MONSTER PARADISE

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Chapter 1361: Sword1's Questioning

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"You are also a traveler?!"

Sword1's words made Lin Huang quake inside.

'So this fellow noticed the anomaly...'

However, Lin Huang only dwelled on it for an instant before he regained his calm. He looked at Sword1 in silence without acknowledging or denying his identity.

They glanced at each other and it did not seem that Sword1 was going to probe any further.

"Let me experience for myself how strong a legendary traveler is!"

As Sword1 spoke, a long narrow white blade slowly formed in his hand and his aura began to rise frighteningly.

Lin Huang grasped his sword hilt tightly and unleashed his soaring Sword Dao without holding back.

He was now facing Great Heaven's strongest sword cultivator; he did not dare to be reckless.

Sword1 patiently waited for Lin Huang's Sword Dao to rise to its peak. The moment it did so, Sword1 tapped his toes on the ground and he vanished from his place.

"So fast!"

Lin Huang's pupils narrowed slightly. Including Seraphic Speed, he had mastered a total of four types of rapid speed rule powers. Including the multiplier on ultimate dao-type, it was almost equivalent to the effects of five types of rule multipliers.

Even though Sword2 specialized in rapid speed sword skill, his ultimate speed was only slightly stronger than Lin Huang.

However, although Sword1 in front of him had clearly specialized in cultivating ultimate dao-type, he was still one level faster than Sword2 in rapid speed sword skill.

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He was so fast that Lin Huang's Divine Telekinesis could only catch traces of his afterimages.

Almost at the same time that Sword1's figure disappeared, Lin Huang vaguely saw a residual image approaching him and his body instinctively initiated four types of God Rule Power, including Seraphic Speed, to evade it.

Even so, he was still a bit too slow.

A white sword gleam skimmed across his left shoulder, and sliced not only the sleeve of his robe but also left a sword cut his left shoulder.

With just one attack, Lin Huang had been injured.

'His ultimate dao-type would have amplified his rapid speed sword skill to at least the effect of a level-3 rule...' Lin Huang knew from Sword2 that Sword1's rapid speed and force-type were restricted to level-3 rule power at most. However, even in the current situation where Sword1's rapid speed sword skill was restricted by the Trial rules, it still gave his rapid speed sword skill an amplification of a level-3 rule effect. 'If all goes as expected, his force-type will most likely receive the same level of multipliers.'

Lin Huang instantly understood the kind of opponent that he would be facing-not only was Sword1's rapid speed sword skill and force-type amplified to a level-6 rule, but he was also head and shoulders above Lin Huang in ultimate dao-type.

'Right now I'm only slightly stronger than Sword1 in force-type. I've mastered level-6 rule power for force-type, on top of the multiplier on ultimate dao-type, which is almost equivalent to level-7 rule power. So if we go head to head, he is not as good as me...' Lin Huang quickly analyzed his situation. 'In rapid speed sword skill, I've only mastered level-4 rule power. Even if I include the multiplier on ultimate dao-type, that's only equivalent to level-5 rule power which is one level below his. The biggest disparity between us though is not in rapid speed sword skill but in ultimate dao-type...'

'For now, I think there are only two ways to counter this situation.

'One is to master another rapid speed rule to completely eliminate his advantage in rapid speed sword skill, then force him into a direct confrontation and use my advantage in force-type to make up for my shortcomings in ultimate dao-type.

'Another way is to achieve another breakthrough in Sword Dao. If I can just elevate my Sword Dao from True Martial Level to True Meaning Level, even if Sword1 has a substantial background in ultimate dao-type, I'll be able to pressure him!"

Although theoretical there were two ways to counter the current situation, Lin Huang also knew that he could only rely on luck for the second method. He himself had no idea when his Sword Dao might have another breakthrough.

'From the looks of things, I can only work from rapid speed sword skill...'

After considering this, Lin Huang directed some of his attention to his skill panel.

Previously, Kylie's Lightning Lord skill had enabled Lin Huang to gain two types of rule power-one was Instant Flash in rapid speed, and the other was Heaven's Punishment in force-type.

Thunder's Lightning God skill, however, only enabled Lin Huang to gain insight in Lightning Enlightenment-Lightning God in force-type

Lin Huang only gave it a moment's thought and silently crushed an Epiphany Card.

In the next few days, Lin Huang kept using the Lightning God skill in rapid speed.

Sword1 also noticed Lin Huang's attempts. Having monitored his battles, it was very clear to Sword1 that Lin Huang was trying to comprehend new rule powers.

He was also curious about how long would it take for Lin Huang to master a new rule power this time.

In the blink of an eye, eleven days had passed.

A push notification suddenly popped up in front of Lin Huang.

"Congratulations to the host on mastering the new Elemental Enlightenment-Traceless!"

The moment Elemental Enlightenment-Traceless came into being, Lin Huang suddenly noticed that Sword1's speed had slowed down.

Initially, a second ago, he could only vaguely track the residual images of Sword1's movement. Now, however, he could clearly see Sword1's movement path and his sword trajectory.

Within these eleven days, he had been slashed by Sword1 at least a thousand times and could only evade with difficulty when his opponent attacked. This time though, he could finally wield his sword and block Sword1's white blade.

"Huh?" Sword1 raised a brow, not only because Lin Huang had managed to block his attack, but also because he sensed the change in Lin Huang's aura.

"It only took you eleven days to master a new Elemental Enlightenment... To be honest, although I spied on all of your previous battles and even re-watched some of them dozens of times, I still feel that your speed in comprehending rule powers is completely unreal." Sword1 suddenly retreated and sheathed his sword. He appeared to have no intention of continuing the fight. "If I hadn't seen this happening right before my eyes at present, I might not believe that it was true."

"You've sheathed your sword. Does this mean that I've passed the assessment for this last level?" Lin Huang still held on to his sword. He felt that this level would not end so easily.

"I have no way of giving you an answer to your question right now." Sword1 shook his head slightly. "I do have a question though. If you can answer it, I can immediately let you past this level."

Lin Huang was puzzled when he heard that.

Just when he thought Sword1 would test his knowledge about Sword Dao and he began to feel anxious, Sword1's voice came slowly.

"Have you heard of a group called the Raiders?"

Lin Huang was stunned when he heard the question. He then narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Sword1.

Usually, only travelers were aware of the existence of the Raiders.

He did not really want to admit that he was a traveler in front of Sword1. After all, this kind of thing was a great secret and so far, he still did not know what Sword1's purpose was in probing his identity. Even if the other party was already very sure of his identity as a traveler, as long as he did not admit it himself, there was no way for the other party to be 100% sure.

However, in the current situation, if he denied his identity as a traveler and said that he had never heard of the Raiders, how would the other party react? Would it affect him in his quest to obtain Great Heaven's Inheritance?

After much thought, Lin Huang looked up at Sword1 with a blank expression.

"This question that you're asking now-I don't think the swordmaster would have allowed you to ask such a thing, right?"

"This question is something that I want to know." Sword1 glanced at Lin Huang with keen eyes. "If you know anything, please do share whatever information you have about the Raiders!"

Lin Huang was silent for a moment. After careful consideration, he nodded.

"I don't know much about the Raiders, I've only heard some rumors..."

Chapter 1362: We Must Find the Murderer

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"The Raiders are a group of extremists formed by travelers. The purpose of this group is very simple, which is to rob other travelers' Goldfingers to strengthen themselves. Of course, apart from other travelers, there are some in their midst who also target certain geniuses who have not fully grown up, using special means to plunder their divine abilities, skills, talents, and qualifications...

"The most terrifying thing about this group is that almost every member has unbelievable abilities and there is nothing they won't stoop to in order to achieve their goals.

"I'm very confident in my own abilities already but if I were to encounter a Raider who is of the same rank in combat power as myself, I would not dare say for certain that I would have a 100% chance of winning.

"As far as I know, even though the Raiders are few in number, there are just a handful of them in the great world that we are in. However, there are many more even stronger Raiders outside the great world and some of them may even have abilities that are above Lords..."

...

Lin Huang shared the information that he had learned about the Raiders with Sword1.

"That's all I know about the Raiders."

"Thank you! The information you've provided already includes many things that I wanted to know!" Sword1 nodded slightly, the expression on his face displaying little emotion.

Lin Huang had initially felt that it was not a good idea to invade the privacy of others, but he still could not help asking curiously, "Are you asking about the Raiders because it has something to do with Senior Great Heaven?"

He had already discovered from Sword1 that Great Heaven was a traveler like himself, so it was highly probable that the other party's inquiry about the Raiders was related to Great Heaven.

Sword1 was silent for a moment. He seemed to be hesitating over whether or not to tell Lin Huang about this matter, but he soon made a decision.

"You have already passed the Inheritance Trial. Although you have not officially accepted the Inheritance, you are already considered the swordmaster's heir. There's no harm in telling you about this matter." After Sword1 finished speaking, he paused for a moment as if he were thinking about how to word his next words before he continued, "The swordmaster's death is most likely related to the Raiders..."

Sword1's words immediately puzzled Lin Huang, "Wasn't Senior Great Heaven's death because of a failure in Dao unification?!"

"The Dao unification failure is true. But this happened because a lord-level powerhouse launched a surprise attack at him during Dao unification and severely injured him, which led to the failed Dao unification," Sword1 frowned slightly and explained.

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"You mentioned just now that it's most likely related to the Raiders-so none of you know who the assassin was?" Lin Huang asked again.

"We don't know." Sword1 shook his head helplessly. "The other party attacked from the void, and immediately severed space-time and cause and effect after the attack. They even blocked the pursuit of the Dao unification raptor."

"Under normal circumstances, even Lords would never dare to interfere during Dao unification because contaminating cause and effect will produce karma. It may cause karmic fire to engulf the body and while the disintegration of the Dao tattoo is a trivial matter, in serious cases it may even lead to death. However, the person who attacked was able to sever cause and effect..."

"So you all suspect that the Raiders did it?" Lin Huang nodded slightly and asked after a slight pause, "Senior Great Heaven had crossed paths with the Raiders before when he was still alive?"

"Yes!

"When the swordmaster was newly elevated to true god-level, he met a woman. The two were together for more than three years. According to the swordmaster, those days were like an alliance made in heaven.

"One day, out of the blue, the woman said that she had in her possession a key to a ruin, which was a legacy from a deceased Heavenly God. She invited the swordmaster to explore it with her and he agreed without hesitation.

"Unexpectedly, on the second day after entering the ruin, the woman revealed her malevolent true face and assembled several True Gods to assassinate the swordmaster.

"She said that she was a Raider and her purpose for getting close to the swordmaster was to plunder the Goldfinger within him. To gain the swordmaster's trust, she spent more than three years laying her plans to kill him.

"She had prepared the ruin for killing the swordmaster way beforehand. It was a closed ruin that could only be entered by those below heavenly god-level and could only be accessed within 24 hours of the first day it was opened. The ruin would be closed automatically afterward and no one could get in or out until a month later when it reopened and teleported all the participants out together.

"To kill the Sword Master, the woman paid a huge sum of money to hire five high-rank True Gods. One of them was even a ninth-rank True God.

"According to the Sword Master, it was the hardest month of his entire life. He was pursued by this group of people every single day. While he fled, he cultivated and waited for the opportunity to fight back.

"It took almost a month of utilizing the power of his Goldfinger to kill all the assassins. However, he discovered that the woman had used some special means to escape before the ruin opened again.

"Two days later, he came out of the ruin and tried to find the woman, but discovered that all information related to her seemed to have been erased by someone.

"Later after he achieved heavenly god-level, the swordmaster assembled a large number of Sword Servants. He did not give up searching for information about the woman, but he never found anything...

"Three years before the swordmaster's Dao unification, the woman suddenly appeared outside the Great Heaven Palace and said that she wanted to see the swordmaster. I recognized her and was about to capture her alive but the swordmaster stopped me. He met her alone, but she walked out of the Great Heaven Palace in less than ten minutes. I asked the swordmaster whether or not to kill her and he answered that it was just a clone so it was not necessary. On that day itself, the swordmaster asked me to abandon the mission of looking for this woman.

"After a few months, without meaning to, the swordmaster and I ended up talking about this woman. I asked him what was her intention when she initiated the visit; the Sword Master said that she wanted to pull him into the Raiders but he refused. I wanted to ask more about them but the swordmaster kept silent. He also warned me not to look for any more information about the Raiders.

"Although I did not continue to search for information about the Raiders, the moment the Sword Master was attacked during Dao unification, the first word that came to mind was "Raider". The first face that flashed into my head after that was the woman who came to visit that day.

"My instinct tells me that the attack on the Sword Master is tied to her!"

After he listened to Sword1's story, Lin Huang was silent for a moment before he spoke again.

"Senior Great Heaven asked all of you to not continue searching for the Raiders to protect all of you. If his death is truly related to the Raiders, the more you seek the truth, the closer you will be to danger. This is probably why he arranged for you to be guardians of the last stage of the Trial so that all of you wouldn't be able to leave this Trial space..."

Sword1 fell silent as well; he had not expected that the swordmaster's arrangements for himself and the rest to act as guardians would have another layer of meaning to it.

After a long silence, he still said insistently,

"We must find the murderer and make her pay the price!"

Chapter 1363: Obtaining the Inheritance

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After being teleported out from the First Palace, Lin Huang still had not yet recovered from the fact that he had passed the Great Heaven Trial when he discovered that where he stood was now a mountaintop.

Lifting his head to look into the distance, he could even gaze down on the stretch of endless mountains far away.

Just as Lin Huang prepared to spread his Divine Telekinesis to see how big the area was, a golden palace slowly emerged in front of him.

This palace did not emerge like how the Ten Palaces had appeared previously, where they coalesced from nothing into something solid. It was more like the palace had already been there, but was masked by some formation or barrier. Now that formation and barrier had been lifted, the palace's true façade was gradually revealed.

"The Great Heaven Palace..." Lin Huang's attention was immediately captured. He recognized the legendary palace at a glance.

The entire palace was golden in color. It shone brightly under the sunlight and looked resplendent and magnificent.

Unlike the ostentatious surface details of Sword9's golden palace, the various details of the Great Heaven Palace were of unequaled exquisiteness, which gave it a much more dignified atmosphere.

The stairs of the palace had a total of 108 steps. Below each side of the stairs, there stood the sculpture of a golden bird beast. The bird beast seemed to be covered in flames. Even stranger, it also had three legs and nine long feathers on its tail which simulated nine fire pythons with their heads raised.

When he looked at the two gold sculptures, Lin Huang could not help looking at it a few more times.

"A Golden Crow... If this thing were alive, it would be comparable to a fifth-rank supreme god..."

The two Golden Crow sculptures were based on the three-legged Golden Crow, which was originally a vestigial fire attribute bird of prey from the great world with an archaic bloodline. This beast was comparable to a current supreme god. Born with the combat power of a True God, it would automatically be elevated to a Heavenly God in its growth period, and reach peak heavenly god-level in maturity. There were a few with outstanding qualifications that could also be elevated to lord-level through successful Dao unification.

Lin Huang passed the two sculptures and walked up the white jade stairs.

After going up all 108 steps, he finally reached the doors of the great hall and stood before them.

The whole palace was built in the Chinese style, somewhat similar to the Taihe Hall in the Forbidden City, but its height and area were more than a hundred times that of the Taihe Hall.

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A blue board with "Great Heaven Palace" inscribed on it in gold letters hung on the eaves of the first floor.

The golden doors were more than 100 meters high, and each had a golden dragon carved into it. The bodies of the two dragons seemed to be made from flames.

"Is this an Archaic Fire Dragon?" Lin Huang was a little uncertain.

He has seen the description of the Archaic Fire Dragon in the great world's monster guide, but there was no relevant image. However, the carving on this door matched the description almost perfectly.

The Archaic Fire Dragon, like the three-legged Golden Crow, was an ancient vestigial beast. Even until now, its powers remained at supreme god-level and were in no way less than the three-legged Golden Crow.

Before this huge palace, Lin Huang was as small as an ant. He only stared at the carving for a little while, however, then reached toward the doors with his palm.

The doors were cold to the touch and not that different from ordinary metal.

Lin Huang was just about to push open the doors when the eyes of the two carved Archaic Fire Dragons suddenly lit up.

He could clearly sense a vast, ancient aura gradually rising.

The whole palace resembled a living creature waking up.

A moment later, the door opened slowly on its own without Lin Huang needing to do anything.

Lin Huang glanced at the relief carvings on the door. The two Archaic Fire Dragons seemed to have come to life and their eyes fell on him, sizing him up.

"These are weapon spirits..." Lin Huang was startled. To use Archaic Fire Dragons as weapon spirits, two of them even, was quite a shocking spectacle.

After calming himself, Lin Huang nodded slightly at the two weapon spirits. He then shifted his gaze and stepped toward the doors.

As he passed through the guarded doors, Lin Huang sensed only darkness in front of him; he could not see anything.

He stood where he was without hastily venturing into the depths of the palace, but soon heard the thud of the closing doors behind him.

The moment the door was completely closed, the whole world seemed to light up.

The moment he saw the scene in front of him, however, Lin Huang was stunned.

This was a room decorated in the modern style, which was completely different from the houses where the Protoss of the great world lived. It was also a little different from the house where Lin Huang lived in the gravel world, but Lin Huang was very familiar with it.

These were Earth-style interior decorations.

Not only were there common items from the gravel world such as sofas, coffee tables, and paintings on the wall, but there were also items not available in the gravel world, such as wall-to-wall TVs, and TV remotes...

"It really is like home on Earth..." Lin Huang was very convinced that the other party was from Earth. Although Lin Huang did not know whether or not Great Heaven was from the same earth, he could be regarded as a fellow Earth dweller.

"This TV should be just for display, right?" Lin Huang murmured as he looked at the TV remote control on the coffee table.

He had just finished speaking when the TV suddenly turned on.

This feeling of being haunted scared him.

"No, it isn't!"

A pleasant female voice suddenly sounded, and the lines of static on the TV set quickly formed into a human figure.

It was a pretty young lady who looked like she was fifteen or sixteen years old. She had two long blue ponytails and was wearing the school uniform of a female middle school student.

"Hatsune Miku?!" Lin Huang could not help blurting out.

'This is plagiarism! Did you pay someone for the copyright fee?!'

Lin Huang was cursing silently for a little.

"My name is Yin Yin," Miss Ponytail introduced herself.

"Lin Huang," Lin Huang also gave his name, but he was a little puzzled about the identity of the other party. "Are you... a weapon spirit of the Great Heaven Palace?"

"No," Yin Yin smiled, denying Lin Huang's guess.

Just as Lin Huang was becoming even more puzzled, he suddenly heard the voice of the stone tablet within him. "She is a Goldfinger, a very high-grade sort, but there seems to be very serious damage."

"Yin Yin is the Goldfinger of Great Heaven, but Yin Yin's body has been destroyed and only the spirit is left," Yin Yin explained with a smile, "So I can only exist as a parasite in the Great Heaven Palace.

"Great Heaven said if someone enters the Great Heaven Palace, Yin Yin can go with him. Yin Yin waited and waited, and Lin Huang finally came."

"In your current state...how would you leave with me?"

Lin Huang just raised his doubts when he saw a hand extending from the TV. Right after this Yin Yin worked her way out of the TV and appeared physically in front of Lin Huang.

"If I do it like this, it will be possible," Yin Yin said as she reached out and held Lin Huang's hand.

The next moment, her body transformed into little dots of golden light and flowed into Lin Huang right between his eyes.

Lin Huang only felt a large amount of information beginning to surge into his mind...

Most of the visuals that poured into his mind, however, had nothing to do with Yin Yin. The protagonist in all of these mental pictures was a handsome blond man.

Lin Huang was a little surprised at first but soon realized that this was Great Heaven. These memories that Yin Yin was transmitting to him were actually Great Heaven's inheritance...

Lin Huang did not know how long it took for him to finish reading the information. He felt like hundreds of years had passed, but when he regained his senses, only a moment had passed in the outside world.

Sensing the huge amount of information in his mind, Lin Huang could not help lamenting at Great Heaven's power. Just this portion of the inheritance alone surpassed all the inheritances that he had previously obtained. The sword skills contained within the memories that he had the authority to access already numbered dozens of millions.

"Eh? This feeling..." As soon as his consciousness returned from the spiritual dimension to his body, Lin Huang noticed a slight anomaly. After a simple probe, he was stunned again. "My Sword Dao had a breakthrough?"

After the number of sword skills that he had cultivated reached 200,000, Lin Huang's Sword Dao was on the verge of a breakthrough, but he still lacked the opportunity to do so. He originally planned to put pressure on himself again and again through battles with Sword2 and Sword1 to achieve a breakthrough. What he had not expected was that while his Sword Dao could not achieve a breakthrough under the pressure of battle, after accepting the Great Heaven inheritance, he had broken through from True Martial Level to True Meaning Level.

While Lin Huang was still sensing his Sword Dao, Yin Yin's voice suddenly came from within him.

"Lin Huang, can I live in that?"

Chapter 1364: Great Heaven Palace

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After he heard Yin Yin's voice, Lin Huang dived curiously into the spiritual dimension.

Yin Yin was pointing to the Sword Soul that had grown to adult status after Lin Huang had achieved Sword Dao true meaning.

The Sword Soul looked at Yin Yin with a confused expression.

"You want to live inside the Sword Soul?" Lin Huang was also surprised.

"No." Yin Yin shook her head hastily. "His sword..."

"Sword?" Lin Huang lifted his head to look at the battle sword that the Sword Soul held.

The battle sword in the Sword Soul's hands was forged entirely from his own Sword Heart.

Considering that Yin Yin's function might be related to swords, Lin Huang could more or less understand why Yin Yin made this choice.

At this moment, however, lines of golden arcane patterns began radiating gloriously from the blade of the blood-red sword, and an extremely complex imprint quickly formed on it.

"This is...the page of the Sword Scripture?" Lin Huang remembered then. Previously, under the guidance of the Sword Soul, his Sword Heart and Sword Scripture had merged.

After seeing Yin Yin's brightly shining eyes as she looked at the imprint on the sword blade, only then did Lin Huang realize what she really wanted.

After all, the Sword Heart was related to the strength of the Sword Dao that he had mastered. His Sword Dao at True Meaning Level looked very strong from virtual god-level perspective, but as far as Yin Yin was concerned, for a Goldfinger it was insufficient. Moreover, she used to be Great Heaven's Goldfinger and Great Heaven's Sword Heart was many levels stronger than Lin Huang.

The only reasonable explanation was that Yin Yin had taken a fancy, not to the Sword Heart, but the object within the Sword Heart.

Moreover, it seemed that the imprint formed by the Sword Scripture was also responding to her.

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Lin Huang was even more curious about what this page of the Sword Scripture was all about.

"Yin Yin, what you mean is that you want to live in this imprint?" Lin Huang wanted to confirm this.

"Yes." Yin Yin nodded quickly.

"Do you know what this imprint is?" Lin Huang quickly asked after confirming that Yin Yin had indeed set her eye on the Sword Scripture.

Yin Yin stood where she was and thought about it for a while before shaking her head at Lin Huang. "I can't remember..."

Lin Huang's inheritance memories had related content regarding Yin Yin's amnesia as well.

In Great Heaven's memory, Yin Yin had always been a saucy little princess as a Goldfinger and very acerbic in her manner of speech. Great Heaven had not been spared from her sharp tongue.

The reason why she had become like she was now was mainly that her soul had been severely injured and suffered partial amnesia.

As for her change in character, there was nothing about it in Great Heaven's memories. Lin Huang speculated that it might be because Great Heaven's death had severely affected her psychologically, and she had started to become the ideal Goldfinger that Great Heaven had told her about many times.

"Don't worry if you can't remember anything." Lin Huang rubbed Yin Yin's head. "If you want to live in it, go ahead."

"Can I really?" Yin Yin raised her head and her two bright eyes looked at Lin Huang.

"Of course. I can feel that the Sword Scripture seems to like you too." Lin Huang nodded with a smile.

"Lin Huang, thank you!" Yin Yin thanked him. In the blink of an eye, she appeared in front of the Sword Soul.

Before the Sword Soul could make a move, she pressed her hand against the glowing golden imprint. Her body turned into little golden sparks of fire and entered the imprint.

After a while, the golden imprint on the Sword Heart began to die down.

The blood-colored battle sword in the Sword Soul's hand seemed no different than before.

"Yin Yin, is it comfortable for you?" Lin Huang waited for the battle sword to be completely back to normal before asking this.

"It's wonderful," Yin Yin's response came quickly.

After a while, Yin Yin emerged from the sword blade and appeared in front of Lin Huang in a flash. "Yin Yin also has a gift for Lin Huang."

"A gift?" Lin Huang raised an eyebrow. "What is it?"

"Yin Yin needs to go get it." After Yin Yin had finished speaking, she vanished from sight.

Lin Huang immediately returned his consciousness to his body and saw that Yin Yin was standing in the living room of the Great Heaven Palace.

"Yin Yin will go get it." Yin Yin skipped toward another room.

Lin Huang quickly followed and soon saw that Yin Yin had walked into the study. She took something from a shelf on the bookcase.

Upon seeing this object, Lin Huang's pupil contracted slightly. He could vaguely recognize it from its appearance-it was a scabbard.

He immediately thought of the two missions the Club had given him before he came to the Great Heaven Territory. One of these missions was to obtain the Heavenly Sword's scabbard.

Yin Yin walked to stand in front of Lin Huang and handed the scabbard to him.

However, the scabbard before him seemed to have been scorched black by flames. One could say it was almost completely carbonized and had broken into two pieces in the middle.

"This is..."

"This is Yin Yin's previous body, which is now useless. Great Heaven said that if Yin Yin likes the next person, this body can be given to them. Yin Yin will now give it to Lin Huang."

Lin Huang more or less understood why Great Heaven had said this.

Although this scabbard's Goldfinger had been completely destroyed and the weapon spirit had been set adrift, it could still be consumed as material by other Goldfingers.

After finding out the scabbard was Yin Yin's body, Lin Huang could not help narrowing his eyes slightly.

As the Club wanted this scabbard, it was highly probable that they knew that this was a Goldfinger. The inference was that the Club was likely to be an organization formed by travelers.

Thinking about it, Lin Huang's brows furrowed slightly and he began to worry a little about whether or not the Club would turn out to be another organization of Raiders...

"Lin Huang, here you go." Seeing that Lin Huang had not taken the scabbard yet, Yin Yin pushed it into his hands.

"Alright, thank you." Lin Huang came back to his senses and took hold of both pieces of the blackened scabbard.

After Lin Huang had stared at the scabbard for a moment, suddenly an image of Great Heaven's Dao unification failure flashed into his mind. The gigantic Dao unification raptor spewed out fire without end and completely swallowed Great Heaven up...

Lin Huang's mind received a shock and he immediately detached himself from the memory, but he was already completely soaked in sweat.

He used one cycle of Divine Power and the sweat evaporated. When he lifted his head to look around, Yin Yin had vanished once more.

At that moment, an aged voice sounded from above his head.

"Since you have accepted the master's inheritance and have been recognized by Her Royal Highness Yin Yin, from today onwards, you are the master of this aged servant."

As the voice finished speaking, a golden beam of light shone down from above Lin Huang's head, enveloping him fully in no time.

It took Lin Huang a moment before he realized who the speaker was. "Great Heaven Palace?"

"This aged servant has set the young master's authority over the Great Heaven Palace according to the instructions of Master Great Heaven. It will automatically be unlocked gradually as the young master's combat power increases. This aged servant has suffered severe damage; I fear I will be asleep for a long time..."

From the information sent by the Great Heaven Palace, Lin Huang could see that the damage had exceeded 80% and many of the palace features were no longer functional. The Great Heaven Palace Spirit had been in a state of slumber for more than 300,000 years and had only been awakened by Lin Huang's successful Trial. In its current condition, it was not easy for it to take the initiative to make a contract with Lin Huang.

After these few sentences, the Great Heaven Palace Spirit fell into a deep sleep again.

Lin Huang understood completely. Since he had Great Heaven's inheritance memories, the features of the Great Heaven Palace should be easily understood if he embarked on a little bit of exploration.

After putting away the scabbard that he held, Lin Huang directed his consciousness to explore the message transmitted by the Great Heaven Palace...

Chapter 1365: The Swordmaster's Authority

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"The damage to the Great Heaven Palace is that serious?!"

After briefly going through the information transmitted from the Great Heaven Palace, Lin Huang was left somewhat speechless.

Less than 20% of the Great Heaven Palace was intact. Except for the main hall and the attached space which were not greatly affected, other halls with various functions were almost completely damaged.

Lin Huang had originally thought that there would still be a lot of cultivation resources left in the Great Heaven Palace.

However, after going through the information sent by the Great Heaven Palace, only then did he realize that almost all of the Palace resources had been destroyed, except for a part that Great Heaven had depleted during his Dao unification.

Even the god relics that remained had been crushed by the Palace and used as materials to repair itself.

Now all that was left of the Great Heaven Palace was one main hall, one Inheritance Dimension, two Archaic Fire Dragon gates, and two three-legged Golden Crow sculptures which remained intact.

What surprised Lin Huang, however, was that the two Archaic Fire Dragons and the two three-legged Golden Crows were all living beast souls that possessed peak heavenly god-level abilities and that they were the guardians of the Great Heaven Palace.

Great Heaven had discovered the four beast souls in two different ancient ruins and brought them out.

However, Great Heaven was worried that his successor would rest on their laurels, so he allowed the Great Heaven Palace to restrict his successor's authority. At Lin Huang's current authorization level, it was impossible for him to order these four beast souls around.

Noticing that the information given by the Palace mentioned limits of authority, Lin Huang took a closer look at his current authorization.

At present, there were only six main authorizations available to him.

"Authorization 1: The swordmaster can return to the Great Heaven Palace at any time; the swordmaster cannot lock anything below lord-level."

"Until the swordmaster achieves heavenly-god level, the Great Heaven Palace cannot be taken away or even moved from its place."

'Authorization 2: As the swordmaster's Combat Level has not reached virtual god-level, the swordmaster may bring Sword Servants Sword301 to Sword368 out of the Great Heaven Territory. However, the Sword Servants' combat strength is limited by the swordmaster's own strength, and can only be higher than the swordmaster by one level at most."

"When the swordmaster elevates to virtual god-level, he will be authorized to have control over Sword Servants Sword101 to Sword300."

"When the swordmaster elevates to true god-level, he will be authorized to have control over Sword Servants Sword11 to Sword100."

"When the swordmaster elevates to heavenly god-level, he will be authorized to control the swordmaster's bodyguards from Sword1 to Sword10."

"Prior to obtaining the necessary authorizations, the swordmaster cannot bring the Sword Servants out of the Great Heaven Palace's associated space (the Trial space)."

"Authorization 3: As the new domain master of Great Heaven Territory, the swordmaster may leave the Great Heaven Territory with any creature of the Great Heaven Territory with combat abilities one level higher than himself. There are no restrictions on numbers."

"Before ascertaining the loyalty of the other party, it is best not to bring the other party out of the Great Heaven Territory without careful consideration, otherwise, the existence of the Great Heaven Territory could be exposed."

"Authorization 4: The swordmaster may utilize the Great Heaven Palace to teleport himself to any area of the Great Heaven Territory."

"Until the swordmaster elevates to heavenly god-level, he will not be able to integrate with the Great Heaven Territory. The swordmaster can only use the Great Heaven Palace to manage the Great Heaven Territory."

"Authority 5: In the Great Heaven Territory, within the tolerance range of the body and soul, the swordmaster can utilize a small amount of the Great Heaven Territory's world strength for simple applications."

"Because there is no formal integration with the Great Heaven Territory, once the swordmaster leaves the Great Heaven Territory, the swordmaster will not be able to utilize any world strength outside of the Great Heaven Territory."

"Authority 6: Within the Great Heaven Palace's associated space (the Trial space), the swordmaster has absolute control over the Sword Servants and the swordmaster's bodyguards."

"Only within the Great Heaven Palace's associated space does the swordmaster have absolute authority. Upon entering the Great Heaven Territory, this absolute authority will be weakened. Therefore, the swordmaster must elevate his combat strength as soon as possible to obtain full control and authority over the Sword Servants."

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"Authorization 1 means I can return to the Great Heaven Palace at any time, which is equivalent to an extra survival measure.

"Authorization 2-at my current authorization level, I only have control of the Sword Servants with numbers above Sword300. My combat strength is still too low...

"Authorization 3 means I can bring the people of Great Heaven Territory to the great world, but the people of Great Heaven Territory may not be loyal to me, the new domain master. It's even possible that some of them were not loyal to the previous domain master, Great Heaven. Therefore, this function should be used with caution.

"Authorization 4-this teleportation is a good thing; unfortunately, it can only be used within the Great Heaven Territory.

"Authorization 5 means I can use world strength-this is not a bad level of authorization at all. Unfortunately, it can't be used outside of the Great Heaven Territory.

"Authorization 6 means I only have absolute control over the Sword Servants and the bodyguards within the Trial space. It's also specifically emphasized that after leaving the Trial space my authority will be weakened. This indicates that these Sword Servants are not absolutely loyal either, otherwise it wouldn't be necessary to set controls in place. Great Heaven very likely used this authority to restrict these people... So, it's still necessary to increase my combat strength as soon as possible to obtain more control over the Sword Servants!"

After reading the authorizations, Lin Huang interpreted them one by one.

Initially, he was not very satisfied with the fact that he could only control the Sword Servants with numbers higher than Sword300, but when he thought about it carefully, he realized that even the Sword Servants who ranked after Sword300 were actually quite terrifying.

One had to know that in the Competitive Trial, the Sword Servants were not just restricted in their Combat Levels. They were even more restricted in their ability to use their Rule Bending Powers and their Sword Dao strength was limited to peak level-6.

Even under such dismal circumstances, the ability of an unbelievable genius like Unrivalled God in the Competitive Trial was equivalent to Sword Servants ranked 200 or so.

The Sword Servants controlled by Lin Huang had all unsealed other aspects of their abilities to a certain degree except their combat strength. Not only were their Sword Dao levels unsealed up to True Martial Level, but they even had access to nine types of Rule Bending Power. They could almost be said to be at their peak.

If it came down to a fight, the accumulation of nine types of God Rule Power and Elemental Enlightenment in addition to True Martial Level Sword Dao meant that even Lin Huang-whose Sword Dao had elevated to True Meaning Level-would have had some difficulty taking them on one by one and winning.

"Although these Sword Servants are ranked after 300, with this level of authorization at present, their abilities would be no worse than Sword1 in the final Trial." Lin Huang briefly glanced over the available authorizations for the Sword Servants. He then realized that he might have an additional 68 people whose abilities were comparable to Sword1.

"The Great Heaven inheritance has been obtained; I already have the scabbard on hand, and I have also obtained authority over the Great Heaven Palace..." Lin Huang glanced out the window. "I have basically achieved my purpose in participating in the Great Heaven Trial, which means it's time for me to leave the Trial space..."

After murmuring to himself, Lin Huang suddenly spoke again.

"Everyone, assemble in front of the Great Heaven Palace!"

All the Sword Servants in the Inheritance Dimension heard his order clearly.

It was no surprise to all the Sword Servants, because a few minutes ago when Yin Yin transmitted the Great Heaven inheritance to Lin Huang, the Great Heaven Palace had already informed them that the new swordmaster had taken office!

Everyone had been waiting for the new swordmaster's summons for the last few minutes.

Most of them already knew who the new swordmaster was.

Earlier when the Competitive Trial had ended, the news that Lin Huang successfully initiated the final Trial had spread to all the Sword Servants. Moreover, more than two-thirds of the Sword Servants had fought against Lin Huang in the Competitive Trial and knew what he looked like.

As for the swordmaster's ten bodyguards, Lin Huang had passed by through each of their stages one by one.

After hearing the new swordmaster's order, more than 360 Sword Servants all set off at the very first instant and hurried to the Great Heaven Palace...

Chapter 1366: Lin Huang's Plan

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Upon Lin Huang's order, in less than three minutes, more than 360 Sword Servants were all present and lined up in the square in front of the Great Heaven Palace.

The ten bodyguards, Sword1 to Sword10, stood in the first row while the remaining Sword Servants were arranged in the order of their serial number.

Lin Huang noticed that Sword11's position behind Sword1 was vacant. Sword1 obviously also noticed it and his expression was rather sour.

Fortunately, except for the position of Sword11, there were no empty spaces for the other positions.

After everyone had arrived, the Sword Servants silently waited for the arrival of the new swordmaster. Except for a few who were distracted by Sword11's empty position, most of them turned their attention to the doors of the Great Heaven Palace. After all, as far as they were concerned, these doors had not been opened for more than 300,000 years.

Everyone originally thought that the new swordmaster would have had to take some time to dress up, so they would have to wait.

However, after the arrival of the last Sword Servant, in less than ten seconds, the doors of the Great Heaven Palace opened on their own.

When the Sword Servants heard the sound of the Palace doors opening, all eyes were drawn to that direction and they stared intently at the great doors.

Lin Huang had not even changed his clothes. He wore his original black robe and slowly walked out of the Palace.

After he came to a halt, he glanced around the assembly. Only then did he uncover his hood, take off his mask, and reveal his true face.

With a faint smile on his face, Lin Huang introduced himself calmly to the group of Sword Servants, "Hello everyone, my name is Lin Huang."

In reality, before he came out of the Great Heaven Palace, Lin Huang was a little nervous. After all, the three hundred over Sword Servants in front of him were all high-level heavenly gods and there were even quite a few who were peak ninth-rank heavenly god powerhouses. After he found a place to stand, however, he saw a lot of familiar faces and the feeling of nervousness left him. He had fought against the vast majority of Sword Servants in the crowd; they were no strangers to him.

"Hail Lord Swordmaster!"

All of the Sword Servants shouted in unison.

Many Sword Servants in the formation had battled Lin Huang. At that time their feelings were very complicated.

Most of them had doubts about Lin Huang during the Competitive Trial and felt that his chances of successfully passing the final assessments were slim. Lin Huang's abilities at the time were indeed far from sufficient to obtain the Great Heaven inheritance; at best he was equivalent to a weaker version of Sword10.

However, at this present moment, the numerous Sword Servants who no longer had any restrictions on their combat strength could clearly sense that Lin Huang had mastered a variety of Rule Bending Powers and his Sword Dao had been elevated to the second level of Sword Dao true meaning-True Meaning Level! His ability now could not be compared to his ability then. It was no surprise that he had been able to pass Sword1's level.

Just as Lin Huang smiled, not knowing what to say, Sword1 spoke.

"Lord Swordmaster, except for Sword11, all the Sword Servants are present!

"Sword11 violated swordmaster Great Heaven's prohibition and defected without permission out of the Great Heaven Palace's Trial space. As your subordinate, I will capture him personally and punish him according to the regulations!"

"I know about Sword11, I don't consider him a defector." Lin Huang looked at Sword1, and his words surprised most of the people that were present.

Because Sword11 had not been in the Trial space, Lin Huang, as a participant, could not have possibly seen him there.

"I met Sword11 in the Great Heaven Territory. For many years, he has been in the Great Heaven Territory gathering information about various sword cultivators. He chose Sword Dao cultivators whom he thought were able to stand a chance in obtaining the Great Heaven inheritance and allowed them to participate in the Great Heaven Trial.

"The information that I got from him allowed me to enter the Swordfiend Abyss. To a certain extent, my current position as the swordmaster owes a great deal to him."

Sword1 was silent for a moment, then spoke to Lin Huang again.

"According to what my Lord has said, Sword11 cannot be considered a defector; he can only be regarded as fleeing. But even if he did flee, it still violated the prohibition issued by swordmaster Great Heaven and he should still be punished!

"I'll catch him alive and let my Lord Swordmaster deal with him personally!"

Lin Huang pondered this for a long while and considered his words carefully before he spoke again.

"I will deal with Sword11 personally.

"By the way, because my combat strength is too low, Teacher Great Heaven has limited my authority. At present, I can only take Sword Servants with numbers higher than Sword300 out of the Great Heaven Palace's associated space."

Here, Lin Huang told a small lie and changed the original "Great Heaven Territory" to "Great Heaven Palace". It was mentioned in the rules that once the Sword Servants whom he had yet to have control over entered the Great Heaven Territory, they could break away from his absolute dominance.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Lin Huang had decided not to allow this group of Sword Servants into the Great Heaven Territory for the time being to avoid unnecessary problems.

After all, this group of people had waited for more than 300,000 years-they could wait for another several dozen or hundred years more. It would not too late to let them out when he elevated to heavenly god-level. By then, even if he let them out to the great world, they would not cause any trouble, much less in the Great Heaven Territory.

"Only those with numbers higher than Sword300?" Sword8 was a little unhappy.

"At present, it can only be those with numbers higher than Sword300, but this authority will increase as my combat strength increases," Lin Huang nodded and explained, "When I elevate to virtual god-level, the authorization to take numbers Sword100 and higher will be unlocked. After elevation to true god-level, the authorization for numbers Sword10 and higher will be unlocked. However, the authorization for the few bodyguards may have to wait a little longer; I won't be able to unlock that until I reach heavenly god-level."

Sword8 suddenly had a very sour expression on her face.

Someone from the back could not help asking, "Lord Swordmaster, did you just mention elevation to virtual god-level? Your current combat strength is not at Virtual God rank-9?"

"No, my cultivation method is not quite the same as ordinary people. At present, internally I do not yet have a consolidated Godhead; it's just that the intensity of my aura is similar to that of a Virtual God rank-9," Lin Huang nodded and explained, "However, elevating to virtual god-level should be fairly quick."

His words stunned a great many people present. Many of them had thought that Lin Huang's combat strength was at Virtual God rank-9. They had not expected that he had not even elevated to virtual god-level.

As for a few people such as Sword1, they had long since noticed the abnormality of Lin Huang's combat strength and also guessed at this in advance, so they were not surprised.

However, Lin Huang's low combat strength did not cause dissatisfaction among the Sword Servants; instead, it caused many of their eyes to shine. They began to look forward to the changes that Lin Huang would make after he came to power.

After some exchanges, Lin Huang divulged his follow-up plans to the assembly.

"After today's meeting, I will take Swords 301 to 368 and leave the Inheritance Dimension for the Great Heaven Territory. After dealing with Sword11, I will bring them back to the great world.

"Because I have insufficient authorization, I can't leave with the Great Heaven Palace for a while yet. After I leave, the Inheritance Dimension of the Great Heaven Palace will be closed to the outside world. Things here will be managed by the ten bodyguards together. In the coming year or two, I still have one personal matter that I have to deal with and I might not be able to return to the Great Heaven Palace for the time being. To avoid a long waiting period for everyone, I will adjust the speed of time of the Trial space back to 1:1 with the great world.

"After I have finished dealing with my personal affairs, I will formally establish a brand-new organization in the great world with everyone!"

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Chapter 1367: Sword1's Request

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The meeting between Lin Huang and the Sword Servants lasted for less than half an hour, after which the Sword Servants dispersed.

In the square, only Swords 301 to 368 and the bodyguards Sword1 to 10 were left.

"Although the 68 of you can go to the great world with me, your combat strength will be limited by my own combat strength-it can only be one level higher than mine. I am now at grade-9 Imperial-level, so after you leave here, your combat strength will be restricted to Virtual God rank-9. Once my own combat strength achieves a breakthrough, then your combat strength will be further unlocked.

"However, it is a little better than the previous Competitive Trial in the sense that your Sword Dao will be unsealed to True Martial Level. In addition, your Rule Bending Powers are also unsealed but limited to a maximum number of nine types.

"Based on my previous understanding of your abilities, under these restrictions, you should have no problem in dealing with low-rank True Gods. Even if you encounter rank-3 True Gods, you should still be able to fight them."

"Lord Swordmaster, I still have some concerns about your safety." Sword1 frowned slightly and seemed to be unsatisfied with the abilities of the Sword Servants. "Can't you make an exception and bring along one or two bodyguards? Even if it's just Sword8 it's better than nothing."

"My authorization is genuinely limited." Lin Huang shook his head and patted Sword1's shoulder. "If it wasn't for the matter of authorization, I would certainly bring all of you back to the great world in one go.

"I can also understand the reason why Teacher Great Heaven set this restriction. He was afraid that I would get used to relying on outside help and not pay attention to improving my own abilities. If I were him, I might set these kinds of limitations on my future heirs as well."

Lin Huang referred to Great Heaven as his teacher because he had taken over the Great Heaven inheritance. No matter if it was in name or in essence, Lin Huang was considered Great Heaven's apprentice. Even though Great Heaven had died, Lin Huang felt it was a necessary mark of respect to honor Great Heaven as his teacher.

Sword1, Sword2, and the few of them were wily old foxes who knew what Lin Huang was up to. Lin Huang did have authority restrictions, but the restriction was that he could not take everyone out of the Great Heaven Territory, not the Trial space of the Great Heaven Palace.

However, Sword1 and the rest of them did not expose his lie as they probably guessed the reason why Lin Huang did not want to let their group leave the Great Heaven Territory. They raised no objections as though they had not heard anything untoward.

"I am clear about my situation. I am estimating that my elevation to virtual god-level would take a month or two. If it is true god-level, the slowest it would take to break through would be around three to five years. Heavenly god-level may take a little more time, however. So for the immediate future, I must temporarily inconvenience all of you," Lin Huang consoled them.

"Lord Swordmaster's cultivating speed is fast enough. It's not that easy to be elevated to heavenly god-level; we all know this," Sword10 spoke first, "We have been waiting for more than 300,000 years, and it won't make a big difference for us to wait for a few more years. Moreover, the ratio of the speed of time has been changed now-maybe after a good night's sleep, Lord Swordmaster will achieve a breakthrough."

Sword1 and the rest also nodded. "We have waited for so many years, it doesn't matter if we wait for a few more."

As soon as Sword1 was finished, he looked at Sword301 and the other Sword Servants.

"When you all leave this place, listen to the swordmaster's instructions in everything. Don't forget what your responsibilities are when you see the fascinating new world outside and don't cause any problems for Lord Swordmaster.

"Also, we bodyguards will not be with the swordmaster, so your core responsibility is to ensure Lord Swordmaster's safety. At least four people are required to stand guard over the swordmaster. Under special circumstances, make sure at least two of you assume guardian responsibilities..."

After Sword1's detailed instructions, he turned around and looked at Lin Huang. "Before Lord Swordmaster leaves, I have one more thing I would like to discuss with you privately."

Lin Huang nodded slightly and turned his head to look at the group of Sword Servants. "Please wait here for a short while."

He then looked at Sword2 and the rest. "If all of you have nothing else in mind, you're free to leave now."

Nine of them, including Sword2, bowed one after the other, said their farewells, and went their separate ways.

Only then did Lin Huang walk toward the Great Heaven Palace with Sword1.

Sword1 was on his left, half a position behind his new master; he immediately followed Lin Huang.

After entering the Great Heaven Palace, Lin Huang sat down on the sofa.

Sword1 glanced around unobtrusively and found that the interior of Great Heaven Palace was still the same as before. Nostalgia flickered in his eyes.

Just when Lin Huang was about to ask Sword1 what matter it was that required a private discussion, Sword1 suddenly knelt on the ground with a solemn face.

"What are you doing?!" Lin Huang stood up.

"Lord Swordmaster, your subordinate has a presumptuous request, but it may not be something Lord Swordmaster wants to hear..."

"Please stand up and tell me." After he heard what Sword1 had said, Lin Huang guessed that his request would be related to the Raiders.

Sword1 still refused to stand up; instead, he continued, "This humble servant hopes that after authorization has been unlocked, Lord Swordmaster will allow me to go to the great world to investigate the murderer who killed swordmaster Great Heaven, as well as look into the Raider organization."

Lin Huang was silent for a moment and sat back on the sofa. "Please stand up."

Seeing that Sword1 still refused to get up, he continued, "It's not that I forbid you to investigate the murderer of Teacher Great Heaven, but if it's related to the Raiders, it is far too dangerous.

"How about this-I will allow you to investigate this matter, but you must not act alone. When the time comes, I'll bring others in to help. The investigation will be under my control and all of you must listen to my orders. If I perceive any danger and request that the investigation be suspended, you must also obey my order-you must not act without authorization!"

"But in this case, once the matter is exposed, Lord Swordmaster will also be a target for the Raiders," Sword1 shook his head right away, rejecting Lin Huang's proposal, "I don't agree to your participation."

"Have you ever thought that if you investigated alone, it would involve me the minute your cover is blown?" Lin Huang had actually thought this through very thoroughly already. "The methods of the Raiders are beyond your imagination. Let's not even talk about them capturing you alive-even if they only have your corpse, or maybe even just a remnant of your soul, they would have a very high chance of tracing the matter back to me.

"Once you're exposed, I can't escape being involved. The other Sword Servants and bodyguards will also be implicated; no one will be able to avoid it!

"Rather than letting you act alone, it's better that we plan this together. If we all come up with ideas, there'll at least be more ways to proceed than if you act on your own. This will also reduce the risk of exposing the identities of the investigators.

"Besides, Great Heaven is my teacher. I took over his inheritance; from a karmic perspective, I can't leave this matter alone.

"As for the Raiders, even if you hadn't mentioned them today, I'm sure to be at odds with them sooner or later. It's only a matter of time before my identity as a traveler is revealed; I'll become their target at some point regardless. Instead of waiting for them to come knocking at our door, why not take the initiative and investigate what's up with them?"

When Lin Huang first heard about the existence of the Raiders from Yang Ling, he already knew very well that sooner or later he would be in the Raiders' sights. Unless he was willing to join them and plunder the Goldfingers of other travelers, his opposition to the Raiders could not be reconciled.

He had been putting aside this potential threat because, on one hand, the Raiders were still very far from him, and on the other, his own abilities were insufficient to fight against them.

Now, seizing the opportunity afforded by the issue that Sword1 had brought up, he had finally made a preliminary plan to confront the Raiders.

"All you want is to get revenge on the Raider who killed Teacher Great Heaven, but in the long run, what I want is to destroy the entire Raider organization-or at least to destroy their branch in our great world!" Lin Huang outlined his great ambition.

"Sword1 is willing to fulfill this dream with Lord Swordmaster!" Sword1's eyes lit up like fire.

Chapter 1368: Meeting Sword11 Again

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After he had sent Sword1 away, Lin Huang returned to the square in front of the Palace.

He looked at the group of Sword Servants who were still standing in formation and nodded with satisfaction.

"I will head to the Great Heaven Territory first and deal with the Sword11 issue."

The reason why Lin Huang had taken over the matter with Sword11 was partly that he had obtained the Great Heaven inheritance mostly due to the information provided by Sword11. He felt that it was necessary for him to at least let Sword11 know that his mission was over, and there was no need to continue to search for sword cultivators to take over the Great Heaven inheritance.

Another reason was that his other mission from the Club was to find a child named Jin Wu.

Lin Huang intended to make use of Sword11's connections to sort that out. After all, Sword11 had a good reputation among humans and should have some networks. It was certainly better than Lin Huang running around like a headless chicken.

However, Lin Huang did not hold out much hope for this. He only knew the child's name, "Jin Wu", and had no other information. On top of that, he was down to the last twelve days of the thirty-day Trial period in the Great Heaven Territory and the chances of finding someone in such a short time were even slimmer.

Although Lin Huang had now obtained the Great Heaven inheritance so he could enter and leave the Great Heaven Territory at will regardless of the Trial time limit, he did not intend to stay there longer.

One had to know that the Great Heaven Territory had developed an independent ecosystem, and there were tens of thousands of sapient tribes. Even if one visited one tribe for one day, it would take at least a few decades to complete the investigation.

Lin Huang obviously did not have the time to investigate them one by one. He just felt that since he was going to the human settlement, he could ask Sword11 to help him investigate at the same time. He would not force the issue if he really could not find the child.

The two missions assigned by the Club had only been touched on briefly with a mention that the rewards were generous; there were no demands made at all. The Club was aware that these two tasks were unlikely to be completed regardless of who they were handed to.

Lin Huang's trust in the Club was very limited.

He was still considering whether or not to use Yin Yin's scabbard to trade for items in the Club after returning to the great world. Although Yin Yin had said that the scabbard was completely useless to her, for now, Lin Huang was still not sure if the Club had anything to do with the Raiders.

Even if he did find the child named Jin Wu, Lin Huang was still considering whether to hand the child over to the Club or not.

"After some consideration, bringing too many people with me might cause some inconvenience of movement; therefore I will only bring Sword301 and Sword302 to the Great Heaven Territory this time. The rest of you can disperse now and wait for my orders." Lin Huang glanced around. "If there is a need for it while I'm in the Great Heaven Territory, I will call upon all of you again. If I don't need your help, wait for me to settle the matter regarding Sword11, and then I will take all of you to the great world."

Upon Lin Huang's orders, the Sword Servants soon dispersed, leaving only Sword301 and Sword302.

The main reason he chose these two people was that aside from them being the strongest among this group of Sword Servants, they were also both Protoss with full human forms.

Sword301's human body was that of a 27-year-old with a build similar to Lin Huang, but slightly stronger. He kept a buzz cut and had a scar on his face, which made him look quite tough. In addition, he was enveloped by fierce Sword Dao which emanated faintly from his entire being, which made his aura even more daunting.

Sword302 was a woman with short black hair tied into a short ponytail. She was very tall; at full height, she was no shorter than Lin Huang. In high heels, she would be more than 2 meters tall. Her weapon was sheathed across her waist-it was a sword in a golden scabbard. Including the hilt, its estimated length was more than 1.5 meters.

"Let's go!" Lin Huang waved his hands and a black whirlpool formed out of thin air.

Both Sword301 and Sword302 walked into it without any hesitation and disappeared.

Only after Lin Huang had made sure that both of them had entered did he step into the whirlpool.

A short while later, the three of them appeared in the room of an unlicensed hotel in Golden City.

Lin Huang had the authority to teleport anywhere in the Great Heaven Territory, but he did not know much about the places there. For their safety, he chose the unlicensed hotel for the teleportation coordinates, using the room that he used to live in.

Fortunately, there was no occupant in the room, and the awkwardness that Lin Huang had worried about before teleportation did not happen.

"We will live here for the next few days."

Like Lin Huang, the two Sword Servants were also unregistered residents in the Great Heaven Territory and could only live in an unlicensed hotel.

Fortunately, the room itself was a deluxe one and there were three bedrooms, so they could occupy one room each.

"Both of you, wait a little while in the room, while I go down and pay for it." After Lin Huang finished speaking, he left the two Sword Servants and hurried to the front desk on the first floor.

"Boss, I want to book Room 501 for twelve days."

Upon hearing that Lin Huang wanted to make a reservation, the middle-aged boss, who was nibbling on melon seeds, quickly got up and smiled. "Great! Let me know if you need any help."

After the reservation was sorted out, Lin Huang returned to the room. The two Sword Servants were still standing in the same spot as if they had not even moved.

"You don't need to be so formal in front of me. You can do whatever you want. Just don't fail me when you're carrying out my orders," Lin Huang said, pointing in the direction of the master bedroom when he was done speaking. "I will stay in the master bedroom with the bathtub. You can decide between yourselves about the two remaining rooms.

"We may need to stay here for ten to twelve days. Please take it easy; if you're so formal I don't think I could stand it," Lin Huang teased them, laughing.

The two nodded, looked at the remaining two rooms together, and quickly reached a consensus.

While both of the Sword Servants were looking at the rooms, Lin Huang sent a message to Sword11.

"I'm out of the Inheritance Dimension-let's set up a time to meet."

"You managed to get the inheritance?!" Sword11 replied within seconds.

The reason for Sword11's conclusion was that anyone who had entered the Swordfiend Abyss would have had any relevant memories erased. However, the message sent by Lin Huang showed that he remembered what had happened in the Swordfiend Abyss.

"I got it." Lin Huang pondered for a moment and decided to be honest.

He had also considered that Sword11's active search for Great Heaven's heir might have other purposes behind it. However, after thinking about it carefully, he decided to temporarily put his trust in Sword11.

"Where are you? I'll come over right away!" Sword11 replied within seconds again.

"The hotel that I previously stayed in-Room 501."

Less than five seconds after Lin Huang had sent the message, a series of knocks came from the entrance of the hotel.

Lin Huang got up and opened the door. Red-haired Sword11 had already appeared in the doorway.

When he first saw Lin Huang, Sword11 had some doubts about Lin Huang's identity because Lin Huang had taken off the Thousand Face mask to reveal his true face.

However, after looking over Lin Huang's shoulder and seeing Sword301 and Sword302 standing behind him, Sword11 burst into tears and fell to his knees. His voice choked.

"This humble subordinate hails Lord Swordmaster..."

"Come in and talk." Lin Huang quickly drew Sword11 up and pulled him into the room.

Sword11 could not stop his tears from flowing. He could not believe that his dream of so many years had finally been fulfilled. He broke down completely.

Lin Huang pulled him over to the sofa to sit down and handed him one tissue after another without being urged.

After a while, Sword11's emotions finally calmed down.

"My apologies; this humble subordinate forgot his manners."

"I can understand. For so many years, you've been running around for the Great Heaven inheritance. You've worked hard," Lin Huang patted Sword11's shoulder and comforted him.

"This humble subordinate violated the prohibition of swordmaster Great Heaven and secretly left. This humble subordinate is guilty; please punish me, Lord Swordmaster!"

Sword11 knelt on the ground again, storing away any defensive god relics on his body in the form of clothes and leaving only one piece of personal clothing. He also dispersed the Divine Power that enveloped his body, leaving himself defenseless.

COMMENT

The expression on his face was determined as if he were ready to accept any punishment.

"Punishment is necessary. Teacher Great Heaven's prohibition did not allow the Sword Servants and bodyguards to leave the Inheritance Dimension and you broke this rule." Lin Huang nodded.

"However, your intention in violating his prohibition was good. Also, if it were not for you breaking that rule, I would have not been able to go to the Swordfiend Abyss, nor would I have been able to obtain the inheritance of Teacher Great Heaven.

"So, I've decided that your punishment will be light," Lin Huang finished, staring into Sword11's eyes, before continuing, "However, this violation of the swordmaster's orders is confined to this one instance and is not to be taken as a precedent. Next time if something like this happens again, you will be severely punished!"

"This humble subordinate understands!"

Chapter 1369: The Shabby Swordmaster

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"Apart from this matter of yours, my intention in coming back to the Great Heaven Territory is also because of something else."

After they had settled the issue of Sword11, Lin Huang finally switched topics to his secondary purpose.

"I need you to help me find someone."

Sword11 agreed without any hesitation. "Please go ahead, Lord Swordmaster! I still have some contacts in the Human Tribe; it should not be difficult to find somebody."

Lin Huang smiled and shook his head. "It's not as simple as you think. I only know that this person whom I'm looking for is named Jin Wu. Other than that, I don't know anything else.

"What they look like, whether they're a man or a woman, whether they're human or not, or even whether they are in human territory-I don't know at all. I only know that Jin Wu is probably young."

"In that case, I'm afraid it might be a little hard to find them." After he heard what Lin Huang had to say, Sword11 looked slightly embarrassed.

"I just want to try my luck. It doesn't matter if I can't find Jin Wu. This brat may not necessarily even be in the Human Tribe. I'm telling you this because I know that you have a fair reputation in the Human Tribe and using your contacts to find Jin Wu would be more efficient than me running around like a headless chicken," Lin Huang explained, nodding.

"I will do my best!" Although Sword11 knew that chances were slim, he still took the matter to heart.

"Is the Bug Tribe still at war?" Lin Huang asked again.

When he entered the Great Heaven Territory previously, he had encountered the war between the Bug Tribe and the Human Tribe. After that, he had entered the Swordfiend Abyss and stayed in the Great Heaven Inheritance Dimension for half a month. Now that he was back in the Great Heaven Territory again, he inquired about the situation as Sword11 was around.

"It's still ongoing, but the war is coming to an end soon. We have reached an alliance with several of the surrounding tribes. In the next few days, the Heavenly Gods from several tribes will join forces to put pressure on the higher ranks of the Bug Tribe," Sword11 revealed this secret news to Lin Huang.

"You can stay in the Great Heaven Territory for now, you don't need to return to the Inheritance Dimension for the time being," Lin Huang said, then continued, "As for your punishment, I haven't thought about it yet. But you don't have to worry, you will only be punished lightly."

"Thank you, Lord Swordmaster, for your generosity!" Sword11 bowed deeply.

After a moment of pondering, Sword11 continued talking, "Lord Swordmaster, this unlicensed hotel is simple and crude. You all may as well move to my place. I live in an independent courtyard. Without my consent, not many people can walk in and out on a normal day."

Lin Huang refused immediately, "No need, we would be easily noticed if we stayed there and it's more convenient for us to be here."

"Alright; after all, this is not my territory-there are many eyes around. After the war with the Bug Tribe is over, Lord Swordmaster can come to this humble servant's Heavenly Sword Planet as a guest," Sword11 issued a new invitation.

"If we have the time, we'll go," Lin Huang nodded and agreed.

The two talked for a little while more, then Sword11 said his farewells and left.

After he had sent Sword11 off, Lin Huang projected the star map that he had bought from the black market.

After a while, he zoomed in on an area and checked the coordinates.

"This is... a ruin?" Sword301 could not help asking.

"Yes, the owner of the ruin is a Demon God named Ah Mi. After he was beheaded by Teacher Great Heaven, the ruins he owned and most of what remained within them were placed in the Great Heaven Territory. It was considered an exploration site for the Great Heaven Territory residents," Lin Huang nodded and explained; all of this information came from Great Heaven's memory.

After he had elevated to heavenly god-level, Great Heaven killed many Heavenly Gods from various tribes. To nurture the residents of the Great Heaven Territory, he plundered only the core resources and left the ruins and remaining artifacts of these Heavenly Gods in the Great Heaven Territory. Such ruins were most plentiful in number around the area inhabited by the Protoss, followed by the areas surrounding the human settlement.

The ruins of this Demon God named Ah Mi were on human territory. Under normal circumstances, the ruins were only opened every 30,000 years, and could only be entered by those below heavenly god-level.

However, for Lin Huang, who had just obtained authority over the Great Heaven Territory, the time limit was meaningless to him. The methods that Great Heaven had set up to prohibit access were all in his memory. He was clear on how to unlock them using a backdoor method as well.

"Is there anything special about this Demon God's ruins?" Sword302 could not help asking.

Lin Huang glanced at the girl with the ponytail and said in full honesty, "There is nothing special about them, but I want to go in and plunder some resources.

"After returning to the great world, there will be a lot of places that require expenses. We need to take whatever we can get." After Lin Huang had finished, he continued, "Rest assured, I won't plunder everything. After all, these are the things that Teacher Great Heaven left for the locals."

The two Sword Servants were speechless for a while; they had not expected that the new swordmaster would act in such a shabby fashion.

After they thought about it carefully, however, they realized it was normal. After all, Lin Huang's combat strength had yet to reach virtual god-level. At his level of ability, it was difficult to obtain any benefits from a high-rank secret ruin.

After Lin Huang brought it up, the two Sword Servants could not help but consider plundering as well. After spending so many years in the Trial space, almost all the cultivating resources of the other Sword Servants had been used up, not just theirs. They desperately needed to replenish their resources.

When they considered this, both of them immediately had no objections to Lin Huang's plan for plundering resources.

In their hearts, the two Sword Servants silently comforted themselves with Lin Huang's identity.

The new swordmaster was to some extent the heir of swordmaster Great Heaven. The legacies that Great Heaven had left behind were his. It was not just the inheritance in the Great Heaven Territory but the entire Great Heaven Territory that belonged to the new swordmaster now. If he took things from the ruins, those were also things that belonged to him and could not be considered plundering.

Lin Huang quickly delineated the location of the seven ruins on the star map and nodded in satisfaction. Pointing at the seven areas he had circled with Divine Power, he instructed the two Sword Servants.

"Our main task for the next few days is to explore these seven sites to the best of our abilities!"

After all, these were Heavenly God ruins. It was possible that there were some powerful local monsters or guardians, and there might even be some areas hiding things that could kill a Heavenly God.

Although Lin Huang was able to enter these ruins, Great Heaven's memory also gave him a general understanding of their condition but his ability limitations prevented him from a more in-depth exploration of the ruins.

"I will make a list of all the things that we need to use in exploring the ruins. We will prepare these things today; if we can't get them, then we'll reach out to Sword11 for help. We'll make a move first thing tomorrow morning! "

It took more than half an hour for Lin Huang to carefully recall the internal condition of these ruins before he finally finished listing all the items needed.

After that, he took both Sword Servants straight to the black market.

It took the three of them more than two hours to visit more than twenty stores before they managed to buy everything on the list.

The afternoon went by; the three had lunch before returning to the hotel.

"You can move around freely in the afternoon, just don't cause any trouble." Even though Lin Huang had said they could do so, the two still did not leave the hotel room that afternoon.

For the Sword Servants, the job of protecting the swordmaster was far more important than enjoying themselves.

As for Lin Huang, to recuperate and recharge, he went to bed early in the afternoon and slept until the next day.

Early the next morning, he and the two Sword Servants had an unhurried breakfast and then returned to the hotel room.

"We've eaten and slept our fill; it's time for us to start work!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Huang gestured with his hand and a black whirlpool quickly formed in the living room.

The three of them stepped in one by one and disappeared.

After a while, the black whirlpool slowly dissipated, leaving the entire room empty.

Chapter 1370: You Are Not The Person I Am Looking For

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The Demon God Ah Mi was a heavenly god-level powerhouse of the Abyssal Tribe who controlled a variety of Fire Element sequences.

The dimension that he left behind containing the ruins was a fiery world.

Large and small volcanoes could be seen everywhere. More than 70% of the ground was covered by magma, and occasionally, fire tornadoes could be seen swirling around...

Lin Huang took out a transparent crystal gem and mounted it on the helm of his god rule relic armor.

The two Sword Servants immediately followed suit and mounted similar crystal gems onto their own armor.

These crystal gems were called energy absorption gems; they had the ability to absorb all kinds of free-floating anomalous energies in the air.

Generally, in an area where energy fluctuations were more violent, implanting energy absorption gems onto the body could prevent the intrusion of these violent energies.

Lin Huang did not actually need the energy absorption gems. He had Divine Fire within him that could automatically purify all energies entering the body. However, the two Sword Servants were restricted to virtual god-level. Under such restrictions, their Divine Fire would be affected by the violent energies contained within the ruin.

To avoid giving too many explanations, Lin Huang also used energy absorption gems alongside them.

Only after prior preparations had been made did Lin Huang bring in both the Sword Servants. They began their explorations based on the route within his memory...

The explorations into this first set of ruins suffered from lack of experience-even though they had Great Heaven's recollections of the ruins, it was also a memory from millions of years ago, and there had definitely been some changes within the ruins themselves. Lin Huang and the two Sword Servants nearly walked into danger twice and took two full days to complete their preliminary explorations. Fortunately, the first round of loot that the three of them managed to plunder was quite substantial.

After leaving Ah Mi's ruin, without further ado Lin Huang and two Sword Servants left for the second set of ruins, the Xi Di ruins.

Xi Di, like Ah Mi, was also a Demon God of the Abyssal Tribe.

According to legend, this Demon God was hermaphrodite and very attractive.

However, within Xi Di's ruins, the native creatures were all extremely ugly. Fortunately, the environment was much better compared with the environment of Ah Mi's ruins.

It took only one day for the three of them to partially complete their looting of the resources there.

With the experience gained from the previous two ruins, the exploration of the next few ruins became much smoother, taking them only a day or so to complete.

For the seven ruins near the human territories, Lin Huang and the two Sword Servants completed their looting in less than nine days.

Lin Huang finally stopped plundering on the remaining three days.

It was not that he did not wish to continue, but news came two days ago from Sword11 that the war was over!

Under the combined pressure of several Heavenly Gods, the Bug Tribe had finally chosen to withdraw its troops.

Sword11 had specifically come to look for Lin Huang two days ago regarding this matter, but Lin Huang and the two Sword Servants were not present.

He waited for two days in Golden City before the three finally returned.

The minute they arrived in Golden City, Lin Huang sent a message to Sword11.

Less than ten seconds later, Sword11 appeared again in the unlicensed hotel room.

"Lord Swordmaster, I have some preliminary findings for what you asked me to investigate. Among the humans, there are four people with the name "Jin Wu" under the age of 16. If the scope is widened to include those under the age of 20, there are six people. If that's expanded further to include those under the age of 30, then there are nine people."

Sword11 projected the information on the nine people mentioned.

"However, we could only locate those with registered identities; we're unable to locate illegal residents who have no identity registration."

Lin Huang nodded and looked through the projected information on each of the nine people.

The more he studied what was in front of him, the more his brow furrowed.

From what he could see, there was nothing special about these nine people. Of the four under the age of 16, only one had cultivation potential, and that potential was very common. Of the two between the ages of 16 and 20, one of them also had cultivation potential, but that was also very ordinary. Out of the three people in the 20-30 age group, two of them had cultivation potential. One of them was slightly better, with a combat strength at holy fire-level, but it was still far from the level of a genius.

"Could you get hold of them in person?" Lin Huang thought about this for a long while before turning his head to ask Sword11.

"I asked my subordinates to send them to Heavenly Sword Planet for a free tour with the excuse that they won a lucky draw. They've been having a lot of fun on Heavenly Sword Planet these past few days."

"Let's go to Heavenly Sword Planet and meet them then." Lin Huang nodded slightly.

He wanted to see if there was anything special about these nine individuals in person.

"Are we leaving now, or..." Sword11 asked quickly.

"We'll leave now."

At this, Sword11 immediately brought out a dimensional portal.

Lin Huang glanced at it and guessed that the craftsmanship of the dimensional portal was likely to be of human origin from the great world, so the Great Heaven Territory and the gravel world would both have such a device.

After a brief moment for Sword11 to set the coordinates, all four of them stepped in one after another.

Upon stepping out of the portal, Lin Huang found himself in a tall building.

He looked out of the window wall and noticed that there were many dense low-rise apartments, but there were not many high-rise buildings.

The height and density of the buildings were similar to those of the grade-C foothold in the gravel world.

The Great Heaven Territory was much less advanced than the gravel world in terms of infrastructure.

"Lord Swordmaster, please wait for a moment. I will ask someone to go get them."

After Sword11 finished speaking, he dialed a number and hung up after a few simple instructions.

"We may have to wait a short while. Why don't we sit for a little and have some tea?"

"I'm not in a hurry." Lin Huang nodded slightly then turned and walked to the sofa to sit down.

Only then did Sword11 and the two Sword Servants seat themselves.

The four of them drank tea and engaged in small talk. The main conversationalists were Lin Huang and Sword11; Sword301 and Sword302 mostly listened.

About half an hour later, a woman stood at the door and knocked.

"Teacher, everyone has arrived."

"Let them come in." Sword11 nodded slightly.

Nine people entered the room one after another. When they saw Sword11, their eyes filled with adoration.

Lin Huang did a quick Divine Telekinesis scan through the bodies of the nine individuals but found nothing out of the ordinary. He turned his head and gave Sword11 a look.

Sword11 understood what Lin Huang meant. He then smiled and greeted the nine individuals.

"Welcome everyone!"

"Sword11...Sir..." All nine people looked overwhelmed and flattered.

One should know that Sword11 was the number one Sword Dao genius among humans and he was already a ninth-rank true god-level powerhouse. If his combat strength achieved yet another breakthrough, it would be at the level of a Heavenly God, which was considered the pinnacle of human combat strength.

All nine individuals had grown up listening to the legends told about Sword11. Now that they were seeing him in person, it was very hard for them not to be excited.

"All of you are very lucky this time. Not only did you win the lucky draw for participating in the free tour but today, my Senior Brother just happened to pass by Heavenly Sword Planet. We were just talking about finding him an apprentice, and all of you arrived. Let my Senior Brother take a look and see if there's anyone among the nine of you who is suitable.

"However, don't be discouraged if you are not selected. My Senior Brother's standards are very high."

Once Sword11 finished speaking, the nine individuals looked at Lin Huang with shining eyes.

From their point of view, Sword11 was very strong, so his Senior Brother would not be far behind abilities-wise. Once selected, even if their master was not good at teaching, they would still have a relationship with Sword11. It went without saying that they could occasionally ask Sword11, the Junior Uncle, to give them some instruction

As they thought about these things, all nine people began looking forward even more to being selected.

Lin Huang waited for Sword11 to finish and glanced at the nine individuals.

"I mainly want to check your Sword Dao potential."

As he finished speaking, he walked over to the first boy and said mildly, "Extend your hand."

The teenager immediately put his hand out. Lin Huang extended two fingers and placed it on the teenager's wrist; a ray of Divine Power endowed with a thread of awareness slowly seeped into the teenager's body. Once the Divine Power had circulated fully within the other party's body, Lin Huang's consciousness finished probing within the teenager's body as well.

As per the result of the previous Divine Telekinesis, this teenager was nothing special-at least, Lin Huang did not detect anything out of the ordinary.

In less than ten seconds, Lin Huang turned to the second person.

This second person was a young girl of fifteen years old; she was the only one with cultivation potential among the four people under the age of sixteen.

After a round of inspection, Lin Huang still found nothing.

After that, he went to the third person...

By the time he had finished scanning the bodies of all nine individuals, less than two minutes had passed.

These nine people named Jin Wu seemed to be nothing special.

After silently pondering for a while, Lin Huang made contact with Yin Yin who resided within him.

"Yin Yin, do you think there's anything special about these nine people?"

"Yin Yin doesn't think so," Yin Yin's answer came quickly.

Lin Huang had asked Yin Yin because the two missions given by the Club could only be carried out in the Great Heaven Territory. The mission to find "Jin Wu" was most likely related to Great Heaven.

Since Yin Yin had said that she did not sense anything, then these nine people were probably not the ones that he was looking for.

After all, there were a lot of people named "Jin Wu" and the one whom the Club was looking for might not necessarily be among humans.

After checking the bodies of the nine individuals in question, Lin Huang retreated to Sword11's side and shook his head slightly at Sword11.

When Sword11 saw, he immediately spoke again.

"Unfortunately, none of you have been selected. But this is not a problem to do with any of you; the main reason is that my Senior Brother is too picky. It doesn't matter though; as compensation, I will give each of you a set of swords, all of which are my own creation. "

Although the nine individuals were a bit disappointed, after they had calmed down and considered things, they felt it was to be expected. After they heard Sword11's consoling words, they immediately felt that it was not because their potential was deficient. Besides, there was also the gift of Sword11's hand-made swords, so their original feelings of annoyance were instantly swept away.

After happily receiving the swords from Sword11, all nine individuals quickly followed Sword11's apprentices and left.

When the nine of them were far away, Lin Huang spoke again.

"According to my inspection, none of these people seem to be anything out of the ordinary. It's highly probable that they are not the people I am looking for, but I can't completely rule out that there is something hidden within them that I have not been able to identify.

"In the meantime, please help me keep a close eye on what happens with these nine individuals," Lin Huang thought for a while and added on.

"I'll find someone to keep watch on them secretly." Sword11 nodded immediately.

"Does Lord Swordmaster have any other needs?"

"No." Lin Huang shook his head. "We will leave the Great Heaven Territory in three days. We don't feel like running around for the next few days, so we'll just stay here on Heavenly Sword Planet."

"Then let me take you around," Sword11 offered to be their tour guide.

"No need for that, you can tend to your own affairs," Lin Huang refused right away, "With you there, we would be too easily noticed; we can just stroll around by ourselves. If there is anything that we really need, I'll let you know."

"Very well then. I'll ask someone to draw up a travel and food guide and I will send it to you later. Actually, it would be good for you to go exploring on your own. If there is anything that you need, please do contact me."

Chapter 1371: Carved Heart Pavilion

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In the next few days, Lin Huang did not continue going to the ruins and secret zones in the Great Heaven Territory. Instead, he decided to relax, act like a tourist, and stroll around Heavenly Sword Planet.

Although he had not found Jin Wu, he had completely expected that; very quickly he put the matter behind him.

The travel itinerary sent by Great Heaven1 was very detailed. Both big and small tourist spots on Heavenly Sword Planet were clearly listed, including the recommendation ratings of three to five stars. There were also various food and specialty shops on the planet that were also marked with recommendation star ratings and detailed addresses for authentic local goods, as well as the normal price of items.

Lin Huang walked around with the two Sword Servants for a whole day, and they only managed to visit only one-fifth of the places on the itinerary.

The next morning, Lin Huang and the two Sword Servants came to a handicraft shop.

This shop was a five-star one recommended by Sword11; it was a place that sold sculptures.

All of the sculptures had been hand-carved by the proprietor and they were exquisitely beautiful.

According to the information provided by Sword11, the owner of the shop was just an ordinary person who did not have cultivation potential, but who gained insight into the meaning of Sword Dao through carving. Although it was only the most rudimentary entry-level stage of level-1 Sword Dao, it was also quite remarkable. One had to know that many sword cultivators who had elevated to transcendent level might not necessarily even understand level-1 Sword Dao.

Based on that alone, Lin Huang became interested in both the shop and the shop owner.

As soon as he arrived at the door of the shop, Lin Huang saw a wooden signboard. The three words "Carved Heart Pavilion" on the signboard were obviously carved by the shop owner.

From afar, Lin Huang had already felt that there was a faint inner meaning to it.

Although it was very shallow and light, it was indeed a character that could only be sculpted by a person who had grasped the meaning of Sword Dao.

"Carved Heart... This shop owner's manner of expression is certainly not small." Lin Huang smiled faintly and entered the shop with the two Sword Servants.

The store area was not large; it was an estimated 30 to 40 ping1.

Several large cabinets against the wall extended from the floor to the roof. The shelves inside were all full of palm-sized sculptures.

Most of these sculptures were a variety of monsters; a few were human beings, but none of the sculptures were repeats.

In addition to the cabinet against the wall, two large tables had been placed in the room, covered with black cloth, and used as display stands.

The sculptures on the tables were densely arranged, and they were no longer sized like the standard ones in the cabinet. Here, there were sculptures both big and small. The big ones were about half a meter high and the small ones were just the size of a thumb.

Lin Huang glanced at the sculptures on the tables with their varying heights and could not help raising his eyebrows.

"Boss, there are some pieces on these tables that you didn't carve, am I right?"

Lin Huang said this because he felt that most of the sculptures on the table did not have a sense of inner meaning like the shop owner's own carvings.

"Some of these are my early failures, some I collected from various places, and a small number of them were carved by several of my apprentices." The shop owner glanced up at Lin Huang, seemingly surprised by Lin Huang's perception.

Lin Huang glanced over the tables. Suddenly a sculpture caught his attention.

It was a three-legged Golden Crow with a height of almost 30 cm; the material used for the carving was ordinary ebony.

The carving on the Golden Crow was average. The main problem was that the lines were too rigid. It looked a bit like a novice's work, but what caused Lin Huang to feel puzzled was the faintest traces of inner meaning hidden within the sculpture.

If he had not mastered Sword Dao true meaning, it would have been difficult for him to even have sensed this inner meaning.

What puzzled Lin Huang even more was that the inner meaning was different from that of the shop owner.

He picked up the Golden Crow sculpture and examined it carefully. He then noticed that the base of the sculpture was inscribed with two words--"Jin Wu"!

When he saw these two words, Lin Huang's mind received a mild shock.

He immediately initiated his Divine Telekinesis and scanned the sculpture carefully.

Under a Divine Telekinesis scan, the issues with this sculpture became more apparent. There were problems in the detailing. It gave off the feeling of a novice who had not learned to sculpt.

Other than that, however, Lin Huang did not sense anything.

Just as Lin Huang was about to question the shop owner, Yin Yin's voice suddenly came.

"The aura of this sculpture-Yin Yin feels that it is slightly familiar..."

"Is it related to Teacher Great Heaven?" Lin Huang asked quickly.

"Yin Yin doesn't know, she can't remember..." Yin Yin still did not give a definite answer.

Although he did not get the desired answer from Yin Yin, Lin Huang speculated that even if this object was not directly related to Great Heaven, it might be related to the "Jin Wu" whom the Club was looking for.

He glanced at the other wood carvings, then searched carefully again with Divine Telekinesis; there were no other sculptures similar to this one.

He then walked towards the shop owner with the Golden Crow sculpture.

"Boss, how much is this?"

The proprietor lifted his head to eye the Golden Crow that Lin Huang was holding, then glanced back to Lin Huang again. "If you want it, I'll give it to you for free."

"Why? Isn't it worth anything?" Lin Huang asked deliberately for the sake of getting more information.

"This was carved by a child two months ago when he was sitting in on my free class. For a novice to have carved something like in his first class shows he has quite a bit of natural talent. Unfortunately, after that free class he hasn't been here again," the store owner explained, "If you like it, take it."

"Can I ask for the child's particulars?" Lin Huang asked again.

"Why are you asking about this?" The shop owner looked at Lin Huang rather warily.

"I am a cultivator and I have been looking for an apprentice. After seeing this sculpture today, I think that this child may be the one I am looking for," Lin Huang used Sword11's pretext. When he had finished speaking, his figure slowly levitated from the ground, indicating his identity as a cultivator.

When the shop owner saw that Lin Huang's feet were floating off the ground, he was stunned for a while. It took a moment for him to gather his senses and ask rather diffidently, "You just need one look to know if there is cultivation potential?"

"One look is enough for me." Lin Huang nodded with a smile as he slowly descended to land on the floor.

"Then could you help me look?" The shop owner asked with some embarrassment. He was in his fifties but still dreamed of becoming a cultivator.

"You have chosen very well with your path of sculpting. Don't worry about cultivating," Lin Huang replied with a smile.

Although he did not get a clear answer, the shop owner understood the meaning behind Lin Huang's words. His face turned red and he did not dare pursue the matter further.

"I'll ask my apprentice, those who attended the free class should have had their details recorded."

When he finished speaking, the shop owner quickly contacted his apprentice and asked for personal information Lin Huang had requested.

"The child's name is Wu Hao; he is 16 years old. His address is Meteor Street..."

When he read out the address, the proprietor's face changed slightly.

"What's wrong?" Lin Huang noticed this and asked immediately.

"Meteor Street is a slum and it is very chaotic there..." The shop owner muttered softly after he finished, "No wonder he only came for the free class..."

"Thanks!" Lin Huang tossed the owner a Divine Stone and disappeared with the two Sword Servants.

Stunned, the proprietor stared in the direction where the three of them had stood before they disappeared. A moment later, he came out of his daze. When he saw the black Divine Stone in his hands, his eyes widened suddenly and his words became incoherent.

"This...this is...a Di- ... Di-... Divine Stone?!"

Chapter 1372: Meteor Street

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Meteor Street sounded like a street name, but it was actually the general designation for all the streets in Heavenly Sword Planet's slum.

This area was named Meteor Street because many of the people living here had a life span as short as meteors-gone just like that.

Those who lived in Meteor Street were basically the lowest social strata of the planet.

Organized crime syndicates, gangsters, thieves, red-light districts, and shady underground businesses were the mainstays of this area.

Sword11 had thought of cleaning up the area previously but later discovered that these darker elements could not be completely eliminated. Even if he cleared the present Meteor Street, in a few years, another Meteor Street would spring up. Even if he led strike after strike against the area and punished the criminals with strict laws, at most it would just splinter the whole of Meteor Street into countless smaller Meteor Streets.

No matter how bright the sun, there would always be places where its light could not reach.

In the end, Sword11 had come around-as long as Meteor Street was within his control, there was no need for him to go all out.

The various crime bosses of Meteor Street were also smart people. They understood the present state of affairs and had caught on to Sword11's line of thinking. They actively gave in and never dared to do anything too overtly outrageous.

In this way, the state of affairs in Meteor Street was preserved.

After they left the Carved Heart Pavilion, Lin Huang appeared on Meteor Street with the two Sword Servants.

Lin Huang could not help frowning at the putrid smell that permeated the air.

At a glance, there were at least twenty or thirty pieces of garbage simply tossed onto the narrow streets.

Leftover lunch boxes, bloody toilet paper, used condoms, thick green sputum that stuck to the ground... Lin Huang even saw urine stains on several walls-judging by the height, they were clearly not left by dogs.

On the side of the road, men gathered in small clusters of twos and threes eyed the tall Sword302 with unrestrained lasciviousness. Some did not even bother to conceal their arousal and even deliberately stroked their crotches with their hands while they smiled at Sword302 in the most creepy fashion.

Sword302 was not fazed by the situation. With a faint smile, her long legs in their high heels moved forward a step.

The next moment, the faintest aura of Wind Elemental Enlightenment stirred.

An instant later, a violent wind sprang up over the whole street, blowing so violently that countless houses tottered on the verge of collapse.

Fortunately, the wind died down after a short three to five seconds.

After the wind stopped, all the rubbish on the ground, including the trash bins overflowing with filthy water and the men by the roadside, had disappeared.

"Trash should be cleaned up," Sword302 said indifferently as she returned to Lin Huang's side.

Of course, Lin Huang could see that Sword302 had not killed anyone. She had merely used Wind Elemental Enlightenment to blow the men away with the garbage.

After that violent gust of wind earlier, he could clearly sense that the air of this narrow street was much fresher and cleaner.

Ignoring the hastily closing doors and windows on both sides of the road, Lin Huang led the two Sword Servants forward and they continued walking.

After they had passed five or six streets, Lin Huang finally found the house where the boy named Wu Hao lived. It was in the deepest part of a small alley that measured less than a meter in width.

This dark, damp alley was sunless for almost 24 hours a day.

Wu Hao's house was the innermost partitioned space; the area was about 10 square meters based on Lin Huang's visual inspection. The small window was crisscrossed with line upon line of rusty bars; none of the glass was intact.

The door of Wu Hao's room faced out and was wide open. The door was also rotten and broken; there was a fist-sized hole on it about the height of a man's shin, which seemed to be from someone's kick.

However, Lin Huang also noticed that the front of the house was clean and almost spotless as if someone had just tidied it up not long ago.

Based on his initial understanding of the child's situation, Lin Huang thought about it for a moment, left the two Sword Servants where they were, and walked toward the room alone.

In the open room, as Lin Huang had expected, there was only one bed and one table.

A teenager was sitting on the edge of the bed. He held a small knife and was quietly carving a piece of wood. The wood chips were scattered over a piece of newspaper on his desk.

Lin Huang recognized the prototype the boy had carved with just a glance. It was a dragon beast. Although there were not enough details yet, he could roughly tell that it was an Archaic Fire Dragon.

The teenager did not notice Lin Huang's arrival as he was focused on his carving. Lin Huang did not speak up to disturb him either. He stood quietly outside the door and watched the teenager carve the Archaic Fire Dragon into being.

It was almost noon by the time the teenager finally had the basic shape carved for the Archaic Fire Dragon he was holding.

He appeared to be a little tired. He put down the woodcarving and stretched. When he looked up, he saw Lin Huang at his door.

The teenager was startled when he saw Lin Huang.

However, he quickly calmed down, moved his fingers unobtrusively, and transferred the carving knife in his right hand into his palm to hide it. At the same time, he was on high alert and asked Lin Huang with a hint of warning in his voice, "Who are you looking for?"

Lin Huang noticed the teenager's slight movement. He smiled and took out the wood carving that he had obtained from the Carved Heart Pavilion. "Is this three-legged Golden Crow your work?"

The teenager's eyes narrowed slightly, not because he saw his woodcarving, but because he noticed that the woodcarving in Lin Huang's hand appeared out of thin air.

"You're a cultivator and I'm just an ordinary person. Just tell me what you want, don't beat around the bush." The teenager glanced in the direction of the window; he had already begun to plan an escape route in his head.

"Don't worry, I don't have any malicious intentions. It's just that when I visited the Carved Heart Pavilion earlier today, I saw your work by accident and thought it wasn't too bad, so I came to visit."

"Do you think I'm going to believe you? The lines of the sculpture are so ugly and the details are full of mistakes. A cultivator like you thinks that it's not too bad?" Based on the expression on the teenager's face, it was not clear whether he was questioning Lin Huang's aesthetics, or what Lin Huang had said.

"I didn't say that you carved well. What I thought was not too bad was the inner meaning left in the sculpture," Lin Huang explained somewhat helplessly.

He had not expected Wu Hao to be so suspicious. However, if one considered the environment the boy lived in, it was understandable.

"Don't coax me like I'm a kid," Wu Hao obviously did not believe in Lin Huang's statement. "Meteor Street's rules don't allow cultivators to do anything to ordinary people who aren't cultivators. Whatever your purpose is in looking for me, you've already broken the rules. If anything happens to me, Lord Sword11 will most definitely send someone to investigate it thoroughly!"

Although there was such a rule in Meteor Street, deaths happened in this area every day. There were at least hundreds of ordinary people who died for various reasons every year; Sword11 did not have the time to investigate each of these cases.

"Well, it seems that you won't believe whatever I have to say." Lin Huang was speechless for a while. "In that case, I'll find someone who can talk to you."

Wu Hao's muscles tightened as he stared at Lin Huang with a wary face. Just when he thought Lin Huang had other associates, Lin Huang dialed a number in front of him.

Within seconds the call was picked up and a figure projected itself in front of Wu Hao.

Wu Hao was stunned when he saw who the figure was.

"Sword...Sword11?!"

Chapter 1373: Would You Like To Be My Apprentice?

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"Are you truly Sword11's Senior Brother?!"

After listening to Sword11's explanation, Wu Hao was 80% convinced of Lin Huang's identity, but he still had 20% worth of doubts left.

"If I really had wanted to do something to you, I would have done it already. I wouldn't need to waste my time standing by the door just to explain things to you, much less request Sword11 to make an appearance.

"Also, you don't need to wonder whether the Sword11 in the video projection was real or fake. In a moment I'll take you to Heavenly Sword Palace to see him personally."

At Lin Huang's words, Wu Hao was finally able to completely dispel of all his doubts.

Wu Hao also knew that the person before him was a cultivator; Wu Hao would not have been able to fight him nor escape from him. If Lin Huang genuinely harbored any ill intentions toward Wu Hao, he could have achieved them directly with a show of force-there would have been no need at all for so much explanation. Even if Lin Huang had forcibly kidnapped Wu Hao, not many people would have noticed.

As to whether the Sword11 he had seen was the genuine article or not, Wu Hao had also experienced a moment of uncertainty. However, when he considered it, no matter what the other party's intentions were, there was no need to set up such an elaborate deception for an ordinary slum-dweller like himself, much less find someone to impersonate Sword11.

There was one more detail that made Wu Hao absolutely certain that Lin Huang meant him no harm, namely, Lin Huang had stood outside the threshold of the door and had not tried to come in.

1Growing up in a place like Meteor Street, Wu Hao had developed an extremely high level of vigilance since childhood. From his point of view, a person who approached himself for no reason must be plotting something.

That was why he had been fully on his guard when he first saw Lin Huang.

Now he was sure that Lin Huang meant him no harm, he finally put down the carving knife hidden in his palm.

"Come in and sit down," Wu Hao only remembered that he did not have a stool in his house after he finished speaking.

This did not bother Lin Huang at all. When he came into the house, he saw a row of sculptures by the window sill. He picked one up at random and studied it.

The sculpture that he had picked up was a Fire Ape.

This sculpture was only palm-sized but the details were much more defined than the previous three-legged Golden Crow. The overall lines of the carving were also much more aesthetically pleasing; there were almost no significant faults that could be picked out. Even the inner meaning contained within the sculpture was considerably stronger than what had been in the Golden Crow.

Lin Huang also noticed that the base of the sculpture was also engraved with two large words-"Jin Wu".

He used Divine Telekinesis to scan the rest of the sculptures and found that the words "Jin Wu" had been inscribed underneath all the bases. He then smiled and turned towards Wu Hao.

"You gave yourself a pseudonym?"

"Using my real name might get me into trouble," Wu Hao explained, "It's not a bad thing to be overly cautious."

Lin Huang wanted to say, "You are way too cautious", but refrained.

After he had confirmed that "Jin Wu" was Wu Hao's pseudonym, Lin Huang was almost 90% certain that this was the child named "Jin Wu" whom the Club was looking for.

When he first saw Wu Hao from the door earlier, he realized that this boy's Sword Dao had broken through to level-3-Illumination. However, there was no trace at all of a cultivator's aura within him.

This meant that this young man named Wu Hao had leveled himself up to level-3 Sword Dao in just over two months, merely through his carving.

Lin Huang himself knew how difficult it was to elevate his Sword Dao.

It had taken him more than a year to elevate to level-3 Sword Dao through conduits, daily sword practice, and frequent combat.

This child named Wu Hao was undoubtedly an ultimate genius in Sword Dao!

After he had confirmed Wu Hao's Sword Dao talent, Lin Huang could not help but be tempted by a thought.

"Would you like to be my apprentice and learn sword skills from me?"

Initially, the plan to take Wu Hao on as an apprentice was just an excuse. Lin Huang had wanted to see what kind of person the Club was searching for and what was so special about him.

However, after seeing Wu Hao's Sword Dao talent... What was the Club's mission anyway? Did it matter whether he carried it out or not?

"I forgot to introduce myself-my name is Lin Huang," Lin Huang added.

Wu Hao was surprised for a moment. Immediately after, however, he appeared to be troubled.

"If you have anything that you want to say, just say it." Lin Huang noticed Wu Hao's hesitation.

Wu Hao did indeed hesitate for a while but finally could not help speaking up.

"If you're Sword11's Senior Brother, why haven't I heard your name before?"

Lin Huang thought for a while. This question was not one that he could easily answer.

"I'll explain it in detail after I bring you to meet Sword11. If you're not yet prepared to apprentice with me right now, you can wait until you meet Sword11 before making a decision."

Wu Hao thought about it for a moment before he spoke again.

"Then let me change my question. Between you and Sword11, who is stronger?"

"His combat strength is higher than mine, but I should be able to beat him if we're at the same combat strength." Lin Huang was telling the truth. With his current ability, even if he had met Great Heaven under circumstances where both of them had the same combat strength, he would definitely have been able to beat him, what more Sword11.

"I have another question..." Wu Hao stared at Lin Huang keenly. "I don't have cultivation potential-are you sure you want to take me as your apprentice?"

"No cultivation potential?"

Lin Huang used Divine Telekinesis immediately to scan Wu Hao's body, only to find that the child's soul was so severely damaged he could not sense the existence of various energies. To some extent, this was more serious than an ordinary person with no potential.

In this case, however, it was not completely impossible for Wu Hao to be able to cultivate. Lin Huang quickly found a cultivation method suitable for Wu Hao from within Great Heaven's memory.

"You don't have to worry about not having cultivation potential; I have a way that will allow you to be able to cultivate."

Wu Hao's eyes lit up when he heard what Lin Huang had to say. He quickly got up, walked to Lin Huang, and bowed to the ground. "This apprentice hails his master!"

"From today on, you are my first official disciple." Lin Huang nodded slightly and helped Wu Hao up.

The reason Lin Huang said "official disciple" was mainly because he used to be an instructor at Martial Hunter College and had many other students.

"There are some issues with your body that normally would make it impossible for you to cultivate. However, I know of a method that will allow you to embark on the path of cultivation. This method is called Sword Use Divinity!

1"Simply put, you do not cultivate the body or the soul-you only cultivate the sword. Once your Sword Dao achieves Sword Dao true meaning, you can use directly Sword Use Divinity to consolidate your Godhead.

"For ordinary people, it's impossible to achieve Sword Dao just by cultivation of the sword. But for you though, it is possible..."

After a brief explanation, Lin Huang placed the tip of one finger on Wu Hao's forehead and transmitted an assortment of sword skills he had picked into Wu Hao's body.

After all, the boy was just an ordinary person and the amount of information that his brain could hold was limited.

Lin Huang only entered 10,000 sets of sword skills, ranging from ordinary to legendary.

"You can assimilate these sword skills slowly when you have the time," Lin Huang finished speaking and glanced around the room. "Now you can pack your things and follow me."

"Where are we going?" Wu Hao immediately responded.

"Sword11's Heavenly Sword Palace."

Chapter 1374: The Trial is Over

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

When Wu Hao saw Sword11 standing before him in person in Heavenly Sword Palace, he was so excited that he was virtually speechless.

One had to be aware that he grew up listening to legends about Sword11.

Naturally, as a young man who yearned to cultivate Sword Dao, he found it hard to remain calm when he saw Sword11, the "number one Sword Dao cultivator" of the Great Heaven Territory, alive and well and standing before him.

"Lord Swordmaster, this young man..." Sword11 was a little puzzled when he saw that Lin Huang had brought along the youth from the video call just now.

"Wu Hao, my apprentice," Lin Huang introduced Wu Hao with a grin.

"App...Apprentice?!" Sword11 was stunned for a moment when he heard that. He had not expected that his swordmaster would have found an apprentice just by walking around town.

"Xiao Hao, say hello." Lin Huang patted Wu Hao's shoulder.

"Sword...Lord Sword11..." Wu Hao's face turned slightly red and he did not dare to look at Sword11 directly.

"I remember you; you're the teenager in the video just now. Your name is Wu Hao?" Although Sword11 had many doubts, he still took the initiative to smile and greet Wu Hao.

Wu Hao nodded quickly.

"All thanks to you. If you hadn't appeared on the video call with him earlier, he might not necessarily have been willing to become my apprentice," Lin Huang laughed.

"Lord Swordmaster praises me too much."

Only now did Wu Hao notice how Sword11 addressed Lin Huang and a faint trace of uncertainty arose in his heart. He stole a glance at Lin Huang and directed a question at Sword11.

"Lord Sword11, are you and my master really fellow disciples?"

Sword11 looked at Lin Huang after hearing that.

"You can tell him the truth." Lin Huang nodded.

Only then did Sword11 nod and explain the situation to Wu Hao.

"Lord Swordmaster and I are not fellow disciples-I am Lord Swordmaster's Sword Servant..."

Even though he had not yet embarked on the path of cultivation, Wu Hao still understood what "Sword Servant" meant. Despite experiencing a sense of unreality after hearing Sword11 admit that he was merely a Sword Servant, he could also see that Sword11's respect for his master was no pretense.

"Then my master really is very powerful?" Wu Hao thought for a moment and asked again.

"He succeeded in obtaining the inheritance of swordmaster Great Heaven and has taken his position as the new swordmaster. At the very least, in terms of Sword Dao, he is unparalleled."

"How about compared to you?" Wu Hao quickly followed up.

"If we were at the same level, I certainly would not be any sort of opponent for Lord Swordmaster." Sword11 knew how difficult the final Trial assessment was. Even though he had not fought Lin Huang, he could roughly estimate what Lin Huang's abilities were like.

After hearing this personal evaluation from Sword11, Wu Hao finally looked at Lin Huang with the beginnings of hero-worship in his eyes.

"Now will you believe me?" Lin Huang asked, slightly disgruntled.

"Yes, I do believe you now. I know master's Sword Dao is unparalleled!" Wu Hao quickly laughed apologetically, held up his fists, and started pummelling Lin Huang's back diligently by way of massage.

"You little devil, in future put these thoughts of yours into your cultivation-that would be better than anything." Lin Huang shook his head helplessly.

Disregarding Wu Hao's diligence, Lin Huang started chatting with Sword11 again.

"Tomorrow is the last day of the Great Heaven Trial. It's not safe for me to bring this young devil with me, so I'm going to leave him with you first to supervise his cultivation. I'll come back to the Great Heaven Territory for him in half a year at the earliest; if I'm slow it will be around two to three years."

"Master, are you leaving?" Wu Hao asked hurriedly.

"I still have some matters to deal with in the great world and my home, the gravel world." Lin Huang glanced behind at Wu Hao. "I'll sort out what I want to teach you and pass it to Sword11 in the next two days. When the time comes, he will help me to teach you."

When he had finished speaking, Lin Huang looked at Sword11 again.

"Wu Hao's situation is rather unique. His constitution doesn't allow him to cultivate directly, so he can only take the path of Sword Dao Divinity..."

"Sword Dao Divinity?!" Sword11 stared at Lin Huang with wide eyes, as if he wanted to confirm whether or not Lin Huang was pulling his leg.

"He is very talented in Sword Dao," Lin Huang said only this and did not elaborate further.

When Sword11 caught Lin Huang's gaze, he knew that Lin Huang was not joking. As for what Lin Huang mentioned about Wu Hao being "very talented", Sword11 knew that there was more to it than mere talent after he considered the matter carefully.

After all, Wu Hao had caught the eye of the new swordmaster and had been accepted as a disciple immediately. Given that Lin Huang had also confirmed that the boy could take the path of Sword Dao Divinity, it was sufficient to indicate that the little devil in front of him was something truly special.

Sword11 did not pursue the matter further. Lin Huang had not explained in detail but he had already indicated his attitude. Sword11 was in no hurry-after all, Wu Hao was going to stay with him. Whatever that was so special about him would be apparent sooner or later.

"In the next two days, I'll go through the sword skills from all the inheritances that I have obtained, sort them out, and transmit them to you. Then you'll be able to pass these sword skills on to him. His body only has the strength of an ordinary person and the amount of information that can be processed by his brain at any given time is limited. You'll need to pay attention to the amount of information that you pass on to him each time; don't overload his mind.

"Also, in addition to sword skills, various kinds of theoretical knowledge should also be taught. I'll organize a set of teaching templates. Fill in the content according to the template I will give you and teach him a variety of theoretical knowledge. Remember to carry out a theoretical knowledge examination every month. If he fails the examination, let him retake it."

"Learning is learning, why do we need tests..." Wu Hao muttered in a low voice.

Lin Huang ignored the boy's grumbling and continued, "There is also actual combat-you'll need to make arrangements for him accordingly. Although he can't cultivate and his body is weak, as long as he doesn't die, you can arrange whatever you want for him within those limits. Since the medicine of the cultivation world can easily fix the physical bodies of ordinary people, it's not a big problem if he happens to break an arm or a leg..."

"Broken arm and broken leg..." Wu Hao looked as if he were about to cry. "Master, am I still your flesh and blood?"

Even Sword11 began to look at Wu Hao sympathetically at the expression in his eyes.

"These are the three approaches I can think of at the moment. As for the rest, if you think that there is a need to add on, feel free to do so on your own."

"Very well, then I will do as you say!" Sword11 readily agreed.

Since he had already found a successor for the swordmaster, Sword11's ultimate goal in coming to the Great Heaven Territory had been achieved. Seeing that he had nothing much on his plate at present, assisting the swordmaster in teaching his apprentice could be regarded as something to do.

"Ah yes, there is one more thing. He also carves as a hobby. As long as it does not interfere with his study of Sword Dao, you don't have to worry about it," Lin Huang specifically reminded Sword11 again.

After settling the matters to do with Wu Hao, Lin Huang chatted with Sword11 for about half an hour more before he returned to the hotel with the two Sword Servants.

As for Wu Hao, he remained in Heavenly Sword Palace.

Early the next morning, Lin Huang transmitted the all sword skills that he had sorted out to Sword11. There were a total of 180,000 sword skills and the highest was only pseudo-mythical-level. He even specifically mentioned that the pseudo-mythical-level sword skills were to be taught last.

It was not that Lin Huang did not want to teach mythical-level sword skills to Wu Hao; he merely wanted the boy to establish a solid foundation first and avoid running before he could walk.

As for the basic teaching template, Lin Huang had created it from summarizing his previous teaching experiences at Martial Hunter College. He focused on Wu Hao's traits to optimized the template.

After seeing to Wu Hao's affairs, Lin Huang returned to the Great Heaven Palace early in the morning with the two Sword Servants.

This was already the last day of the opening of the Great Heaven Territory. Under the authorization of the Great Heaven Palace, Lin Huang checked the status of the participants.

Following Lin Huang's instructions, the Great Heaven Palace quickly projected the participants' details.

Of the 300 participants who entered the Great Heaven Territory a month ago, only 63 were left. The survival rate was over 20%.

Lin Huang was glad that the few from Death Sickle were still around.

Lin Huang also saw a few familiar faces-Unrivaled God, Forbidden Lamella, and the others were still alive.

However, Lin Huang had expected this. After all, the group with Unrivaled God and Forbidden Lamella were super geniuses cultivated by grade-7 organizations. In terms of overall ability, they almost certainly would have life-preserving techniques if they could remain stable in the top five positions of the Virtual God Leaderboard.

When he saw the familiar faces in the surveillance footage, Lin Huang could not help frowning slightly.

"Unrivaled God, Forbidden Lamella and the others all know that I won the Competitive Trial. When they return to the great world, I'm afraid that the first thing they'll do is to inform the grade-7 organizations behind them about this matter. Even if they can't be sure whether or not I managed to obtain the Great Heaven inheritance, I will still be included on several grade-7 organizations' lists of people who should be closely observed.

"In addition to attracting the attention of the grade-7 organizations, this news may also lead to the Raiders targeting me. After all, I took over the inheritance of Great Heaven and the Lord who attacked Great Heaven previously would definitely be interested in me.

"From the looks of things, Xie Lin's identity can't be used any longer.

"The best way to make this identity disappear is to vanish after the closing of the Great Heaven Territory and let everyone think that Xie Lin died there. As long as Xie Lin died in the Great Heaven Territory, naturally, there won't be any such thing as Xie Lin obtaining the Great Heaven inheritance."

After careful consideration, Lin Huang completely dismissed the idea of returning to the great world with the other participants.

He did not return to the Great Heaven Territory at all until the next day. However, through the surveillance carried out by the Great Heaven Palace, he watched the 63 participants being teleported out one by one...

Chapter 1375: Returning To The Great World

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

God Territory, Blood Sickle Shelter, Death Sickle headquarters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

...

Half a month passed by quickly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inside was a small palm-sized package.

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

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

"You're still alive!"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Buried Heaven gave a helpless, bitter smile.

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

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

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

...

Lin Huang had long since departed the Iron Fist Shelter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 1376: The Mysterious Club

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Do you know about the Club?"

After a moment, Yang Ling replied within seconds.

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

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

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

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

He pressed the answer button without any hesitation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Something like that." Yang Ling nodded.

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

"Yes." Yang Ling nodded again.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 1377: Transaction

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Please sit down."

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

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

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

"Hello," Lin Huang nodded and greeted him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Without further hesitation, he brought out the scabbard.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"A God Weapon?" Lin Huang looked puzzled.

Solid Ebony noticed Lin Huang's uncertainty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Eight weapons!" Lin Huang negotiated.

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

"Six weapons!" Lin Huang negotiated once more.

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

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

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

Chapter 1378: God Weapon

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

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

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

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

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

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

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

This was its symbiotic nature.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beside her, Sword301 also looked puzzled.

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

After a moment, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Six small silver spheres floated quietly within the space storage.

Fortunately, the God Weapons were not fake...

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

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

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

"Nine o'clock sharp?!"

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

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

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

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

Chapter 1379: Senior, You Are Such A Nice Person

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

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

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

The three remaining weapons he would leave to Lin Xin.

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

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

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

This process usually lasted two or three days.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The whole process took only ten seconds.

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

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

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

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

"What happened? Did I make a mistake?"

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

He was going to try again.

This time, he was even more careful.

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

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

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

Lin Huang was speechless.

"Did Solid Ebony sell me fake goods?!"

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

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

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

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

After a while, he still got the same results.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A single item advancement card could solve his problem.

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

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

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

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

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

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

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

"Xiao Hei, redeem an item advancement card!"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To be precise, it looked like a living cloud.

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

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

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

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

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

Lin Huang was dumbfounded when he saw the final result.

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

There was absolutely no blade to be seen!

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

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

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

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

As he observed this, he vaguely sensed something.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"At least it's all done!"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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