of the gigantic metal gates – their destination lay beyond that portal.

The metal gate was twenty meters wide and fifty meters high, with large grooved patterns etched upon the huge metal frames, where light occasionally flowed through.

This was a marvel of Modern Technology fused with Magic Technology and the extraordinary sciences from other Exotic Crystal Systems, creating a thin, translucent membrane covering the metal surface, enhancing the metal's resistance to various Elements.

All sorts of Void Battleships, war fortresses, and legions of Golem armies like Steel Golems used this technique, which granted them strong resistance to Spells. Coupled with the super-hardness of modern alloys, they held significant advantages in wars against the Natives of exotic worlds.

The large gate was covered with a thin transparent membrane that obstructed the view, not allowing one to see what was on the other side. As the group passed through the membrane, Lin Xiao felt a momentary sense of weightlessness; this thin layer actually encompassed a teleportation function.

Once his vision cleared, Lin Xiao found himself standing on a teleportation platform about ten meters in diameter. Ancient City, Shen Yuexin, and the others were on the side, and at each corner of the platform outside stood a five- meter-tall Steel Golem, resembling ancient armored warriors, each holding a massive six-meter alloy sword with the hilt planted firmly on the ground, motionless.

The group descended from the teleportation platform, looking around curiously.

Their teleportation point turned out to be a gigantic battleship navigating the Void.

This was a standard model Void Battleship of the military, with a length of over ten thousand meters—over ten kilometers. The massive hull was made from specially processed high-strength alloys, providing immense structural integrity and energy resistance. It was the military's most commonly used and minimal operational unit in wars in the Outland.

Each Void Battleship functioned as a single combat unit, under the command of a Main World True God from the Main World Divine Domain; typically, these were True Gods with Weak Divine Power, number…

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Chapter 144: You Are Very Impressive, But None of You Can Compare to Me

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He pondered for a moment, consuming a unit of Creation Energy to remove nearly all the redundant hidden genes in the goblin bloodline gene pool, an easy task not requiring finesse so a single unit of Creation Energy was enough, leaving only one forgotten talent: Time is money.

This talent belonged to the goblins during the most glorious era of the Ancient Goblin Empire, enabling them to maintain utmost efficiency in everything they did, almost obsessively so.

Unfortunately, as the Goblin Empire fell and the goblins were cursed by the gods, this talent faded away.

Although this talent had no specific numeric value, it was incredibly powerful, especially for an advanced race.

Then, Lin Xiao inserted the talent cards for Higher Level of Enlightenment, High-level Enlightenment, and Afterglow of the goblins into the Creation Rubik's Cube, loading all of them.

Following that, he threw in two skills, Spiritual Power Genius and Clever Heart and Skillful Hands, into the Magic Cube for integration.

The last skill card—Basic Meditation—was also loaded into it.

As for those basic knowledge cards—

Basic Exotic Mechanical Construction.

Basic Exotic Alchemy.

Basic Exotic Engineering.

Basic Weapon Forging.

Basic Armor Forging.

Basic War Machinery Manufacturing.

Since these are knowledge cards rather than skill cards, they couldn't be directly loaded onto them; they would have to learn them on their own.

Lin Xiao planned to get a few more knowledge cards in the future and fuse them all into one card that contained all this knowledge, saving up space for loading one card after another into the Divine Realm.

After integrating all talents, skills, and specialties, Lin Xiao, who was eagerly awaiting the card's formation, suddenly froze. He realized that the genetic strength of the goblin race was insufficient to bear so many potent talents and specialties.

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He stroked his chin thoughtfully and looked at the last unit of Creation Energy, considering it for a moment before deciding to infuse it into the essence of the goblin bloodline.

He did nothing else but increase the genetic capacity of the goblins.

Five minutes later, the fusion was complete; all talents, specialties, and skills had integrated just enough to reach the limit, incapable of bearing even one more card.

He quickly solidified it into a card, a burst of crystal light shone, and as expected, it turned into an Ancient Card with the following attributes.

Five Star Species Card-Wise Goblins (Ancient): Use this card to summon two thousand Wise Goblins.

Note: Half male, half female.

Race: Wise Goblins.

Category: Sub-human Species.

Rank: Intermediate race.

Profession: None.

Talent: Exceptional wisdom, Time is money, Afterglow of the goblins.

Skills: Basic Meditation LV1.

Specialties: Spiritual Power Genius, Clever Heart and Skillful Hands.

Constitution: 0.6 (Even underage youths may be stronger than you) Strength: 0.7 (An eighty-year-old man in a fit of anger would be stronger than you)

Agility: 1.2 (Slightly more agile than the average person.)

Spirit: 232 (The Wise Goblins possess exceptional wisdom, granting them extraordinary talent in spiritual power.)

Evaluation: The science academy of the Ancient Goblin Empire once researched a topic, how to grant goblins higher intelligence, greater spiritual power, and more potent casting abilities. Clearly, you have achieved this.

"Wow, the spirit is over five!"

Base two points, exceptional wisdom adds three points, spiritual power genius another two points, totaling seven points.

At this moment, Lin Xiao regretted not choosing to be a Flame Magician; Frost Magicians suit those Fishmen Magicians and Supreme Nagas who play with water all day, but not so much for goblins who deal with forges all the time- they're better suited to the flame.

But he couldn't have known in advance; how could he have foreseen that goblins resulting from fusing so many Mythical Grade Cards would turn out so impressive, their innate base spiritual power reaching as high as seven points, surpassing even that of a Fifth Level Supreme Naga.

With a sense of bitter-sweet emotion, Lin Xiao loaded the card and then issued a divine mandate to the Supreme Naga Slardar. After that, he didn't need to worry about it anymore, for he believed that Slardar would handle the newly emerged two thousand Wise Goblins well.

For now, the Wise Goblins couldn't offer much combat power. Although they could become frost sorcerers right from the start, their numbers were too small in the early stage and needed to be reserved for seeding and breeding. They could not join the upcoming battles just yet.

However, the frost sorcerer profession might come in handy in a few days. According to the time flow of the Divine Realm-one year there for each day in the Main World-there would be more than a year before the exchange meeting began. If he spent some extra Power of Faith to have the new Naga Clan enter the ancient arena, maybe he could get a group of transcendent-grade frost sorcerers.

He was really looking forward to this. Both Li Shengyuan's two-headed ogre mage and the kobold dragon lineage sorcerers had made a profound impression on him. Indeed, a mage was powerful without peers.

As a result, the two extra card slots were used up, and all the Creation Energy was spent.

In the next phase of the summer camp, there would definitely be extra card slot rewards, and because of the sudden exchange, the prizes might be even more generous.

Although the rules of the exchange were not yet announced, it was generally the case that the difficulty increased as one progressed, and the rewards became higher. If his performance was good, it was highly likely that there would be more than two card slots and ancient-grade cards available.

Inside the Divine Realm, as the Wise Goblin Species Card was loaded, a teleportation gateway opened in the upper left corner of the realm, and a group of small humanoid creatures stepped out from it.

These small humanoid creatures were only around one meter twenty to thirty centimeters tall, even shorter than the Fishmen, and they looked somewhat similar to Goblins, but even more so like shrunken versions of Humans.

Although they looked like refugees, they weren't in disarray. The group was orderly; their clothes were worn but not messy, and the many Wise Goblins curiously surveyed their new surroundings, a wilderness full of lush vegetation, their eyes clear and shining with intelligence.

Honestly, if Lin Xiao hadn't been sure that these were refined from Goblins, even he would've found it hard to believe that these were the same Goblins known for being sly and dirty, cowardly, and barbaric in common impressions; they were practically two different species.

The refugees passed through the wilderness and sometimes could see bushes growing wildly with bright red berries in them. The adult male Goblins of the guard team picked the wild fruits, wiped them clean, and handed them to the female Goblins in the group.

When passing through a circle of a thorn-enclosed garden, they saw more than a dozen little Flower Fairies dancing among the flowers in the central part of the garden. Seeing the Wise Goblins pass by, the fairies looked on with curiosity from afar.

Lin Xiao, who had been keeping an eye on the Wise Goblins, was moved. Unbeknownst to him, a dozen or so little spirits had already appeared in his Divine Realm, all of them Flower Fairies.

Under the care of these Flower Fairies, this wild garden was incredibly beautiful, full of vitality.

He pondered for a moment, rubbing his chin, and issued another divine mandate to Slardar, declaring any little spirit within the Divine Realm as a protected creature.

Now these little ones were still small, and the Divine Realm was not large, but in the future, as the Divine Realm expanded and the energy grew denser, the emergence of Elemental Sprites would be truly remarkable.

Meanwhile, the Wise Goblins had long since passed through the flowerbeds, and as they traversed a patch of lush weeds, the landscape suddenly opened up to reveal a large wild fruit forest. The Wise Goblins rushed towards it excitedly, with the adult male Goblins spreading out to keep watch, while the females went to pick fruit.

Just then, a mysterious heavy sound suddenly came from afar, as if something heavy was striking the ground.

The male Goblins watched vigilantly towards the other side of the short fruit orchard, towards a vast wild forest. With time passing by, that sound grew closer and the air was filled with a sense of unease.

Suddenly, a goblin let out a loud yell, and all the Wise Goblins nimbly jumped down from the trees and ran back. Numerous male goblins, brandishing sharpened weapons made from broken branches, formed a circle and looked ahead with vigilant expressions.

"Boom!"

The earth trembled slightly, and immediately following, a figure as tall as a mountain from the goblins' perspective strode out from behind the jungle. A gigantic hand covered in scales easily snapped a tree trunk as thick as a thigh, and then a huge anchor descended from the sky with a 'crash,' creating a large crater in the ground.

The Giant Beast stopped a hundred meters away from the Wise Goblins, but the rustling sounds did not cease. The surrounding dense jungle parted to reveal creatures with human torsos and serpentine tails, towering just as high as the Giant Beast to the Wise Goblins.

"From an unknown domain, creatures of the goblin kind, the Supreme Creator, the King of the Great Sea, the Divine-mandate of the Naga and Fishmen, has commanded me to welcome you."

Slarda, having received the Divine-mandate and coming early with a large group of Supreme Naga, looked down from on high at the tiny creatures before him and thus spoke.

Then there was no 'then1.

Running towards you, looking fierce and bestial like Giant Beasts, to specifically fetch you- it's as if humans ventured into an unknown place and a group of monsters dozens of meters tall came running over amiably, telling you they are specifically there to fetch you. Will you go, or will you go?

To the Wise Goblins, that was precisely the situation they faced. They truly had no choice. Possessing wisdom, they quickly realized that they couldn't outrun them based on the size difference and obediently followed Slarda's command to return to Naga City.

Next, the Wise Goblins settled down in Naga City under the name of a servant Clan.

Just like the Small Fishmen, they were treated as servants by the Supreme Naga.

This was the best arrangement, and it also allowed the Wise Goblins to be at ease; after all, if they were to sit at the same table as the Supreme Naga, they would not feel comfortable with that.

Moving forward, they were guided to worship the Creator God and to reproduce in Naga City.

Lin Xiao didn't guide them to do anything. He believed that with their outstanding intelligence, they would find work for themselves.

It was like highly intelligent humans going back to the primitive Stone Age, encountering a primitive tribal society with nothing to its name. They would surely think of ways to create various tools to improve their lives. It was an instinct of intelligence, and Lin Xiao did not intend to interfere with them. Withdrawing his consciousness from the Divine Realm, Lin Xiao received a message from Lin Xu— an invitation to join a new group chat.

After joining, he found there were six people inside: Ancient City, Lin Xu, Shen Yuexin, and a few others from Yunmengxing Province.

By the time he arrived, people were already chatting. As he entered, the conversation stopped, and after ten seconds or so, a guy named Su Tong, who he was not familiar with before, spoke up:

" So the big shot has arrived, I've moved down a rank in the group!

The old group was no longer of use- now only a few of them participated in the final stage of the Summer Camp, and many things were not so convenient to discuss in another group.

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Chapter 145: Creatures in the Void Sea

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And the blood figure suddenly vanished, reappearing hundreds of meters away, revealing the man's figure. He quickly reigned in his power and, expressionless, said:

"My name is Bart, you are very strong!"

On the other side, the stunning woman didn't make another move either. Her demeanor shifted from the icy battle mode to one of curiosity and admiration, mixed with a strange sense of wonder as she sized up Wu Zhonglin:

"You can call me Aria, you are the strongest freshman I have ever seen."

Wu Zhonglin slowly reverted from his half-dragon form back to his normal human shape, bowing with a blank expression:

"You're not bad either…"

Bart, who had been expressionless, now showed a hint of a smile. He was quite pleased with the praise from such a formidable opponent.

However, the next statement immediately wiped the smile off his face:

"But still no match for me!"

Wu Zhonglin, having returned to his true body in the Different Domain, underwent a major personality shift from his low-key and calm demeanor as a dark-haired youth in the subspace, becoming more ostentatious.

Expressionless, he approached the host who had reappeared at some point, and after a long moment, he said:

"We choose to kill the Semi-god Vampire!"

Having said this, he turned and walked away, not noticing Aria's eyes sparkling with admiration as she ogled his muscular build.

Aria, intrigued by his straightforwardness and power, murmured in a low voice:

"So strong, so sexy, only a man this powerful deserves me."

Bart twitched at the corner of his mouth upon hearing this:

"He comes from China, it's impossible for him to come over to our side, there's no chance for you."

"Then I can go to him."

"You…go and discuss that with your father."

Of course, Lin Xiao couldn't possibly hear these words. At that moment, he had just received the message that the mission for the HuaXia District had been confirmed and was checking the details, along with the rules.

The mission was simple: A shattered plane, within which two kingdoms, each ruled by a Human Demigod and a Vampire Demigod. They each select an opponent as their mission target, the winner being the one who first kills their respective demigod target and destroys their Power of Faith.

Judging by the mission alone, it seemed straightforward. After all, both their side and the Ivy League Alliance of High Schools had thousands of contestants, each one a Divine Being, plus a super-genius like Wu Zhonglin. Even a direct assault would easily crush their targets.

No matter how strong a demigod was, they couldn't possibly withstand so many opponents.

But there were a few limitations to the mission. First, there was a percentage of completion. Taking their side's task of killing the Vampire Demigod, this percentage most likely referred to the destruction of the Vampire Demigod's Power of Faith or the Vampire Kingdom itself.

In other words, they had to destroy the Vampire Demigod's Power of Faith while killing him, which could be interpreted as directly annihilating the Vampire Kingdom.

The second limitation was that they were not allowed to use the Power of Faith provided by non-devout followers during this exchange mission.

Meaning they could only use the pure Power of Faith from Divine Realm believers, and Power of Faith obtained through trade or other means was unusable.

"Damn, this just screwed the big spenders over!"

He turned to look at Shen Yuexin, who was visibly less cheerful with her pretty little mouth puckered up in displeasure.

Lin Xiao, on the other hand, was rather happy about this rule. It worked in his favor, as he had previously amassed over ninety million in Power of Faith for the consolidation of his Divinity, which would come in handy now.

The purpose of this rule was simple: to prevent pay-to-win players like Shen Yuexin from cheating. Without restrictions, if she brought in billions of Power of Faith, she could probably pummel the Vampire Demigod to death on her own ability.

With this rule in place, when stripped of external Power of Faith, the amount of pure Power of Faith accumulated by everyone would be much less, significantly increasing the difficulty.

That said, if faced with an irresistible danger that could compromise their safety, they could use extra Power of Faith for self-preservation, but such an action was tantamount to automatic disqualification.

The difficulty of the task didn't lie in how to destroy the Vampire Kingdom or kill the God of Vampires, but in racing against the Ivy League Alliance to see who could complete the task faster and with a higher degree of completion.

The introduction of the completion percentage meant they couldn't directly rush in to kill the Vampire Demigod right away. They had to spread out and destroy the Vampire Demigod's Power of Faith separately, before they could go after the Vampire Demigod himself.

After reading the rules, many people looked up toward Wu Zhonglin, who was checking the rules himself. About a minute later, he raised his head and announced loudly:

"Everyone has read the rules. This is a team mission that requires our utmost cooperation to complete. As the strongest contestant of this Summer Camp, I will command this operation."

emmm….

No one could or would object to the inevitable and overwhelming, given his extraordinary strength. With ten more points in Divinity than the second- placed, he was nearly twice as far ahead.

If the gap were only four or five points, some proud players might have been discontent, but such a huge difference was essentially a qualitative gap, leaving no room for dissent.

He continued to say:

"However, I alone cannot manage everything. And since we'll need to divide our forces to destroy the faith of the Vampire Demigod later, I plan to select twelve outstanding elites from all the cadets to form a temporary management team."

Quite a few people were moved by this proposal, showing keen interest.

Wu Zhonglin swept his gaze over the crowd and spoke out loud:

"I propose, Zhang Guan, Gao Yongsheng, Jiang Xinyi, Qin Fengyan, Ding Ye…"

He paused here, the first five names being expected choices. Aside from them, there were seven more spots available, and several cadets eagerly anticipated as he continued to pronounce names one by one:

"Cao HanYu, Ji Guangxuan, Geng Haifan."

Three consecutive names, the remaining three of the nine Gold Thrones.

These three had managed to maintain their seats on the Gold Thrones until the end, their strength absolutely formidable and commanding respect.

Next, Wu Zhonglin paused for a moment, his gaze sweeping over the thousands of people as if hesitating over whom to give the remaining four spots.

It's worth mentioning that among these thousands was a small group from the previously eliminated members of the Wolf Fang Team and the Fury Flame Team, but they had each defeated an opponent in the previous phase. Thus, the mentors of both teams kept their promise; even though eliminated, they did not simply return home but stayed to participate in the third phase exchange matches.

Compared to the students who left disheartened in other phases, due to the exchange matches of the third phase, as long as they could win, they could still earn intent spots at high-level colleges. In two years time, as long as they meet the admission requirements of their desired college, they can be admitted unconditionally and with priority.

"ChuYu…."

Everyone looked at a man with many dancing photophores on the back of his head, formed by starlight, scattering twinkling stars as they whirled, dreamlike and fantastical.

This was a leading Silver Contestant who once sat on a Gold Throne, only to be displaced.

"WangXinhe…."

This was a man enveloped in a mist of flames, also a leading Silver Contestant.

"Lin Xiao!"

"Ah!"

Startled, he looked up to see the surprised expressions of his companions and then at Wu Zhonglin, whose gaze was fixed on the chaotic Magic Cube behind his head, which changed shape continuously within an invisible vortex. Sensing his attention return and receiving a slight nod of acknowledgment, Wu Zhonglin shifted his gaze and continued to announce the last name:

"Shen Yuexin!"

As if she had expected it, she blinked her beautiful, slightly bewildered eyes, cute and mischievous.

"Please, come over for a discussion."

Lin Xiao… His gaze flickered to the Ancient City. This person had always assumed the role of captain, from the beginning with Yunmengxing Province's team to the current seven-person squad, where his leadership was implicitly recognized. Everyone had naturally assumed he was the strongest, so was this a surprise turn of events?

Well, not exactly a turn of events; he just wasn't chosen.

Lin Xu's expression remained unchanged; he was self-aware and recognized his shortcomings. He was calm, composed, and had a very good mindset. In this regard, Lin Xiao felt he was stronger than those from the Ancient City.

At least he could see that Ancient City, despite appearing outwardly calm, exuded an awkwardness and a subtle resentment that could be felt without an expression. Surely, he was frustrated and unwilling to accept the situation.

No one in the squad spoke; everyone was surprised and smart enough to sense the embarrassment of the Ancient City. Who would dare say anything? Congratulate the two of them?

"Let's go!"

Shen Yuexin smiled slightly and said to Lin Xiao before walking out first.

Lin Xu patted him on the shoulder, encouragingly:

"Fight on!"

"Yeah! Let's all fight on!"

He quickly followed.

Together with Wu Zhonglin, thirteen people gathered. In a place unseen by others, nearly a hundred figures emitting invisible distortions surrounded five towering figures observing the Void Battleship Platform. One of the figures looked down at the thirteen below and nodded solemnly, saying:

"Not a bad choice, these twelve. They are basically the strongest and most potential group here."

The figures nodded in agreement, and one of them said:

"They should have already received special recruitment spots, right?"

"What are you trying to say?"

A sense of alarm caused the speaker to pause, then he laughed heartily:

"Are you afraid we're going to steal the ones you've set your sights on?"

"Isn't that the case?"

"Yes!"

"Damn!"

" Hahaha, nothing can be done if you say that, consider it stolen. You can only hope the contestants you're interested in aren't too outstanding."

"Damnit!"

Their discomfort was met with his laughter, and the group felt helpless. These individuals were from the Super Academy, indeed more powerful than them.

This showed that the forces within HuaXia District were not a united front, but rather had various frictions and conflicts, presenting a united front only in the face of external threats.

Of course, this was quite normal, after all, they belonged to different factions, with each high-level college equivalent to a powerful Divine System force. Within them, the top-ranked Super Academy known as Radiance and the third- ranked War Throne, which were direct military forces, were particularly powerful.

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Chapter 146: Entering the Shattered Plane

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As one student after another emerged from the transport platform, their True Bodies suddenly manifesting uncontrollably before quickly converging, Lin Xiao watched a few and combined it with the phenomenon he experienced upon his own arrival. To his surprise, he found that the golden Divine Power halos extending beneath the students' feet as they walked out were actually related to their Divinity.

Put simply, the more Divinity one possess, the wider the radius of the Divine Power halo under their feet.

Lin Xiao possessed four Divinity points and two uncondensed Divinity points, so the radius of his Divine Power halo was four meters, with an additional two meters of a semi-transparent halo.

The halos of these students arriving one after another were mostly between four and six to seven meters across, with not much difference among them.

Even Lin Xu had only six Divinity points, Ancient City had seven, and the rest of their companions all had five. In contrast, Lin Xiao's four points were the least among them, but he also had two uncondensed Divinity points. Just a sufficient amount of the Power of Faith was needed to stabilize and materialize them, so overall, he was considered above average within the team.

As for Shen Yuexin, she came out early, so he didn't see how many Divinity points she had condensed, but considering her low-profile acquisition of the Silver Seat and later becoming one of the strongest twenty-one, her strength was definitely impressive.

In fact, Lin Xiao had never been able to see the full extent of her strength. He suspected that her strength was stronger than he imagined, but he had no evidence.

As students continued to teleport in and the novelty started to fade, Lin Xiao turned his head and chatted with his friends. He hadn't said much when

suddenly there came sounds of astonishment from one side of the area. He quickly turned to see a figure with a Divine Power halo underfoot that reached more than ten meters, his entire body enveloped by an invisible distortion.

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Good lord, twelve Divinity points!

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The gap was somewhat exaggerated, stretching a whole tier above Ancient City's and others' level.

As the Divine Power quickly converged, a lofty-looking youth with an air of arrogance appeared. It was Ding Ye, one of the five people who arrived with Wu Zhonglin.

Though the youth had suppressed his Divine Power, a twisting mass of Divine Power behind his head couldn't be fully retracted. He walked out expressionlessly, and stood alone in a corner as the surrounding students involuntarily cleared a space around him.

Not long after, Zhang Guan, another of the six elites, also emerged with a Divine Power halo underfoot, likewise exceeding ten Divinity points, with eleven in total, one less than Ding Ye.

Less than a minute later, a third youth with more than ten Divinity points came out.

Following them were Qin Fengyan with ten Divinity points and another youth named Gao Yongsheng, also with ten points.

With that, five of the six elites in this year's Summer Camp had appeared, each with a slight divine manifestation due to their excessively strong Divinity which they struggled to fully conceal. At this point, the only one left unseen was Wu Zhonglin, with almost everyone's eyes fixed on the transfer platform, even the three towering figures shrouded in surging Divine Power casting frequent glances in this direction.

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What do you think—each of those five has eleven or twelve Divinity points. Wu Zhonglin is clearly a notch above them. How many Divinity points has he condensed? Could it be more than fifteen?" Su Tong said in an envious tone.

Ancient City replied seriously,

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Definitely.

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Lin Xu also nodded,

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At least fifteen, maybe even seventeen or eighteen.

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Isn't that a bit too exaggerated? We don't even have a fraction of his strength?"

Lin Xiao chuckled,

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Be confident, we don't even amount to a fraction of his.

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Shen Yuexin added,

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If he didn't possess potential and strength far surpassing ours, how could he get listed on the secondary list of prodigies in his first year alongside those second- and third-year seniors?"

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They're so powerful!

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People marveled.

Just then, a surge of Divine Power burst forth from the portal, a dazzling golden light covering a range surpassing any previous, and before Lin Xiao could make out who was engulfed in the twisted divine radiance, someone beside him gasped,

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Damn, twenty-one points of Divinity!

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Then, the aura of Divine Power quickly contracted towards the towering figure at the center, solidifying into a three-meter-tall man covered in golden dragon motifs, bearing a seven to eight resemblance to Wu Zhonglin but with a more rugged and rebellious demeanor, his head crowned with a pair of flaming dragon horns, exuding a markedly different presence from the mild-mannered appearance seen before.

No, this was Wu Zhonglin's true form.

Unlike others who retained a similar look to before when they restrained their

Divine Power, Wu Zhonglin, even when restraining his, appeared vastly different than before.

Standing at three meters, he towered over everyone else with an ever-present twist of Divine Power around him that he tried his utmost to contain, and atop his head burned a pair of crimson, curved dragon horns resembling red crystal, which seemed to cause the very void around them to collapse inwards. Anyone focusing on those horns would feel a scorching sensation washing over them.

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Terrifying!

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Such a powerful aura unwittingly emitted, one couldn't help but wonder how terrifying it would be if he fully unleashed his Divine Power.

Lin Xiao was one hundred percent certain that Wu Zhonglin must hold a godhood related to dragons.

Just like the Creationist godhood he had obtained in advance, ready to coalesce the moment he became a Demigod.

H

Hiss!

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At this thought, Lin Xiao suddenly realized, if Wu Zhonglin already had twenty-one points of Divinity now, wouldn't he easily gather over fifty points of Divinity by the time he ascended to Demigod status two years later?

Wouldn't that mean he could obtain two or more powerful godhoods from the start?

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Too terrifying!

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This was an unimaginable level of power, no wonder he was ranked among the prodigies on the vice-leaderboard in his first year of high rank. And there were so many other young prodigies like him. With his current strength, Lin Xiao wouldn't even qualify for the lowest three thousand talents sub-leaderboard, a considerable gap indeed.

As soon as Wu Zhonglin emerged, three out of the five elites stepped forward to join him, willingly standing behind him and recognizing his lead.

Only Qin Fengyan and Ding Ye were unwilling to concede to his rank, giving Wu Zhonglin a glance before leaving with their respective companions.

With two leading the way, the others gradually dispersed as well, and Ancient

City clapped his hands, saying,

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You see, everyone's forming groups now. Let's go too.

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They withdrew their gazes and followed the floating signs and lights on the ground towards a direction on the vast platform, which was kilometers in width and tens of kilometers in length, as well as hundreds of meters high.

Their destination seemed to be a military war fortress within an unknown Exotic Crystal Wall, its size unknown, but just this platform they were on was over a kilometer wide, and likely more than ten kilometers long, with a height of over a hundred meters.

The platform, stretching over ten kilometers long like a runway, flanked by numerous huge semi-circular metal gates on both sides, saw frequent comings and goings of flying vehicles; some flew out from one metal gate and entered another, while some crossed from one side directly to the opposite gate.

The soldiers passing by often slowed down curiously to observe them, their eyes filled with envy.

Lin Xiao knew these soldiers envied their status as Divine Territory Players.

These soldiers were regular soldiers, not Divine Territory Players.

Many people think that military soldiers are all Divine Territory Players like them, but this is not the case. The vast majority are ordinary people who have trained in various powerful systems of strength from extra-dimensional planes, each possessing at least Transcendent Level combat capabilities.

Such non-Divine Territory Player soldiers are the military's most numerous bottom-tier cannon fodder, who use the regular military ranks.

While soldiers like Lin Xiao who have opened their own Divine Territories are called non-commissioned officers and represent the elite of the armed forces, using elite ranks. If they join the military in the future, they start as elite non-commissioned officers.

With the same military rank, elite ranks were considered a major level higher than normal ranks and had higher priority.

For example, an elite second lieutenant had the same level as a normal major, and due to the higher priority, a regular elite second lieutenant was considered half a level higher than a normal major. Thus, an elite second lieutenant could give orders to a normal major.

This wasn't discrimination; it was simply because the tasks elites had to undertake were far more difficult and dangerous than those of ordinary soldiers, and naturally, their treatment was better.

However, if a normal rank advanced beyond a major level and remained higher than an elite rank, such as a normal rank lieutenant general, then they could command any major or lower elite rank.

This priority of command was just as high as that of elite ranks commanding normal ranks. There were no instances where elite officers, out of arrogance, refused to follow the orders of normal majors. Anyone daring to do so wouldn't end well.

After all, ordinary soldiers who had been promoted to the rank of general were those who had already become true gods on their own merits, and their god level was not low.

They might not beat divine territory players of equivalent level, but it was a different story for those one or two ranks lower.

The gap between ordinary soldiers and elite officers was significant. While these ordinary soldiers were all of at least transcendent level, there were still plenty of legendary-level beings that could pose a threat to them; yet their gazes were uniformly filled with deep envy.

As they walked along, following the signposts for several kilometers, they saw a turn up ahead pointing toward a huge metal gate, which was their destination.

The metal gate, twenty meters wide and fifty meters tall, had thick lines and grooves etched onto the massive frame, with lights occasionally flowing across them.

This was a mythological creation wrought from the fusion of modern science and magic technology with the extraordinary technology of other exotic crystal systems, capable of generating a thin, crystalline film that covered the metal surface, enhancing its resistance to various elements.

The military's various void battleships, war fortresses, and puppet legions like steel golems all utilized this technique, granting them strong resistance to spells, combined with the super-hardness of modern alloy metals, this gave them a significant advantage in wars against natives of exotic domains.

A thin layer of transparent film blocked the view of what was on the other side of the gate. As the group passed through the film, Lin Xiao felt a momentary weightlessness. Surprisingly, this thin film even included a teleportation function.

When Lin Xiao could see again, he realized he was standing on a teleportation platform about ten meters in diameter, with Ancient City's Shen Yuexin and others just to the side. At each corner of the platform stood a five-meter-tall steel golem resembling an ancient warrior in armor, holding the hilt of a giant alloy sword over six meters long rammed into the ground, motionless.

The group descended from the teleportation platform, curiously looking around.

They had teleported onto an enormous battleship navigating the void.

This was a standard model void battleship of the military, approximately ten thousand meters long—over ten kilometers. The huge hull, made of specially treated high-strength alloy, possessed extraordinary structural strength and energy resistance. It was the military's most commonly used and basic combat unit in wars in outlands.

Each void battleship was a combat unit led by a true god from the Main World Divine Domain, usually of the weakest divine power level, staffed by hundreds of semi-gods including normal demigods and high-level demigods, and occasionally supreme demigods, as well as hundreds of thousands of soldiers, at least rank 6 transcendent level, with the highest being of legendary or even semi-god level.

These legends and semi-gods, although without their own divine territories and merely ordinary people, were quite formidable due to their experiences forged through countless battles.

On the void ship, there were no divine territory newcomers below semi-god level like Lin Xiao. The military did have such newcomers, but typically they were trained in relatively safe war zones as reservists, and they rarely appeared in formal combat units like void battleships.

With one true god, hundreds of divine territory semi-gods, and several hundred thousand soldiers of at least transcendent level, such strength was sufficient to launch a frontal attack on planes with true gods. As long as the god population of the target plane didn't exceed three and their god levels were not too high, victory was assured.

The appearance of this void battleship was quite different from intergalactic ships in science fiction, bearing a more magical aesthetic. Their current location was somewhere on one of the upper levels of the battleship, likely at the top.

If compared to super-ancient ships that sailed on water, it was akin to the upper deck, with the massive hull below and a huge hemispherical dome above. The ship walls were lined with large semi-circular windows composed of protective barriers twinkling with light, through which one could see the chaotic and dazzling void outside — the battleship was sailing through the vast Void Sea.

This Void Sea was unlike subspace or outer space. In space and subspace, the void energy was mostly quiescent and hardly noticeable; however, in the exotic Void Sea, the void energy surged like ocean waves, tumultuous and powerful, inaccessible to anyone below the legendary tier.

They had teleported to one end of the void ship where everyone was gathering, but on the other end of the platform, several other teleportation platforms were constantly active, with columns of light transferring various striking figures in and out.

With their extraordinary vision, Divine Beings could easily see across nearly ten kilometers the blond, blue-eyed youths being teleported in from the other end of the battleship — they were the geniuses from the Ivy League Alliance of High Schools.

During the old Earth era, most Ivy League high schools were located in Europe and America. The newly formed Ivy League Alliance was also mostly from there, indicating that this major power in the Main World, comparable to China's civilization, was actually formed by the countries of the western world from ancient Earth.

Despite tens of thousands of years passing, although the various forces of the Main World had no significant enmity, competition was still present, only kept within a certain range due to the pressure of enemies from exotic domains.

Both sides continuously competed in various aspects, each wanting to prove that they were superior to the other, and this contention lasted for hundreds of thousand years.

And this exchange contest was actually a microcosm of the routine competition, occurring every dozen years or so, and both sides regarded it with a certain level of importance.

As all participants from both sides entered the venue, Lin Xiao noticed — perhaps coincidentally—that the number of contestants from the Academic Alliance was roughly the same as their own.

Both sides had over a thousand people each stationed at one end of the platform, gathering in groups of threes and twos, chatting while observing the opposite side.

At this moment in the Outland, it was difficult to conceal one's unique phenomena, such as the purple flame tattoos on Shen Yuexin, the delicate dragon horns atop the head of Ancient City, and the distinct anomalies on elite participants like Zhang Guan and Qin Fengyan, especially the intense flames and red crystal dragon horns on Wu Zhonglin, signifying that their strength and potential far exceeded that of others.

On the opposite platform, there were also many students with unusual features, among them eight with particularly conspicuous anomalies, two of whom also had extremely exaggerated phenomena.

Among those two, a male student had a pair of wings on his back made of congealed blood, which gently flapped, causing rings of blood light to slowly dissipate.

The other female's body appeared to be carved from ice, with rings of blue patterns slowly spreading, as snowflake patterns continuously formed in the void and quickly vanished.

Those two are really strong!

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A trace of concern appeared on Yan Shu Huan's face, and Lin Xiao glanced at him, as if his will had been taken away, showing signs of fear before the battle had even begun.

However, those two were indeed formidable, although on closer scrutiny they seemed a bit inferior to Wu Zhonglin, but there were two of them, after all.

No wonder they dared propose the exchange; the Ivy League Alliance of High Schools' new students this year were incredibly strong.

But their own side was not weak either, and besides, the exchange contest was not about direct combat, but more about task-based challenges. Lin Xiao stroked his chin and smiled,

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Take a closer look, they still don't compare to student Wu Zhonglin, no need to worry."

Lin Xu also nodded and said,

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We don't need to worry about so much. When the sky falls, there will be tall ones to hold it. There are so many people ahead of us, we just need to do our own taskswell."

With these words, everyone's emotions stabilized, and they calmly waited with a normal state of mind.

Less than a minute later, as Lin Xiao was bored, looking out the huge windows around the platform at the void storms, he suddenly withdrew his gaze and, like everyone else, looked towards a certain point in the center of the platform.

Without any warning, a figure appeared there, with the upper body of a human and the lower half a golden vortex, much like the Lamp God, attracting the attention of all. He spread his arms and golden dust slowly swirled around him as he announced loudly,

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Welcome, distinguished students, to this exchange contest. I will now announce the venue and rules of the competition."

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The venue of this exchange contest, after consultation between both parties, is set in a shattered plane. The Void Battleship is currently en route to the destination."

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The specific conditions of the plane and your tasks will be sent to you shortly, please check for yourself."

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The rules of the exchange contest are simple. You will compete in teams, all students from the HuaXia District as one team, all students from the Ivy League Alliance of High Schools as the other."

At this point, the Lamp God paused slightly, looked up at both sides, and said,

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Now, please have representatives from each team come forward to choose a task."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's gaze turned to Wu Zhonglin.

On the HuaXia District side, virtually all of them took for granted that Wu Zhonglin was the representative, the unopposed kind.

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Chapter 147: The Child's Toy That Comes with a Resurrection Technique

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"You should all be aware that this exchange competition is about fighting against a plot; the focus and difficulty lie not in destroying the Vampire Kingdom and the Demigod, but in how to destroy their faith and breach the Sanctuary of the Demigod before our opponents do. This requires the unity of everyone."

Thirteen people formed a circle, with Wu Zhonglin naturally assuming the role of the leader as he continued:

"Based on the information I currently have, we need to split our forces to deal with the numerous Vampire Lords of the Vampire Kingdom. When the time comes, each of you will lead a team to deal with a Vampire Lord within a specific area. We'll discuss the specifics after we reach the plane."

He didn't specify how to split the forces or who would command whom; it was clear that they would have to work it out amongst themselves. He was only responsible for issuing the tasks.

Actually, it's impossible to discuss any detailed plans now. All we know is that there's a Vampire Kingdom, but we have no clear idea of the exact enemies we'll be facing. We can only wait until we reach the Shattered Plane and scout the area.

Luckily, the speed of the Void Ship in the void is incredibly fast. Streams of beautiful light glided past the ship's windows, which was quite breathtaking.

In the Void Sea of the Exotic Crystal Wall, tangible Void Energy was ubiquitous, with colors as varied and beautiful as the auroras. This reminded Lin Xiao of a game called Demanimal World he played in a previous life, where the shattered sky of the Outland was constantly lit by dazzling, aurora-like ribbons of light. The Void light was very similar, both beautiful and deadly.

The void isn't dead silent like space; it is teeming with countless Void Creatures, from the small Void Floating Fish to the massive Void Whales and beyond. The potent corrosive energy of Void Energy can instantly corrupt a being of Transcendent Level, with only those of Legendary Level capable of surviving in the void.

The enormous Void Ship silently glided through the void like an ancient Void Whale, occasionally startling the hidden Void Creatures, such as the spike- backed Void Snake or the gigantic Void Behemoths resembling devilfish.

These creatures were extremely ferocious, but when faced with the even larger Void Ship, they all swiftly made way.

As Lin Xiao and Shen Yuexin were returning to their own squad, the Void Ship suddenly passed through a huge, colorful swath of the Void Aurora Zone. They happened to see a swarm of Void Floating Fish, no more than a meter long each, attacking a hundred-meter-long Void Behemoth that resembled a devilfish.

These Void Floating Fish looked very much like little yellow fish, but they lacked fins and were covered in sharp bone spikes. The heads were massive, one-third the size of their entire bodies, filled with sharp teeth and reminiscent of the Void version of man-eating tiger fish. In swarms, they were terrifying.

However, the besieged Void Behemoth was no easy prey. Its body lacked scales or a horn-like carapace, but it was protected by a layer of Void Energy. It opened its massive mouth to suck in a vast stream of the tangible colorful Void Aurora light and the Void Floating Fish, its flat body swelling up like a pufferfish.

At the same time, several fleshy orifices on its back opened up, spewing out large quantities of colorful Void Energy like a rainbow fountain, a sight that immediately caught Shen Yuexin's attention. She let out a soft 'ah' and paused in admiration.

Seeing how much she liked it, Lin Xiao also stopped and glanced over her delicate and charming face before looking up to see the swollen belly of the Void Behemoth shrinking as it expelled the Void Energy, with the swallowed Void Floating Fish nowhere to be seen. Surprised, he remarked:

"I didn't expect this fellow to have such a trick up its sleeve. I thought it was going to be devoured by those Void Floating Fish."

Shen Yuexin, with her exquisite face intently watching the scene outside, said:

"Any creature that can survive in the perilous Void Sea must have some tricks. If there were ten times more of those Void Floating Fish, it might be a different story. Just watch, these Void Floating Fish will retreat soon."

Lin Xiao didn't respond because in just that short moment, the Void Ship had already sailed hundreds of kilometers and left the previous location far behind. They hadn't left the vast, possibly million-kilometer-wide Void Aurora Zone yet; the dazzling aurora outside captivated her, while he was drawn to her beauty.

At first, he simply stole glances at her perfect profile, but later he began watching her openly and unashamedly.

She seemed not to notice, but after a while, her eyes began to blink more frequently, her delicate and slightly upturned lashes trembling gently, yet she didn't turn around.

After watching in silence for a moment, he noticed her earlobe was a tad redder than before. Suddenly, she bit her red lips, turned her head sharply, and her bright star-like eyes confronted an unprepared Lin Xiao as she rebuked:

"Don't you know it's very ungentlemanly to stare at a girl like that?"

"So captivating!"

Normally, Lin Xiao, who would have felt ashamed, was unexpectedly emboldened by her enchanting look and said:

"Before you accuse me of being ungentlemanly, shouldn't you reflect on yourself first?"

"Huh?"

She appeared puzzled.

Taking a deep breath to calm his racing heart, which had surged two or threefold, Lin Xiao mustered his courage and said brazenly:

"You should reflect on why you're so beautiful and charming that I can't help but be attracted to you!"

Her soft pink lips parted slightly, and after a few seconds, the corners of her eyes curved up like crescents, she turned her head away and hummed:

"You're not allowed to look at me like that anymore."

"Alright, next time I'll look at you openly and honestly."

"You dare!"

Her reaction secretly delighted Lin Xiao. Was this a sign that she was approachable?

Well, it couldn't be said definitively, but at least she didn't appear to reject him as she did other suitors.

Ever since before and during the Summer Camp, there had been many boys who wanted to pursue her, but she always made it clear that she was not interested, just as when her second elder uncle tried to create opportunities for his son but was firmly rejected by her.

If she were unwilling, she would have firmly rejected such behavior from me in normal times, but now….

Strictly speaking, this doesn't mean anything, but it's clear that she has a good impression of me and doesn't reject my pursuit, and that's enough.

After that, they continued to stand by the window of the Void Ship, watching the beautiful Void Aurora without talking. He could feel that she just wanted to quietly look at the scenery outside.

Lin Xiao thought that once he got back, he should download an expert's guide on how to hit on girls from the internet and see how the masters do it.

About half an hour later, the Void Ship left the aurora zone behind, and the dark Void Sea stretched out before them, with only occasional glimpses of the Void Aurora, nothing much to see. That's when Shen Yuexin turned around and said, "It's not interesting anymore, let's go."

Back with their team, the others were chatting. Upon their arrival, the Ancient City head took the initiative to ask what they had been discussing. Shen Yuexin seemed not to want to talk. Lin Xiao shrugged and said,

"We haven't reached our destination yet and don't have a good understanding of the plane's situation; we've only made some preliminary work assignments. We will adjust as necessary once we reach the mission plane."

"I see…."

The Ancient City leader pinched his chin and didn't press further.

But a little while later, as Lin Xiao sat by the ship's rail preparing to enter his Divine Realm, he suddenly received a communication from Lin Xu, who said, "While you were away, the Ancient City hinted at forming a separate group." He replied with a question mark.

Lin Xu continued,

"He didn't say it outright, but I noticed he was contacting a few others privately."

"Hmm…"

After some thought, Lin Xiao suddenly asked,

"He hasn't reached out to you, has he?"

"No."

Alright then.

It seemed that his cousin had been excluded as well.

But on reflection, it made sense; it's like always being the class leader, used to giving instructions on behalf of the teacher, and then one day, a student suddenly jumps above you calling the shots. That would naturally be irritating.

Lin Xiao didn't mind much, as it's human nature to be like this. If they want to split, let them. If they're not convinced, how can one expect them to cooperate?

The seven-person squad suddenly became a trio, and his cousin was excluded because of his relation to Lin Xiao.

Although Lin Xu had a fairly good relationship with the Ancient City before, that was nothing compared to their familial ties, so exclusion was inevitable.

Not knowing the distance to their destination, the Void Ship sailed through the void for an entire day. During the journey, the ship used teleportation to jump four times, crossing an incalculable number of billions of kilometers. Lin Xiao, bored from watching the Void Sea outside the window all day, finally heard the host's voice in his ear,

"We have reached the destination of this voyage. Please, students, prepare yourselves."

Then, the Void Ship shook slightly as it began to decelerate. Through the window, they could see a dense swarm of lights far in the front.

As they got closer, the rapidly expanding dots of light turned out to be shattered planes.

From the Void Sea, intact planes appear as spheres of varying sizes and colors floating in the Void Sea, rising and sinking. The shattered planes' shapes resemble irregular crumbs of a broken biscuit. As the Void Ship drew nearer, the light emitted by the planes faded, revealing the broken planes to the observers.

The Void Ship slowly entered the Broken Plane Group, and many students went to the windows to observe. Most of the shattered planes' edges where the Crystal Wall should be are gone.

It was like planets losing their atmosphere. Without the protective Crystal Wall, the berserk void energy tore the Earth' s surface, leading vegetation to decay and exposing crimson rocks. Large chunks of land torn by void energy floated at the edges, attracted by the weak gravity of the plane fragments themselves, resembling the floating islands at the edges of continents or satellites at the edges of planets.

Most piecemeal planes have been utterly destroyed, devoid of any life, unable to sustain even beings of a Transcendent Level.

Their fate is but one: to slowly decay by the slow erosion of the void storms until they gradually reduce in size and completely dissolve into the void.

Within this group of fragments composed of thousands of Piecemeal Planes, Lin Xiao noticed about a dozen fairly large remnants that still retained some of their Crystal Wall, floating in the midst of the shattered planes. These planes with intact ecosystems seemed to be bound by an unknown force within the Broken Plane Group.

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Chapter 148: The Adventurer Who

Communicates with Natives

Translator: 549690339

This massive metallic platform is a Void Base operated by the military, resembling an interstellar space station from the space age, with a diameter of about fifty kilometers and a correspondingly colossal volume. At this moment, around the edges of this vast space station, numerous small flying vehicles can be seen coming and going.

Every time the Main World conquers a group of planes, a substantial Void Base is established as an Outpost Base there, generally varying in scale and importance.

Lin Xiao knew that these Void Bases are typically categorized into five levels, with First Level being the lowest and Fifth Level the highest. The Void Base they were currently at was a Level 2 Void Base.

But above this Level 5, there are even higher levels of Void Bases, for specific reference, one can consider the Van Huang No. 5 Super War Fortress.

A small portion of these small flying vehicles belong to the base's garrison forces, but many more are owned by civilian groups such as family teams from the Main World, private adventure teams, private company expedition teams, and so forth. They enter from the Main World into the various Super War Fortresses and from there transfer to military bases within the Crystal Walls of other domains, then proceed to explore the planes within those Crystal Walls.

Of course, not many have the capability to venture deep into the Void for exploration. The vast majority of civilian groups conduct their explorations near the large military bases, such as this one; most are exploring in the vicinity of this Broken Plane Group, searching for treasures and resources left behind on some shattered planes.

The Void Ship is moored at the edge of the Outpost Base, but this is just a temporary stop, as it will soon continue transporting them to the destination plane of their mission.

In the meantime, they could buy information about the mission plane here, or purchase various resources to replenish their supplies.

It is well-known that with so many civilian teams adventuring at each military base, they often collect a large amount of resources and do not bother taking them all the way back to the Main World. The majority of resources are disposed of within the military base itself, either sold to other adventurers in need or directly sold to the military forces of the base, with many good items among them.

There is also a local trading network here, with a signal range that centers on the base and extends a certain distance outwards. The higher the level of the Void Base, the larger the signal coverage area; this Level 2 Void Base is estimated to cover the vicinity of several dozen fragmented planes.

After discussing with Shen Yuexin, Lin Xiao decided to purchase through military channels a map of several major fragments of nearby planes, with a particular emphasis on purchasing information about the fragmented plane where their mission was located, including intelligence about the Human Kingdom and the Vampire Kingdom.

Then, Wu Zhonglin gathered them once again for a meeting.

Half an hour later, the two of them returned and projected the virtual map in front of the whole team. Lin Xiao circled two areas on the map and said,

"Yue Xin and I have been assigned to this region; Wu Zhonglin has put us in charge of this larger area."

His gaze swept over the team and finally rested on Ancient City as he continued,

"My thinking is to have you, along with Su Tong, Yu Xinze, and Yan Shu Huan,

take charge of this side."

He then pointed to another circled area:

"Yue Xin, Lin Xu and I will take care of the other side. How's that?"

Ancient City looked up at him but didn't say anything, it was Su Tong beside him who answered,

"Sure, we can each take care of one side."

"If no one has any objections, then it's settled."

Lin Xiao wasn't interested in playing power games; he simply fulfilled Ancient City's wish by splitting the team, allowing everyone to go about their own business.

His silence naturally meant consent.

At this point, Wu Zhonglin sent everyone a piece of information, a large map that had the side belonging to the Vampire Kingdom divided into five differently sized large areas. Each area had at least two icons like Lin Xiao and Shen Yuexin, while some groups, like Wu Zhonglin's own, had up to four images, representing all thirteen of them.

"I have divided the Vampire Kingdom into five regions. Zhang Guan, Gao Yongsheng, and student Jiang Xinyi and I will take responsibility for the central region, which is the largest. The other team leaders will each be responsible for their own areas. Everyone else may group together or form teams as they wish, freely choosing their areas of conquest. Each area lead will handle any issues or matters that arise."

"Not bad at all."

This division worked quite well for the Summer Camp, providing enough freedom for everyone.

What followed were the internal arrangements within the small teams. Shen Yuexin shared with the team the detailed maps and intelligence of their designated area that she had recently purchased, so that she along with Lin Xu could make a copy first, and then she said,

"We've got a bit of time to prepare, so we might as well check out the trading platform."

Lin Xiao scratched his head and chose to enter the Divine Realm.

He had planned to strike while the iron was hot and strike up a conversation with the beauty. However, he had just sensed a slight change in the Divine Realm that he needed to check out.

Back in the Divine Realm, his first act was to gather the information that had accumulated over time. After a moment, he opened his eyes and pinched his chin, slightly surprised.

First, after using up the remaining eighty million-plus extra Faith value borrowed from Shen Yuexin, another eleven Transcendent Level Supreme Naga Whale Knights were born through the Ancient Arena. Together with the original seventeen, he now had a total of twenty-eight Transcendent Level members in his Clan.

With the foundation of Fifth Level troops and the versatile Fifth Level knight profession accumulated beforehand, the Supreme Nagas had already reached the Fifth Level limit. Coupled with the combat experience accumulated from the previous invasion by the Blood Counts, the eleven whale-hunting knights had finally broken through their limits and ascended to the Transcendent level after long training in the ancient arena.

And this is just the beginning. Right now in the Divine Realm, there are a large number of Fifth Level Supreme Nagas. As long as they accumulate enough combat experience and sufficient power of faith to open the ancient arena, I believe many more Transcendent members of the Clan will ascend in succession.

With high-level races and the miracle building of the ancient arena, as long as there is enough power of faith, he could create Transcendent troops in small batches.

It's just that the consumption of the power of faith is a bit rapid-nearly three hundred million faith value was exhausted just to create twenty-eight Transcendent troops, costing about one million faith value for each one.

However, when you think about it, one million power of faith for one Transcendent member of the Clan is still quite a good deal.

Moreover, with over nine hundred Supreme Nagas now at Level 5, there is no need to start from scratch. The subsequent consumption will be less and less. Besides, the second major change in the Divine Realm during this time is the birth of an Elemental Sprite, a Water Elemental Sprite.

Elemental Sprites are not actually elves, unrelated to the Elf race, nor are they pure elements, which are a different story from Water Elements. They are beings born naturally from a certain Element and are Transcendent creatures by nature, mastering any water series magic from birth, extremely powerful.

This Water Elemental Sprite was born in the ocean, the spirit of the sea, the daughter of the ocean.

Lin Xiao, overseeing the Divine Realm from his God Country, spotted at a glance a little sprite playing with a huge turtle deep in the coral forest where water elements converged.

She was palm-sized, crystal clear throughout, surrounded by tiny blue elemental glows, resembling a young girl, very similar to a Flower Fairy.

She was extremely lively and agile, zipping through the waters with ease, her favorite thing to do was to crawl around on the back of a giant turtle, its shell two meters square bearing small mountain-like protrusions. The surrounding corals and sea grasses nodded at her frequently, and colorful fish occasionally swam by her side.

Even when ferocious carnivorous fish passed by, they indulgently let her sit on their backs and ride them everywhere.

"Truly a spirit of heaven and earth!"

Lin Xiao couldn't help but praise. With a thought, his True Body appeared in the ocean, and an invisible wave spread out. The little sprite playing joyously looked over, tilting her head in confusion. After a while, her delicate little face showed a joyful expression and she swam over to him, circling playfully.

He stretched out his hand, and the little one fell into his palm, looking up at him curiously. A confused thought entered his mind:

"Are you my father?"

"No, I am your brother."

Calling him father felt odd.

The little one didn't dwell on this and sweetly called him brother, stretching out her tiny crystalline hand to pat her mouth and yawn. She then curled up trustingly in his palm, her touch giving a chill that reached deep into his heart.

"So cute!"

The newly born little sprite couldn't yet speak. For now, she couldn't leave the Divine Realm, and in the future, it was also impossible for a second Water Elemental Sprite to be born in the Divine Realm.

As a congenital being born alongside the Divine Realm, her strength would grow continuously as the Divine Realm expanded. If Lin Xiao should achieve Divine Enthronement in the future and the Divine Realm grew to a certain extent, and if he established a Divine System, as one of the natural-born Elemental Sprites of the Divine Realm, she would naturally obtain the Godhood of the four elements and become one of the four Guardian Gods of the Elements of the Divine Realm.

Of course, that was a matter for the distant future. For now, she could only be the adorable charmer.

Using Divine Power, he formed a water bubble to gently encase the sleeping cutie and sent her back to the turtle. He glanced at the turtle out of the corner of his eye. His gaze scanned the coral-like protrusions on its shell and the slightly fierce-looking dragon head, and after pondering briefly without any recognition.

With a thought, he traced the little one's life through the authority of the Divine Realm Master and quickly discovered that she came from the massive turtle shell they had obtained during the final exam. After being integrated into the Divine Domain Heaven Card, a little turtle was naturally born, which now seemed to be a rare Dragon Turtle.

In a few decades, she had only grown this much. Judging by the growth stages of dragon turtles, she was still in her infancy, centuries from reaching adulthood.

Fortunately, a day in the Main World equates to a year in the Divine Realm, so after a semester, she would be of age, by then, a legendary Sea Beast. Furthermore, with a turtle's extraordinarily long lifespan and dragon blood within, she would become stronger as time passed, and it wasn't impossible for her to grow into an ancient Dragon Turtle comparable to a Demigod or even a True God.

Lin Xiao didn't stay long in the Divine Realm and left soon after. He had already left the Subspace of the Main World and entered a Different Domain. The flow of time outside was now aligned with that within the Divine Realm, so it was impossible for him to stay inside for a year or two.

When he emerged, just as the Void Ship was detaching from the Void Base and heading towards one of the larger Piecemeal Planes, several small ships from civil organizations left the base behind the Void Ship, presumably thinking the military had some action planned, looking to hang around and skim off some leftovers.

This situation was common. Normally, the military wouldn't stop them but would welcome them instead, as they could be given specific missions, such as clearing out small pockets of resistance in occupied areas.

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Chapter 149: Thunder Wings The Lord of Wrath

Translator: 549690339

Lin Xiao glanced at Shen Yuexin, who shrugged her shoulders and said,

"I don't mind; you decide."

Turning to Lin Xu, he spread his hands to indicate he had no objections. With that in mind, Lin Xiao looked up at the many students forming larger temporary teams and said to them,

"Then come on over."

They were just hitching a ride, which was no problem at all.

But they didn't join him on the magic carpet; instead, they had their own flying vehicle, a small wooden sailboat sailing in the sky, which appeared very exquisite and wasn't slow either.

The vast magic carpet could hold dozens of people. With only three of them aboard, it felt extremely empty. The carpet was enchanted with a magic barrier, so even when flying at high speed, they didn't feel a hint of wind. Shen Yuexin sat down leisurely and took out a small tea table, some cushions, teaware, and actually started brewing tea right there.

Lin Xu also took out a small table and a large plate filled with fresh fruit.

"Damn, you can even prepare all this?"

Lin Xiao felt like a country bumpkin, having brought nothing with him. If he were alone, he'd probably have to rely on his legs to trek across the wilderness to his destination.

Well, flying would also work since, as a seasoned Divine Being with four points of Divinity, he was capable of flight.

After a few sips of tea, Lin Xiao was interested in chatting with Shen Yuexin, but it seemed inappropriate with a third wheel nearby. After clearing his throat, he reconsidered and gave up the idea, turning his attention outside instead.

The land beneath them was an endless barren wasteland, with sparse unknown grey or black weeds growing here and there. Occasionally, they spotted some twisted, vine-wrapped trees, with flat and barren ground that even weeds struggled to grow on, let alone any creatures. They had flown tens of kilometers without seeing a single living thing.

Looking up in the direction they came from, the edge of the wasteland was lined with dazzling auroras, and dark dots were flying from there towards other places—those were other teams' flying vehicles.

Looking in other directions, the Vault of Heaven was gloomy, with thick black clouds gathering and thick lightning occasionally bursting, as if it were about to rain.

It wasn't actually about to rain, and those weren't real clouds; it was just that the nearby space was weak, the Plane Crystal Wall had ruptured, and the plane's primal forces were leaking out, along with anomalies produced by the pressure of Void Energy on the plane's own rules at the broken spots.

This situation gradually eased as they flew deeper into the plane, and the sky slowly cleared. Even the land below, while still a desolate wasteland, had more robust plant life, and occasionally small animals could be seen.

After flying about a hundred kilometers or so, a large river appeared before them. On one side of the river was the wasteland, and on the other was a bright green as far as the eye could see—as if the riverbanks bordered two entirely different worlds.

As the magic carpet crossed the river at a height of two or three kilometers, following the river upstream for about ten kilometers, they saw a small town by the river. From high above, they could also make out farther villages and a castle atop a mountain.

That ancient castle was the domain of a Vampire Lord, also a target for destruction, but not their mission. Their destination was still quite a distance away from there.

Though this plane was a Piecemeal Plane, its predecessor was an exceptionally large plane, very vast indeed. Even a broken piece of the plane was between the size of a medium and a large plane.

The magic carpet's speed was quite fast, reaching a top speed of over five hundred kilometers per hour. After more than a day spent traveling westward across several thousand kilometers, they arrived at the destination marked on the map.

The magic carpet stopped at the peak of a lone mountain standing on the plain. The five who came with them parted ways here, flying north, while they headed south. To the east, about one or two hundred kilometers away in the direction they had come from, was their destination, the Ancient City. Whether they had arrived already or not, he didn't know.

The mission seemed simple: to wipe out the targeted area's Vampire Lords and the many high-quality demi-god followers of the Semi-god Vampires, as well as the Vampire Church.

On the magic carpet, Lin Xiao unfolded the virtual map and zoomed in, pointing to several places marked with cities, towns, and castles, and said,

"We'll split up and scout these three locations first, see what Vampire Lords and Aristocrats are around, get a clear picture of their strength and troop distribution, and then act on our return. How's that?"

"Okay,"

Lin Xu nonchalantly drew a circle on the virtual map,

"I'll scout out this area."

Lin Xiao casually pointed near Lin Xu's area, looked at Shen Yuexin's delicate face, and said,

"Then I'll take a look at this area; the rest is up to you."

"Okay,"

Having agreed on the plan, Lin Xu was the first to take off on a skateboard-like object, while Lin Xiao simply stepped off the magic carpet, floating in the air with a slight expenditure of the Power of Faith.

Behind him, Shen Yuexin slightly raised her eyebrows and called out to him,

"Wiry aren't you using a flying device?"

He awkwardly said,

"I don't have one."

She curiously asked,

"Wiry didn't you buy one at the base earlier?"

"The cheap ones didn't appeal to me, and I couldn't afford the good ones."

She reached up to touch her forehead, speechless, then rummaged through her pocket and handed him a palm-sized pair of wings:

"Here, this is my little nephew's toy. Make do with it."

"What is this?"

"And this set too!"

He looked at the two small objects she had thrown at him with a puzzled face, examining them from both sides. Suddenly, Shen Yuexin covered her mouth and snickered, saying nothing as she shook her magic carpet and flew away.

"Hey…"

Watching the magic carpet disappearing into the distance, he took another look at the decidedly plastic-looking angel's wings and another equally cartoonish and plastic-looking sword… hilt, that is. When he saw the small print at the bottom of the wings, he couldn't help but read aloud softly:

"Wings of Angel, please grant me the power to fly into the Vault of Heaven!"

A slightly embarrassing chant barely finished, the plasticky wings in his hand suddenly glowed and turned into a stream of white light that merged into his body. The next second, an enormous burst of light erupted from his back, and a pair of lustrous light feathers grew out. With just a thought, the light wings flapped gently, and a powerful force propelled him, trailing wisps of white light, more than a hundred meters forward.

"Damn, kids' toys are this awesome now?"

He could feel that these angel's wings were quite an impressive magic item, affixed with Advanced Flight Art, Light's Feathers, and Brightness Art, constant Protect Evil, Shield of Belief, and a daily Angel form, among other dazzling effects, looking very extravagant.

He then looked at the exaggerated toy sword hilt in his hand, which also had a line of small print:

"Sword of Angel, please grant me the power to eradicate evil!"

Another embarrassing incantation barely uttered, the end of the hilt emitted a brilliant light, stretching into a massive cross-shaped light sword.

Sword of Angel: Constant fourth-ring Priest's Divine Holy Strength, constant Removing Enchantment, constant powerful Expelling Magic, ten daily fiery strikes, ten daily healing spells, three daily destruction spells, and one daily Resurrection Technique.

"Holy smokes, even Resurrection Technique is included. Is this really a child's toy?"

These wings and this sword could probably be considered heirloom treasures of some churches on the Aborigines Plane, and with these two items, he could completely pass as an angel.

A constant spell implies it is always effective. With a thought, Lin Xiao became a beam of white light and flew off into the distance.

The flying speed of Advanced Flight Art was quite fast, almost similar to the speed of Shen Yuexin's magic carpet, which probably also had Advanced Flight Art as a constant feature.

The area he was responsible for surveying was located north of a river over a hundred meters wide. This side of the river was slightly low-lying, with several small villages by the river and many cultivated fields where numerous indigenous humans clad in hemp garments were bending over working in the fields.

Judging by the houses and the native's clothing, this world's level of production was still in the medieval era, with simple wooden plows and only two water buffaloes for farming.

He saw a family of four tilling a field, a middle-aged man with rough, cracked skin and a stooped back was pulling the plow, his son pushing from behind, using manpower to till the land.

Not far away on a wide field bund, a table was set up, and a somewhat pale- faced man was lying in a chair, drinking water and eating. Occasionally, he would use a whip to point and loudly scold the farmers working in the fields. Two young farm girls, one massaging his feet and the other fanning him, stood by his side.

"What a wicked ancient society!"

The pale-faced supervisor was a Blood Servant—a servant to the vampires, or a partially-transformation incomplete vampire. Like vampires, Blood Servants also possessed a dislike for sunlight, making them efficient assistants to vampires.

This supervisor certainly couldn't be considered an efficient assistant, but just as despicable.

Lin Xiao, without any courtesy, swung down his sword, bringing down a column of white light from the sky that struck the indulging Blood Servant, instantly turning him into a fireball and reducing him to ashes.

The two farm girls screamed in terror, standing frozen in place, at a loss for what to do.

Killing this guy wouldn't change much, but Lin Xiao simply couldn't stand him and decided to deal with that first.

After quickly flying over the farmland, Lin Xiao arrived above a small castle built on the edge of a hill. It was a small-scale castle, likely the residence of some minor Vampire Noble. Just as he arrived, a flurry of blood shadows burst out from the castle, transforming into a figure draped in a black robe, who looked up into the sky and spotted him.

The two exchanged glances from a distance for several seconds before Lin Xiao, without a word, turned around and left.

This was just a minor vampire, just stepping into the Transcendent Level. He could easily kill it without even calling his subordinates, but there was no point in killing it now. He decided to mark the location and come back another time.

Next, Lin Xiao traced several hundred kilometers of distance, exploring and marking towns and castles, especially those inhabited by Vampire Nobles, over two days. Returning to the gathering point, Lin Xu had already come back, while Shen Yuexin was still not there.

The two pooled their explored information, marking it on the virtual map to perfect it, and casually discussed where to start when the time came.

Lin Xiao didn't encounter any Great Lords in his area, just a small town and two small castles, posing not much of a challenge.

Lin Xu's area was similar, with four small castles of Vampire Nobles, two small towns, and likewise no significant characters.

Now they were only waiting for Shen Yuexin to return. The Vampire Great Lord of this area was likely in her region.

"Hurry up, finish moving so we can wrap up!"

Yu Xiu, with a cigar in his mouth, kicked a burly Half Beastman in the leg and glanced up at the sky, feeling somewhat concerned.

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Chapter 150: Surprise Attack, Legend Fanatic Believers

Translator: 549690339

This massive metal platform is a void base of the military, much like a space station of the interstellar era, with a diameter of about fifty kilometers and a substantial volume. At the moment, a large number of small flying vessels can be seen entering and leaving at the edge of this enormous space station.

Every time a group of planes is conquered in the main world, a huge void base is established there as an outpost base, generally varying in scale according to importance.

According to Lin Xiao's knowledge, these void bases typically have five levels, with the First Level being the lowest and the Fifth Level the highest. The current void base in front of them is a Level 2 Void Base.

However, above these five levels, there are even higher levels of void bases, for which one can refer to the Yan Huang No. 5 Super War Fortress.

A small part of these small flying vessels belong to the base's garrison, but many more belong to private groups, such as family teams from the main world, civilian adventure teams, and private company exploration teams. They enter the various super war fortresses from the main world and then transfer to the military bases within each crystal wall in the different domains, from there heading to explore the planes within each crystal wall.

Of course, not many have the capability to venture deep into the void. The vast majority of civilian groups conduct their explorations near the major military bases. For instance, most here are exploring near this group of shattered planes, searching for treasures and resources lost within certain shattered planes.

The void ship is docked next to the outpost base, but this is just a temporary stop; they will soon continue on to deliver them to the plane where their mission is located.

In the meantime, they can buy information about the mission plane here or replenish various resources.

It's worth noting that numerous civilian teams undertake adventures at each military base. They collect vast amounts of resources and don't bother taking them back to the main world; most are digested within the military base. They either sell them to other adventurers in need or directly sell them to the base military. Among these, there is no shortage of good items.

There is also a local trading network here, where the signal coverage extends from the base as the center within a certain range. The higher the level of the void base, the larger the coverage area. The coverage area of this Level 2 Void Base is estimated to encompass dozens of nearby piecemeal planes.

After discussing with Shen Yuexin, Lin Xiao purchased a map of several large fragments of the planes nearby through military channels, focusing on the purchase of detailed information about the plane fragment where their mission lies, including intelligence on both the Human Kingdom and the Vampire Kingdom.

Then, Wu Zhonglin called them together for another meeting.

Half an hour later, the two of them returned, projected the virtual map in front of the whole team, and said as he drew two circles in one area:

"The area assigned to Yuexin and me is this one. Wu Zhonglin has put us in charge of this large sector."

His gaze swept over the team and finally settled on Ancient City, saying:

"Here's what I'm thinking: let you, along with Su Tong, Yu Xinze, and Yan Shu Huan take charge of this side."

He then pointed to the other circle:

"Yuexin, Lin Xu, and I will take care of the other side. How does that sound?"

Ancient City looked up at him and didn't speak, but it was Su Tong beside him who answered:

"Sure, that's perfect, we each take responsibility for one side."

"If no one objects, then it's settled."

Lin Xiao had no time for any scheming; he directly split the team according to Ancient City's wishes, letting everyone do their own thing.

His silence of course meant consent.

At this point, Wu Zhonglin sent everyone a message with a large map. The Vampire Kingdom side had already been divided into five areas of varying sizes, each marked with at least two avatars, like Lin Xiao and Shen Yuexin, or up to four avatars, like Wu Zhonglin's team—it was the thirteen of them.

"I have divided the Vampire Kingdom into five regions. Zhang Guan, Gao Yongsheng, and student Jiang Xinyi are in charge of the largest central region. The other captains are responsible for the other regions. Everyone can stick together or split into teams, freely choosing the region they wish to tackle. Any issues or matters will be handled by the respective area leaders."

"Not bad at all."

This arrangement is very suitable for the summer camp situation, giving everyone enough freedom.

Next came the internal division of the team. Shen Yuexin shared the detailed map and information of their assigned area with the team, allowing her and Lin Xu to make a copy of the map and information first, then she said:

"We have a little while to prepare; we might as well take a look around the trading platform."

Lin Xiao scratched his head and chose to enter the Divine Realm.

He had thought of taking advantage of the momentum to chat with the beauty, but he had just sensed a slight change in the Divine Realm and needed to check on it.

Back in the Divine Realm, he first took in all the information accumulated by the Divine Realm during this period. After a moment, he opened his eyes and pinched his chin, slightly surprised.

First off, after using up the remaining 80 million or so extra faith value borrowed from Shen Yuexin, he once again birthed eleven Transcendent Level Supreme Naga Whale Knights through the ancient arena. With the original seventeen, he now had a total of twenty-eight Transcendent Level Clan members.

With the foundation of Fifth Level troops and the profession of a Fifth Level all-around knight they had already accumulated, the Supreme Nagas had already reached the Fifth Level limit. Add to that the real combat experience from the previous Blood Count invasion, these eleven Whale Knights had finally broken through the limit and ascended to the Transcendent Level after such a long time training in the ancient arena.

And that was just a part of them; there were many more Fifth Level Supreme Nagas in the Divine Realm. Provided they could accumulate enough real combat experience and sufficient Power of Faith to activate the ancient arena, it was believed that more Transcendent Clan members could be promoted in succession.

As a higher race, with the miracle construction of the ancient arena, as long as there was enough Power of Faith, it was possible to create Transcendent troops in small quantities.

The only issue was that the Power of Faith was being consumed rather quickly. Nearly three hundred million units of Power of Faith were completely depleted to give birth to twenty-eight Transcendent troops—that's about one million Faith value for each.

However, looking at it from another angle, spending one million units of Power of Faith for a Transcendent Clan member seemed rather cost-effective.

Moreover, now that all these more than nine hundred Supreme Nagas were at Level 5, there was no need to start from scratch in their training, which meant that the future consumption would decrease gradually.

Beyond that, another significant change in the Divine Realm during this period was the birth of an Elemental Sprite, a Water Elemental Sprite.

The so-called Elemental Sprites are not Elves, unrelated to the Elves race, nor are they Elements; they're different from Water Elements. They are beings born naturally from a certain element, inherently Transcendent creatures proficient in all water series magic spells and extremely powerful.

This Water Elemental Sprite was born in the ocean, an Elf of the Sea, the daughter of the ocean.

Lin Xiao, looking down at the Divine Realm from the God Country, immediately saw a little sprite playing with a large turtle deep in a coral forest where water elements converged.

There was a palm-sized creature, completely crystal clear with little blue Elemental lights swirling around her, resembling a young girl, quite similar to the Flower Fairy.

She was very lively and vivacious, darting through the water with grace. Her favorite pastime was climbing onto the back of a large turtle, whose carapace measuring two meters squared, festooned with mountainous angular protrusions, swimming back and forth while the surrounding corals and seaweeds would nod at her. From time to time, colorful fish swam by her side.

Even when ferocious carnivorous fish swam by, they indulgently allowed her to sit on their backs and be carried around everywhere.

"A true sprite of heaven and earth!"

Lin Xiao couldn't help but exclaim. With a thought, his True Body appeared in the sea, and an invisible ripple spread forth. The playing sprite looked up, tilting her head in confusion at him. After a moment, her delicate little face beamed with joy, and she swam over to revolve around him.

He extended his hand, and the little one perched on his palm and curiously looked up at him, a dazed thought entered his mind:

"Are you my father?"

"No, I'm your brother."

Calling himself father felt odd.

The little one didn't ponder on that, just sweetly called him brother, stretched out her translucent little hand, yawned, and curled up trustingly in his palm, her touch as cool as the ocean's depths.

"So adorable!"

The newly born sprite couldn't yet speak and was at the moment unable to leave the Divine Realm. Furthermore, it was impossible for another Water Elemental Sprite to be born in the Divine Realm in the future.

As an innate being born with the Divine Realm, her strength would grow with the expansion of the Divine Realm. If Lin Xiao were to achieve Godhood and the Divine Realm expanded to a certain extent, and he established his Divine System, as one of the four Elemental Sprites born with the Divine Realm, she would naturally receive the Godhood of the four elements and become one of the four Elemental Guardian Gods of the Divine Realm.

Of course, that would be far in the future. For now, she could only be responsible for being adorably charming.

Using Divine Power to form a bubble, he placed the sleeping cutie within it and sent her back to the turtle's back. His gaze briefly swept over the turtle, noting the angular turtle shell and the slightly fierce dragon head, but without any immediate recollection.

With a thought, using the privileges of the Divine Realm Master, he traced back the life of this little one and quickly discovered that this creature came from the giant turtle shell he had obtained during the final exam period. After integrating it into the Divine Domain Heaven Card, a small turtle was born naturally, which seemed to be a rarely seen Dragon Turtle.

Despite several decades, the creature had only grown this big. By the standards of a Dragon Turtle's growth stages, it was still in its infancy, and it would be hundreds of years before reaching adulthood.

Fortunately, as one day in the Main World equaled one year in the Divine Realm, after one term, the creature would reach adulthood, by which time it would be a legendary-ranked powerful Sea Beast.

Moreover, with turtles having exceptionally long lifespans and this one possessing Dragon heritage, it would grow increasingly stronger over time, potentially reaching the power of a Demigod or even a True God as an ancient Dragon Turtle in the future.

Lin Xiao didn't stay long in the Divine Realm before leaving. He had already left the Subspace of the Main World and entered the Different Domain. Also, as time in the outside world started flowing at the same pace as within the Divine Realm, it wouldn't be possible for him to stay inside for one or two years at a time.

When he emerged, the Void Ship had just disassociated from the Void Base and was heading toward one of the larger piecemeal planes. Along with the Void Ship, several small ships from civilian organizations were also departing the base, likely speculating on some military action and hoping to skim some advantage by being close by.

This situation was quite common; normally, the military wouldn't stop them and would even welcome them. It was an excellent opportunity to assign them some tasks, allowing them to focus on eradicating sporadic resistance in the occupied areas.

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Chapter 151 Vampire Demi-god Incarnation Descends

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After the twelve transcendent-level Whale Knights appeared, the second batch was about three hundred Supreme Nagas.

As Lin Xiao had planned, if he were to summon his Clan in a harsh environment, he would need this group of powerful subordinates to first break open the situation and establish a safe environment. Only then would he massively summon the Small Fishmen cannon fodder.

An endless stream of Small Fishmen were summoned and dispersed around the portal. Once a group of Fishman Magicians had been summoned, they jumped into the river and began to summon Water Elements.

The Water Elements were still the same, but now there were more Fishman Magicians than before.

During the Summer Camp challenge, when summoning the tides drowned Li Shengyuan's three armies, Slarda had seen the power of the Fishmen Mockery Magicians in battle. Later, when the Fishmen entered the ancient arena for promotion, he instructed the Fishmen to become Magicians if they could awaken their bloodlines and be promoted, trying to increase the number of Magicians as much as possible.

As of now, there were more than two thousand Fishman Magicians, with the total number of Fishmen exceeding sixteen thousand to seventeen thousand.

The number of Wise Goblins had not changed much; less than one hundred new Wise Goblins had been bred. After being derived from ordinary Goblins into potential-rich Wise Goblins, their reproductive capability also decreased, now even lower than that of the Fishmen, but stronger than the Supreme Nagas. Currently, there were about one thousand three hundred Supreme Nagas in the Divine Realm, including adults, children, and even newborn infants, which was a lot more than before.

This was the result of Lin Xiao, whenever he had the time, tediously using Reproductive Divine Transcendent Abilities to forcefully impregnate the mother Supreme Nagas. Coupled with the Supreme Nagas1 long lifespan and the absence of natural deaths since their birth, this current accumulation was achieved.

The beginning is always the hardest; the reproduction rate of Supreme Nagas was just slow at the start. Given their lifespan, once the baseline grows, the reproduction speed will naturally accelerate.

In three rounds of summoning, the Fishman Magicians summoned a total of six thousand Water Elements. These Water Elements stood on the water's surface as if regular people stood on Earth, with massive amounts of river water converging towards them, forming waves that ripple back and forth.

But in Lin Xiao's eyes, each Water Element radiated an invisible undercurrent to the common folk, spreading around in all directions. This was the innate Water-controlling Talent of the Water Elements.

A single Talent wasn't much, but when a large number of Water Elements gather, the undercurrents overlap, and this can form a earth-shattering force that drives the river water into towering waves.

Even if they did nothing, the river started to slowly undulate its waters, filled with a power that made hearts race.

"Boom!"

Lin Xiao suddenly turned his head and saw, ten kilometers away, a colossal azure bolt of lightning burst out of the blue sky and struck directly into the side of a solitary peak. His eyes narrowed slightly, and with his excellent vision, he saw that the azure bolt hit a figure, and in the next second, countless smaller bolts of lightning exploded out from that figure as the center, with a powerful presence surging towards the sky, accompanied by a declaration filled with grandeur:

"Thunder lies within my palm, for I am The Lord of Wrath!"

"An Epic Hero?"

In Lin Xiao's eyes, it was a humanoid creature about five meters tall, with its face and ears merging into a mass of silver lightning at the back of the head, and occasionally tiny bolts sparked out like hair. Behind the figure spread a pair of wings over ten meters wide, made purely of lightning, flickering with light as they fluttered gently.

"Why does it look so darn cool?"

He glanced at Slarda, then at the humanoid calling itself The Lord of Wrath. The strength was hard to tell, but just the presentation alone indeed carried an air of grandeur.

Hmm, the moniker was pretty grand too.

Lin Xiao took another look at Slarda and wondered if he should also give his beloved general a grand nickname.

"Hmm, I'll find an opportunity to bestow a nickname on him next time!"

He noted this down as something to address after the Summer Camp was over. Compared to Lin Xiao and Shen Yuexin who each had an Epic Hero, Lin Xu only had one elite Hero – a Half-Elf Ranger. There were no earth-shattering phenomena upon their entrance, but it would be a huge mistake to underestimate the opponent because of this.

You should know that this was a transcendental-level Half-Elf Archer. They might be average in a head-on solo fight, but on the battlefield, they were formidable, with archery more terrifying than that of a sniper.

This time, Lin Xiao summoned fifteen thousand Fishmen, one thousand Supreme Nagas, and only two hundred Wise Goblins were dispatched.

They weren't being sent to the battlefield, but rather to clean up after conquering the Vampire City and the castle. The Wise Goblins were highly intelligent, unlike the Fishmen who would infuriatingly pile everything together. Valuable items could easily get damaged in such a way.

With the Wise Goblins, they might be able to plunder valuable items like books and other good things.

The various powerful mythological technologies in the Main World are also transformed from the knowledge of Different Domains, such as Alchemy, Magic Weapon Crafting, and so on.

Although the level of transcendent craftsmanship in the Main World far surpasses that of Different Domains, and is better and more advanced, it does not mean that the craftsmanship from Different Domains is entirely useless; it can be used as a reference.

If they are lucky enough to find some new technology not yet present in the Main World, bringing it back could exchange for a large number of contributions and merits from the military, as well as tangible rewards.

About two hours later, all the Clans were summoned, and Lin Xiao closed the portal.

As the Master of the Divine Realm, Lin Xiao could at any time summon the teleportation gates again by spending a certain amount of time and the Power of Faith, without needing to constantly maintain them.

Beyond that, the Clan members he summoned had to be in the same plane as him. If he left the plane, all Clan members would automatically get teleported back to the Divine Realm.

Having ordered the Clan members to stand by where they were, Lin Xiao flew ahead to the solitary peak, meeting up with Lin Xu halfway. From afar, they spotted Shen Yuexin seated on a huge and luxurious magic carpet, flanked by two towering Wingmen of around two meters and sixty-seven centimeters, their wings entwined with lightning, and beside them stood that powerful Epic Hero known as the Lord of Wrath.

At the lower reaches of the solitary peak, the sky was filled with flying Wingmen, along with a few powerful Wingmen whose wings were enwreathed with lightning.

"These are my Clan, the Thunder Wings!"

Shen Yuexin raised her hand, pointing towards the mighty Transcendent Level Thunder Wings who bowed their heads in their direction, continuing her introduction:

"My Clan consists entirely of air units, most of them long-range Shooters complemented by magic-based Thunder Magicians. So, you'll have to rely on yourself for the frontal assault later."

She was looking at Lin Xiao. Lin Xu's main force consisted of Half-Elf Archers, who couldn't serve as the frontline.

Of course, her Wingmen also had melee fighters, but the Wingmen warriors were not as competent in close combat. They were more suitable and skilled at flying in the air and striking targets from a distance. Once they were pulled to the ground, they struggled as though ordinary people were dragged into water, which greatly impacted their combat power.

"No problem!"

Lin Xiao thumped his chest confidently, his gaze filled with both envy and amazement at her Wingmen.

He knew Shen Yuexin was strong, but he had not expected her to be this strong. The Wingmen themselves belonged to a high-tier race. She must have tens of thousands of Wingmen, all well-equipped. Most crucially, in her possession were seventy to eighty Thunder Magicians with wings wrapped in lightning with auras that reached the Transcendent Level, outnumbering Lin Xiao's forces by several times.

Regardless of the specific strength, since they were all air units, Lin Xiao's side would be utterly outmatched if it came to a fight.

"Crap, I need to develop a group of Frost Magicians; it's too much of a disadvantage without ranged ones."

While he had added the Frost Magician profession, there wasn't enough time, nor did he have sufficient Power of Faith to open the ancient arena. He didn't' have many Frost Magicians, and their levels were not high enough to be put into actual combat.

The three of them gathered around the virtual map to discuss and created a siege plan based on the situation of their respective Clan members.

The strategy was straightforward: advance down the river, leveraging the Fishmen Mockery Magicians' strengths to invoke a tidal surge during the siege.

It's known that the Duke of Vampires' city was built along the river, right next to the city's interior, with no walls by the riverbank. Stirring the tide could directly flood into the city.

Then, naturally, it would be a frontal assault on the city.

No matter how good the plan was, it was still a form of support; in the end, a direct and earnest siege would depend on absolute strength.

Once the plan was confirmed, Shen Yuexin immediately ordered to break camp. The dense throng of Wingmen soared into the sky, escorting the magic carpet towards the riverside. Midway, they saw Lin Xu's summoned army starting to leave camp.

His main Clan comprised Half-Elves, with cannon fodder being over ten thousand Forest Lizardmen, mostly warriors with a few Lizard Shooters.

The three forces combined had nearly forty thousand troops, including main warriors and cannon fodder, forming an immensely formidable force. Along the riverside wilderness, the army trampled out a swath of cleared land a kilometer wide that extended all the way to Vampire City, Alfonso.

That city was named after the Duke of Vampires, Alfonso, following a common practice in this plane where many cities were named after lords or legendary figures.

As the army neared Alfonso, it was inevitably spotted, and roughly ten kilometers from Alfonso, Shen Yuexin's Wingmen had already discovered no fewer than ten scouting parties. The vanguard scouts had observed that Alfonso's forces had gone into battle readiness.

When the two armies came within three kilometers of each other, Lin Xiao ordered the Fishman Magicians to control the summoned Water Elements to begin the Mockery, preparing the river water for summoning a giant tidal wave.

It was to be expected that the opposition would discover this in advance and thus be somewhat prepared, but that was of little consequence. Within the brief time frame, they couldn't possibly erect a riverside city wall on the spot, and even if they were aware he intended to flood Alfonso, they would only be able to watch helplessly as the tide surged in.

A frontal assault on the city, flooding the city with water, this was an overt plan.

When the army was about a mile from the city wall, the urgent sound of alarm gongs from the city could already be heard, and countless warriors with weapons ascended the city walls.

From the direction of the city, numerous bloodthirsty transcendent auras rose to the sky. Streaks of blood merged from all over the city, and from the castle of the Duke of Vampires Alfonso behind the city, the Duke of Vampires Alfonso, watching the enemy through the Water Mirror Technique, recalled the advice his ally had given when leaving.

"Such a formidable army, he is doomed!"

Yu Xiu wasn't far from Alfonso City at the moment.

He originally wanted to leave this troublesome place sooner, but after not getting far, he received orders from the company to find a safe location and await further instructions.

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Chapter 152 Terrifying Blood and Aging Field

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This immense metallic platform is a void base operated by the military, similar to the space stations of the intergalactic age, with a diameter of about fifty kilometers. Its volume is considerably vast, and at this moment, numerous small flying vessels can be observed entering and exiting around the edge of this vast space station.

For every piecemeal plane group conquered, the Main World establishes a huge void base as an outpost base there, with varying scale and importance depending on the situation.

As far as Lin Xiao knew, these void bases typically had five levels, with First Level being the lowest and Fifth Level the highest. The one they were currently at was a Level 2 Void Base.

Yet, above the fifth level, there are even higher-tier void bases, for which the Yan Huang No. 5 Super War Fortress could be used as a reference.

A small portion of these small flying vehicles belongs to the base's garrison, but most are owned by civilian groups. For example, family teams from the Main World, civilian adventure teams, and private company exploration teams. They enter the various super war fortresses from the Main World, transition to military bases within the crystal walls of different domains, and then venture out to explore the planes within.

Of course, not many have the capability to venture deep into the void for exploration. The vast majority of civilian groups conduct their explorations near the military bases, like this one, searching for treasures and resources lost within some shattered planes.

The void ship docks temporarily at the side of the outpost base, but this is just a brief stop before continuing to take them to the plane of their assignment.

In the meantime, they could purchase information about their mission plane here, or buy various resources to restock.

It's worth noting that each military base handles a large number of civilian team adventures. They wouldn't go to the trouble of taking the ample resources they gather back to the Main World. Most would either use them within the military base, sell them to other adventurers in need, or directly sell them to the military. Among these transactions, there are no shortage of quality goods.

Here, there is also a local trading network whose signals cover an area with the base at its center. The coverage area increases with the level of the void base. Currently, the range of this Level 2 Void Base is estimated to encompass several dozen nearby piecemeal planes.

Lin Xiao and Shen Yuexin discussed and decided to first buy a map of several large nearby piecemeal planes through military channels and specifically purchased details of the plane fragment where their mission lay, including intelligence on the Human Kingdom and the Vampire Kingdom.

Then, Wu Zhonglin once again called them for a meeting.

Half an hour later, the two returned, projecting the virtual map in front of the whole team. Lin Xiao drew two circles in one region of the map and said,

"Shen Yuexin and I are assigned to this area; Wu Zhonglin wants us to be in charge of this large sector."

His gaze swept over the team, finally resting on Ancient City as he said,

"My idea is to have you, along with Su Tong, Yu Xinze, and Yan Shu Huan, take charge of this side."

He then pointed to another circle:

"Shen Yuexin, Lin Xu and I will take care of the other side. How does that sound?"

Ancient City looked up at him but did not speak; it was Su Tong next to him who answered,

"Sure, that sounds good, taking charge of one side each."

"If no one has any objections, then let's settle it this way."

Lin Xiao had no time for scheming or intrigue, so he simply split the team as Ancient City wished, letting everyone do their own thing.

His silence naturally meant consent.

At this point, Wu Zhonglin sent everyone a large map on which the Vampire Kingdom was divided into five differently sized areas, each marked with the avatars of their respective leaders: as few as two like Lin Xiao and Shen Yuexin, or as many as four like Wu Zhonglin's team, totaling their group of thirteen.

"I've divided the Vampire Kingdom into five sectors. Zhang Guan, Gao Yongsheng, Jiang Xinyi and I are responsible for the largest central sector, and the other team leaders will each take charge of the other sectors. Everyone else is free to join groups or form teams to choose which sector they wish to campaign in. Any issues or matters will be handled by the leaders of each sector."

"Not bad at all."

This allocation suited the summer camp well, providing everyone with enough freedom.

What followed was the internal division of the team. Shen Yuexin shared the detailed map and intelligence of the region they would be in with the team, allowing her and Lin Xu to make a copy first and then said,

"We still have some time for preparations; we might as well take a look around the trading platform."

Lin Xiao scratched his head, deciding to enter the Divine Realm.

He had wanted to strike while the iron was hot and chat with the beauty, but he had sensed a minor change in the Divine Realm and needed to check it out.

Upon returning to the Divine Realm, his first action was to receive all the information accumulated over this period. After a brief pause, he opened his eyes and pinched his chin, somewhat surprised.

Firstly, after exhausting the remaining eighty million plus extra Faith value borrowed from Shen Yuexin through the ancient arena, he had once again created eleven transcendent-level Supreme Naga whale knights. Together with the original seventeen, he now commanded a total of twenty-eight transcendent-level clan members.

Based on the five-level troop types and the five-level all-rounder knight profession initially accumulated, plus the actual combat experience from the previous Blood Count invasion, these eleven whale knights had finally broken through their limits after long arduous training in the ancient arena and ascended to transcendent status.

Moreover, this was only a portion; there's still a large number of five-level Supreme Nagas in the Divine Realm, ready to rise to more transcendent clan members given enough actual combat experience and sufficient Power of Faith to open the ancient arena.

With a high-race foundation, supplemented by the miracle construction of the ancient arena, as long as there is enough Power of Faith, he can produce transcendent troops on a small scale.

The only issue is that the Power of Faith is consumed rather quickly – – nearly three hundred million of Power of Faith all drained just to create twenty-eight transcendent troops, averaging nearly a million Faith value for each one.

However, each transcendent clan member worth a million Power of Faith is still quite a good deal when all is said and done.

And since these nine hundred-plus Supreme Nagas are all level five already, there would be no need to start from scratch, so the cost would decrease over time.

Besides these developments, the second major change in the Divine Realm during this time was the birth of an Elemental Sprite, specifically a Water Elemental Sprite.

The so-called Elemental Sprite is not an Elf and has no relation to the Elf race; nor is it an element like water itself. It's a type of being born with an innate affinity to a certain element, a transcendent creature by nature, born with mastery over any spell of the water series, extremely powerful.

This Water Elemental Sprite was born in the depths of the ocean and is a sprite of the sea, the daughter of the ocean.

Lin Xiao, looking down from his God Country upon the Divine Realm, immediately spotted a little sprite playing with a giant turtle among the coral forests deep in the sea where water elements converged.

She was only the size of a palm, completely translucent and sparkling, with specks of blue elemental light circling around her, much like a young girl and extremely similar to a Flower Fairy.

She was incredibly lively and playful, darting through the water with agility. She especially loved to climb onto the back of a huge turtle, which had a two- meter-square carapace covered in mountainous ridges, and swim to and fro. Surrounding corals and seaweed frequently nodded towards her, and from time to time, colorful fish swam around her.

Even the fierce carnivorous fish that occasionally passed by would affectionately allow her to ride on their backs and trot around.

"Truly a sprite of heaven and earth!"

Lin Xiao couldn't help but praise. With a thought, his True Body appeared in the ocean, sending out an invisible ripple. The playing sprite looked over, tilting her head in confusion as she gazed at him. After a moment, her delicate little face showed a joyful expression and she swam over, circling around him.

He reached out his hand, and the little one landed in his palm, looking up at him curiously. A dazed thought entered his mind:

"Are you my father?"

"No, I am your brother."

Calling him father felt weird.

The little one didn't dwell on this, sweetly addressing him as brother instead. She reached out her tiny translucent hand, patted her mouth, yawned, and then curled up trustingly in his palm, providing a cool touch that penetrated to the heart.

"So cute!"

The newly born sprite couldn't speakyet and couldn't leave the Divine Realm for now, and no second Water Elemental Sprite will be born in the future.

As a being innately linked to the Divine Realm, her strength will grow with the expansion of the Divine Realm. Should Lin Xiao achieve Divine Enthronement in the future, and the Divine Realm expands sufficiently, and he establishes a divine system, as one of the four Elemental Sprites born alongside the Divine Realm, she will naturally gain the Godhood of the four elements and become one of the Divine Realm's four Elemental Guardians.

Of course, that is a matter for the distant future. For now, she can only act as an adorable mascot.

Lin Xiao used his Divine Power to create a water bubble to carry the sleeping cutie back to the turtle's back, his gaze briefly falling on the turtle. His eyes swept over its angular, mountainous shell and the slightly fierce dragon head, pondering for a moment without recognition.

With a thought, he used his privileges as Divine Realm Master to trace the life of this little one, quickly realizing that this creature originated from the giant turtle shell he had acquired during that final exam. After it fused with the Divine Domain Heaven Card, this little turtle was naturally born. It now seemed that this creature might be a rare Dragon Turtle.

Decades had passed, and the creature was only this size. According to the growth stages of a Dragon Turtle, it was still in its infancy and centuries away from reaching adulthood.

Fortunately, one day in the Main World equals one year in the Divine Realm. After one semester, this creature would reach adulthood, and by then, it would be a legendary sea beast of formidable strength.

Moreover, turtles have extraordinarily long lifespans, and this one also possessed dragon blood. Over time, it would grow stronger and stronger, and it could eventually become an ancient Dragon Turtle comparable to a Demigod or even a True God.

Lin Xiao didn't stay long in the Divine Realm before departing. He had already left the subspace of the Main World and entered a Different Domain. The flow of time outside now matched that of the Divine Realm, so it was no longer possible for him to stay inside for a year or two at a time.

When he emerged, the Void Ship was just disengaging from the Void Base and heading toward a significantly large piecemeal plane, with several small ships from civilian organizations following the Void Ship out of the base, probably thinking that the military had some action planned and hoping to catch something on the side for themselves.

This situation was quite common; the military usually didn't prevent it. On the contrary, they welcomed it. It provided an opportunity for them to assign some tasks to these groups, specifically tasks involving the eradication of sporadic resistance in the occupied regions.

"Boom!"

The massive Void Ship collided heavily against a breach at the edge of the shattered plane, directly striking the exposed crimson land in the void. Large swathes of barren red rocks were thrown into the void where they rapidly melted away.

Several kilometers from the breach on a high ground, there was a small town comprised of stacks and piles of metal containers forming a temporary settlement. This was a temporary base for civilian adventurers in this shattered plane. The buildings, similar to containerized barrack rooms, could be dismantled and moved at a moment's notice.

In fact, this temporary base stood a century ago in a location that had already collapsed and vanished. With the edges of the fragmented plane continuously eroded by void storms, the temporary base practically had to relocate every few years.

Without the protection of the Plane Crystal Wall, this kind of erosion was endless until the entire plane was gradually corrupted by void energy and ultimately perished.

But that was a future calculated in tens of thousands of years. It was estimated that it would take tens of thousands of years before this piece of the plane would reach its end.

Moreover, this wasn't an unsolvable issue. Should a True God emerge on this plane during this period, it would be possible to gradually repair the plane's damaged Crystal Wall.

Given the current scale of this plane and the remaining origin energy, it could just barely support the birth of one True God.

A broad rainbow bridge extended from the Void Ship down to the barren earth, and over a thousand participants from the HuaXia District walked along the transparent bridge and descended.

Before disembarking, Lin Xiao saw the girl named Aria from the Ivy League Alliance of High Schools approach Wu Zhonglin, whispering something to him, after which he noticed the typically steadfast Wu's face turn red.

Once everyone was off the ship, the rainbow bridge retracted, and the massive Void Ship took to the skies, departing from the piecemeal plane. It would travel along the edge of the plane to drop off participants from the Ivy League Alliance of High Schools on the other side.

Void Ships were quite rare in this vicinity, drawing curiosity from the temporary settlement in the distance the moment it descended, with many onlooking gazes directed their way from afar.

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Chapter 153: Slaying the Blood God Incarnation

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The defending army on the city square was ready for a serious confrontation and quickly advanced; hundreds of arrows rained down in a focused fire, mixed with the screeching launch of over a dozen bed crossbows. The Whale Knight who had just emerged from the city gate lane suddenly leaned backward, his body impaled by over a dozen thick fine steel crossbow bolts, as well as a few irregularly inserted normal arrows.

"Keep firing!"

The commander of the defenders waved his hand and bellowed as a second volley of arrows shot out, accompanied by the creaking sound of the windlass from the bed crossbows.

This Transcendent Great Naga endured the second wave of arrows and crawled out of the city gate entrance, making way for the second Whale Knight, who burst through the gate alley with his thick and powerful snake tail. It whipped rapidly, sending the arrows and broken stones on the ground flying chaotically, as it charged towards the enemy formation arrayed on the square with great roars.

Then came the third, the fourth, the fifth, along with a large group of Fishman and Forest Lizardmen cannon fodder flooding in. The square instantly became a chaotic mess.

Once a large group of Fishman Naga utilized the river to invade the city, and the city gate was breached, it was only a matter of time before the city would fall.

The only difference was when the enemy would be completely crushed and how large the losses would be.

After all, the difference in strength was too significant. They had yet to use their full power. At least their heroes under the command of the three of them had not yet joined the battle, and Shen Yue Xin's hero, The Lord of Wrath, had not participated, let alone the seventy or eighty Sky Wrath Magicians under her command.

Moreover, they had nearly ambushed the city outright, and Duke Alfonso of the Blood had no preparation at all. His forces were not concentrated; only the less than twenty thousand troops of his headquarters were present, with the rest of the forces not located here.

One must know that when Lin Xiao faced the invasion of the Blood Earl, they had a Blood Legion of thirty to forty thousand. A Duke was more powerful than an Earl, so it would be unreasonable to have only these few troops.

Lin Xiao squinted his eyes, studying the Vampire Duke, who was enveloped by an invisible distortion. He could now sense a powerful pressure, not belonging to the Vampire Duke Alfonso, slowly emerging. It was evident that the Semi-god Vampire attached great importance to this legendary Fanatic Believer. A response was being prepared, likely in anticipation of an Incarnation's descent.

Duke Alfonso, in his fanatic state, disregarded even his own territory. Without this Legendary Vampire to intercept, the city defenders stood no chance against them.

Even with a significant number of Transcendent Vampires inside, that was of no use.

Without the advantage of the city's defenses, the mighty Great Nagas, relying on their Dominator's Body, charged through unstoppable. They chiseled through the city gate defense twice in a row, crushing the defenders.

A fully armored Transcendent Blood Knight raised a blood-colored greatsword and pointed forward. A shadow of blood flashed across a hundred meters, smashing into the back of a Transcendent Great Naga. The over two-meters- long Blood Sword pierced through thick scales and tough muscles, impaling into the body up to the hilt, with the tip emerging from the other side.

The injured Whale Knight twisted his body as if unhurt and swung down two Dual Hand Greatswords. The Blood Knight clutched the hilt tightly and tried to pull it out but couldn't immediately. The Whale Knight's twisting waist and overpowering muscles tightly gripped the Blood Sword, preventing its immediate removal.

This fraction of a second's mistake was fatal in a Transcendent-level battle, especially since the Whale Knight was stronger than the Blood Knight. In that very instant, both Blood Knight and his mount were slashed by the Dual Hand Greatswords, even before he had time to abandon his sword and escape.

Two piercing tearing sounds and 'xi ji ju' screams erupted as the Blood Knight, along with his horse, were cleaved in two, and even his thick armor was forcibly split open.

However, at the moment of killing the Blood Knight, a column of raging flames several meters in diameter blasted from the central tower of the city, striking the Whale Knight. The formidable power of a strategic spell instantly burnt the lower half of the Whale Knight's body to ashes. The resulting dark-red flames covered hundreds of meters, blasting a huge crater at the city gate and killing countless Fishman Great Nagas and enemies in this fearsome strike.

Yet, the horror of the strategic-level magic did not affect Lin Xiao's dearly faithful and spirited Clan members. Those who had already penetrated the city continued their assault, with the following forces continuing to storm through the breach.

Whale Knights, with their formidable physiques and vitality, pushed forward using a strategy of exchanging wounds for wounds, already being stronger than Blood Knights and additionally having unfair advantages, making it impossible for the Blood Knights to fight back.

In less than five minutes, more than a dozen Transcendent Blood Knights had suffered heavy casualties. The remainder led the surviving defenders to abandon the outer perimeter of the city and retreated to the three Magic High Towers within the city to stand their ground.

These three Magic High Towers were manned by Duke Alfonso's Mage team. These towers were not the fabled Mage Towers but were a type of war structure. Although not as powerful as the Mage Towers, they still significantly enhanced the magical powers of the spellcasters within them and had the ability to deploy powerful war spells.

In the barely more than ten minutes since the siege began, these three Magic High Towers had already unleashed five waves of terrifying war-level spells, resulting in two Transcendent Great Nagas killed and four severely wounded, forcing them to withdraw from the battle.

However, his Clan's will remained sturdy, and despite the terrifying magic, their morale soared even more. In contrast, the city's defenders couldn't withstand such indiscriminate, terrifying strikes and were already beginning to collapse. A small number of defenders had given up resisting and fled into the city.

Above the Vault of Heaven, large groups of Wingmen had already crossed the city walls and entered the city, with many Wingmen escorting several dozens of Thunder Wings.

These Transcendent Thunder Wings had the innate talent to control lightning, and with the additional career of Thunder Magician specially granted by Shen Yue Xin, the combination was particularly formidable.

They clenched their hands in the air, condensing arduous bolts of vivacious blue lightning spears and thrust them down fiercely.

"Boom boom boom…"

Each arm-thick and two to three meters-long lightning bolt hit its target like a missile exploding, with countless lightning bolts wreaking havoc and destroying everything within range.

The destructive power of their spells may not have matched that of the kobold vein sorcerers' Dragon Breath Flame Explosion, but the direct killing power within the area was terrifying, and moreover, lightning inflicted massive additional damage to evil creatures like undead demons.

And vampires were the very epitome of evil creatures. Within the strike zone of the lightning, any vampire below the transcendent level was instantly killed by a single lightning javelin, and even a transcendent-level Blood Knight would be wounded if hit.

Dozens of Thunder Magicians bombarded the area relentlessly, leveling all structures surrounding the three Magic High Towers. Numerous soldiers were killed by the secondary effects and scattered in flight, only to be intercepted and exterminated by the Fishman Supreme Naga converging from all sides.

Lin Xiao and his two companions stood silently in the void outside the city, looking towards Afonso, but their gaze was not on the battle within the city. Even the presence of three Magic High Towers didn't concern them – such powerful yet long-cooling war structures were useless without allied forces buying time. The Blood Mages within the towers were now overwhelmed with defense and would probably be unable to cast their next war spell.

What they were focusing on was the now prayer-completed Duke Alfonso, a legendary vampire who was a fanatic believer. With his continual prayers and the deaths of a large number of followers, the Semi-god Vampire finally responded to the prayers and began to descend.

In their perception, a powerful and evil will was emerging in this space, its strength was accumulating.

If they intervened right now, they could forcibly interrupt the descent before it happened. A legendary vampire stood no chance of stopping them.

But there was no such "if". This was a situation they had long dreamt of – why would they possibly want to interfere? They were actually hoping for the Semi-god Vampire to send several more incarnations.

Before the Blood God could descend, Lin Xiao and Lin Xu Shen Yue Xin simultaneously ordered a retreat for their forces, to prevent their subordinates from becoming involved in the inevitable clash of legendary beings.

Compared to their anticipation, Duke Alfonso, who had fully invested his faith in the Blood God, snapped out of his frenzied state upon sensing the response to his prayers and the beginning of the descent. It took several seconds for him to process the fact that the situation below had been decided in a mere ten minutes or so.

If not for the fact that he was a legendary vampire himself, he would have thought he was under an illusion.

How could his city have fallen so quickly?

Where was his army?

What had happened to his numerous forces?

For some reason, Alfonso felt a sense of foreboding, but as he sensed the divine might emanating from the Blood God Incarnate in the twisted void above, the slight apprehension quickly dissipated, replaced by renewed confidence.

From afar, Lin Xiao watched Alfonso's changing expressions with some amusement and a hint of envy.

A demigod with a legendary fanatic believer was something to be envied indeed.

The Power of Faith provided by a legendary fanatic believer was not insignificant. In theory, one hundred legendary fanatic believers could maintain the God Level of a newly-enthroned Deity from falling. According to the information Lin Xiao had obtained, there were several Duke of Vampires in the Vampire Kingdom, with dozens of marquis and earl level big nobles, plus a large number of transcendent faithful. The quality of followers this Semi-god Vampire possessed was exceptionally good, theoretically sufficient to support a True God.

Yet having lived for so long, this Semi-god Vampire was still not a True God nor even a High-Level Demigod…

Indeed, this raised some doubts in Lin Xiao. He suspected that this Semi-god Vampire was more than just an ordinary demigod, but he had no evidence.

But whether it was a Normal Demigod or a High-Level Demigod, one thing was for sure: Divine Enthronement was far from easy.

After all, if there were certainty in igniting the Divine Fire and ascending to godhood, nobody would miss that chance. The fact that this Semi-god Vampire had lived so long without becoming a god indicated that either it was not confident of its Divine Enthronement, or the conditions were not yet sufficient.

They were unsure of what the Semi-god Vampire was up to, as its descent was exceedingly slow. Their subordinates were gradually retreating from the city, yet the Divine Incarnation had not fully arrived. They could clearly sense that the demigod's will had indeed arrived, but it was unreasonably slow.

It was as if…

It was as if the Semi-god Vampire was so far away from here that it couldn't descend swiftly.

Standing alone in the void, Alfonso felt that something was amiss – why had his opponents stopped their assault? What were they waiting for?

Lin Xiao and the others didn't dare to move forward either, fearing they might scare away the Blood God Incarnate. Both sides were thus at a stalemate.

Fortunately, after such a long wait, as a vast will appeared in this space, the Twisted Void above Alfonso parted, and out stepped a figure with a head full of silver…

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Chapter 154 Dividing the Spoils

Translator: 549690339 I

After summoning twelve transcendent-level whale knights, the second batch consisted of about three hundred Supreme Nagas.

According to Lin Xiao's plan, if one were to summon a clan in a harsh environment, it was necessary for this batch of powerful subordinates to break the ice and establish a safe environment first, and then a large number of Small Fishman cannon fodder would be summoned.

Continuously, Small Fishmen were summoned and spread out around the teleportation gate, until a group of Fishman Magicians were summoned and they jumped into the river to start summoning Water Elements.

The Water Element was the same as before, but now there were more Fishman Magicians than before.

During the Summer Camp challenge, the summoning of a tide to flood Li Shengyuan's forces and Slarda witnessing the power of the Fishman Mockery Magicians on the battlefield led him to encourage Fishmen to advance as Magicians if they could awaken their bloodlines, in an attempt to maximize the number of Magicians.

By now, there were already over two thousand Fishman Magicians, while the total number of Fishmen had exceeded sixteen to seventeen thousand.

The number of Wise Goblins hadn't changed much, with less than a hundred newly bred, and their reproduction ability also decreased after being transformed from ordinary Goblins into potent Wise Goblins; they were lower than the Fishmen and even more so than the Supreme Nagas.

Currently, there were about thirteen hundred Supreme Nagas in the Divine Realm, including adults, children, and even newborn infants, which was significantly more than before.

This was because Lin Xiao used his reproductive divine transcendental ability to tirelessly impregnate the Supreme Naga mothers whenever he had the chance, plus the long lifespan of the Supreme Nagas. Since their birth, not one had died of natural old age, leading to the current population.

The beginning is always the hardest; the Supreme Nagas just started with slow reproduction, but given their longevity, once the base number grows, the reproduction speed will naturally increase.

After three rounds of summoning, the Fishman Magicians summoned a total of six thousand Water Elements. These Water Elements stood on the water surface as humans would stand on the Earth, with massive amounts of river water converging toward them, forming rings of waves that surged back and forth.

But in Lin Xiao's eyes, each Water Element emitted a faint dark current invisible to the common people, radiating in all directions—this was the Water Element's talent for controlling water.

A single talent wasn't much, but when a large number of Water Elements converged, the overlapping dark currents could form a tide-turning force that would move the river water and create towering waves.

Even without doing anything, the river's water started to undulate slowly, the inherent power causing palpitations.

"Boom!"

Lin Xiao sharply turned his head and saw a massive, fiery blue lightning strike a solitary mountain kilometers away in the clear sky. Narrowing his eyes, his superior vision saw that the fiery blue pillar of lightning struck a figure. In the next second, countless tiny bolts of lightning exploded from that figure as its center, and a tremendous aura soared into the sky, accompanied by a declaration filled with gravitas:

"Thunder lies in the palm of my hand; I am the Lord of Wrath!"

"An Epic Hero?"

In Lin Xiao's view, it was a humanoid creature about five meters tall. Its face and ears back to the back of its head were a mass of jumping silver lightning, where one could occasionally see small bolts of lightning exploding like hair. Behind the figure was a pair of wings, over ten meters wide, made of pure lightning that sparked as they moved gently.

"Why does it look so awesome?"

He glanced at Slarda and then at the being called the Lord of Wrath. The strength was hard to gauge, but just by appearance, it indeed had an imposing presence.

Yes, even the nickname exuded gravitas.

Lin Xiao glanced back at Slarda, pondering whether to give his beloved general a similarly impressive nickname.

"Hmm, I'll bestow a nickname next time!"

He made a mental note of this matter, deciding to address it after the Summer Camp had ended.

In contrast to Lin Xiao and Shen Yue Xin, who each had an Epic Hero on their side, Lin Xu had only one elite hero—a Half-Elf Ranger, whose appearance didn't come with any earth-shattering anomalies. However, it would be a huge mistake to underestimate the opponent because of this.

One should know that this was a transcendent-level Half-elf Archer. In a face- to-face duel, it might be average, but once on the battlefield, the archery was more frightening than a sniper.

This time, Lin Xiao summoned fifteen thousand Fishmen, a thousand Supreme Nagas, and only two hundred Wise Goblins were dispatched.

They weren't there to join the battlefield but to clean up after taking down the Vampire City and castle. Wise Goblins had extremely high intelligence, unlike Fishmen who would just pile things up haphazardly during cleanup, which could easily damage valuable objects.

Assigning Wise Goblins to the task might allow the plundering of valuable artifacts such as books.

Various powerful mythic technologies in the Main World also stemmed from the conversion of extraordinary knowledge from the Different Domain, like Alchemy and Magic Weapon Crafting and so on.

Although the Main World's transcendent craftsmanship currently far surpassed the Different Domain and was more advanced, it didn't mean the Different Domain's craftsmanship was entirely worthless; they could be used as references.

If they were lucky enough to find some new technologies not yet available in the Main World, bringing them back could be exchanged for immense contributions and honors with the military, along with tangible rewards.

About two hours later, all clan members were summoned, and Lin Xiao closed the teleportation gate.

As the Divine Realm Master, Lin Xiao could summon the teleportation gate again at any time by spending a certain amount of time and the Power of Faith, without the need to maintain it constantly.

Furthermore, the summoned clan members had to be on the same plane of existence as him. If he were to leave this plane, all clan members would automatically be teleported back to the Divine Realm.

He ordered the Clan to stand by as Lin Xiao flew ahead to the solitary peak, and halfway there, he joined up with Lin Xu. From a distance, they could see Shen Yuexin sitting on a huge and luxurious magic carpet. Behind her, to her left and right, stood two tall Wingmen, around 2.6 or 2.7 meters tall, with lightning entwined around their wings. Next to them stood the powerful Epic Hero known as The Lord of Wrath.

At the solitary peak's midsection below, the sky was full of Wingmen as well as a small number of powerful Wingmen with lightning around their wings.

"These are my Thunder Wings Clan!"

Shen Yuexin raised her hand, pointing to those Thunder Wings, who were bowing their heads to them in greeting as she continued to introduce them:

"My Clan is comprised entirely of aerial units. Most of them are ranged Shooters combined with Magic-based Thunder Magicians, so you'll have to rely on your own forces for the frontal assault later."

Her gaze was on Lin Xiao, whose main forces were Half-elf Archers, not suitable for the front lines.

Of course, her Wingmen also had melee fighters, but in close combat, Wingmen warriors were not at their best. They were more suited and skilled at flying in the air, maintaining distance and striking at their targets. Once they were dragged into close range and down to the ground, it was as uncomfortable for them as it was for an ordinary person to be dragged into water, and their combat power would be greatly affected.

"No problem!"

Lin Xiao heartily slapped his chest, promising confidently while his eyes swept over Shen Yuexin's Wingmen with envy and inner surprise.

He knew Shen Yuexin was strong, but he hadn't expected her to be this strong.

Wingmen were naturally a higher Race, and it seemed that she must have tens of thousands of them. They were all well-equipped, and most crucially, she had seventy to eighty Thunder Magicians with wings and thunder around them, at the Transcendent Level – several times more than Lin Xiao had.

Even though he didn't speak of specific Strength, having all aerial units meant Lin Xiao's side would be crushed in a real fight.

"Yell my foot! I need to cultivate a group of Frost Magicians, otherwise, not having ranged support is a huge loss."

Although he had loaded the Frost Magician occupation, there was too little time and not enough Power of Faith to open the ancient arena. Currently, he didn't have many Frost Magicians, and those he had were not high-level, hence not ready for real combat.

After discussing around the virtual map for a while, the three of them devised an attack plan based on the situation of their three Clans.

The plan was simple: move down the river, taking advantage of the Fishmen Mockery Magicians to incite the Tide during the siege.

Everyone knew that the Duke of Vampires' city was built along a river, with the river adjacent to the city's interior. There were no walls along the river banks, allowing the Tide to crash directly into the city.

Then, of course, came the frontal siege.

No matter how good the plan was, it was just an auxiliary measure. In the end, the siege would depend on sheer force.

Once the plan was confirmed, Shen Yuexin immediately ordered the camp to be uprooted. A dense swarm of Wingmen shot into the sky, escorting the magic carpet toward the riverside. Halfway there, they saw Lin Xu's summoned army also uprooting and setting out.

His principal Clan consisted of Half-elves, and the cannon fodder was over ten thousand Forest Lizardmen, mostly warriors with a few Lizard Shooters.

Together, the three sides' main fighting Race combined with cannon fodder totaled nearly forty thousand troops, already a very sizable force. The wasteland along the river was trampled into a kilometer-wide clearing by the massive army, extending all the way to the Vampire City of Alfonso.

The city was named after the Duke of Vampires, Alfonso, which was the norm for this realm. Many cities were named after their Lords or some legendary figures.

As the army drew closer to Alfonso, it was inevitable that they would be spotted. About ten kilometers away from Alfonso, Shen Yuexin's Wingmen had already detected no fewer than ten scouts, and their vanguard scouts had already seen Alfonso preparing for battle.

When the two sides were about three kilometers apart, Lin Xiao ordered the Fishman Magicians to control summoned Water Elements to begin Mockery, stirring the river water in preparation to summon great waves and Tides.

Even though the enemy would be forewarned and prepared, it was of no use. In that short time, it's not like they could instantly build a wall along the river. Even if they knew he planned to flood Alfonso, all they could do was watch helplessly as the Tide approached.

A frontal siege, flooding the city – these were overt strategies.

When the army was only about a kilometer away from the city walls, the urgent sound of alarm gongs could be heard from the city, and countless warriors with weapons ascended the walls.

Back in the city, waves of transcendental, blood-scented auras soared into the sky, and a myriad of bloody shadows gathered from various parts of the city. Inside the castle of the Duke of Vampires, Alfonso, behind the city, the Duke of Vampires, Alfonso, watching the enemies displayed within the Water Mirror Technique, recalled the advice given by his partner before leaving.

"Such a powerful army; he is doomed!" Whether Lin Xiao or Lin Xu Shen Yue Xin, as adventurers from the Main World, they all had different attitudes and ways of interacting with the human natives.

The belief in the equality of all people in the Main World civilization was deeply ingrained. Although, in reality, there would definitely be differences in status, at least on the surface, everyone was equal. Even True God Level Powerhouses and civilians without the Strength to truss a chicken were equal on some level, capable of conversing on even terms.

But equality in principle is one thing, and real-life encounters are another.

Just as a working man must lower his head to his boss, the ordinary mortals of the Main World have to do the same with Deity players.

Yu Xiu wasn't far from Alfonso City at this time.

He had intended to leave the place of trouble early, but not long into his escape, he received orders from the company to find a safe place to stand by and wait for further instructions.

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Chapter 155 Self-reflection and Change of Mindset

Translator: 549690339

Lin Xiao glanced at Shen Yuexin, who shrugged and said,

"I don't mind, you decide."

Looking at Lin Xu, he spread his hands to indicate he had no objections. Lin Xiao made up his mind and, seeing that many students were forming larger temporary teams, said to them,

"Then come on over."

Hitching a ride was completely no problem.

However, they didn't sit with him on the magic carpet but had their own flying apparatus, a small wooden sailing ship that looked very refined as it flew through the air, its speed not slow either.

The giant magic carpet could seat dozens of people; with just three occupying it the space felt extremely desolate. The carpet was enchanted with a magic barrier, making it so that one could not feel a breeze at all despite high-speed flight. Shen Yuexin sat leisurely on it, taking out a small tea table, several cushions, some tea ware, and even began to brew tea right there.

Lin Xu also took out a small table and a large plate filled with fresh fruit.

"Damn, can you even prepare for that?"

Lin Xiao felt like a bumpkin, having brought nothing with him. If he were alone, he probably would have had to rely on his two legs to traverse the wilderness to reach his destination.

Well, flying would work too, as a senior Divine Being with four points of Divinity, he could fly.

After taking a few sips of tea, Lin Xiao was eager to chat with Shen Yuexin, but it wasn't quite appropriate with a third wheel around. He coughed dryly, thought about it, and still gave up, turning his gaze outward.

The land they were flying over was an endless desolate earth, with occasional gray or black unidentified weeds sparsely covering the ground, and every so often, some twisted small trees with vines wrapped around them. The ground was flat and barren; not even the weeds could grow tall, let alone any living creatures. They had flown tens of kilometers and had not seen a single living thing.???????? '

Looking up in the direction they came from, at the end of the wasteland was a dazzling aurora with black dots flying from that direction towards other places, signifying other teams' flying vessels.

Looking in the other directions, the sky was overcast; dark clouds gathered with thick bolts of lightning crackling through them, as if it would rain at any moment.

But it wasn't really going to rain, the dark clouds were not really clouds, but a nearby weakening of spatial fabric, with Piecemeal Plane's source energy leaking through cracks in the Plane Crystal Wall, plus the false appearances produced by Void Energy pressing against the rules of their plane.

This phenomenon gradually lessened as they flew deeper into the plane, the sky slowly becoming clearer. Even the desolate wastelands below began to show more lush plants, with occasional small animals appearing.

After flying about a hundred kilometers or so, a large river appeared before them. On this side of the river lay wasteland, while the other side suddenly brightened, full of green that seemed like a different world altogether compared to the side they were on.

The magic carpet flew over the river at a height of two to three thousand meters, following the river upstream for about a dozen kilometers until they saw a small town by the river, from high above they could also see distant towns, villages, and an ancient castle built atop a mountaintop.

That ancient castle was the domain of a Vampire Lord and a target they needed to destroy, though it wasn't their mission. Their actual destination was still quite a distance away.

This Piecemeal Plane might have been fractured, but its predecessor was an extra-large plane of vast area; even a fragment of such a plane still ranked between medium and large size.

The flying speed of the magic carpet was quite fast, having surpassed five hundred kilometers per hour at its fastest, they had flown westward for more than a day, crossing several thousand kilometers to reach their marked destination on the map.

The magic carpet stopped atop a lone peak standing in the plains; the five others with them parted ways here, flying north while they went south. To the east, in the direction they came from and about a hundred or two hundred kilometers away, was the Ancient City, their destination. They weren't sure if the others had arrived or not.

The mission sounded simple: to eliminate the Vampire Lords and many high-quality Half-god Vampire followers, as well as the Church of Vampires within a designated area.

On the magic carpet, Lin Xiao unfolded the virtual map and zoomed in, pointing to several places on the map marked with cities, towns, and castles, and said,

"Well split up and scout these three places first, see what Vampire Lords and Aristocrats are nearby, get a clear picture of their strength and troop distribution, then well come back and take action, how about it?"

"Okay,"

Lin Xu casually drew a circle on the virtual map and said,

"I'll scout this side."

Lin Xiao pointed near Lin Xu and looking at Shen Yuexin's delicate face, said,

"Then I'll check this side, leaving the rest to you."

"Okay,"

After agreeing, Lin Xu was the first to fly out on a skateboard. Lin Xiao walked straight down from the magic carpet, using a small amount of Power of Faith to tread the void.

Behind him, Shen Yuexin, with a slight arch of her brows, called out to him and asked,

"Why don't you use a flying item?"

He said sheepishly,

"I don't have one."

She asked, surprised,

"Why didn't you buy one back at the base?"

"The bad ones I didn't want, and the good ones I couldn't afford."

She reached out, facepalming in exasperation, rummaged through her pocket, and handed him a palm-sized pair of wings:

"Here, this is my nephew's toy, make do with it."

"What is this?"

"And this one comes as a set!"

He took the two small items thrown at him with a puzzled look, examining them from left to right. Shen Yuexin suddenly covered her mouth, snickering, and without a word, shook her magic carpet and flew far away.

"Hey…"

Watching the silhouette of the flying carpet disappear into the distance, he took another look at the plastic-feeling wings and the other toy, which was an equally plastic-feeling sword hilt with a grandiose design. Noticing the small print at the base of the wings, he couldn't help but read aloud softly: "Wings of Angel, please grant me the strength to soar into the Vault of Heaven!"

Just as he finished reading the slightly embarrassing words, the plastic-feeling wings in his hand suddenly shone brightly, turning into a streak of white light that merged into his body. The next moment, a burst of light emanated from his back, and a pair of wings, resplendent with flowing luminescence, grew. With just a thought, he flapped the wings of light gently and a tremendous force propelled him, trailing wisps of white light, shooting him over a hundred meters away.

Damn, kids' toys are this badass nowadays!"

He could feel that these angel wings were a rather nice piece of magic item, with a constant Advanced Flight Art and Light feathers, as well as permanent Light spell, continuous Protect Evil, and persistent Shield of Belief. It also allowed him to take on an Angel form once every day, and other dazzling effects that looked incredibly lavish.

He then looked at the toy sword handle in his hand, which also had a line of small print:

"Sword of Angel, please grant me the strength to eradicate evil!"

As soon as the sheepish words fell, the sword handle's end extended a dazzling ray of light, transforming into a massive cross-shaped sword of light.

Sword of Angel: Constant four-rings Priest's Divine Holy Power, continuous Removing Enchantment, permanent powerful Magic Dispel, ten daily strikes of Blazing Fury, ten daily healing spells, three daily Destruction spells, and one Resurrection Technique a day.

"Good grief, it even has a Resurrection Technique. Is this really a kid's toy?" This pair of wings and the sword would probably be considered the hereditary treasures of certain Churches in the Natives Plane, and with these two items, he could easily pass for an Angel.

Constant spells mean they are always in effect. With a thought, Lin Xiao transformed into a streak of white light and flew towards the distance.

The speed of flight provided by the Advanced Flight Art was significantly fast, almost on par with the speed of the magic carpet that Shen Yuexin had, which was probably also constantly under the influence of an Advanced Flight Art.

The area he was assigned was situated to the north of a large river over a hundred meters across, where the terrain was slightly lower. Along the riverbank were several small villages, with many farmlands cultivated, and numerous indigenous Humans in hemp clothing were seen bending over working the fields.

From the houses and the Natives' attire, it was clear the world's level of production was still in the medieval era, using simple wooden ploughs, and there were only two water buffaloes for plowing.

He saw a family of four working a field, a middle-aged man with rough, cracked skin and hunched back, bending over to pull the plow, while his son pushed from behind, tilling the land with manual labor.

Not far away on a broad terrace, a table was set up where a somewhat pale man was lying back in a chair, drinking water and eating food. Occasionally, with a whip in hand, he pointed and yelled loudly at the farmers laboring in the fields. Next to him, two young village girls appeared to be one massaging his feet, and the other fanning him.

"Truly the evil of ancient societies!"

The pale man, a Supervisor, was a Blood Servant. Blood Servants are either servants of Vampires or those who have not fully transformed into Vampires, sharing the characteristic of disliking sunlight, and are the Vampires' capable assistants.

This particular Supervisor definitely couldn't be considered a capable assistant, but was just as detestable.

Without any ceremony, Lin Xiao swept his sword down. A white beam fell from the sky and struck the Supervisor, who was enjoying himself, instantly turning him into a fireball and reducing him to ashes.

The two young village girls screamed in terror, standing still, unsure of what to do.

Eliminating that man wouldn't change much, but he just couldn't stand the sight and decided to take him down first.

Quickly flying past the farmland, Lin Xiao reached the skies above a small castle built at the edge of a hill. It was a small castle, likely belonging to some minor Vampire Aristocrat. As soon as he arrived, a blood shadow burst from the castle, turning into a figure cloaked in black, who looked up and saw him.

The two gazed at each other from afar for a few seconds, and without a second word, Lin Xiao turned around and left.

This was just a minor Vampire, newly stepped into the Transcendent Level – even without summoning his subordinates, Lin Xiao could easily kill him, but there was no point in doing so at the moment. He made a mental note of the location, deciding to handle it next time.

Next, Lin Xiao traveled hundreds of kilometers, surveying and marking the nearby towns and castles, especially the castles where Vampire Nobles resided. After two days, he returned to the meeting point; Lin Xu was already back, but Shen Yuexin had not yet returned.

The two got together and marked the information from their explorations on the Virtual map to perfect it, casually discussing where to start their operation.

Lin Xiao's area didn't present any major difficulties, as there was only one small town and two small castles.

Lin Xu's area was similar, with four small castles of Vampire Nobles, two small towns, and likewise no significant challenges..

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Chapter 156 News of God's Tomb

Translator: 549690339

The city's defenders on the square quickly moved forward, ready for combat. Hundreds of arrows rained down, alongside the shrieking of a dozen bed crossbows. The Whale Hunter Knight, just emerging from the alley gate, was suddenly flung backward, riddled with dozens of thick fine steel crossbow arrows and a smattering of ordinary arrows stuck at awkward angles.

"Keep firing!"

The commander of the defenders waved his hand and roared, as the second volley of arrows shot out, accompanied by the creaking of the bed crossbows being wound.

This Transcendent-level Supreme Naga stoically endured the second volley of arrows as it crawled out of the gate to clear the entrance. The second Whale Hunter Knight charged through the alley gate, its muscular serpentine tail swiftly swishing to clear away the ground arrows and pebbles, scattering them in all directions as it charged towards the enemy formations awaiting on the square.

Then came the third, the fourth, the fifth, followed by swarms of Fishman cannon fodder and Forest Lizardmen cannon fodder, which flooded in, and the square was instantly thrown into chaos.

When a large group of Fishman Naga made their attack through the river into the city and the gates were breached, it was only a matter of time before the city fell. The question was when the enemy would be completely routed, and how great the losses would be.

After all, there was too great a disparity in strength. They had not even fully exerted themselves yet; at least, the heroes under the command of the three of them had not yet joined the battle. Shen Yue Xin had not only kept The Lord of Wrath out of the fight, but also her seventy-odd Sky Wrath Magicians had yet to participate.

Moreover, they had practically reached the city walls in a surprise attack, leaving the Duke of Vampires, Afonso, utterly unprepared. His forces were not concentrated, with only less than twenty thousand of his own guards present, the rest were not there.

One must know that when Lin Xiao faced the invasion of the Blood Count, his enemy had ready a Blood Legion of thirty to forty thousand strong. The Duke was more powerful than the Count and it made no sense for him to have only so few troops.

Lin Xiao squinted his eyes as he sized up the Duke of Vampires, who was shrouded by an invisible and twisted veil. He could already sense a formidable pressure not belonging to the Duke of Vampires, Afonso, gradually surfacing. It was clear that the Semi-god Vampire took this legendary Fanatic Believer seriously and was preparing to descend in an Incarnation.

In a state of frenzy, Afonso didn't even care about his own territory. Without this Legendary Vampire to intercept them, the city's defenders could not hold them back on their own.

Even if there were a considerable number of Transcendent Vampires within the city, it was futile.

Without the advantage of city walls, the numerous Supreme Nagas, utilizing their Dominator's Body, charged unopposed, making two devastating sweeps at the gate and collapsing the defenders.

A fully armored Transcendent Blood Knight raised his blood-colored greatsword and pointed forward. A shadow of blood flashed as he covered hundreds of meters and collided with a Transcendent-level Supreme Naga from behind. The blood sword, over two meters long, pierced through the thick scales and the incredibly tough muscles and penetrated entirely through the body, with the tip emerging from the other side.

The impaled Whale Hunter Knight, as if unharmed, twisted its body and slashed with two dual hand greatswords. The Blood Knight, gripping the hilt tightly, attempted to pull the blade out but failed, as the Supreme Naga's twisting movements and formidable muscles clamped the blood sword, preventing immediate extraction.

This momentary error was fatal in Transcendent-level combat, especially since the Whale Hunter Knight was stronger than the Blood Knight. In that brief moment, the two dual hand greatswords cut down the hapless Blood Knight and his mount, who had no time to abandon the sword and escape.

Two grating sounds of splitting flesh and the anguished cries of "xi lululu" were heard, as the Blood Knight and his horse were cleaved in two, the thick armor sundered apart.

However, the moment the Whale Hunter Knight slew the Blood Knight, a raging pillar of fire several meters in diameter shot out from the central tower in the city, striking the Whale Hunter Knight. The terrifying power of this strategic Spell incinerated the lower half of the Whale Hunter Knight to ash. The dark red flames from the explosion covered hundreds of meters, blasting a huge crater at the city gate, killing countless Fishman Supreme Nagas and enemies in the process.

Yet this devastating power of the strategic Spell did not affect Lin Xiao's Clan members, whose faith and morale were high. Those who had already entered the city continued their attack, while more poured through the breach.

Whale Hunter Knights, strong in build and vitality, adopted a damage-for- damage combat style and pushed forward irresistibly. They were already stronger than the Blood Knights and fought even more fiercely, leaving the enemy powerless to fight back.

In less than five minutes, over a dozen Transcendent Blood Knights were killed or severely wounded. The remaining ones led their troops to abandon the outer areas of the city and retreated to the three Magic High Towers within the city, defending from their positions.

These three Magic High Towers were manned by Duke Alfonso's Mage team, not akin to the fabled Mage Towers. These structures were designed for war- not as powerful as Mage Towers-but they did possess the capability to greatly amplify the magic power of the casters inside and cast powerful war Spells.

In the mere teens of minutes since the siege began, these three Magic High Towers had already cast five volleys of terrifying war-level Spells, resulting in the death of two Transcendent Supreme Nagas and the serious injury of four others who had to withdraw from the fight.

However, his Clan's resolve remained firm, facing such terrifying magic with unstoppable morale. Instead, it was the city's defenders who couldn't withstand this indiscriminate terror and began to collapse first, with a few even abandoning their resistance and fleeing into the city.

Above in the Vault of Heaven, numerous Wingmen had already crossed over the walls into the city, dozens of Thunder Wings in their midst.

These Transcendent-level Thunder Wings inherently possessed the Talent to control lightning, and with the Magician profession specially conferred by Shen Yue Xin, their synergy became particularly formidable.

They clenched thin air with both hands, as lightning condensed into arm-thick, blazing blue lightning javelins that were fiercely hurled down.

"Boom, boom, boom…"

Every forearm-thick, two- to three-meter-long lightningbolt struck its target like a missile, exploding on impact. Countless bolts of lightning shot out, annihilating everything within range.

The damage radius isn't as wide as the Kobold Dragonvein Magician's Dragon Breath Flame Explosion, but the direct killing power within its range is horrendous, and the lightning also inflicts massive additional damage on evil creatures like undead demons.

And Vampires are exactly the kind of evil creatures that suffer under the onslaught of lightning, finding themselves squarely in the blast zone. A single lightning javelin thrown down can instantly kill any Vampire that isn't at the Transcendent Level, and even a Transcendent Level Blood Knight would be injured if hit.

Dozens of Thunder Magicians bombarded violently, reducing all buildings around the three Magic High Towers to rubble. Countless soldiers were killed by the shockwaves and scattered in all directions, only to be intercepted and wiped out by the encircling Fishman Great Naga.

Lin Xiao and his two companions stood quietly in the Void outside the city, looking towards Duke Alfonso, but their gaze wasn't fixed on the battle within the city. They didn't even care about the three Magic High Towers; these war structures with immense power but long cooldowns are useless without allied forces buying time. Currently besieged by the ceaseless attacks of the dozens of Thunder Magicians, the Blood Mages within the towers were too busy defending to consider launching their war spells in the next round.

Their focus was on the Duke of Vampires, Alfonso, who after completing his prayers, along with the deaths of numerous Fanatic Believers, finally received a response from the Semi-god Vampire who had begun to descend.

In their perception, a potent and malevolent will was manifesting in this space, gathering its strength.

If they were to strike now, they'd manage to disrupt it before its descent, as a Legendary Vampire stands no chance of stopping them.

But there was no 'if' for them, as this was precisely the opportunity they had longed for. Why would they interrupt it? They would rather the Semi-god Vampire sent a few more incarnations their way.

While the Blood God had yet to descend, Lin Xiao and Lin Xu Shen Yue Xin simultaneously ordered their troops to retreat, to avoid their subordinates being caught in the aftermath of a battle exceeding the Legendary level. Compared to their anticipation, the Duke of Vampires, Alfonso, was snapped out of his fervent state when his worshipped Blood God responded to his prayers and began to descend. It took him several seconds to recover after witnessing how the situation below had been decisively settled in just a short ten minutes or so.

If he wasn't a Legendary Vampire himself, he might have thought he'd been ensnared by an illusion.

How could his city have fallen so quickly?

Where is my army?

Where are my numerous forces?

Somehow, Alfonso had a sense of foreboding, but then he felt the divine might radiating from the Blood God Incarnate that was about to emerge from the Twisted Void above him, and the slight unease in his heart quickly dissipated, replaced by renewed confidence.

From afar, Lin Xiao found the changing expressions on Alfonso's face quite amusing and felt a tinge of envy.

For a Demigod to have a Legendary level Fanatic Believer was truly enviable.

The Power of Faith offered by a Legendary level Fanatic Believer was significant. In theory, a hundred Legendary Fanatic Believers could sustain a new Deity from falling from their God Level. According to the information Lin Xiao had obtained, the Vampire Kingdom contained several Duke of Vampires, and dozens of Marquis and Earl level Big Nobles, plus a large number of Transcendent level believers. The quality of this Semi-god Vampire's believers was quite high, theoretically enough to maintain a True God.

But having lived for so long, this Semi-god Vampire was still just a demi-god, not even a High-Level Demigod…

Well, Lin Xiao now had some doubts about this point, suspecting that this Vampire Semi-god might be more than just a Normal Demigod, but he had no evidence.

Regardless of being a Normal Demigod or a High-Level Demigod, one thing was certain: Divine Enthronement was truly not an easy feat.

After all, if there were a guaranteed way to Ignite the Divine Fire and ascend to godhood, anyone would seize the opportunity. That this Vampire Semi-god had lived for so long without ascending only suggested that they were uncertain of Divine Enthronement, or the conditions were still insufficient.

It was unclear what the Vampire Semi-god was doing; the descent was very slow. Their subordinates steadily retreated from the city, yet this Divine Incarnation had yet to fully manifest. However, they could clearly sense that the will of the Demigod had indeed arrived, only that the pace was unreasonably slow.

It seemed…

It seemed as though this Semi-god Vampire was too far away from here, unable to descend swiftly.

Alfonso stood alone in the Void, feeling that something was off. Why had his enemies stopped their assault? What were they waiting for?

Lin Xiao and the others also didn't dare to advance; they feared they might scare away the Blood God Incarnate. So there they both stood, at a standoff. Fortunately, after such a long wait, as a vast will appeared in this space, the Twisted Void above Alfonso parted, and stepping out from within was a silver- haired, handsome figure that Lin Xiao found…

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Chapter 157: Young Man, That's Not Right

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The so-called avatar is an embodiment formed by powerful beings above the rank of Demigod, centered around a fragment of Divinity and a wisp of consciousness, and condensed from a large amount of Divine Power.

That refers to those below the rank of Demigod, whereas the avatars of True Gods are different.

The strength of an avatar is linked to Divinity and Divine Power; the more Divine Power carried during the condensation of an avatar, the more potent it becomes.

It seems the Divine Power carried by this Demi-god Vampire is not very substantial, and although the aura it emits is powerful, they didn't feel much of a threat.

However, for Yu Xiu at a distance, the moment the Demi-god Vampire descended, he felt as if his head had been smashed by a sledgehammer, losing consciousness for more than ten seconds. When he came to, his face was as pale as paper. He hastily packed up his monocular and turned to flee.

Lin Xiao and the others are Divine Beings with their Divinity, thus they can disregard the oppression of a Demigod, but Yu Xiu is just an ordinary person in their eyes, practically a mortal.

Any mortal who faces a Demigod directly must endure a round of willpower saves.

Clearly, his will check failed, leaving him stunned for over ten seconds. In gaming terms, this would equate to being unable to attack or be attacked for numerous rounds-in a battle, he would be dead beyond resurrection.

As for the Half Beastmen under Yu Xiu's command, they fared even worse, scattering in terror after a round of will saves.

This is just a Demigod. Should an avatar of a True God descend, failing the will save would result in different outcomes depending on the True God's alignment and will.

If the True God is an Evil God, there is a high chance of instant death, with the soul harvested by the True God's avatar.

If the descended is not an Evil God, it is highly likely that the soul would be forcibly converted, changing their heart and will into that of a Fanatic Believer.

Of course, this is the worst-case scenario and only applies to mortals of weak will. Professionals with stronger wills would experience fear or shock akin to Yu Xiu's reaction.

After escaping to a certain distance and reaching a hillock, Yu Xiu was about to take out a whistle to gather his scattered Half Beastmen when the bracelet on his wrist vibrated slightly. He activated the device to reveal a projection of a familiar middle-aged man who said to him:

"Where are you now?"

Yu Xiu replied:

"I'm just outside Alfonso City."

"The company has new orders. Leave Alfonso immediately and head to the vicinity of Redstone Plateau Eagle Beak Gorge, at the boundary between the Vampire Kingdom and the Human Kingdom. The company has established a camp there."

"By the way, don't pass through any cities on the way."

The middle-aged man added a reminder:

"Recently, students from the Super Newcomer Summer Camp have been training in this plane, and all the Vampire Lords are their targets. They're likely to attack cities directly, so stay away to avoid being caught up in it."

Yu Xiu looked towards the massive cloud of blood covering the entire city in the distance, took a swig from his flask to steady his nerves, shrugged, and said: "No need to speculate. Someone is already attacking Alfonso, broke through within half an hour, and now even the Vampire Demi-god's avatar has descended. The scale of battle is huge."

"Wait a moment!"

The middle-aged man held out his hand, interrupting urgently:

"Are you saying the Vampire Demi-god's avatar has descended?"

"Yes, is there a problem, Supervisor?"

The man known as Supervisor showed a hint of joy and said:

"Then hurry back and try to acquire that fragment of Divinity constituting the avatar."

"Pfft!"

Yu Xiu sprayed a mouthful of liquor on the ground, covering his mouth and rolling his eyes:

Supervisor, are you joking? How am I supposed to acquire that Divinity? With my power, should I headbutt it away?"

The Supervisor also realized the impracticality of his request and quickly explained:

"Not asking you to steal it-wait until they defeat the Vampire Demi-god, then approach them in the company's name to purchase that fragment of Divinity. I'll instruct you on what to say when the time comes."

Yu Xiu fell silent, honestly resistant to the order, but he couldn't refuse. To defy it would make it difficult to get by in the future.

Fortunately, it was just a message; he didn't need to take action. Since the danger was small, he nodded and said,

"I can go, but I need to wait for them to finish and ensure it's safe before I go over."

"Okay. Once you complete this mission, you'll get upgraded to First Level privileges, and I'll transfer you to a better and more relaxed position," Assured by the supervisor's promise, Yu Xiu was finally satisfied. He stuffed the whistle into his mouth and blew hard to summon his Half Beastman subordinates.

Meanwhile, not far from Alfonso City, Shen Yuexin and Lin Xu also appeared as the Semi-God Vampire Incarnation did. She reached out her hand and a whip, sparkling with blazing white lightning, appeared. She flicked the whip lightly, and it stretched rapidly to hundreds of meters in length, cracking the void with loud pops. She shouted,

"Quickbattle, quick decision, to avoid prolonged nightmares."

Lin Xiao withdrew his slightly strange gaze, and with a shout, his figure expanded rapidly, transforming into a thirty-meter-tall Deity with a human upper body and a snake tail, similar to the Supreme Naga but with scales shining golden light. In his hand appeared a forty-meter-long Pure Gold Spear. This was a spoil of war obtained from the Snake People Demigod during the final exams. It was a good thing to be used as a weapon by a Demigod, and after being refined by Divine Power to remove the mental Branding left by the Snake People Demigod, it had now become his weapon.

As for Lin Xu's weapon, it was a gorgeously designed Golden Bow. When he pulled the string, a Golden Arrow made entirely from the Power of Faith slowly took shape.

The power of his bow depended entirely on how much Power of Faith was consumed by the condensed arrow-the more put in, the greater the power. As the three of them brandished their weapons, Lin Xiao knew it was his turn to act. He stomped on the void, creating a ripple that exploded out of nowhere, and then he transformed into a mass of golden light, charging towards the ' Blood Realm unfolded by the Vampire Demi-God Incarnation.

Interestingly, the Semi-God Vampire also possessed a Blood Realm, which was stronger than that of the Snake People. He could feel that this Blood Realm had the aging rules attached to it.

If mortals entered this Blood Realm, not only would the blood inside their bodies boil or be forcibly extracted, but they would also become weakened due to the influence of the aging rules.

The aging rules don't actually make you age-aging is related to the Supreme Time Law. It meant to produce a state of weakness similar to after life has aged. The Blood Realm was also not just about boiling your blood or forcibly extracting it—although these are the most common and powerful manifestations of the blood rules. The complete blood rule refers to the control of blood, which to ordinary people, the most terrifying aspect is having all blood forcibly drained or boiled.

These were the ways to use the blood rule, control from the level of rules that ordinary people simply cannot resist. This is the insurmountable gap between gods and mortals.

Only a Deity can fight against another Deity. Although Lin Xiao and his companions are not yet Demigods and do not have Godhood, their powerful Divinity plus the Power of Faith can negate the effect of the rules.

Of course, even legendary beings who are just beginning to get a grasp of the rules can forcibly resist the influence of the Field's rules for a short time.

It's worth noting that legendary creatures and legendary beings are different things.

Legendary creatures refer to the level of the creatures: Rank 6 and Rank 7 are Transcendent creatures, while Rank 8 and Rank 9 are legendary creatures, meaning they are as strong as a legend at this level.

Legendary beings, on the other hand, refer to mortals who have begun to master the power of rules and have legend-like Divine characteristics. Their strength has reached the echelon of Rank 8 in the evaluation of countless ordinary beings in the Main World against the Void Sea Crystal Wall System. There isn't much difference between the two in terms of physical fitness or ability, but they are distinguished by mastery over the rules.

For example, both legendary creatures and legendary beings have a strength of one hundred. A full-blown strike can inflict damage equivalent to fifty strength points on an enemy with fifty constitution. However, a legendary being who has mastered the rules can use the power of the rules to inflict several times fifty damage or use the power of the rules to bypass the enemy's defense and cause full damage.

Alternatively, even a Deity with a God Level of zero and Weak Divine Power, relying on the Transcendent Divine Power of 'Life and Death,' can instantly kill a Rank 8 or even a Rank 9 Legendary Creature but cannot instantly kill a Rank 8 legendary being who has mastered the rules.

Of course, this applies to most cases and does not include some abnormal legendary creature types, such as Dragons which have an innate, freakish talent and cannot be measured by common sense.

Additionally, if a creature can advance to Rank 10, there is no distinction between ordinary creatures and legendary beings; at this level, the being will undoubtedly possess extraordinary characteristics akin to legendary rules, the kind that is incredibly powerful.

The Duke of Vampires named Alfonso is actually a legendary creature and not a true legendary being who has mastered the rules.

To make a distinction, legendary beings who have grasped the rules are generally called True Legends or Legendary Beings, bearing the title of the strong.

But this is only the case for those from the Main World. Many natives of the Aboriginal planes also call some powerful species that have attained Rank 8 through their bloodline talents legends, which makes for a rather confusing categorization.

However, they know in their hearts that these legendary Vampire Dukes who have reached Rank 8 through their bloodline are not true legends.

"Boom!"

Lin Xiao, like a cannonball, crashed into the Blood Realm. His protective Divine Power collided with the Field's forces, and a terrifying impact burst forth, tearing a large chunk out of the Blood Realm that shrouded the entire city.

He thrust his Pure Gold Spear forcefully; golden transparent flames engulfed the spear and formed an inverted triangular cone at the tip. Like a hot knife through butter, it effortlessly tore through the thick blood, and a massive golden figure plunged into the vast expanse of the Blood Realm.

Simultaneously, as Shen Yuexin reached the edge of the Blood Realm, she lifted the Forbidden Whip and threw it with force. The blinding white Lightning Whip suddenly swelled and stretched endlessly, turning into a column thicker than a person and smashing into the Blood Realm. In an instant, the body of the Lightning Whip brightened up and exploded with countless tiny lightning bolts, spreading in all directions, and its Purifying Power instantly cleansed the portions of the Blood Realm it covered.

Compared to her overpowering whip, Lin Xu's approach was very low-key, so much so that he hadn't even made a move.

From the beginning, he had been charging up. A Golden Arrow was nocked onto the bow and pulled, but he didn't shoot it for a long time.

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Chapter 158: The Remnants of a Shattered Demiplane

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This is the power of Godhood and Field, with Godhood being the embodiment of the rules, and Field being the extension of the rules' power. Through Godhood, one masters the rules and manifests their mighty force in the form of the Field.

However, this is just an avatar of a Demigod, not a very powerful one at that. The power of the Field is limited. If a True God were to take action personally, Lin Xiao, even as a Divine Being, wouldn't be able to withstand the power of the Field and would be drained of all Divine Blood on the spot, turning into a dried- up corpse.

Therefore, when Lin Xiao erupted with over five million Power of Faith, his tremendous Divine Power instantly shattered the Blood Realm acting upon him, and his figure flickered as he charged out from the crashing blood crests.

At the same time, Shen Yuexin's Forbidden Whip lashed out again. Propelled by the Power of Faith, the Lightning Whip rapidly swelled into a thick, straight, thundering rod of lightning that slammed into the sea of blood, disintegrating the dense blood and piercing a massive hole straight through the depth of the Blood Realm.

The quality of this Forbidden Whip in her hands definitely reached the level of a Demigod Artifact, and it was even one of the finest among its peers; otherwise, it wouldn't be so powerful to tear through the Blood Realm easily.

One should know that Lin Xiao had just exploded with over five million Power of Faith barely to extricate himself, and that was just escape. In contrast, with her simple whip lash, using perhaps only about one million Power of Faith, she could easily obliterate large sections of the Realm. It felt as if a red-hot iron rod were easily piercing into solid butter; her displayed power was far stronger than Lin Xiao's.

In comparison with her weapon, the Golden Spear in Lin Xiao's hands couldn't even be counted among Demigod Artifacts. It was only an embryo of a Demigod Artifact, requiring constant nourishment to increase its power.

Under normal progression, it would probably take hundreds of years of continuous nurturing until he became a Demigod for this spear to potentially be cultivated into a Demigod Artifact.

Thinking of how early she got such a powerful Demigod Artifact, and he was still using one stolen from others, the gap was…

"She really is a low-key little wealthy lady. Love it!"

Shortly, Lin Xiao realized that he had gone from being the main attacker to a mere onlooker. The combat power of a full-fledged Demigod was much more terrifying than he had imagined—just one avatar was giving them far more pressure than the Snake People Demigod they originally faced.

The combined strength of the three of them was more than ten times superior to the team from the final exam, yet they could only fight to a draw against a single avatar of the Vampire Demigod.

By this, it was obvious how significantly weakened the Snake People Demigod had been back then; burning several points of Divinity, depleted of Divine Power, all believers killed, nearly on his last breath, he nearly wiped them out. Lucky for them, the Divine Power brought by this Demigod Avatar was insufficient—if the Divine Power had been ample, Lin Xiao might not have been able to burst free just now.

Shen Yuexin led the offensive, each swing of her Forbidden Whip turning into a colossal pillar of lightning that smashed down, detonating swathes of lightning that incinerated the viscous blood, continuously draining the Divine Power of the Vampire Demigod Avatar.

Lin Xu, meanwhile, kept his distance, drawing his bow and aiming at the Blood Realm but not engaging.

In the beginning, Lin Xiao circled the edge of the Blood Realm looking for an opportunity to sneak attack, but the Demigod Avatar remained hidden within the Blood Realm, not coming out. The Forbidden Whip kept smashing large chunks of the Blood Realm, but the true body of the avatar remained elusive. What perplexed him most was the absence of the Legendary Vampire Afonso. After all, he was a Rank 8 Legendary combatant. Although not a true Legend, he was not weak and was qualified to partake in their level of battle. Holding at least one of them off for a short time should not be an issue.

But in reality, since the Vampire Demi-god Incarnation descended, Afonso had been engulfed by the Blood Realm and had vanished from sight, yet to show up again.

Moreover, aside from the initial series of moves to suppress Lin Xiao, who had entered the Blood Realm, the Vampire Demigod Avatar had not dealt with Shen Yuexin and Lin Xu outside the Realm, apparently always on the defense.

"This isn't right, why won't he come out? What is he doing?"

When things go abnormally, it usually means trouble. The unknown is terrifying, and the enemy's abnormal behavior put them on alert. Lin Xiao shouted to his two teammates:

"I feel like if we dragon any longer, something bad will happen."

On the other side, Shen Yuexin, who had flung twenty or thirty whips to obliterate a large part of the Blood Realm without seeing the enemy, nodded vigorously:

"I also feel something's off. The night brings many dreams—let's go all out!"

After that, Lin Xiao heard Shen Yuexin's voice in his ear:

"You attack first to blast open an area, then I'll follow through to open a channel and locate the target, and Lin Xu will deliver the fatal blow!"

Lin Xiao immediately understood her intent, nodded, and his pupils blazed with a golden luster. His right hand gripped the Golden Spear tightly, raising it as his mind focused, and a whole thirty million Faith value began to burn.

According to the conversion rate where one million Power of Faith can be turned into a single point of Divine Power, thirty million Power of Faith could be transformed into thirty points of Divine Power, equivalent to an explosion of thirty units of Divine Power. The space around the Golden Spear began to distort and emit an incredible suction, as though even the air and light were being drawn into the spear.

If a mortal were present, they would notice that there was no Golden Spear in his hand, just a distortion that even absorbed the sight.

With a fierce launch towards the front, there was a flash of spatial distortion and then gone.

"Boom!"

The Blood Realm that engulfed the entire city suddenly exploded at its edge, and an invisible tide of golden fluctuations pushed forward, shattering a large portion of the Blood Realm.

At the same time, the color of the Forbidden Whip in Shen Yuexin's hands suddenly changed; the blue and white lightning transformed into a column of purple lightning whips. With a crack of her whip, the body of the purple lightning whip stretched out instantaneously over a distance of one to two thousand meters, blasting a hole nearly two thousand meters long and over ten meters in diameter into the Blood Realm that had been torn open, until it was blocked by an indescribable sinister figure formed from viscous blood.

Lin Xiao, who had been watching all of this unfold, narrowed his eyes in surprise as he realized that the evil figure in the center of the Blood Realm was none other than the Duke of Vampires, Alfonso.

No, to be precise, the physical body of the legendary vampire Alfonso had already been taken over by the will of the semi-god vampire; the true Legendary Vampire had already died.

No wonder there had been no sightings; so this was the situation.

Taking over the body of a legendary vampire who was a fanatic believer, the avatar of the semi-god vampire suddenly had a vessel in the form of the Non-existing Tree and could now withstand greater damage and wield more powerful techniques through the body of the legendary vampire. The existence of the avatar would also last longer and would not collapse like before if the Divine Power was exhausted.

Previously, it was only a Divine Incarnation based on that little Divinity and will. Once its field was breached, the core of the incarnation would be hit directly, leading to the destruction of the incarnation.

Now that it had a physical body, even if the Blood Realm was breached, the enemy would have to kill the flesh before they could harm the core.

The series of changes were astonishing, but at that moment the arrow was already on the string and had to be shot.

Lin Xu decisively seized the fleeting opportunity and released a pre-charged arrow.

Invisible to the eye, only felt in perception, that trace of trajectory passed through the path created by Shen Yuexin's blast, and in the next second, the Duke of Vampires…no, it should be the Vampire Demi-god Incarnation, suddenly opened its eyes as space abruptly brightened; a dark gold blood vortex appeared out of nowhere, consolidating, and the trajectory directly hit the center of the vortex, disappearing like a stone sinking into the sea.

But a second later, the Blood God Incarnate shook violently, and an invisible wave of distortion exploded outwards in the form of an aura, spreading like lightning in all directions.

Then, the vast Blood Realm collapsed layer by layer, the solidified seas of blood breaking into countless fragments, dissipating, diluting, and disappearing.

After that, the world became clear, and four figures appeared suspended in the void.

"He's injured."

The legendary vampire had a bloodless void in his chest, caused by the fatal injury from Lin Xu's arrow, which he had been charging for who knows how long. While it did not succeed in killing the Vampire Demi-god Incarnation, it inflicted massive damage, causing even the Field to be unsustainable.

What a pity that the enemy had a body of legendary level; had it not been for this body, Lin Xu's charged arrow would have certainly killed the Blood God Incarnate.

However, the difference was not significant since it was merely an incarnation with little God Power. Even with a new body and blocking the arrow, it wouldn't have mattered much; the difference would only mean a slightly prolonged existence.

Unexpectedly, after the collapse of the Field, the Vampire Demi-god Incarnation glanced at them indifferently, then suddenly rose to the sky and fled before the eyes of many believers in the city.

This was quite surprising; escaping under the watchful eyes of so many believers would deal a tremendous blow to their faith, potentially leading to a mass departure and loss of belief.

However, though their reaction was surprising, they were prepared. With a flick of the Forbidden Whip in Shen Yuexin's hand, it rapidly extended thousands of meters, and a thick column of purple lightning blasted straight into a void.

"Boom!"

A ring of lightning exploded, and the Vampire Demi-god Incarnation, which had ascended to the sky and disappeared from view, was forcibly blasted out from over a thousand meters up in the void.

At the same time, Lin Xiao rocketed upwards, burning a full twenty million of Power of Faith, with golden flames erupting forth. In his hand, the Golden Spear distorted once again, and he pointed it towards the Vampire Demi-god who had just appeared a kilometer away:

"Salted Fish Charge!"

The Supreme Naga's True Body vanished in a flash.

A thousand meters away, the Vampire Demi-god Incarnation, which was forcefully blasted out, showed its first expression of shock on its otherwise impassive face. Its arms raised and claws bended to manipulate the void, twisting it into a massive blood-colored vortex.

In the instant when the blood-red distortion took shape, a segment of the Golden Spear, wrapped in golden flames, blasted into the distortion. After a moment of stalemate, the tip of the spear laboriously pierced through the twisting vortex, slowly heading towards the Vampire Demi-god Incarnation behind it.

Simultaneously, a dazzling flash of golden light shot from Lin Xu, ascending directly into the sky, making a large curve and descending from the heavens to hit the Vampire Demi-god Incarnation's forehead.

"Bang!"

The twisting vortex instantly collapsed, and the Golden Spear, unobstructed, struck the face of the Vampire Demi-god Incarnation, detonating its head to smithereens.

A dot of enticing golden light from the shattered head

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Chapter 159: Ancestors from 300,000 Years Ago

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This is the trace of Divinity that made up the Vampire Demi-god Incarnation, and the consequence of merging with a physical body is being bound by it. Once the body is destroyed, there will be a certain period of discomfort. During this period, it is quite easy to be captured, leading to the collapse of the incarnation.

That is to say, the incarnation of this Semi-god Vampire just bit the dust.

There wasn't much communication, not like the villains in novels that have so much to say, they started fighting as soon as they arrived.

There weren't earth-shattering battles either. Aside from the initial probing where Lin Xiao suffered a slight setback, the three of them seriously took on the Blood God Incarnate and easily finished it off.

After all, this isn't a novel or a film, there's no need for so many lines. They were already fighting here, who would have the time for idle chatter? Confrontation first, talk later.

They wouldn't be far stronger than the opposing side and still drag the fight out before finishing it off.

This reminded Lin Xiao of a classic character from a movie in his previous life, Captain America, who was just a mortal but managed to evenly match everyone he fought, taking forever to beat a minor enemy and still managing to be evenly matched with the final boss, Thanos. It was ridiculous.

Naturally, the outcome goes without saying. It was just an incarnation of a demigod. The divine power invested wasn't much; how could it withstand them?

Moreover, from this battle, one thing was certain: this Vampire Demigod was indeed just a Normal Demigod, not a High-Level Demigod. If it were a High- Level Demigod, the outcome might be difficult to say.

The combat power difference between a High-Level Demigod's incarnation and that of a Normal Demigod is more than just a little. To put it this way, a standard incarnation of a High-Level Demigod could easily suppress a Normal Demigod who has just recently ascended. It's like how the Sea God only sent an incarnation and ended up in a mutually destructive fight with the Snake People Demigod during the final exams.

The Sea God might have had the home field advantage of the ocean, but the Snake People Demigod wasn't newly ascended either.

He reached out to collect the broken Legendary Vampire Corpse; this thing had been tainted with Divinity, making the corpse more valuable than that of a common Rank 8 Legendary Creature.

Carrying the Legendary Vampire Corpse towards the direction of the city, Lin Xiao raised his gun and shouted:

"Attack!"

Having witnessed their Deity slay an Evil God, the morale of Slarda, who roared and charged first, was immensely boosted. Lin Xu and Shen Yue Xin's Clans followed closely, starting the final siege.

Several kilometers outside the city, Yu Xiu witnessed a tense, brief, and exciting godly battle. The spectacular display of power in each move of both sides left him so palpitating that he didn't dare to do anything other than peek out from behind a small hill with one eye open, looking on with envy.

His Half Beastman subordinates were even worse off, cowering behind the small hill, not even daring to raise their heads.

Only after the Blood God Incarnate fell did he breathe a sigh of relief. He loosened his wide robe's collar and exhaled lightly, sending the latest news to his superior.

After hearing the news of the Blood God Incarnate's fall, the supervisor was overjoyed and hurriedly urged:

"Hurry up and find them. The company has just issued an order willing to exchange three Divinity Cards for that bit of Divinity from the Blood God." "What the heck?"

Yu Xiu was surprised and asked instinctively:

"Why is that? Three Divinity Cards in exchange for a bit of Divinity? Is there a secret to this bit of Divinity from the Blood God?"

The supervisor glared at him and scolded:

"Don't ask so many questions. Just follow the orders."

Yu Xiu shrugged his shoulders, turned around to prepare his Half Beastman who had recovered from the Divine pressure, and casually asked:

"Speaking of which, our actions on this plane are not exactly legal. These elite students have big shots looking out for them. Is it appropriate for us to interact with them?"

The supervisor, who seemed to be busy with something, paused after hearing his words and replied indifferently:

"If we don't talk about it, who will know whether our actions are legal or not? They are only here in this plane temorarily for experience and in no conflict with us. As long as our actions are not exposed, we are legal citizens of the Human Federation."

Yu Xiu responded with a laugh:

"Right, I am now a legally registered adventurer of the Federation from the Outland, completely normal to conduct some trade with them."

Alfonso, the war was nearing its end.

After the fall of the Blood God Incarnate, the battle was essentially decided.

The followers within the city didn't mind the scene of the Blood God Incarnate escaping; they only saw the moment their worshipped Blood God was slain by the Evil God, their morale plummeted instantly. With the support of the three Magic High Towers, the remaining defenders immediately started breaking out.

At the same time, the residual Mage team, along with a few select elites, took advantage of the defenders' breakout to distract their enemies and escaped to the castle. They found several descendants of the Duke of Vampires, Afonso, and used the Teleportation Array to transfer all the remaining elites away in one go.

Lin Xiao was aware of the spatial fluctuations caused by the activation of the Teleportation Array but did not stop them.

Firstly, he was discussing with Lin Xu and Shen Yue Xin on how to divide the bit of Divinity and other spoils of war, and was distracted at the time.

Besides, what escaped were just a small portion of the elites, with the main forces already trapped inside the city.

Their goal was to destroy the main faith of the Blood God, and it didn't matter much whether they pursued the few who fled or not. The current priority was how to divide that bit of Divinity.

There was only a bit of Divinity, yet it had to be divided among three people. That could be tricky.

Such prized possession is surely desired by all, but there is only so much…

The three of them were silent for a long time before Lin Xiao finally spoke:

"With only one point of Divinity, it definitely cannot be divided. How about this, I'll give up on this point of Divinity and exchange it with other spoils of war. How about I take this Legendary Vampire Corpse?"

Just like he said, with only one point of Divinity that cannot be split, someone will surely give up. Rather than fighting over it and souring the mood, it's better to take the initiative to give it up and take other valuable spoils of war.

For example, this corpse of a Legendary Vampire and those three Magic High Towers; Lin Xiao was quite interested in them.

Later, after dismantling the three Magic High Towers and moving them into his own Divine Realm, he would have the Wise Goblins study them to see if they could reverse-engineer the technology of the Magic High Towers.

Although these towers have a long spell cooldown, their power is immense. A hit on a typical Rank 6 Transcendent troop could mean instant death. Having a bunch of these towers in the Divine Realm could greatly increase its defense capability. In case of another invasion, the defensive power of the Divine Realm would be significantly enhanced.

As he relinquished his claim, Lin Xu glanced at Shen Yue Xin, about to gracefully give up as well, but it was she who waved her hand first and said:

"Then I won't take it either, let's exchange for something else."

Her demeanor seemed rather contemptuous.

Lin Xu was stunned for a moment, looking at Lin Xiao and Shen Yue Xin with a strange gaze. Suddenly, he felt that the piece of Divinity in his hand was not as desirable as he thought.

After distributing the Divinity and the Legendary Vampire Corpse, they began to divide the other spoils of war, which included the vast Alfonso City that had been conquered, containing no small amount of resources.

Since Lin Xu got that point of Divinity, he could not participate in the distribution of the other spoils of war, meaning everything in the large city was his and Shen Yue Xin's.

Yes, everything—all of the city.

It's a rare opportunity to come across a major city from a civilized plane, so of course, they had to plunder it thoroughly. For them, the new recruits in the Divine Realm who lacked everything, even a pile of stones held value.

Of course, this was just a figure of speech; they weren't really going to dismantle the entire city and move every stone into the Divine Realm—it was just an expression.

After all, the city was too large to dismantle and fit entirely; the Divine Realm had limited carrying capacity and couldn't absorb too many foreign objects at once.

Having negotiated how to divide the spoils of war, what remained was to wait for their subordinates to completely overrun the city.

The trio stood atop one of the city's Magic High Towers in the center, overlooking the battlefield. With the Mage team gone, the three Magic High Towers also ceased firing, and now that they were there, no one came to bother them.

A group of Supreme Naga guarded the perimeter of the Magic High Tower, while Lin Xiao allowed the Wise Goblins to enter one and scavenge it. In the neighboring Magic High Tower, many of Shen Yue Xin's Wingmen were searching.

The scavenged items were all moved to the plaza beside the Magic High Tower and sorted. They would open the Divine Realm Gate and move them in once they had accumulated enough.

When the plaza was piled with goods, including several heaps extracted from the Magic High Towers and a small pile of books, Lin Xiao picked up a book with genuine interest and began to read.

In this plane, what's called a 'book' is actually a long scroll, like parchment, vellum, or various exotic beast skin scrolls, with a vast number of words recorded on them. If the content is too extensive, it's divided into volumes.

A quick review of these scrolls revealed some truly valuable finds, such as a complete foundational set of scrolls for the Blood Mage Extraordinary Profession.

Unfortunately, it's not complete, only containing the basic subjects for the first three levels, offering education only up to a Level 3 Blood Mage. Presumably, the important scrolls were all taken away by the fleeing Blood Mage Group.

In that case…

It couldn't be said to be completely worthless; for Divine Territory Players with clans of vampires, it's quite valuable, albeit limited in value.

Besides, even if there were a full set of Blood Mage profession scrolls, it wouldn't be of use to him. He didn't have vampires under his command; he couldn't leverage this Extraordinary Profession and would only be able to exchange it with others.

On the other hand, the search had yielded quite a few interesting items from both the three Magic High Towers and the Duke's castle that piqued his interest, so Lin Xiao crouched next to the designated pile of scavenged goods from the castle and began his scrutinizing.

In a box cushioned with luxurious cloth, he found three unknown dusky-yellow beast eggs. Not knowing what sort of beast eggs they were, he decided to take them back to the Divine Realm to try hatching them.

Next, he found a scroll tied with a silver ribbon, intricately patterned, and Lin Xiao sensed a magical trap on it. With a thought, he tried to activate a wisp of Divinity, attempting to break through the magical trap. Then, with a 'crackle', sparks flew, and the scroll suddenly ignited into flames.

"Pfft!"

Turning around, he saw Shen Yue Xin covering her mouth with a light chuckle. He grabbed the burnt scroll in his palm, crushing it to ashes, and shrugged awkwardly. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly sensed something and turned his head, seeing his faithful follower, Slarda, swimming over and kneeling before him to say:

"Great Creator, there's a human who says he has brought an extremely important message for you."

"A human?"

Lin Xiao's eyelids twitched upwards as he saw the nervous Yu Xiu standing not far away.

Feeling the sharp gaze that swept across his body like a knife, Yu Xiu hurriedly extended his hand and called out:

"Your Excellency, I am an adventurer from the Main World."

"An adventurer from the Main World?"

Lin Xiao was quite surprised and waved his hand to signal him to come over.

Since he was an adventurer from the Main World, both Lin Xiao and Lin Xu Shen Yue Xin regarded him with different attitudes than they would a native human.

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Chapter 160: Rule Change

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An "Incarnation" is an avatar formed by a demigod or a more powerful being, taking a sliver of their divinity and a thread of their consciousness as the core, and gathering a large amount of divine power.

This refers to those below demigods, and the incarnations of True Gods are different.

The strength of the incarnation is related to the divinity and the divine power. The more divine power carried during the condensation of the incarnation, the more powerful the incarnation will be.

The divine power carried by this Vampire Demi-god doesn't seem very abundant, and although the aura emitted is formidable, they didn't feel a great threat.

However, for Yu Xiu who was at a distance, the moment the Vampire Demi-god descended was like his head being struck by a hammer. He lost consciousness for a full ten seconds, and when he came to, his face was as pale as paper. He hastily packed up his monocular and fled.

Lin Xiao and the others are Divine Beings, with their own divinity, they can ignore the pressure from a demigod, but Yu Xiu is just an ordinary person, a mortal in their eyes.

Any mortal who faces a demigod directly must undergo a round of willpowersaving checks.

Clearly, Yu Xiu failed his willpower check, getting shocked for more than ten seconds. If this were a game, it would be akin to being unable to attack or defend for several turns, meaning he would have died a long time ago if this occurred in a fight.

As for Yu Xiu's Half Beastman subordinates, they fared even worse. After a round of willpower checks, all of them fell into fear and scattered in all directions.

And this is just a demigod. If it were the incarnation of a True God descending, failing the willpower check could mean different outcomes depending on the alignment and will of the True God.

If the True God is an Evil God, there's a high likelihood that instant death will occur, with the soul harvested by the incarnation of the Evil God.

If the descending deity is not an Evil God, there's a high probability of being forcefully converted both mentally and in will to become one of their Fanatic Believers.

Of course, this is the worst-case scenario, only applicable to mortals with weak willpower. For Professionals with relatively strong will, it would be like Yu Xiu's experience, falling into a state of fear or shock.

After fleeing to a safe distance and arriving at a small hilltop, Yu Xiu was about to use a whistle to gather his scattered Half Beastman subordinates when suddenly his wristband vibrated slightly. He activated it and a projection of a familiar middle-aged man appeared, asking:

"Where are you now?"

Yu Xiu replied:

"I'm outside Alfonso City."

"The company has a new order for you: leave Alfonso immediately and head to the vicinity of Redstone Plateau Eagle Beak Gorge, at the border of the Vampire Kingdom and the Human Kingdom. The company has established a camp there."

"By the way, avoid passing through cities on your way."

The middle-aged man cautioned:

"Lately, students from the Super Newcomer Summer Camp are undergoing training on this plane, and all Vampire Lords are their targets. They're likely to attack directly, so avoid the cities to prevent getting affected by the fallout."

Yu Xiu, looking at the vast blood cloud that had spread over the city from afar, took a swig from his flask to calm his nerves, shrugged, and said:

"No need to guess, someone is already attacking Alfonso. They've breached the city in less than half an hour. Even the Vampire Demi-god's Incarnation has descended; the scale of the battle is massive."

"Wait a minute!"

The middle-aged man raised his hand to interrupt, hastily asking:

"Are you saying the Vampire Demi-god has sent down an Incarnation?"

"Yes, is there a problem, Manager?"

The man known as Manager showed a hint of pleasure on his face and said:

"Then hurry back and try to get ahold of that bit of divinity that makes up the demigod's Incarnation."

"Pfft!"

A mouthful of liquor sprayed onto the ground as Yu Xiu covered his mouth and rolled his eyes:

"Are you joking, Manager? How am I supposed to get that bit of divinity? I don't have the strength to fight for it."

The middle-aged man also realized this and quickly explained:

"I'm not asking you to fight for it. Wait until they defeat the Vampire Demigod, then go there and offer to buy the divinity on behalf of the company. When the time comes, I'll tell you how to phrase it."

Yu Xiu fell silent, genuinely reluctant to accept this order but unable to refuse because it would affect his future prospects.

Fortunately, he only needed to relay a message and didn't have to take action himself, so the risk wasn't great. He nodded and said:

"I can go, but I have to wait until they've finished the fight, when it's safe to approach."

"That's fine. Once you complete this task, you'll get a promotion to First Level authority and I'll have you transferred to a better, easier position," promised the Manager, and with this assurance, Yu Xiu was finally satisfied. He put the whistle to his lips and blew hard to gather his Half Beastman subordinates.

Meanwhile, not far from the distant Alfonso City, Shen Yuexin and Lin Xu appeared just as the Vampire Demigod-avatar manifested. She reached out her hand, and a whip crackling with intense white lightning appeared. With a gentle flick, the lightning-shaped whip extended to over a hundred meters, popping loudly as it tore through the void. She exclaimed in a clear voice:

"Let's make it quick and avoid any unnecessary complications."

Lin Xiao withdrew his slightly odd gaze and shouted sharply. His figure swiftly surged in size, transforming into a colossal Naga over thirty meters tall, similar in appearance to the Supreme Naga but with a body covered in shining golden scales. With a gesture, he summoned a forty-meter-long golden spear into his hand.

This was a trophy he had taken from the Snake People Demigod during the final exams. A weapon used by a Demigod was certainly of high quality. After cleansing it with Divine Power to remove the spiritual Branding left by the Snake People Demigod, it had become his weapon.

Lin Xu's weapon, on the other hand, was a splendidly designed golden bow. As he drew the bowstring, an arrow made purely of the Power of Faith took form slowly.

The power of this bow depended entirely on how much Power of Faith was consumed to condense the arrow—heavier investment meant greater destructive strength.

As the three of them brandished their weapons, Lin Xiao knew it was his turn. He stomped on the Void, causing ripples to explode out of nowhere, and then he turned into a mass of golden light charging towards the Blood Realm spread by the Vampire Demigod Avatar.

Coincidentally, the Vampire Demigod also possessed a Blood Realm, yet stronger than that of the Snake People. He could feel that this Blood Realm came with an additional aging rule.

If a mortal were to enter this Blood Realm, not only would their blood boil or be forcibly extracted, but they would also be affected by the aging rule, becoming weakened as a result.

The aging rule does not literally cause aging, as that would involve the Supreme Time Law. It means to induce a state of weakness similar to that experienced during life's natural decline.

And the Blood Realm is not just about making blood boil or forcibly extracting the target's blood; those are just the most commonly used and most potent manifestations of the Blood Law. The complete Blood Law refers to control over blood, and for ordinary people, the most terrifying aspect is, naturally, to have all their blood forcibly drained or boiled.

These are the ways to utilize the Blood Law, controls from the level of laws that mortals can't possibly withstand. This is the chasm-like gap between Gods and mortals.

Only Deities can oppose other Deities. Although Lin Xiao and his companions were not yet Demigods and did not have Godhood, their potent Divinity, combined with the Power of Faith, enabled them to negate the influence of these rules.

Of course, legendary warriors who have just begun to touch upon rules can also resist the influence of domain rules for a short time.

It's worth mentioning that legendary troops and legendary warriors are actually two different concepts.

Legendary troops refer to troops' rankings: Rank 6 or Rank 7 Transcendent troops, Rank 8 or Rank 9 Legendary troops, suggesting that troops at this level are as powerful as legends.

Legend warriors refer to those who have begun to master the rules. To compete, each student selects three cards from their personal card deck to create a Combat Card Group for battling other students.

The loser is immediately eliminated.

The winner, after each victorious round, can choose one card from their pile to add to their card group before facing the next opponent. This continues until they defeat all opponents to become the ultimate victor, earning the ownership of this God's Tomb.

It's winner takes all, with nothing for the runner-up.

The prize was indeed tempting, but a subsequent note caused Lin Xiao to frown deeply.

At Major General Keri's insistence, each contestant from the Ivy League Alliance of High Schools started with one hundred and twenty cards, which is twenty more than the players from the HuaXia District Summer Camp.

Besides, the very first card drawn by a contestant of the High School Alliance is guaranteed to be of an Epic quality or higher. If the first card drawn is of a Five- Star level, it must be a Five-Star card of Epic quality or above.

This advantage given to his own people by Major General Keri was also the condition he was willing to agree on for allowing the HuaXia District the opportunity to compete for the God's Tomb.

Lin Xiao, while feeling the unfairness, could also understand. He would do the same in Keri's place.

As the saying goes, "Science knows no country borders, but scientists do;" it's perfectly normal to give an advantage to one's own people.

Ordinary mortals who possess strength similar to that of Divinity with legendary characteristics, have reached Rank 8 in the evaluation of countless ordinary beings in the Main World by the Void Sea Crystal Wall System. There is not much difference between the two in terms of physical constitution or ability; the biggest difference lies in the grasp of Rules.

For example, both Legendary troops and Legendary warriors can have a strength of one hundred, and a full-force strike could inflict damage equal to fifty strength points on an enemy with a constitution of fifty. However, Legendary warriors who have mastered Rules can leverage the power of Rules to deal several times the damage of fifty or even, through the power of Rules, ignore the enemy's defenses to cause full damage.

Or to put it another way, even a weak Divine power with a God Level of zero, with the transcendent Divine power 'Life and Death,' could instantly kill a Rank 8 or even a Rank 9 Legendary creature, but could not instantly kill a Rank 8 Legendary warrior who has mastered Rules.

Of course, this applies to the vast majority of cases and does not include certain abnormal Legendary troops, such as Dragons with innate abnormal talents, which should not be measured by common standards.

Beyond this, if a troop manages to ascend to Rank 10, there is no distinction between ordinary troops and Legendary warriors. A creature that reaches this level would undoubtedly have transcendental characteristics comparable to Legendary Rules, strong to an outrageous degree.

And this so-called Legendary Vampire Duke named Alfonso is actually a Legendary creature, not a real Legendary warrior who has mastered Rules.

To make a distinction, those who have mastered Rules are generally referred to as true Legends or Legendary warriors, bearing the name of the strong.

However, this is only for people from the Main World; many Natives Planes also call those powerful species who reach Rank 8 by virtue of their bloodline talents Legends, making the classification quite chaotic.

But they know in their hearts that these Legendary Vampire Dukes, who have achieved Rank 8 through their bloodline, are not true Legends.

"Boom!"

Lin Xiao, like a shell, charged into the Blood Realm. The terrifying impact of his protective Divine Power colliding with the realm's power burst forth, ripping a large chunk out of the Blood Realm covering the entire city.

He thrust his Pure Gold Spear with a fierce motion; a golden, transparent flame intertwined around the Pure Gold Spear at the tip formed a triangular inverted cone. It cut through the viscous blood with ease, as a knife through butter, and a massive golden figure plunged straight into the vast expanse of the Blood Realm.

At the same time, Shen Yuexin, who was already on the edge of the Blood Realm, raised her Forbidden Whip and lashed out fiercely. The blazing white Lightning Whip suddenly swelled massively, stretching out indefinitely and transforming into a Lightning Whip column thicker than a person, crashing into the Blood Realm. In an instant, the Lightning Whip lit up brightly, exploding into countless tiny bolts of lightning spreading in all directions; the Purification power of lightning instantly cleansed the sections of the Blood Realm within the range of the tiny bolts.

Compared to her fierce blow, Lin Xu's approach was extremely low-key, so much so that he seemed to not have taken any action.

He had been charging up from the very beginning; a Golden Arrow was nocked and drawn on the bow but was delayed in shooting out and, as the time passed,

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Chapter 161: Tailored Rules?

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This matter, of course, could not be plainly discussed with them. Lin Xiao only mentioned that he had a sudden insight but did not reveal what it was.

They weren't the type to pry for details, and without further questions, Lin Xu simply handed over a bit of divinity and asked,

"Did you sense anything just now?"

Lin Xiao nodded and said,

"I found that the state of the vampire demigod seems a bit off at the moment, quite strange, I can't quite put my finger on what it resembles."

Lin Xu gave a slight smile and said,

"If I am not wrong, that vampire demigod isn't even in this plane."

"Not in this plane?"

"Right, not in this plane. Just now, I stealthily probed with my will and found that its true body is very far from here, and I also discovered a set of coordinates from the lingering will of the vampire demigod," Lin Xu explained.

Lin Xiao immediately showed interest and asked,

"So, do you know where those coordinates are, and what they are coordinates of?"

Lin Xu's lips curled into a strange expression as he lightly uttered two words,

"God's Tomb!"

"God's Tomb?"

"Correct, coordinates to a God's Tomb, and the true body of the vampire demigod has already entered the God's Tomb."

Lin Xiao instantly understood why that Yu Ming trade company was willing to exchange three points of divinity for this bit of divinity. The claim that the company had a master with the Blood God's Duty was pure bunk; he estimated that the main aim was probably these coordinates.

He looked up at Lin Xu who also appeared interested, and then over to Shen Yuexin, who shrugged and said,

"I'm quite interested too."

"Hahaha!"

All three of them laughed, and Lin Xiao rubbed his hands together and said,

"Then we should not delay, let's quickly clear the battlefield and set out."

Compared to a God's Tomb, the spoils of war in Alfonso City held little attraction now.

Indeed, only the tombs of fallen True Gods are worthy of being called God's Tombs; the resting places of fallen demigods do not merit such a title.

Of course, when a True God falls, they plunge into Starworld, and their bodies become floating islands scattered throughout the Starworld. The mortal plane generally doesn't have the bodies of deities, and even if it does, those are usually remnants of a True God's will, not an actual burial of a deity's true body.

And the remnants of a True God's will or soul are formidable. Even demigods risk falling when entering the tombs of some powerful True Gods.

But, as the saying goes, fortune favors the bold.

Anything buried in a True God's tomb would be considered treasure to them. The level of a True God is significantly higher than their current level; artifacts used by a True God are also something they dream of possessing. Plundering a God's Tomb could yield greater rewards than slaying a demigod.

It's not certain that they could get the best treasures from the God's Tomb, but acquiring just a small portion of artifacts beyond their current level would already count as a huge win.

What's most crucial is that a true God's Tomb typically has God Guards, who are not just ceremonial like their own, but actual divine protectors, literally imbued with Divinity.

Indeed, the core guards of a True God's Divine Palace are Divine Beings; some powerful True God's guards even include demigods. Only these divinely powered God Guards can withstand the constant radiation of Divine Power near the Divine Palace and can fend off attacks from True God-level enemies.

Over centuries and millennia, these God Guards' power wanes due to erosion, significantly lowering the difficulty of defeating them. With each one killed, that's one point of divinity gained, and if there are many God Guards, one can't fathom how many points of divinity could be collected.

After discussing, the three lost interest in the tournament and quickly ordered their subordinates to scavenge anything valuable in the city to prepare for departure.

Having destroyed Alfonso City and even killed a vampire demigod's incarnation, they had completed their mission.

Under the normal itinerary, they were to assist others, but they could also take the opportunity to wander around for additional benefits within the rules' allowances.

Moreover, if the vampire demigod was indeed in the God's Tomb, it was perfect timing as the final phase of the tournament was to slay the vampire demigod.

After eliminating all resistance in the city, they had no interest in slowly tallying the spoils as originally planned, but rather had their clans transport everything gathered into the Divine Realm.

Mostly it was metal goods, weapons of war, household metal items, books and scrolls, copper coins, silver coins, gold coins, various jewels, and so on. They didn't tear down houses—they indeed had such a wild idea before—but now that they had news of the God's Tomb, such an idea no longer held any appeal.

Of course, they still dismantled the three Magic High Towers and the castle of the Duke of Vampires, with one for each of them.

Beyond that, they preliminarily reconstructed the towers' structure based on the scrolls remaining within the towers and their own observations of the towers' design.

Once the Wise Goblins developed further, they could attempt to study these and replicate a set of Magic High Towers for themselves.

This isn't urgent; there's no need to expect it to be useful during Summer Camp, giving them plenty of time to study and develop it.

Three hours later, the three Clan members all returned to the Divine Realm, and the trio set off again.

Lin Xu marked the coordinates on the map, and he and Shen Yuexin each downloaded a copy.

Looking at the larger map, the coordinates were surprisingly not within the Vampire Kingdom nor the Human Kingdom, but at the border between them, marked as Eagle Beak Gorge in a place called Red Stone Plateau on the map.

The three looked at this location and exchanged glances, each seeing the gravity in the others' eyes.

Because although this place was at the intersection of the two kingdoms, at the center of the plane, it didn't mean it was safe.

The Red Stone Plateau was so named because the exposed land in this area was reddish, just like the barren lands at the broken edges of the plane.

The reason for this was because this fragment of the plane had once endured a severe beating, and the region's space was filled with cracks, from which Void Energy seeped out, creating terrifying Void Storms in that area.

While it was not as fearsome as the true Void Storms outside the plane, it was still not something mortals within the plane could withstand.

Therefore, although Red Stone Plateau was right at the center of the plane, it was like a forbidden land, with almost no life existing there. Occasionally, there were beings that could endure the strength of the Void Storms without perishing, and they were sure to be extremely horrific entities.

The actual location of God's Tomb was behind one of the spatial cracks in a semi-plane. There were spatial cracks all over the Red Stone Plateau; even Demigods who entered these cracks to the Void Sea would find it difficult to return. For the likes of them, not even Demigods, once trapped there, they only had the option of forcibly returning.

That's why, without the exact coordinates, no one could find the target, nor did they dare to try at random. This was the main reason why Yu Ming Trade Co., Ltd. wanted the Divinity of the Semi-god Vampire; they wished to locate the true position of the vampire through its Divinity.

The Vampire Demi-god had already entered God's Tomb ahead of time. From the actions of Yu Ming Trade Co., Ltd., it seemed that the Vampire Demi-god must be trapped inside God's Tomb; otherwise, they wouldn't dare to venture forth.

It took only half a day for them to cross thousands of kilometers and enter Red Stone Plateau.

It was quite recognizable; as long as one saw the endless mountain ranges ahead, all reddish, with shocking black cracks like wounds scattered across the land and sky, with billowing black Void Energy spewing forth in columns, one would know they had arrived.

These dark cracks were the wounds of the plane, where an unimaginable, fierce divine battle in ancient times shattered a super-large plane, leaving these scars on the remnants. Void Energy flowed through the wounds into the plane, turning this area of several hundred thousand square kilometers into barren land.

Red Stone Plateau, Eagle Beak Gorge.

There was a marker on the map, located at the lower middle of the Red Stone Plateau—a very inconspicuous large gorge.

The reason for its name was that many years ago, a Divine Storm Eagle lived here, but nowadays, that Storm Eagle had already fallen, hunted by the Vampire Demi-god.

In fact, besides the Human Demigod and the Vampire Demigod, there are no other Divine Beings in this plane now; all of them were killed by these two, plundering Divinity to strengthen themselves, which was the only way for them to achieve Divine Enthronement.

This piecemeal plane could only sustain the birth of one True God, which is why the Human Demigod and the Vampire Demigod have been fighting over the years, each wanting to kill the other and seize their Godhood and Divinity.

As they sat on the magic carpet, surveying the barren Red Stone Plateau, a large camp could be seen between the mountain peaks of a vast gorge on a high ground within the Red Stone Plateau. It was clear that the camp had been there for quite some time, with a complete stone wall and permanent buildings, especially a small castle in the center of the camp, which looked like the territory of a minor noble at first glance.

Inside the castle, on the second floor hall, a red solid wood long table was placed in the center, and above it hung a candle chandelier.

Zhang Feng sat at the head seat and said to the five men and women on both sides of the long conference table:

"The people we sent have already gotten hold of Yu Xiu, and the Divinity will soon be delivered. We'll use it to determine the Vampire Demi-god's position."

The man closest to him on his right side touched his uniquely shaped hairstyle and said:

"The company is just sending us few in? Where's the team leader?"

Zhang Feng replied:

"The team leader has already located the Sanctuary of the Human Kingdom's Demigod and is confirming the final details. If found, the team leader will summon all the company's hands within this plane cluster to kill the Human Demigod before those Summer Camp students discover it."

"So you're saying it's up to just us five here?"

Zhang Feng nodded:

"Yes, just the five of you, but isn't this your opportunity?"

He winked and smiled:

"Although the company has regulations that the spoils are to be redistributed upon invitation, as the first group of explorers, as long as you find God's Tomb and explore it fully, won't there be extra benefits?"

He finished speaking, raising his eyebrows suggestively at the man, who responded with a knowing smile.

The other four, of course, understood the implication and showed interested expressions.

At this moment, a man whose hair atop his head seemed like a blue flame burning spoke up:

"I heard that there are many God Guards inside God's Tomb. If the number is right, then we are in for a fortune."

"Shh!"

The first man put his finger to his lips and shushed:

"Zi Feng, some things are better left unsaid."

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Chapter 162: Move Aside, I'm About to Start Cheating

Translator: 549690339

The so-called Avatar is an incarnation that a Demigod or stronger conjures with a sliver of Divinity and a wisp of consciousness at its core, gathering a great amount of Divine Power.

This applies to entities below Demigods; if it were a True God's Avatar, it would be different.

The strength of an Avatar is related to the Divinity and Divine Power. The amount of Divine Power carried over during the condensation of the Avatar determines its might.

The Semi-god Vampire didn't seem to carry much Divine Power. Although the aura it emitted was strong, they didn't feel much of a threat.

However, for Yu Xiu, who was far away, the moment the Semi-god Vampire Descend occurred, it felt as if his head was smashed by a sledgehammer, losing consciousness for a full ten seconds. When he came to, his face was as pale as paper. He hastily pocketed his monocular and turned to flee.

Lin Xiao and his companions were Divine Beings, possessing Divinity of their own and could ignore the coercion of Demigods, but Yu Xiu was just an ordinary person, a mere mortal in their eyes.

Any mortal facing a Demigod must pass a round of willpower checks.

Clearly, his willpower check was not up to par, leaving him stunned for a good ten seconds. Using gaming terms, that was the equivalent of being unable to attack or defend for many rounds, meaning certain death in combat.

As for Yu Xiu's Half Beastman subordinates, they fared even worse, scattering in all directions out of fear after failing their willpower checks.

This was only a Demigod; if it were the Avatar of a True God, failing the willpower check would have different consequences depending on the True God's alignment and volition.

If the True God was an Evil God, it would most likely trigger instant Death, with the soul harvested by the Avatar of the Evil God.

If the descending entity was not an Evil God, there was a high chance of a forceful mental and willpower alteration, turning the victim into a Fanatic Believer.

Of course, these were the worst cases, aimed only at those with wavering wills. Professionals with relatively firm willpower would be like Yu Xiu, stricken with fear or stunned.

After fleeing to a small hilltop, Yu Xiu was about to take out a whistle to gather his panicked Half Beastmen when his wristband vibrated slightly. He tapped it and a familiar projection of a middle-aged man appeared saying,

"Where are you now?"

Yu Xiu replied,

"I'm just outside Alfonso City."

"The company has new orders for you, leave Alfonso immediately and head to the Redstone Plateau Eagle Beak Gorge near the border between the Vampire Kingdom and the Human Kingdom. The company has established a camp there."

"Also, don't pass through any cities on your way."

The middle-aged man further advised,

"Students from the Super Newcomer Summer Camp are currently undergoing training in this Aborigines Plane, and all the Vampire Lords are their targets. They're likely to attack the city directly, so avoid getting involved."

Yu Xiu looked towards the massive cloud of blood that had risen over the city, took a gulp from his flask to calm his nerves, shrugged and said,

"There's no need for estimates—the attack on Alfonso has already begun. The city was breached in less than half an hour, and now even a Semi-god Vampire Incarnation has descended. The scale of the battle is colossal."

"Wait a minute!"

The middle-aged man raised his hand to pause, quickly asking,

"Did you say a Semi-god Vampire has sent down an Incarnation?"

"Yeah, any problem with that, Supervisor?"

The so-called Supervisor's face lit up with a hint of joy as he said,

"Then hurry back there, and find a way to acquire the bit of Divinity that makes up the Demigod's Incarnation."

"Pfft!"

A mouthful of liquor sprayed out, and Yu Xiu covered his mouth as his eyes rolled,

"Supervisor, are you joking? How am I supposed to get that bit of Divinity?

With my strength, should I use my head to snatch it?"

The middle-aged man also realized this and hurriedly explained,

"I'm not asking you to steal it. Wait until they defeat the Semi-god Vampire, then approach them in the company's name to buy that bit of Divinity. I'll instruct you on what to say then."

Yu Xiu fell silent. Honestly, he wanted to refuse the order, but he couldn't; to do so would spell trouble for his future career.

Fortunately, it was just about passing a message; no action was required on his part, so the danger was minimal. He nodded and said,

"I can go, but I'll have to wait until they're done fighting and it's safe before I head over."

"Alright, once you complete this mission, you will be promoted to First Level authority and assigned to a better and more relaxed position,"

The supervisor made such a promise, and only then did Yu Xiu feel completely satisfied. He forcefully blew his whistle to summon his Half Beastman subordinates.

Meanwhile, not far from Alfonso City, Shen Yuexin and Lin Xu also made their appearance at the same time when the Vampire Demi-god Incarnation appeared. She reached out with a grab and a whip that shimmered with blazing white lightning appeared in her hand. She flicked the whip lightly, and it rapidly extended hundreds of meters, cracking the void with a snappy sound. She called out,

"We should make this quick, to avoid unnecessary complications."

Swelling in size, he transformed into a colossal Naga over thirty meters tall, resembling the Supreme Naga with a human upper body and snake tail, but his entire body was covered with golden scales that glittered in the light. With an outstretched hand, he conjured a forty-meter-long Pure Gold Spear.

This was booty acquired from a Snake People Demigod during his final exams. As a weapon of a Demigod, it was undoubtedly a fine item. Having cleansed it of the spiritual branding left by the Snake People Demigod with his Divine Power, it had now become his own weapon.

Lin Xu's weapon, on the other hand, was a lavishly designed Golden Bow. As he drew the bowstring, an arrow made purely of the Power of Faith slowly took shape.

The power of his bow depended entirely on how much Power of Faith was consumed to form the arrow—the more invested, the greater the power.

With their weapons revealed, Lin Xiao knew it was his turn to act. He stomped on the void, creating a ripple that exploded from thin air, and then transformed into a golden light that darted towards the Blood Realm spread by the Vampire Demi-god Incarnation.

It was quite a coincidence that the Vampire Demi-god also possessed a Blood Realm, but it was stronger than that of the Snake People's. He could feel that this Blood Realm included an aging law as well.

If a mortal were to enter this Blood Realm, not only would the blood in their body boil or be forcibly extracted, but they would also be weakened due to the influence of the aging law.

The aging law doesn't actually age a person; aging in this sense refers to actualizing a state of weakness similar to what one experiences when life naturally wanes, which involves the Supreme Time Law.

The Blood Realm does not simply cause one's blood to boil or forcibly extract it—those are just the most common and powerful manifestations of the blood law. The comprehensive blood law refers to the control of blood; to ordinary people, the most terrifying aspect would be to have all their blood forcibly drained or to have it boil as if it were being scorched.

These are all applications of the blood law, control at the level of laws, against which mortals simply cannot defend. This is the chasm-like disparity between gods and mortals.

Only Deities can contend against other Deities, and though Lin Xiao and his companions were not yet Demigods and lacked Godhood, their potent Divinity, combined with the Power of Faith, could neutralize the effect of the laws.

Of course, Legendary beings who have just started engaging with laws can also forcefully resist the influence of field laws for a short time.

It's worth noting that the term "Legendary beings" differs from "Legendary fighters."

"Legendary beings" refers to the level of a troop, with Transcendent beings of Rank 6 and Rank 7 and Legendary beings of Rank 8 and Rank 9, indicating that beings of such levels are as powerful as legends.

However, "Legendary fighters" refers to mortals who have begun to master the power of law and possess god-like legendary characteristics, having reached the threshold of Rank 8 in the Main World's assessment amidst the myriad mortal beings of the Void Sea Crystal Wall System. In terms of physical constitution or abilities, there isn't much difference between the two, but the key distinction lies in their mastery over laws.

For instance, both Legendary beings and Legendary fighters might have a strength of one hundred, and both can deal a strike equivalent to fifty points of damage to an enemy with a constitution of fifty when exerting full force. However, a Legendary fighter who has mastered laws can leverage the power of laws to inflict damage that multiplies the base fifty, or they might employ the power of laws to bypass an enemy's defense and inflict full damage directly.

Or to put it another way, even a zero-level deity with Weak Divine Power could, with their supernatural abilities, instantly eliminate a Rank 8 or even Rank 9 Legendary being, but not a Rank 8 Legendary fighter who has mastered the laws.

Of course, this applies to most cases and does not include certain abnormal Legendary beings, such as Dragons with innate talent anomalies that defy standard logic.

Beyond that, if a being can ascend to Rank 10, there is no differentiation between ordinary beings and Legendary fighters; at this level, beings will undoubtedly possess transcendent characteristics comparable to legendary rules and have preposterously powerful abilities.

This Duke of Vampires named Alfonso is actually a Legendary Vampire, not a true Legendary fighter who has mastered the laws.

To distinguish, they usually refer to those who have mastered the laws as "True Legends" or "Legendary fighters," characterized with the title of fighter.

But this only applies to those from the Main World. In many Natives Planes, powerful beings who reach Rank 8 through bloodline talents are also referred to as legends, and the classifications are quite chaotic.

Nevertheless, they understand that these Rank 8 Legend Vampire Dukes who attain their power through bloodline talents are not true legends.

"Boom!"

Lin Xiao charged into the Blood Realm like a shell, his Divine Power clashing with the realm's energy, detonating a terrifying blast that tore off a large section of the Blood Realm enveloping the city.

He thrust forward with his Pure Gold Spear, and the golden transparent light entwined around it formed a triangular reverse cone at the spear's tip. It tore through the thick blood effortlessly, as a knife through butter, and a massive golden figure pierced straight into the vast expanse of the Blood Realm.

Meanwhile, Shen Yuexin, who had flown to the edge of the Blood Realm, lifted her Forbidden Whip with a fierce swing. The bright white Lightning Whip suddenly surged in size, endlessly stretching and transforming into a lightning pillar thicker than a human being, smashing into the Blood Realm. In an instant, the whip's brightness exploded with countless tiny lightning bolts spreading in all directions, and the purifying power of the lightning instantaneously cleansed the Blood Realm within the range of these fine bolts.

In comparison to her overwhelmingly powerful whip strike, Lin Xu's approach was very understated—so much so that he hadn't made a move at all.

From the beginning, he had been accumulating power, with a Golden Arrow nocked on the bowstring drawn, but he had yet to release it..

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