Approximately half an hour later, Lin Huang looked at the severed carcass of the Dragon Python. He then recalled the innumerable God Weapon battle swords that were gliding around like a school of fish.
The Apocalypse Dragon Python’s carcass hovered in the starry heavens, its body full of wounds both deep and shallow. What had finally killed it, however, was most certainly the wound on its vital parts, which had completely sliced it in two.
Naturally, a mortal wound like that had not been caused by just a single attack.
It was the result of Lin Huang releasing more God Weapon flying daggers, utilizing fully eight sword formations, and spending more than half an hour to finally kill it.
The Apocalypse Dragon Python was undoubtedly the most powerful opponent that Lin Huang had ever encountered.
As he sensed the Apocalypse Dragon Python’s life force dissipating entirely from not too far away, Lin Huang suddenly raised his brows involuntarily.
This was because the Dragon Python’s carcass was disintegrating gradually into grayish-black points of light. They swiftly consolidated together and transformed into a grayish-black cloud of mist that was merely the size of a soccer ball.
“This ought to be the Void’s Origin Energy, right?” Lin Huang extended his hand with some curiosity.
The cloud of mist not only did not reject his advances but seeped into Lin Huang’s body through his fingers.
Lin Huang did not sense any threat at all. He sent his consciousness into his body and discovered that the sphere of energy had immersed itself in the God Territory within him.
After using his consciousness to seek it out, countless memories began wildly surging into his mind.
Lin Huang finally opened his eyes again after a long time.
“So that’s how it is… full Origin Energy contains everything there is to know about a Void…”
From the Apocalypse Dragon Python’s memory, Lin Huang rapidly obtained all sorts of information about Origin Energy.
As long as he fully refined this mass of Origin Energy, not only would he obtain the Apocalypse Dragon Python’s memory and inheritance, but he would also gain everything that it had ever accumulated. This included the Dao seals it had mastered, its sequence powers and Rule Bending Powers, its God Territory… it even included everything the Apocalypse Dragon Python had obtained from refining other Origin Energies in the past.
However, Lin Huang soon noticed something odd. After killing the Apocalypse Dragon Python, although a fatality notification had popped up from Xiao Hei, there was no notification at all about any rewards. There was not even a piece of the Apocalypse Dragon Python’s card fragment.
“Why isn’t there even a card fragment this time after I killed the Apocalypse Dragon Python?” Lin Huang directly asked Xiao Hei.
After a moment of silence, Xiao Hei very soon responded.
“You’ve already gained all of its Origin Energy, so there’s no need for me to take a portion of its Origin Energy to create a card.”
Lin Huang was stunned when he heard this, but he instantly realized what Xiao Hei meant.
“Do you mean to say that when you created cards previously, you converted a portion of the deceased’s Origin Energy to do so?”
“Your understanding is essentially correct.”
“So the level and quantity of the cards you can create is dependent on the Origin Energy that you take and has no actual connection with my combat strength?!” Something suddenly occurred to Lin Huang, and his expression immediately became rather peculiar.
Xiao Hei fell silent again for a moment but answered anyway a little while later.
“That is indeed the case. However, restricting the number of cards you can obtain per combat strength level is also to prevent you from exploiting the cards and relying too much on the cards’ functions.”
“So you’ve appropriated a great deal of the Origin Energy for yourself from the monsters I’ve killed?” The number of monsters Lin Huang had killed far exceeded the maximum number of cards he had obtained.
For each monster he killed, Xiao Hei would secretly take a portion of Origin Energy. However, only a small fraction of the Origin Energy was used to create cards for Lin Huang—most of it was hoarded by Xiao Hei.
This time, Xiao Hei fell into a long silence.
“Don’t pretend you can’t hear me. And don’t think you can deceive me about this matter,” Lin Huang prodded, seeing that Xiao Hei did not reply for a long time.
The Goldfingers—the stone tablet, Eternity Fire, Yin Yin, and the newcomer, the Gate of All Realms—were watching the drama unfold.
In reality, it was common for a Goldfinger to sneak benefits from its host. However, not very many of them had been caught red-handed.
“I do admit that I’ve appropriated a great deal of Origin Energy. However, my restricting your rewards is not because I wish to withhold any of the Origin Energy.
“Even if I only used one-tenth of the Origin Energy to create all kinds of card rewards for you, the number of cards you would obtain will be several dozen times over what you have now. That does not benefit your development in any way.”
Lin Huang knew that Xiao Hei was telling the truth.
He had been prodding himself to become stronger all this while; to a certain extent, this was also because of Xiao Hei’s restriction on the number of cards he could obtain.
Since the number of cards he could gain per level of combat strength was limited, he had no option but to elevate his combat strength quickly so he could obtain more card rewards.
If Xiao Hei truly did lift its restrictions—if it merely used one-tenth of the Origin Energy to make him all sorts of card rewards, as it had mentioned earlier—his motivation to elevate his combat strength would likely drop significantly. Moreover, there was a high possibility of him relying on the cards’ functions and slacking in his personal cultivation. He was almost certain that he would definitely not have the ability he possessed now.
“I won’t bring up what’s already in the past. However, right now, I think we can apportion the ratio of Origin Energy all over again.” Xiao Hei had admitted its problem, and Lin Huang did not want to dwell on the matter. He had brought up the Origin Energy issue not to blame Xiao Hei but to allocate the ratio of resources anew.
“No problem.”
Xiao Hei agreed with alacrity, then suggested a ratio.
“I can allocate thirty percent to you. Given your current ability, I’m no longer worried that you’ll exploit the cards.”
“Let’s make it fifty-fifty. It’s fairer if each of us has half.” It was not that Lin Huang wanted more, but he knew that Xiao Hei had appropriated Origin Energy in the past because the Origin Energy was most certainly beneficial to him. “I’ll store my fifty percent with you for now and let you know when I need it. You can use it whenever you want. Also, there’s no need to portion out the Origin Energy that you appropriated. It still belongs to you.”
“Deal!”
Xiao Hei thought about it for a moment and very quickly agreed. After all, Lin Huang was currently making an extremely big concession with his current proposal. It knew that it would be very difficult for it to fight for an even higher ratio.
After the two had discussed the apportioning of Origin Energy, Lin Huang looked at the mass of grayish-black Origin Energy from the Dragon Python.
“What’s the most powerful card you can create with this kind of lord-level Origin Energy?”
“I can create a Lord Elevation Card.”
“What?!” Lin Huang’s eyes widened, thinking he had misheard. “By using this card, one can directly elevate to become a Lord?!”
“Of course, it’s not as easy as that. There’s a caveat to be able to use it. One has to be ninth-rank heavenly god-level, and ranked no lower than Class 5.5 Pseudo Pure Spirit.”
“There’s no need to go through unification?!” Lin Huang still thought such a function was rather incredible.
“No. Unification will be achieved right away when the card is used. The user will directly elevate to become a Lord, and no raptors will be attracted.”
“There aren’t any side-effects?” Lin Huang questioned further.
“No. It’s the same as a successful, normal unification.”
Lin Huang’s eyes lit up after hearing that. He was beginning to imagine what the scenario might be if he built an army of lord-level imperial monsters.
“Is there any way to bring in items from the material realm?”
That was the main reason why Lin Huang had brought Xiao Hei into the virtual realm this time.
“After putting together the situation in the virtual realm and the information that the Gate of All Realms shared, it shouldn’t be a problem.”
As soon as Xiao Hei finished speaking, a card rapidly began to coalesce on Lin Huang’s right palm.
He picked up the card and looked at it. “A Virtual Realm Cabin Card?”
Lin Huang checked the information on the back of the card.
This was a cabin that could exist in the virtual realm. The duration of its existence would depend on the cabin’s interior capacity, how many items were placed inside, and the influx of Origin Energy.
With an influx of Origin Energy, the smaller the capacity of the cabin and the fewer the items, the longer the cabin would be able to exist.
Anything from the material realm could be stored in this cabin, except living beings.
Naturally, this meant living beings from the material realm, excluding Lin Huang’s virtual body.
“Why is there a restriction on living beings?” Lin Huang could not help asking when he saw that particular caveat.
“Without this restriction, the Origin Energy required to build this cabin would be at least a hundred times more than what’s currently needed.”
Lin Huang nodded once he heard the explanation. “I think that’s a pretty good restriction.”
In truth, he had not given this much thought earlier; he was just asking a casual question. In reality, it would not affect him significantly whether or not the virtual realm cabin could contain living beings from the material realm. Moreover, even if the cabin were able to contain living beings, they would not be able to leave the cabin and enter the virtual realm.
“Does it require a lot of Origin Energy to maintain the cabin?” Lin Huang asked again.
“As long as you don’t make the capacity of the cabin too extreme and store too many items inside, the daily consumption is practically negligible.”
“That’s good then.” Lin Huang could finally be at ease.
He did not ask Xiao Hei about how to use the cabin, as it was clearly stated on the information on the back of the card.
In one move, Lin Huang teleported to a nearby planet that had not been damaged. He then crushed the Virtual Realm Cabin Card in his hand.
A second later, the card turned into countless golden points of light that rapidly formed into a small cabin in front of Lin Huang.
The exterior was the default form of the card and could be altered by the card user.
However, Lin Huang did not want to bother thinking about a concept, so he left it on the default setting.
The cabin looked as if it had less than ten square meters of surface area. This did not bother Lin Huang; he pushed the door open and went in.
Upon entering, he realized that the interior was even smaller—probably only six or seven square meters. The cabin could only hold one bed and a set of tables and chairs at most, and it would already be thoroughly cramped inside.
This even reminded Lin Huang of the house on Earth he had rented with a few others after graduating from university back in the day. The partitioned room he lived in back then was similar to the size of this cabin.
Lin Huang looked around. There was nothing in the room at all except for a stone floor, four snowy-white walls, and a triangular roof.
He made some mental calculations. The highest part of the roof was approximately 3.5 meters. If he were to calculate using the surface area of the interior, the maximum capacity of this cabin at present was no more than 25 cubic meters.
He did not increase the capacity of the interior, nor did he alter the structure of the house. He merely opened the door and left.
From what he saw, the current surface area was fully sufficient for his needs.
If it were not enough, he could still change it when the time came. This was also a unique characteristic of the virtual realm cabin. The interior capacity of the cabin, its structure and exterior appearance, as well as the interior decorations, could be changed at any time.
“Let’s return to the material realm and test this function then.”
Lin Huang had barely finished speaking before the Gate of All Realms opened a Virtual Eye.
He stepped into it. When he reappeared, he was already in the material realm.
However, his real body was not on the Pfister Star but on the barren planet where his virtual body had arrived earlier.
After returning to the material realm, Lin Huang checked the time immediately. It was exactly the same as when his virtual body had left the material realm. Not even one second had passed.
He turned around and looked in the direction of the virtual realm cabin.
The Virtual Realm Cabin Card within his body that had become blurred and out of focus was suddenly illuminated by points of light. A moment later, the form of the Virtual Realm Cabin Card that he could see gradually began to solidify into being. It was exactly the same as the one in the virtual realm.
Not only could he see it, but even his Divine Telekinesis could perceive it.
However, he knew that it was a projection of the virtual realm cabin into the material realm. As the user of the card, only he could perceive it; others could not.
Lin Huang pushed the door open and went in right away. The interior of the house was exactly the same, with no changes whatsoever.
He retrieved a storage ring from his storage space. After placing some items in the ring, he put it on the floor. He turned around and left after opening the door.
“Let’s go to the virtual realm again,” Lin Huang told the Gate of All Realms.
Very soon, a Virtual Eye appeared before him. His virtual body consolidated immediately, which he then stepped into.
After passing through the Virtual Eye, Lin Huang’s virtual body appeared in the virtual realm again.
He glanced at the cabin nearby, then pushed open the door and went in again.
Upon entering the house, he saw the storage ring on the floor right away. He picked it up and sent his Divine Telekinesis into it. Nothing was missing inside.
Lin Huang then tried taking out the items in the storage ring one after the other.
Divine Crystals, god sequence relics, minerals, herbs, monster carcasses…
He was able to retrieve every item he had brought from the material realm without being restricted by any of the virtual realm’s rules at all.
Lin Huang even tried absorbing a Divine Crystal. There were no issues at all.
At this point, he was finally sure that the virtual realm cabin functioned perfectly.
“It’s like a cabin in which time has stopped. If I have sufficient resources and cultivate inside for over a hundred million years, not even a second of the material realm’s time would pass!” Lin Huang thought the virtual realm cabin was the most valuable treasure in cultivation.
Of course, the caveat was that he would not be interrupted by any Voids.
However, according to the memories he obtained from the Apocalypse Dragon Python, most of the Voids in the virtual realm could only move around within a specific area. They could not distance themselves from a particular region.
This was just like the Apocalypse Dragon Python that could not go too far from the Battlefield of the Dragon Abyss. He could only move around a few nearby star zones at most. Furthermore, he could not leave the Battlefield of the Dragon Abyss for too long, or he would be teleported back by force.
Lin Huang had some speculations about this unique characteristic of the Voids.
It was possible that the Voids were unable to leave the place where they had died or the place where their corpses were in the material realm.
However, such a restriction was not absolute.
According to the Apocalypse Dragon Python’s memories, some powerful existences could break such restrictions. However, Lin Huang gauged that the only ones who could do that would be super powerhouses above lord-level.
Therefore, he was not worried about being disturbed when he cultivated in the virtual realm cabin. After all, the only Void nearby—the Apocalypse Dragon Python–had been killed by him.
If he were truly so unfortunate as to encounter a Void that could break this restriction, he would just have to admit defeat.
However, if that did happen and worse came to worst, it was only the destruction of a virtual body. Besides, the Gate of All Realms could currently create three virtual bodies per day.
After dispelling the virtual realm cabin, Lin Huang returned to the material realm again.
He had already thought about how he was going to elevate his ability over the next few days.
Just before the sky darkened into night, Hong Zhuang returned Zhan Zhuo’s unlocked storage ring to Lin Huang.
He immediately checked through Zhan Zhuo’s battle spoils.
After a cursory scan with Divine Telekinesis, the items in the storage ring caused Lin Huang to exclaim in admiration at how wealthy a lord-level powerhouse could be.
Zhan Zhuo had eleven Dao Weapons alone, as well as two lord-level dead bodies. He also had three sealed Origin Energy spheres, hundreds of inherited crystals, storage rings of various shapes piled high in a small mountain, as well as innumerable Divine Crystals and various minerals…
Lin Huang guessed that many resources in Zhan Zhuo’s storage ring might not have come from the great world at all. It was very possible that they had been obtained from other Raiders in exchange and had come from other worlds or universes.
As for the three Origin Energy spheres, they were obviously lord-level. Zhan Zhuo must have obtained them from killing Voids in the virtual realm.
As to why Zhan Zhuo had not absorbed the spheres, Lin Huang speculated that either he had encountered a temporary bottleneck and could not absorb them, or he had intentionally kept them. Perhaps he wanted to use them as goods to trade for resources with other people.
After making a detailed inventory of Zhan Zhuo’s loot, Lin Huang did not post the eleven Dao Weapons on Royal’s auction. This was because he had previously calculated that the number of half-step Lords’ God Territories he could get in exchange for selling Zhan Zhuo’s ancient palace ought to be sufficient.
He retrieved the small mountain of storage rings inside and passed them all to Hong Zhuang again.
Whatever the ability of the original owners of those rings, he would let Hong Zhuang unlock them all first before he decided on what to do. It was still better than nothing, however small.
After seeing to all these matters, Lin Huang did not enter the virtual realm again, nor did he enter the Great Heaven Palace for closed-door cultivation. Instead, he waited patiently for the result of the ancient palace’s auction.
At noon the next day, the alarm clock Lin Huang had set went off as soon as the twenty-four hours for the auction was up. He immediately took out his Royal Token and accessed the Royal auction page.
The auction showed that the ancient palace had sold for 1,274 half-step Lords’ God Territories.
This number had far surpassed what Lin Huang required.
When he saw the auction results, his mood grew increasingly cheerful.
After confirming the transaction, the 1,274 half-step Lords’ God Territories were entered into his account immediately and stored within his Royal Token.
He took out all of them right away and put them in his storage ring.
Now that he had possession of these half-step Lords’ God Territories, Lin Huang did not delay any further.
He had Xiao Hei create another Virtual Realm Cabin Card and walked to the courtyard with it, then crushed it immediately.
The card turned into golden points of light again and consolidated into a virtual cabin that only Lin Huang could see.
He went inside, removed his storage ring, and placed it on the floor.
After opening the door and exiting, he had the Gate of All Realms create a virtual body for him. He then stepped into the virtual realm.
When he entered the virtual realm again with his virtual body, Lin Huang immediately saw the cabin in the nearby courtyard. He strode over, pushed open the door, and entered.
After picking up the storage ring on the floor, Lin Huang collected his thoughts and sat down with his legs crossed.
A moment later, after his mind was completely calm, he took out the half-step Lords’ God Territories from the storage ring one by one and began to refine them.
Days passed in the virtual realm.
In no time at all, sixty thousand days had passed.
When Lin Huang refined the two hundredth and thirty-ninth God Territory, his combat strength successfully broke through to ninth-rank heavenly god-level. (During his elevation to eighth-rank, he had refined 17 extra God Territories.)
Just as he had expected, he could clearly sense that his heavenly god-level had yet to reach satiety, so he continued to refine more God Territories.
Nearly one hundred and twenty thousand days passed. When he refined the seven hundredth and fifty-first God Territory, his combat strength achieved another breakthrough, and he elevated to tenth-rank heavenly god-level.
At this point, Lin Huang finally sensed that his God Territory was full. He could no longer absorb any more half-step Lords’ God Territories.
Only now did he descend into his mind and begin checking over the current state of his body.
His combat strength had elevated to tenth-rank heavenly god-level. After undergoing the baptism of combat strength elevation twice, his physical strength had officially achieved lord-level. Naturally, his God’s soul’s strength had also broken through to middle-rank lord-level.
Apart from that, his Godly Right had grown significantly stronger as well. The number of god sequence chains it could contain had increased to over fifty thousand. In his God Territory, the total number of god sequence chains had skyrocketed to at least one hundred and eighty thousand, while the number of god rules was immeasurable.
These two consecutive elevations in rank had undoubtedly increased Lin Huang’s ability significantly.
However, he did not exit closed-door cultivation just yet, or halt his cultivation.
Instead, he looked at the unknown Divine Telekinesis visualization images.
He had set these aside earlier mainly because he genuinely did not have the time to visualize them. Even though time flow in the Great Heaven Palace had been accelerated ten thousand times, to Lin Huang, it was still insufficient.
However, the elevation of his combat strength this time had increased the strength of his God’s soul to middle-rank lord-level. Without a doubt, his visualization speed was much faster now. Moreover, he had the virtual realm cabin, which was the ideal place for cultivation.
Naturally, Lin Huang intended to take advantage of it.
After letting his mind submerge into his inner body, he soon began a new round of Divine Telekinesis visualization.
He spent twenty-seven years (approximately ten thousand days) visualizing the 103rd visualization image.
He then spent fifty-five years (over twenty thousand days) visualizing the 104th visualization image.
At this point, the strength of his Divine Telekinesis had also skyrocketed to the limits of middle-rank lord-level.
However, Lin Huang did not stop just yet but continued with his visualization.
He spent more than five hundred full days (over two hundred thousand days) to visualize the 105th visualization image.
He spent over a thousand years to finally complete the visualization of the 106th visualization image.
As for the 107th visualization image, Lin Huang merely glanced at it and completely abandoned any further attempts at visualization.
If he continued to visualize at his current God’s soul’s strength, he might have to spend over ten thousand years to complete the 106th visualization image successfully.
He felt that he could certainly wait until his God’s soul had another breakthrough before proceeding with any more visualization.
He was fairly satisfied with the current strength of his Divine Telekinesis. After all, it was already at the peak of upper-rank lord-level.
After setting aside the visualization image, Lin Huang looked at the God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls within him again.
The combat strength of the ten original God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls had remained stagnant at ninth-rank true god-level.
There was no reason other than they were restricted by the God’s Figurine’s innate limitations.
Lin Huang stared at the ten God’s Figurines and thought for a moment. After that, he soon made up his mind.
“Xiao Hei, elevate all ten God’s Figurines to Pure Spirit!”
“Certainly. Let me have all of the Apocalypse Dragon Python’s Origin Energy from previously, and supplement me with one more sphere of Origin Energy.”
“Deal!” Lin Huang agreed with alacrity, then took out an Origin Energy sphere and gave it to Xiao Hei.
Lord-level Origin Energy was a class-6 material. To elevate from class-5 to class-6, he would need a grade-5 Advance Card, which was a class-5 material.
Furthermore, Lin Huang had requested to elevate ten God’s Figurines and had not provided any other materials, so Xiao Hei would need to provide all of the Origin Energy.
Therefore, this deal was still relatively fair—in fact, Lin Huang had even taken advantage of it.
After all, his ten God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls were only class-4. They would need to elevate from rank-4 mythical-level to rank-5 supreme god-level.
A moment later, Advance Cards appeared one by one in Lin Huang’s hands.
Lin Huang crushed them one at a time and inserted them into the ten Combat Souls’ bodies, respectively.
Very soon, the ten Combat Souls elevated to Pure Spirit rank-6 one after the other.
After this, Lin Huang communicated with the Eternity Fire so it could imbue the ten original Combat Souls with God’s soul energy.
After being infused with God’s soul energy from the Eternity Fire, the ten Combat Souls’ combat strength kept skyrocketing.
First-rank, second-rank, third-rank…
After a mere few minutes, they had elevated to ninth-rank heavenly god-level.
However, that was not the end of things yet. The God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls’ combat strength merely paused at ninth-rank heavenly god-level for a moment, and then the next breakthrough occurred. They had been elevated to lord-level!
Many inherently Pure Spirit rank monsters were born as Lords. Even the weakest ones would automatically elevate to become Lords when they grew to adulthood.
However, the God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls were only dead bodies.
After elevating to Pure Spirit rank-6, their combat strength elevation only required that their God’s souls be replenished.
Once their God’s souls had been replenished to lord-level, they would naturally elevate to lord-level.
This was why Lin Huang had decided to expend Advance Cards to perform this round of elevation.
Compared to nurturing imperial monsters and Sword Servants, it was much faster to elevate his God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls and far more convenient.
However, the Eternity Fire halted the infusion of God’s soul energy after elevating the ten God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls to lower-rank Lords.
Although the Eternity Fire could theoretically produce an infinite amount of energy, creating ten Lords at once was a great strain on it.
As far as Lin Huang was concerned, he could still make use of ten lower-rank Lords, albeit grudgingly.
He retrieved an Origin Energy sphere from his storage space to compensate the Eternity Fire.
After that, he sat down again with his legs crossed and began another round of visualization.
However, this time he visualized the True Spirit Guide instead.
He was preparing to completely visualize the ten Pure Spirit God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls into the forms that were in the True Spirit Guide…
Upon his return to the great world from the virtual world, Lin Huang’s ability had undergone yet another significant increase.
Not only had he elevated from eighth-rank to tenth-rank, but his abilities in all aspects had leveled up in a manner that could even be described as terrifying.
After a full day, the evacuation of the residents of the Pfister Star and the several other habitable planets in the Devil Hunter Star Zone was finally entering its last stages.
Lin Huang did a scan with his Divine Telekinesis; the Sword Servants were still busy.
After using Divine Telekinesis to sense out Sword1, Lin Huang communicated directly with him via voice transmission, “Inform the other Sword Servants to leave the Devil Hunter Star Zone and the nearby regions as soon as the evacuation is complete. Remember to bring Lin Xin and the others with you. There might be a lord-level battle later on; I’m not sure how far-reaching the impact will be.”
Seeing that Sword1 wanted to say something, Lin Huang continued, “I know that all of you have powerful abilities, but when faced with a bona fide Lord, it still won’t be enough. If you stay, that would only be more of a distraction to me.”
He added after this, “I’m confident about this battle. You don’t need to worry.”
Only then did Sword1 nod. “This humble subordinate understands.”
After finalizing these arrangements, Lin Huang thought for a moment, then sent his coordinates directly to his two allies from the Club—Epic Player and Steel Fist.
In reality, he did not really need assistance now. However, since he had requested their help earlier and they had agreed, he sent his coordinates over as promised.
Lin Huang did not enter cultivation mode after that. Instead, he waited patiently for the Raiders to come.
Sword1 and the rest finished evacuating the population of the entire star zone by the next morning. They took Lin Xin and the others along and departed far away from the Devil Hunter Star Zone.
Epic Player and Steel Fist arrived the next evening.
Epic Player’s appearance was that of a young man in his early twenties. Tall and lanky with short blue hair, he was dressed in casual attire.
Steel Fist, on the other hand, was not quite what Lin Huang had expected—they turned out to be female.
She looked about twenty-five or twenty-six and was clad in form-fitting sports attire. Her shoulder-length hair was tied into a ponytail, and her skin bore a healthy tan.
Her limbs were long and elegant, and she had a good figure. At a glance, one could tell she worked out frequently and was the type who loved outdoor activities.
“Hello gorgeous, it’s been a while!” Epic Player went forward to greet Steel Fist upon her arrival.
Steel Fist merely shot him a glance, then turned her head to look at Lin Huang.
“So you’re Xiu Mu?”
She did a scan with Divine Telekinesis and discovered Lin Huang was the only person left on this planet, so naturally, he ought to be Xiu Mu—the one who had invited the two of them here.
“Yes, I am. Hello, Senior Steel Fist.” Lin Huang maintained the necessary courtesies.
Although he might already be more powerful than both of them in terms of ability, his combat strength was not yet at lord-level after all. Moreover, he had joined the Club later than the two of them, and he was definitely younger than they were.
“Before I came here, I thought you were just bragging about having killed a Raider. From the looks of it now, you probably do possess that sort of ability,” Steel Fist said bluntly; her personality had always been like this.
She had been suspicious of Lin Huang previously because there was an insurmountable gap between Lords and non-Lords. Moreover, his opponent was a Raider who had a Goldfinger. The level of difficulty in killing them would be even higher.
She had even suspected that Lin Huang was just bait for luring the Club members into a trap.
She had come this time because, for one, she had sufficient confidence in her abilities. Even if she could not fight the Raider, she could run away. For another, she was worried that Lin Huang might be telling the truth. If this turned out to be a genuine situation and Lin Huang was killed by the Raider, it meant the Club would lose a new member.
However, after seeing Lin Huang, her suspicions about him decreased significantly. At the very least, she had no doubts about his abilities now. This was because she could faintly sense danger signals emanating from his person.
She would only experience a feeling like this if she were facing someone no weaker, or even more powerful, than herself.
“Actually, I felt the same way you did. I was skeptical of his ability before I came here,” Epic Player said with a smile after Steel Fist’s comments.
“But after meeting him, I think it’s probably true that he killed Mr. Gate.”
Only then did Lin Huang realize that, just as he had mistrusted them initially, they had also been wary of him, keeping their guards up. They had been worried that he was merely bait the Raiders had set up.
“Seniors, since you both have admitted as much, I may as well be truthful. In reality, I had to think twice before asking for your help because I couldn’t rule out the possibility that the Club might harbor Raider spies as well. I was worried that I’d be inviting trouble for myself. That’s why I didn’t send my coordinates to you right away,” Lin Huang also expressed his thoughts on the matter.
“Aren’t you worried now?” Epic Player asked playfully.
“Not at all,” Lin Huang said, shaking his head with a smile.
“Is it because you feel we’re reliable after meeting us?” Epic Player persisted.
Steel Fist looked at Lin Huang too, appearing rather curious about his answer to this question.
“It’s because of another reason.” Lin Huang smiled and shook his head.
He secretly added in his heart, ‘Because my current ability is sufficient to handle every threat there is.’
He did not say it out loud because it sounded too pretentious and would not be very amicable to his two allies.
Seeing that Lin Huang was unwilling to say anymore, the two did not pursue the matter further.
After interacting for a while, Lin Huang became a little more familiar with both of them. He invited them into the courtyard and served them tea. The three of them sat in the pavilion and began chatting in a relaxed manner.
It was mainly Steel Fist and Epic Player asking Lin Huang how he had managed to offended the Raiders. They also asked for some details about the killing of Mr. Gate.
Lin Huang answered their questions one by one.
The three of them chatted in this manner for over two hours. Suddenly, Lin Huang’s communicator began to vibrate.
He looked down and saw that it was a voice call from an unknown number.
After a moment of consideration, he answered the call anyway.
Once the call was connected, a voice that appeared to come from a synthesizer spoke before Lin Huang could ask who it was.
“I’ve found you! Lin… Huang…”
Lin Huang narrowed his eyes slightly. “Is this Spy?!”
This individual had not only managed to find out his number but had also called him by his real name. Lin Huang immediately thought of the Raider with the codename Spy.
“Don’t hang up yet. I have a question for you.”
Hearing the other fall silent, Lin Huang continued, “Were you the one who killed Yang Ling?!”
“So you were the one who wiped out Yang Ling’s information! Over this period, his lady friend probably has been hiding with you all this time.” Despite the synthesized nature of the voice, Lin Huang could hear the excitement in it. “All that looking high and low, and I stumble upon her whereabouts by sheer blind luck!
“Lin Huang, more and more I’m beginning to look forward to meeting you.”
“I’m looking forward to meeting you too…” Lin Huang’s tone suddenly turned icy, “And then I’ll kill you!!!”
After Lin Huang ended the call with Spy, Steel Fist and Epic Player looked at him.
“Was that Spy from the Raiders that you were talking to?” Steel Fist asked immediately.
“It was.” Lin Huang nodded.
“Based on the information you provided, that fellow is indeed a bigger threat. Since he was able to find out your contact number and verify your real identity, it proves that he might be able to find out our real identities too. He might even be able to locate our coordinates through our communicators.” Epic Player frowned slightly.
“If he’s a middle-rank Lord, it’ll be hard for us to kill him.” As a close combat powerhouse, Steel Fist particularly disliked encountering this kind of opponent, who possessed showy abilities.
“Let me handle Spy,” Lin Huang’s tone was calm as if he were talking about something insignificant.
Although Epic Player and Steel Fist still had some doubts about Lin Huang being able to kill a middle-rank Lord, they could tell from the conversation between him and Spy earlier that both had an irreconcilable grudge. They did not delve further into the subject.
“Since he’s already discovered your contact number and your real identity, it shouldn’t be hard for him to locate your coordinates,” Epic Player added. “I reckon it won’t take him long to get here.”
“I wonder how many people they’ll send this time.” Steel Fist looked serious; she could not relax at all.
“If they don’t know that both of you are here, they probably won’t send too many people. I anticipate that there’ll only be three or four people at most,” Lin Huang put forward his speculations, “But if the news that I requested your help has been leaked, they’ll definitely send quite a few people—maybe even all the members they have. They certainly won’t let a perfect opportunity to kill three Club members slip by!”
What Lin Huang said made Epic Player and Steel Fist look even grimmer.
All this while, they had never considered the possibility that there might be a mole in the Club.
After all, apart from Lin Huang, who was a new member, everyone had known each other for years.
However, they did not refute what he had said either. They were also not entirely sure whether or not there were any moles in the Club.
“We’ll see when the time comes, but hopefully the situation won’t be so dire.” Epic Player sighed lightly.
Lin Huang poured the two of them more tea and began leading the conversation in a lighter direction.
In no time at all, it was already early next morning.
The stars had just risen on the Pfister Star’s horizon when Lin Huang sensed powerful auras approaching the Devil Hunter Star Zone.
Epic Player and Steel Fist lifted their heads and looked in the same direction almost simultaneously. Their expressions were both extremely grave.
There were nine powerful auras!
Lin Huang had been right after all. If the Raiders had wanted to capture only Lin Huang, even if they were to take him alive, there was no need for all of them to make an appearance.
Both of them exchanged glances and read the message in each other’s eyes—there was a mole in the Club after all!
Almost the next instant after all three sensed the presence of the Raiders, a series of formidable shockwaves surged through the void at practically the same time.
Epic Player and Steel Fist dodged immediately. In the blink of an eye, they appeared outside the Pfister Star’s atmosphere.
Just when they had found stable footing, they realized that Lin Huang had not dodged at all.
At the same time, both of them saw a curtain of black light rising from the Pfister Star’s surface. It spread across half the planet almost immediately and just happened to obstruct the direction the shockwaves were coming from.
“There are nine of them—he can’t possibly defend himself against all of them!” Steel Fist muttered softly.
“This Xiu Mu fellow…” Epic Player looked extremely grim. He had never expected Lin Huang to do something so risky the minute he showed his hand.
This was an attack with the combined forces of nine Lords. Not only that, there were two auras that were clearly middle-rank Lords.
Even a middle-rank lord-level powerhouse would be forced to dodge an attack of such power.
However, right as they thought Lin Huang was definitely going to die, the nine shockwaves struck the curtain of black light at almost the same time.
A second later, Epic Player and Steel Fist’s eyes widened. The shocked expressions on their faces seemed to have frozen in place.
‘What did I just see?!’
The two of them had the same thought at almost the same time.
Only a moment later were they able to confirm that what they had seen earlier was not an illusion.
The nine shockwaves of various colors were immediately deflected when they struck the curtain of black light.
Not only was the black light curtain not perforated, but the entire Pfister Star remained intact and whole.
“What kind of defense technique is that?!” Steel Fist and Epic Player were immediately dumbfounded.
On the other end of things, the nine Raiders who had attacked looked even more stunned.
When the nine of them saw Lin Huang using the curtain of light to envelop the Pfister Star earlier, they all thought that Lin Huang was signing his death warrant.
They could almost imagine what would happen next. The curtain of black light would shatter the moment the shockwaves hit it, and the entire planet would be crushed into dust, including Lin Huang.
However, what they had imagined was completely different from reality.
The nine of them had the same reaction when they saw the shockwaves being deflected—they thought they had been ensnared in an illusion.
However, they immediately realized the truth a second later.
This scenario was by no means an illusion—it had actually happened!
Seeing that the deflected shockwaves were going to reach them in merely the time it took for a breath, all of them braced to take the impact head-on.
Suddenly, the man leading the team and another middle-rank Lord shouted a warning at the same time, “Get out of the way!”
Both of them had obviously sensed the peculiarity of the deflected shockwaves.
All nine Lords hastily scattered immediately in an attempt to avoid the incoming shockwave attack.
However, at this point, a black kitten the size of a human palm appeared out of nowhere. Its nine tails were proudly raised high like swaying serpents, while its black eyes were full of disdain.
As soon as the kitten appeared, the nine Lords sensed that their bodies had frozen in place.
The two middle-rank Lords freed themselves from this restraint at the first possible moment and immediately attacked the kitten. Clearly, they realized it was the kitten that was causing this mischief.
However, the black kitten merely shot them a glance and vanished instantly, rendering their attacks futile.
At this point, the shockwaves had already approached. Of the remaining seven Lords, only three managed to forcibly free themselves from their unseen bonds, barely dodging the shockwave attacks.
However, the other four Lords were killed instantly.
Just this one encounter alone had caused their side to lose half of their members.
The three lower-rank Lords who had barely escaped felt themselves break into a cold sweat over their entire bodies. If they had not broken free of their spatial bonds at the very last minute, they might not have been able to escape death.
The middle-rank Lords were pale. They had not expected Lin Huang’s abilities to be this powerful.
Naturally, this encounter had been clearly witnessed by Epic Player and Steel Fist, who were hovering in the air.
They were utterly dumbstruck; even after a few minutes, they could not recover their composure.
When the two of them had first met Lin Huang, they sensed faintly that Lin Huang’s abilities were not weak at all. However, they had never expected him to be this powerful.
Just one attack earlier, and he had easily disposed of four lower-rank Lords. The two of them, at least, could not do this.
“This fellow is really ruthless!” Epic Player could not help exclaiming.
“We underestimated him…” Steel Fist did not know what she was supposed to say now.
As Lin Huang petted the Ninetails Lynx that had landed on his shoulder, he looked toward the distance in the direction the Raiders were coming from.
He was quite satisfied with the results of this first clash.
After all, this Ninetails Lynx was only a lower-rank Lord with a level-10 Dao seal. It was extremely difficult for it to use its space barrier abilities to restrain middle-rank lord-level powerhouses. Moreover, it was attacking nine Lords at once this round, so it made sense that some were able to break free. Furthermore, the three lower-rank Lords who had broken loose all had powerful abilities and more than six Dao seals.
However, the Ninetails Lynx seemed to be rather dissatisfied with the result. It sat on Lin Huang’s shoulder, its pitch-black eyes staring at the two middle-rank Lords in a somewhat unfriendly manner.
If these two Lords had not attacked it, the three lower-rank Lords would not have been able to break free of their restraints so easily.
“A rank-6 imperial monster?!”
The appearance of the Ninetails Lynx attracted Steel Fist and Epic Player’s attention immediately.
The two of them could only roughly gauge its ability, but they did not pick up on the fact that it was one of Lin Huang’s Combat Souls.
This was because, ordinarily speaking, nobody would cultivate their God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls to lord-level in a fit of idleness. If they had the resources, it would be far better to utilize those resources themselves.
“A rank-6 imperial monster with a main cultivation path in spatial rule. That’s rare.” Epic Player looked envious.
As a clone of a reincarnated being, he had obtained a few fairly excellent imperial monster cubs from his Primordium and had raised them himself as well. The one with the highest combat strength was already at lord-level too. However, compared to the Ninetails Lynx on Lin Huang’s shoulder, there was a big gap in their abilities.
A single direct confrontation had killed almost half their members in one attack, but the remaining Raiders did not give up on their pursuit. Instead, they immediately entered the Devil Hunter Star Zone and arrived in the starry sky not far from the Pfister Star.
“Lin Huang, it seems we’ve truly underestimated you.” The leader was a man with the codename Black Mountain.
His build was stocky, and he was over three meters tall. He only gave Steel Fist and Epic Player a glance before turning his gaze toward Lin Huang, who was on the Pfister Star.
In a flash, Lin Huang disappeared from where he was and reappeared next to Steel Fist and Epic Player.
“It’s not that you’ve underestimated me; it’s that you’ve overestimated yourselves,” Lin Huang replied calmly.
He merely gave the middle-rank Lord leader a glance, then turned his gaze toward the other middle-rank Lord.
He was a man of very ordinary appearance with an inconspicuous face; he was not even one point eight meters tall. He looked thoroughly harmless.
“You must be Spy, yes?” Lin Huang’s tone grew colder.
The man lifted his head, and the smile on his face became increasingly bizarre. He then spoke in a synthesizer-like voice, “That’s right, I’m Spy who killed Yang Ling. Give me Yang Ling’s girlfriend, and I’ll allow you a quick death.”
“Unfortunately, I don’t intend to give you a quick death!” Lin Huang turned his gaze from Spy and looked at the team leader again.
“Are these all of the Raiders in this great world?”
“Almost.” Black Mountain gave a bland smile. “What—are you going to kill us all?”
“I’m certainly planning on it,” Lin Huang answered bluntly.
“You’re young in years but certainly not small in your boasting.” As soon as Black Mountain finished speaking, he signaled one of the lower-rank Lords with a glance.
The lower-rank Lord moved his fingers slightly. No one knew at which juncture he had managed to set up Divine Telekinesis threads that twined around Steel Fist and Epic Player’s arms, pulling them away from Lin Huang.
At the same time, the other two lower-rank Lords advanced on Steel Fist and Epic Player, respectively.
Lin Huang watched this happening, completely expressionless, but did not try to prevent it.
In reality, he had already noticed the lower-rank Lord’s maneuvers earlier and had guessed their battle strategy.
They wanted to separate his allies from him, then muster the two middle-rank Lords to dispose of him first.
All they had to do on Steel Fist and Epic Player’s side was to stall them, preventing them from coming to his rescue.
“The abilities of the two aides you’ve summoned here are indeed quite excellent, but unfortunately, they can’t help you now.” A ferocious grin appeared on Spy’s face.
“You’re not really thinking the two of you can definitely take me out, are you?” Lin Huang remained extremely calm. He did not betray any traces of the anxiety and fear that ordinary people would have when facing two middle-rank Lords.
“You restrain that cat; I’ll get rid of him,” Black Mountain told the nearby Spy, not bothering to conceal his words. He was not worried about Lin Huang hearing him. After all, to him, Lin Huang was already a dead man.
However, Lin Huang smiled when he heard that.
“I think you’ve made a mistake about one thing. What I’ve reared…isn’t just a mere cat.”
As soon as Lin Huang finished speaking, the remaining God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls appeared almost simultaneously.
These were the Divine Sun Tree, Enchanted Fairy, the Destructive Divine Mammoth, Nightmare Tapir, Undead Styx, Withered Flower, Creation Clock, Shackle Serpent, and Death Butterfly!
Each of them was a lower-rank Lord with a level-10 Dao seal.
This was the result of Lin Huang spending countless years visualizing in the virtual realm. Only then were the ten God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls able to consolidate level-10 Dao seals and achieve lower-rank lord-level.
Even middle-rank Lords Black Mountain and Spy had a change of expression when they saw the ten God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls appearing all at once.
The two battlefields nearby also rapidly became aware of the anomalies happening on this end.
The three lower-rank Lords looked rather pale. After all, the Ninetails Lynx had displayed its abilities earlier for all to see, and the three of them had almost been killed.
Meanwhile, Steel Fist and Epic Player’s faces bore rather strange expressions.
Both of them had initially been worried about how long Lin Huang would be able to face down the two middle-rank Lords on his own. Now they saw that Lin Huang did not just have one aide in combat—he had an entire group of them.
‘That aura strength—all ten of them are rank-6 monsters!’ Epic Player could not help secretly exclaiming to himself.
He had reared imperial monsters before, and could tell at a glance that Lin Huang’s God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls were all terrifying Pure Spirit rank-6 entities.
Steel Fist, on the other hand, could not identify the imperial monsters’ ranks, but she could clearly sense that the aura of these “imperial monsters” was no lower than her own.
‘No wonder this fellow was so confident from the start.’
Although a lower-rank Lord with ten seals had not yet elevated to middle-rank lord-level, they more or less possessed the ability to fight a newly-elevated middle-rank Lord.
“I’ll stall these imperial monsters—you look for an opportunity to kill him!” Black Mountain changed his strategy right away.
As a combat cultivator, he had more powerful defensive abilities. Under these circumstances, it was natural that he was more suited to drawing fire from the “imperial monsters”.
If he allowed Spy to draw fire from the “imperial monsters” instead, Black Mountain was slightly worried that all ten of them would finish Spy off before he himself managed to kill Lin Huang.
Clearly, Spy was aware of this as well. He did not put forward any objections.
Lin Huang’s expression remained calm as if he were not really bothered about whatever battle strategy his opponents were going to use.
As soon as he gave his order, the God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls immediately went into action.
The Destructive Divine Mammoth led the way, lumbering toward Black Mountain with its steel hooves…
Although the Destructive Divine Mammoth was massive, it did not slow it down at all.
It reached Black Mountain in no time and its steel hooves lashed out without holding back.
Black Mountain did not dodge when he saw what was happening.
He was a bona fide combat cultivator who would not retreat at all when encountering opponents with powerful physical bodies. This was the pride of every combat cultivator.
Faced with the Destructive Divine Mammoth’s steel hooves, he attacked with both fists, throwing heavy punches.
Two forceful beams of black and yellow light enveloped in layers of Dao seals collided with a loud, resonating boom.
An instant later, rings of Odylic Force shockwaves imbued with god sequence power rippled outward. Wherever the shockwaves passed, countless planets exploded one by one.
In the end, even the Pfister Star was not spared. The impact completely shattered it into cosmic dust.
As the two combatants clashed, the Destructive Divine Mammoth’s body was sent flying backward. It only managed to stop after being flung back a hundred kilometers or more in the star-filled heavens.
In comparison, Black Mountain had merely been thrown back less than ten meters.
The disparity in ability between the two was very evident.
However, Black Mountain’s expression was rather grim.
Although he held the upper hand during this collision, he could clearly sense that his attack had not breached the Destructive Divine Mammoth’s defenses at all.
One must know that he had held nothing back earlier—the attack was practically full-force, without the boost of a trump card.
However, the assault had not made a dent in the Destructive Divine Mammoth’s defenses at all.
Furthermore, there were still nine more monsters of similar ability in his opponent’s camp.
This encounter made him wonder for the first time whether or not he had made the right decision in spearheading a team to kill Lin Huang.
Amid Black Mountain and the Destructive Divine Mammoth’s mighty collision, Spy, on the other end, was targeted by the other God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls.
The Ninetails Lynx attacked first, disappearing from Lin Huang’s shoulder directly without so much as an overt move. A second later, it appeared behind Spy, slashing out with its sharp claws.
In the void, layer upon layer of spatial blades attacked, surging toward Spy like an all-encompassing net.
Spy’s sense of danger immediately skyrocketed. Hurriedly, he fled.
These waves of assault were no ordinary spatial blades but terrifying attacks compounded with level-10 Dao seals.
However, right as Spy moved, Withered Flower’s frost and Creation Clock’s time freeze were unleashed at almost at the same time.
Although he was prepared for the Ninetails Lynx’s time freeze abilities, he was caught off guard by the attacks from the other two Combat Souls.
Under the effects of two sets of restraining powers compounded with level-10 Dao seals, Spy’s body froze involuntarily for a fraction of a second.
At that very instant, his figure was completely swallowed up by countless waves of spatial blades.
Lin Huang stared fixedly in the direction of Spy’s besieged figure. The countless God Weapon flying daggers in his sleeves were at the ready.
That was to prevent Spy from escaping this fatal scenario.
However, a moment later, Lin Huang frowned hard.
He could sense that the Ninetails Lynx’s attack had failed.
The countless spatial blades did not seem to have hit anything concrete.
‘He escaped?!’ Lin Huang was suspicious.
He had clearly sensed earlier that Withered Flower’s frost and Creation Clock’s time freeze had scored hits on Spy.
Spy had definitely been struck by the attacks. Even if he had only been restrained for a second, he would not have been able to escape the Ninetails Lynx’s net of spatial blades.
Lin Huang’s brain kept churning as he thought of all the various possibilities.
A moment later, an image of Virtuoso’s body becoming insubstantial suddenly appeared in his mind.
“Could it be that this fellow has a technique similar to an obscuring technique?”
If Spy had really mastered such an ability, he might actually be able to evade the Ninetails Lynx’s attack even while under restraint.
This was just like Virtuoso—although their body had been put under restraint, they could still use their obscuring skills.
As soon as their body became illusory, almost all attacks on the material plane could do nothing to them.
Not long later, the Ninetails Lynx’s spatial blades dissipated, and Spy was still where he was, completely unharmed.
He flashed an irritating smile at Lin Huang. “The survival technique I used earlier was retrieved from Yang Ling’s memory. I must say that it’s pretty useful.”
“You’re dead meat!”
Lin Huang’s killing intent soared.
What Spy said made him recall that Yang Ling had indeed possessed such a technique. It seemed as if it turned his body into something digital to dodge material attacks.
However, Spy’s words also enraged Lin Huang. Previously he had not been sure all along whether Yang Ling was really dead or not. After all, he had only learned the news from Hong Zhuang’s story and had not seen any concrete proof. Now that Spy had mentioned extracting something from Yang Ling’s memory, he was now fundamentally sure that Spy had really killed Yang Ling.
“I love seeing that expression on your face—so desirous of killing me and yet totally helpless.” Spy’s smile grew more and more savage. “I don’t mind telling you that since mastering Yang Ling’s technique, even an ultimate-rank Lord might not be able to kill me. You’re just too inexperienced…”
At that moment, the Ninetails Lynx abruptly attacked again.
However, it did not use spatial blades this time but a spatial bind.
Withered Flower and Creation Clock attacked simultaneously as well.
As the three binding techniques struck Spy, Shackle Serpent—which had concealed itself in the dark—launched an attack.
Countless black shackles wrapped around Spy’s limbs and neck.
“I’ve told you it’s useless…”
Spy’s laughter stopped abruptly because he sensed that the Dao seals in his body had been disconnected. Not only that, the god sequence powers, Rule Bending Powers, and even the Divine Power within him were vanishing.
“Wh-What’s happening…”
Spy was now in a complete state of panic.
Now that it had elevated to lord-level, Shackle Serpent’s sealing abilities were no longer restricted to merely Divine Power. Dao seals, god sequence chains, Rule Bending Powers, Divine Power, God Territories, and all kinds of god skills and divine abilities… it could seal off just about anything.
Although the sealing duration for a lower-rank Lord sealing off the abilities of a middle-rank Lord was extremely short, it was enough for Lin Huang.
A second later, countless blood-red electric arcs shot like lightning out of Lin Huang’s sleeves.
Over ten million God Weapon flying daggers surged through the air. The Sword seal imbued over fifty thousand levels of sequence power crushed Spy’s body to dust immediately.
“An ultimate-rank Lord might not be able to kill you, but that doesn’t mean I can’t,” Lin Huang commented indifferently as he looked in the direction of Spy’s dissipating body.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, something odd occurred at the spot where Spy’s body had dissipated. A figure rapidly began to form at a speed visible to the naked eye…
“Eh?” Lin Huang raised his brows and looked confused.
Xiao Hei’s push notification had popped up, stating that he had successfully killed Spy.
Naturally, Spy could not possibly be still alive.
Now there was a body consolidating—what on earth was happening?!
Lin Huang did not rashly launch into an attack, halting the God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls’ attacks as well.
A moment later, the figure finally consolidated fully.
Lin Huang was stunned when he saw its face.
“Yang Ling?!”
Although Yang Ling looked much more mature now and his physique was more muscular, Lin Huang recognized him at a glance.
“I genuinely never thought that you’d be able to kill Spy.”
Yang Ling’s expression was also full of astonishment as he stared at Lin Huang.
After that, he unhurriedly fashioned a set of illusory garments and put them on. It was not the first time Lin Huang had seen him naked anyway.
Lin Huang could tell that the person in front of him was really Yang Ling. However, this was not his actual physical body but a digital projection.
“Hong Zhuang told me you had been killed by a Raider and that your connection with your Goldfinger had been completely wiped. What’s going on now?” Lin Huang was rather confused about Yang Ling’s current state.
Yang Ling sighed when he heard Hong Zhuang being mentioned. After a brief moment to settle his emotions, he began relating what had befallen him.
“I wasn’t killed at all. Theoretically, it could be considered being captured alive…
“After sending Hong Zhuang off the other day, I digitized my consciousness as I knew I was no match for Spy. After that, I separated my consciousness into nine layers from the core to the surface, setting a password for each layer to seal them off. The deeper the layer, the harder the password. I set a group of passwords on the last layer—the core—that would definitely change randomly.
“I knew that given Spy’s character, he would certainly try to decode them. That’s because all along, he’s wanted to surpass me in every aspect. I left passwords that ranged from easy to difficult, firstly to prevent him from becoming humiliated and angry at being unable to decode the password and immediately destroying my consciousness data. For another, I wanted to buy myself more time to stay alive.
“I knew very well that with Spy’s intelligence, he would easily discover my plan. However, I was also aware that he would most certainly take up my challenge and fall into my trap.
“Apart from setting up passwords, I’d also made other preparations for my return. One of them included Spy’s death. I made his death a trigger condition. As soon as he died, my consciousness data would automatically be unsealed.
“Now that you’ve killed him, you’ve successfully triggered the conditions for my revival.
“Simply put, that’s the entire process. As for the disconnection from my Goldfinger, that ought to have been caused by my consciousness being sealed. We’ll talk about the details later after we get back.”
After Yang Ling had given a quick summary of what had happened to him, he immediately switched to the topic which concerned him most. “Oh yes, is Hong Zhuang alright?”
“She’s doing pretty well.” Lin Huang nodded slightly. “After you were captured alive, she located me approximately four months later, and I set her up safely in the Devil Hunter Star Zone. A few days ago, in anticipation of the Raiders showing up, I arranged for her, Lin Xin, and the others to move to another star zone. They have peak lord powerhouses guarding them now, so their safety is definitely guaranteed.”
“That’s great.” Yang Ling could at least finally be fully at ease.
“You should stay in digital form for the time being. We’ll talk more after I settle these fellows.” Lin Huang could tell that Yang Ling was still in his digitized form. His body was not a materialized physical entity but a virtual projection.
If not, he would have been pulverized by the aftermath of the battle between the Destructive Divine Mammoth and Black Mountain earlier since his cultivation base was not yet at heavenly god-level.
Yang Ling nodded and turned his head to look at where the Destructive Divine Mammoth and Black Mountain were.
At his current level of eyesight and Divine Telekinesis strength, he could not catch any of the battle proceedings at all.
He could only rely on his eyes to see the sparks from the encounter.
Although he was only a digitized form now, he could faintly sense the shockwaves rippling from the collision between lord-level powerhouses. The terrifying aftershocks even interfered slightly with the digital world.
Lin Huang merely transmitted a thought, and all ten God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls joined in to besiege Black Mountain.
At that moment, Black Mountain was endlessly bemoaning his current predicament mentally. When Lin Huang had killed Spy earlier, he already had decided to pull out from the battle.
After all, he knew Spy’s abilities.
Although Black Mountain was a combat cultivator with powerful defense abilities, Spy had far surpassed him in terms of survival abilities.
However, Spy, who had claimed that even ultimate-rank Lords could not kill him, had been disposed of by Lin Huang in less than ten seconds.
Black Mountain was not even really able to fathom how Spy’s digitized physical body had been decoded.
That made him even more fearful of Lin Huang now.
‘We can consider this hunt an utter failure this time.’
Black Mountain gave Lin Huang a long, hard look and merely hesitated for a moment before he made up his mind.
His opponent had ten imperial monsters. If the battle continued, Black Mountain would exhaust his Divine Power sooner or later.
Moreover, the other two people on Lin Huang’s side had abilities that were close to middle-rank lord-level.
Meanwhile, on Black Mountain’s side, apart from himself who still could fight, it was only a matter of time before the three remaining lower-rank Lords were killed.
If he did not pull out now, he might not have the chance to do so later.
Black Mountain did not even spare a glance for his three partners. He forced the Destructive Divine Mammoth, Divine Sun Tree, and the other Combat Souls back with an attack, then immediately retreated as fast as he could.
As a combat cultivator, the speed of his retreat was really quite astonishing.
When Lin Huang saw what Black Mountain was doing, his mouth twisted in a sneer of disdain.
A second later, a black kitten blocked Black Mountain’s way. Beside the kitten was a dark blue butterfly flapping its wings.
“Move!”
Black Mountain did not slow down; he charged right at the two little creatures.
Naturally, the Ninetails Lynx was not used to his temper. It slashed continuously with its sharp claws, and countless spatial blades surged forth torrentially like a violent storm.
A ferocious gleam flashed through Black Mountain’s eyes. He made no move to dodge at all. Instead, he used his Dao seal to raise a heavy shield in front of his body to counter the spatial blades that were raining down on him.
He did this because he knew that the other imperial monsters behind him would catch up if he stopped for even a second. At that point, he would only be surrounded by more imperial monsters.
That was why he was willing to risk injury and meet the Ninetails Lynx’s attack head-on.
Only by breaking out from the circle of imperial monsters that surrounded him would he stand a chance of survival.
He did not even spare a glance to see how the battle was going for his three partners. To him, all three were just cannon fodder for attracting the attention of Lin Huang and the others.
The heavy shield was soon dented and scarred from being slashed by the spatial blades. Some spatial blades even pierced through the shield’s defensive layer, slicing bloody wounds on Black Mountain’s body.
Black Mountain did not pause at all. He did not even fight back only because he wanted to reserve enough Divine Power to escape.
Just as Black Mountain’s figure approached the Ninetails Lynx, Death Butterfly abruptly stirred its wings from beside the kitten.
An instant later, a colorless, formless wave began to ripple outward.
The already heavily damaged shield began to collapse inch by inch under the rippling of the wave.
The moment Black Mountain’s muscular frame was exposed, his body appeared to be sliced by countless thin blades and began spurting copious amounts of blood…
Black Mountain did not slow down at all—in fact, he completely ignored the wounds on his body.
He was a combat cultivator, so his physical body was more resilient than ordinary Lords. Death Butterfly’s attack seemed terrifying, but in reality, it only caused him superficial wounds rather than any actual damage.
After taking the brunt of this attack with his physical body, Black Mountain bypassed the Ninetails Lynx and Death Butterfly, his body entirely covered with blood.
Although both the creatures were within arms’ reach, he still did not retaliate by attacking them.
This was because he knew even a second’s delay might cause him to be trapped by the encircling imperial monsters.
Although he had never before in his life experienced this injustice of being unable to fight back despite being attacked, Black Mountain chose to use reason to suppress his fury.
He knew very well that he might die here if he made even the slightest mistake.
What he did not notice was that just as he bypassed the two imperial monsters obstructing his way, Lin Huang’s mouth curled up in a faint smirk.
A second later, Black Mountain saw blood-red arcs of light surging toward him in quick succession.
His mind instantly panicked because he had seen this move previously—in fact, Spy had been killed by this technique.
‘Do I brace for it, or do I dodge?’
Both choices flashed through Black Mountain’s mind for only a moment before he twisted his body aside without hesitation.
The reason he chose to dodge so decisively was that his body was instinctively sending out furious warning signals.
If he met this attack head-on, even if he were not killed, he would definitely be severely injured.
In truth, his instincts were not wrong. Although Lin Huang had currently only mastered a level-1 Sword seal still, this level-1 Sword seal was not compounded with ten thousand levels of sequence power like before, but with over fifty thousand levels.
This attack exceeded most middle-rank Lords with twenty seals in terms of power—more so even than many middle-rank Lords with thirty seals.
The instant Black Mountain moved, he did not dare stop. Instead, he diverged from his current direction and tried to escape.
When he lifted his head, he saw countless bloody-red arcs raining down on him like a torrential storm.
He switched directions again without hesitation.
However, the other end was also blocked by blood-red arcs like a sky full of stars.
Naturally, Lin Huang was the one who attacked first.
The ten million or more God Weapon flying daggers were like a giant hemispherical wall that covered the entirety of the starry heavens, blocking Black Mountain’s way forward.
Black Mountain scanned with Divine Telekinesis and realized it impossible for him to keep forging ahead.
He steeled himself and turned around right away, charging in the direction of the several God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls.
The way forward was blocked, so he could only escape by turning back.
He was also taking a gamble!
He was betting on Lin Huang not having more telekinetic flying daggers, or not being able to control more telekinetic flying daggers.
However, he did not see that the instant he turned around, Lin Huang’s smile became more pronounced.
Ignoring the Ninetails Lynx and Death Butterfly’s fresh wave of attacks, he passed the two of them again.
At that moment, the remaining eight God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls arrived in succession.
Divine Sun Tree compounded ten levels of Holy Fire Dao seal, its branches lashing at Black Mountain’s body.
This attack practically caused Black Mountain to feel that his physical body had reached its capacity for enduring high temperatures. Even as a middle-rank lord-level combat cultivator, his body was shriveling. It felt as if all the moisture and fat content in his body were being squeezed out by the intense heat.
Enchanted Fairy’s assault hit him a moment later.
That terrifying chill—way below zero degrees celsius—could even freeze time and space.
Frost climbed up Black Mountain’s body immediately. Even the speed of his movement slowed down.
At that moment, Creation Clock attacked as well.
It utilized a time-stopping skill, and added the power of pausing time—as strong as shackles and compounded with a level-10 Dao seal—to Black Mountain’s body.
Black Mountain’s body suddenly ground to a halt. When he saw Shackle Serpent appear, however, his pupils contracted suddenly.
This was the “imperial monster” that had immobilized Spy’s body earlier when he had been killed.
Black Mountain roared in fury and forcibly shook off Enchanted Fairy and Creation Clock’s layers of restraints.
The instant Shackle Serpent attacked, Black Mountain’s body expanded to several times its size. He threw heavy punches with both fists in Shackle Serpent’s direction.
At that moment, the Destructive Divine Mammoth trumpeted and lashed out with two feet at Black Mountain’s fists, taking the brunt of the attack.
However, the Destructive Divine Mammoth was sent flying thousands of kilometers away when it collided with the attack.
Lin Huang raised his brows when he saw Black Mountain’s body enveloped in vital blood energy, eyes spurting blood-red flames.
“He used a fire element Dao seal to ignite vital energy, blood, and Divine Power?”
In terms of strength alone, that earlier punch was at least six or seven times more powerful.
After sending the Destructive Divine Mammoth flying with one hit, Black Mountain did not continue fighting. Instead, he launched into the air with both legs and fled several times faster than before.
His initial speed was already very swift. Now that it had increased several dozen times, apart from the Ninetails Lynx, the rest of the God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls could not catch up with him.
The Ninetails Lynx had not been able to do anything to Black Mountain when it had joined forces initially with Death Butterly; now, on its own, it was doomed to fail.
However, Lin Huang did not intend to let Black Mountain go just like that.
He shook his sleeves lightly, and blood-red electric arcs shot out in quick succession.
In an instant, they had amassed to over ten million in number.
They surged toward Black Mountain again, intercepting him and immediately blocking his way, forcing him to turn back.
The God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls caught up in pursuit once more.
The Ninetails Lynx, which was the first to arrive, cast a spatial bind without hesitation. It knew its attack had a limited effect on Black Mountain, so it chose to use its control skills to prevent him from escaping again.
However, Black Mountain—having ignited his vital energy, blood, and Divine Power—had increased more than a level in terms of ability. In an instant, he had freed himself from Ninetails Lynx’s spatial bind.
He was intending to flee again when the Destructive Divine Mammoth attacked in a rage.
It was livid at being sent flying in the attack earlier.
It displayed almost one hundred and twenty percent of its power in this attack, charging toward Black Mountain.
Black Mountain threw a punch again, and the Destructive Divine Mammoth was sent flying once more.
However, the distance was clearly less this time. It only shot back some two hundred kilometers.
After being momentarily impeded by the Destructive Divine Mammoth, Black Mountain was surrounded again by the remaining nine God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls.
Under the continuous siege from Divine Sun Tree and the rest of the Combat Souls, Black Mountain rapidly became exhausted from fighting back.
He kept his gaze fixed on Shackle Serpent to prevent himself from falling victim to its technique. As for the other Combat Souls, he countered them as much as possible, trying his best to reserve Divine Power for his escape.
Black Mountain’s several attempts to break free were futile. However, the God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls could not do anything to him even after taking turns to attack him.
Both sides fell into a stalemate.
Now that the battle on Steel Fist and Epic Player’s side was in its last stages, Lin Huang finally stopped merely watching from the sidelines.
It was not that he was deliberately toying with Black Mountain. He was just using him as a means of gauging the current abilities of his ten God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls.
At this point, he had basically seen everything necessary, and he already had an idea of their capabilities.
It was useless for the battle to continue like this.
Lin Huang finally took a hand in the proceedings.
Dozens of telekinetic flying daggers found their way through the fighting to the scene of battle where Black Mountain and the God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls were.
Black Mountain immediately became nervous and did not dare to delay any further.
To Black Mountain, the pressure from the thirty-odd telekinetic flying daggers far exceeded the pressure from all ten God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls taken together.
The reason was that he knew Lin Huang was his most powerful enemy here.
Although he did not quite understand why Lin Huang did not activate all of his telekinetic flying daggers at once, he did not dare underestimate him in the least.
He did his best to dodge whenever he saw the telekinetic flying daggers coming. If he were unable to evade them, he threw heavy punches to knock them aside.
After several rounds, the thirty or more telekinetic flying daggers had failed to gain even an inch of ground.
Right as Black Mountain was considering how he might find an opportunity to escape, he suddenly felt a tightening around his four limbs.
A second later, even his neck was entwined by threads.
He panicked. Only after a careful scan with Divine Telekinesis did he discover that his limbs and neck were now bound by telekinetic threads.
He had not noticed this earlier at all.
He tried hard to struggle free, but he could not move at all.
One must know that Lin Huang’s Divine Telekinesis strength was already at peak upper-rank lord-level.
As soon as they saw Black Mountain’s body abruptly stop as if he were tied up and dangling in midair, the God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls immediately knew that it was Lin Huang who had done that.
This time, Shackle Serpent finally found an opening to attack. It was the first to launch an assault and did not hesitate at all.
Black shackles began forming out of thin air on Black Mountain’s body.
As the black shackles appeared, Black Mountain could only sense his Divine Power fading rapidly, including even the secret skills he used in the battle earlier. His body reverted to its original form.
At the same time, he realized that he could no longer sense the Dao seals within his body, his god sequence chains, his God Rule Powers, or even his God Territory.
That very instant, he finally realized why Spy—who had claimed that even ultimate-rank Lords could not kill him—had been killed.
In that split second, he felt utter despair.
He knew that he was finished.
An instant later, he saw the attacks of the “imperial monsters” coming at him in succession, and his consciousness went dark immediately.
He did not even know which attack finally killed him.
Lin Huang put away Black Mountain and Spy’s corpses and turned his head to look at the other battlefield.
The fight between the three Raiders, Steel Fist, and Epic Player was coming to an end.
Two of the three Raiders were severely wounded.
A lady assisting in the battle was clearly a cultivator whose main path was God’s soul and Divine Telekinesis.
She had been using telekinetic flying daggers to interfere with Steel Fist and Epic Player. Not only that, she would launch spirit attack maneuvers every now and again.
Lin Huang immediately guessed the other party’s identity. She was most probably Babble, the one who had invaded Death Sickle and killed Sun Zhan.
Of the team Black Mountain had brought this time, this lady was the only one whose main cultivation path was God’s soul.
As if she sensed that the other fight over there had ended, Babble glanced at the battlefield on Lin Huang’s end and saw him weighing her up. Not only that, Black Mountain, Spy, and the other two middle-rank Lords were nowhere to be seen.
A layer of cold sweat suddenly sprang up on her back. She took only a moment to come to a decision and abandoned both her teammates without hesitation, beating a rapid retreat to try and escape the battlefield.
At that moment, the corners of Lin Huang’s mouth curled up in a faint smirk.
If the other party had not tried to run, it would have been rather impolite for him to interfere. After all, she was Steel Fist and Epic Player’s enemy.
However, now that she was fleeing, it gave him an excuse to attack.
It was not for the sake of plundering one more Goldfinger, but because she had killed the people in Death Sickle’s headquarters. Lin Huang felt that bringing her corpse back to Death Sickle would be a more fitting final destination for her.
If she had not fled and had ended up being killed by Steel Fist or Epic Player, it would have been awkward for him to ask for the body.
Babble moved at full speed. She only wanted to be able to escape the battlefield before the others noticed and then summon the dimensional portal.
However, before she had retreated less than a thousand kilometers away, a voice drifted to her ears.
“Where are you going?”
As soon as the voice finished speaking, a black cat appeared elegantly before her, blocking her way.
Its nine tails undulated like snakes, swaying in the starry sky.
At the same time, Babble felt herself pausing abruptly. Her body seemed to be restrained by an invisible force.
It was exactly like when they had just landed on the Devil Hunter Star Zone earlier.
‘A spatial bind?!’
Babble felt a sudden chill in her heart, and her pupils suddenly turned pitch-black.
A second later, the Ninetails Lynx’s body shuddered suddenly, and the spatial bind was removed, just like that.
“Interesting!” Lin Huang raised his brows as he watched.
She had actually controlled the Ninetails Lynx for a second using a God’s soul secret skill. One must know that the Ninetails Lynx’s current God’s soul’s strength was already at peak lower-rank lord-level.
In terms of Dao seal level, the Ninetails Lynx had reached level-10, while Babble had only consolidated a level-7 or level-8 Dao seal at most.
After freeing herself from the spatial bind, Babble did not dare to stop in her bid for escape. The reason was, she knew that Lin Huang had more than one “imperial monster”. Not only that, Black Mountain had been killed by this group of “imperial monsters”.
She did not have sufficient confidence to confront enemies that even the two middle-rank Lords, Black Mountain and Spy, could not defeat.
However, she did not have Black Mountain’s speed. She had not fled very far before she encountered a combined attack from a few of the God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls.
The Ninetails Lynx that Babble had controlled attacked in a rage. Its sharp claws slashed out, sending countless spatial blades surging toward Babble like a net.
Almost simultaneously, Death Butterfly attacked as well. Its wings stirred slightly, and an invisible death wave spread through the starry heavens, fanning out toward Babble.
This was followed immediately by attacks from the Destructive Divine Mammoth and the other Combat Souls.
Babble’s pupils turned pitch-black again, and black blood began trickling from her eyes.
She released another God’s soul attack that rippled through the starry sky like waves of water.
The attack stunned almost all the God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls into a trance as it passed them.
However, when the God’s soul attack reached Nightmare Tapir, Nightmare Tapir suddenly released a shriek.
Babble immediately spat out a mouthful of blood. At the same time, the remaining God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls regained their senses.
Lin Huang clearly sensed the full process of the God’s souls colliding this time.
Nightmare Tapir already possessed the combat strength of a peak lower-rank Lord, and its God’s soul’s strength was peak lower-rank Lord as well. However, it specialized in God’s soul power and was able to wield its God’s soul attacks to yield middle-rank lord-level results.
In reality, Nightmare Tapir and Babble were on par with each other in the earlier collision between God’s souls.
However, Babble had too many targets to attack, so the strength of her assault was reduced. Thus, she was injured by Nightmare Tapir’s counterattack.
If they were to fight one on one, Lin Huang felt the chances of Nightmare Tapir defeating Babble would be fifty-fifty.
Although this woman, Babble, was only a lower-rank Lord, her overall abilities were by no means very much weaker than Spy’s earlier.
Lin Huang attacked mercilessly. At the same time, he found it rather amusing to see his God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls being repeatedly embarrassed.
Dozens of electric arcs resembling blood-red lightning shot out from his sleeves.
Sensing the incoming threat, Babble did not dodge. Instead, she used the same skill, turning her head to look directly at Lin Huang.
Her black pupils bled without stopping as her God’s soul attack surged toward Lin Huang.
Her idea was simple. Since she was unable to escape from the encircling “imperial monsters”, she would directly attack the imperial monsters’ master. Even if she failed to kill Lin Huang, the master, injuring him severely could increase the chances for her escape.
However, Babble released a devastating shriek a second after she released the God’s soul attack.
At the same time, her eyes immediately burst, eye sockets becoming two bloody holes.
Her God’s soul attack had backfired instantly.
After all, Lin Huang currently possessed God’s soul strength at peak upper-rank lord-level. He was only half a step away from becoming an ultimate-rank Lord. Not only that, he had a spirit-level God Weapon in his God’s soul’s space that could increase the strength of his God’s soul.
Babble attacking head-on with a lower-rank Lord’s God’s soul strength was utterly ineffectual.
Right as Babble shrieked in agony, her God’s soul nearly shattering, a blood-red electric arc flashed through the air and pierced right through the middle of her brow.
The several God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls looked at Lin Huang with mixed emotions on their faces.
The ten of them had surrounded Babble and attacked but failed twice. However, with just a single blow, Lin Huang had killed this powerful spirit cultivator.
After using Divine Telekinesis to retrieve Babble’s corpse and put it away in his storage space, Lin Huang glanced over in the direction of the other battlefield.
Steel Fist and Epic Player’s fight had come to an end in quick succession, with the two lower-rank Lords being slaughtered on the spot.
Their battle appeared to have taken a long time, but in reality, less than ten minutes had passed.
It felt much longer because the battle on Lin Huang’s side had ended far too rapidly.
After putting their acquired loot away, Steel Fist and Epic Player approached Lin Huang. Their faces bore extremely complicated expressions as they looked at him.
Although they had not seen the full proceedings of Lin Huang’s battle when the two of them had been fighting, they had taken moments to observe. Therefore, they had caught the instance when Lin Huang had killed the two middle-rank Lords and Babble.
Having discovered that the new Club member had such terrifying abilities, they were not too sure what to say at the moment.
Lin Huang, however, initiated the conversation when he saw how awkward both of them felt.
“Thank you so much for your aid. If there’s anything you need help with in the future, I’ll definitely help out if it’s within my power to do so.”
“Don’t say that. The two of us didn’t help at all. We’re just here to freeload off the loot.” Epic Player gave a wry smile.
“With your abilities, you don’t need our help at all. I don’t understand why you asked both of us to come.” Steel Fist looked as if she had been stunned by a blow.
“I didn’t know their exact abilities after all, so I asked for your help just in case,” Lin Huang only disclosed part of the truth. He did not tell them that his abilities had skyrocketed after he had requested their presence.
Although the answer sounded a little like prevarication, the two of them believed it regardless.
“What are your plans after this? Are you going to the universe?” Steel Fist could not help but ask.
“I doubt I’ll be leaving the great world for the foreseeable future. There are still a great many things I need to settle here.” Lin Huang shook his head.
“Which means to say we can still be in contact?” Epic Player said with a smile.
“Of course, we’re colleagues at the Club.” Lin Huang smiled and nodded.
“Speaking of colleagues…” Steel Fist’s expression turned a touch colder. “I think there’s an eighty percent chance that brat Cunning Rabbit is the Raider spy!”
“What eighty percent chance—it’s one hundred percent that it’s him!” Epic Player scoffed, “Otherwise, how would the Raiders know to send all their members to hunt the three of us?!”
The two of them had already found out from Lin Huang that he had only sent the three of them a request for help.
Cunning Rabbit was the only one who had not replied.
Therefore, Cunning Rabbit had to be the one who had leaked the information to the Raiders.
“Does Cunning Rabbit have a permanent address?” Lin Huang looked at Steel Fist and Epic Player with a beatific smile.
“I know of a foothold he uses, but I’m not sure if there’s where his permanent residence is,” Steel Fist replied with a smile.
“I think we can pay him a visit and surprise him.” Lin Huang looked at the two of them with a smile.
“I think we can do that!”
“I think it’s a great idea too!”
After putting Yang Ling into his God Territory temporarily and recalling the ten God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls, Lin Huang concealed his aura and disguised himself. After that, he departed with Steel Fist and Epic Player.
After passing through the dimensional portal, Lin Huang appeared directly on the rooftop of a tall building.
He could not help frowning slightly when he saw the never-ending stream of crowds, vehicles, and horses below.
A place like this was not ideal for a fight.
“Is this the Ricky Star?!” Epic Player asked at once after he swept his gaze over his surroundings. Clearly, he was familiar with this planet.
“The Ricky Star in the Coyne Star Zone?” Lin Huang had heard of this planet as well.
The Coyne Star Zone was in the core zone of the God Territory. It was one of the top three commercial trade star zones. Furthermore, the Ricky Star was the richest of the several planets in the God Territory.
Anyone who had been in the God Territory for some time would have probably heard the saying—”Ricky Star, Ricky Star, Divine Crystals everywhere!”
“That’s right.” Steel Fist nodded slightly, confirming Lin Huang’s suspicions.
“This isn’t a good place for a fight,” Epic Player verbalized what Lin Huang was thinking, looking rather helpless.
“Let’s confirm first whether he’s here or not.” Lin Huang did not say much.
To keep from alerting the enemy, the three of them concealed their auras and even disguised their appearances. They certainly could not use Divine Telekinesis either.
Lin Huang had given the matter some thought and decided on his plan. If Cunning Rabbit were really hiding on this planet, he would summon Shackle Serpent to seal off his Dao seal immediately and take him somewhere safe before dealing with him.
“Follow me.” Steel Fist was now in a black leather dress, and her charisma was considerably more beguiling.
In a flash, she vanished on the spot.
Lin Huang and Epic Player immediately followed suit.
A moment later, the three of them appeared in the air above a bar.
They no longer had to hide their auras once they had arrived at this location.
“Cunning Rabbit opened this bar. The private room in the furthest part of the basement is his,” Steel Fist communicated to the other two via voice transmission.
“The two of you stand guard here; I’ll check it out.” Lin Huang nodded slightly. In a flash, he appeared directly at the door of the room that Steel Fist had mentioned.
The room seemed to have a unique barrier in place. Even Lin Huang’s Divine Telekinesis could not penetrate it.
Not only that, there was a defense barrier as well.
Lin Huang drew his sword and shattered the door with one slash. He then stepped inside.
The private room was actually a luxurious suite, but it was empty at the moment.
Lin Huang scanned through once with Divine Telekinesis; however, he did not find anything of note.
He only contacted Steel Fist and Epic Player with Divine Telekinesis after he left the room to summon them both down here.
The two of them scanned the room with Divine Telekinesis as well after entering. They then began a physical search of the place.
After approximately ten minutes or so, the three of them gathered in the living room after a fruitless search.
“This room has quite evidently been cleared out. Even most of the furniture has been taken away,” Steel Fist said with a frown.
Apart from a few paintings on the living room walls, nothing remained. Even the wardrobe and bed in the bedroom had been removed. The entire suite appeared vacant.
“I’m guessing he used some method to find out about Black Mountain and the others being killed.” Lin Huang turned his gaze to Steel Fist. “Furthermore, he was very much aware that you knew about this foothold of his, so he rushed back to clean everything up and avoid exposing his tracks.”
“Unfortunately, I only know about this foothold of his.” Steel Fist frowned slightly. “Now that this lead has fizzled out, it’ll be hard to find him again.”
“His running away is further proof that he’s the spy.” Lin Huang did not show very much emotion. He had already anticipated that this might happen.
“Let’s send the information about him being a spy to headquarters first,” Epic Player said and looked at Lin Huang. “Since he already knows the result of our battle earlier, he’ll definitely transmit information about you to the Raiders’ headquarters the first chance he gets.
“Once you’ve come to the attention of the Raiders’ headquarters, the Raiders in the universe will most certainly send even more powerful Raiders to hunt you. Black Mountain and Spy were middle-rank Lords, so the Raiders they send next will definitely be more powerful than both of them combined. They might even send upper-rank Lords!”
Lin Huang could not help frowning at this point.
He had never imagined that the aftermath would bring so much trouble.
“That’s why we must send the information about him being a spy to the Club’s headquarters right away. Then we’ll tell them about your situation in detail and request headquarters for backup.
“But even if the powerhouses from headquarters can defeat the Raiders from the universe, your troubles might not be over yet,” Epic Player continued, “There might be more Raiders who will accept the mission to kill you.”
“What you’ve just said makes me want to kill Cunning Rabbit even more now,” Lin Huang said with a smile, seemingly unconcerned.
In reality, he already felt a sense of danger.
Initially, he had thought he was already powerful enough. However, from the looks of things now, this was entirely not the case.
With the threat of the Raiders hanging over his head like a huge mountain, Lin Huang just could not feel completely at ease.
“That’s why I asked if you were planning to go to the universe,” Steel Fist could not help commenting from where she was. “As soon as you enter the universe, it will be difficult for the Raiders to find you since it’s so vast. However, if you stay in this great world, it will be much easier for them to find you.”
Lin Huang shook his head still. “There are matters in the great world that I haven’t sorted out, so I can’t leave just yet. What do both of you intend to do next?”
“We’ll have to hide for a while in the universe.” Epic Player gave a wry, resigned smile. “If the Raiders really do send upper-rank Lords over, both of us can’t fight them.”
From beside him, Steel Fist did not raise any objections.
The three of them went their separate ways after chatting for a while.
Lin Huang had fully anticipated failing to capture Cunning Rabbit. He did not dwell further on the matter.
After returning to the Devil Hunter Star Zone, he glanced at the near-total destruction wrought on the area and did not linger.
He appeared on a planet in a nearby star zone.
Ignoring the bustling crowds of people, Lin Huang pushed open the door and entered a particular courtyard.
“Lord Swordmaster!” A figure welcomed him immediately. It was Sword1 in a purple robe.
“Is everyone on this planet?” Lin Huang asked immediately after a faint nod.
“Not at all. To be safe, we’re scattered over five different star zones.” Sword1 shook his head. “Is there a problem?”
“The danger isn’t fully past yet.” Lin Huang’s expression remained tense. “Summon all of them here, please.”
Less than five minutes later, everyone from the Sword Alliance had gathered in the courtyard.
“For a while in the future, there might be more powerful Raiders from the universe coming to attack. The great world isn’t safe, in particular the areas around the Devil Hunter Star Zone. For safety, I’ve decided to place all of you in the God Territory within me…”
After this brief explanation, everyone present did not raise any objections at all. Lin Huang then put all of them into the God Territory within him.
Once he was done, Lin Huang looked toward a specific direction in the distant heavens. It was where the Nephilic Judge Tribe was…
“Those who have already elevated to rank-5 and those who have prepared the materials for elevation to rank-5, or who have already elevated to rank-4.5 can come to the Ricky Star in the Coyne Star Zone. I’ll elevate you immediately to Supreme God rank-5 and Pure Spirit rank-6.
“Those who haven’t completed collecting materials, send me a detailed list of the materials you haven’t managed to obtain yet. I’ll help you gather them. Once I’ve completed gathering everything, I’ll notify all of you, then follow it up with your elevation in rank.
“Also, please inform me as soon as you’ve elevated to ninth-rank heavenly god-level. There’ll be a pleasant surprise at that point.”
Lin Huang sent these three messages to all his imperial monsters through telepathic voice transmission.
Now that Xiao Hei had lifted its restrictions, as long as it was supplemented with Origin Energy, it could create Advance Cards in batches to elevate all the imperial monsters to Pure Spirit rank-6.
When the imperial monsters received the voice transmission messages, their first reaction was to wonder was if Lin Huang had made a slip of the tongue.
They were all aware that Xiao Hei could elevate monsters.
However, from mythical-level rank-4 onward, each advancement required a massive amount of materials.
It was very clear what Lin Huang’s voice transmission message meant—they only required materials for rank-5 to be able to elevate two ranks and advance to Pure Spirit-level.
“Don’t we need materials to elevate to rank-6?” The first one to ask a question through voice transmission was Bai.
This time, he did not choose to message Lin Huang privately via telepathic voice transmission. Instead, he asked his question publicly so the rest of the imperial monsters could hear him.
“No,” Lin Huang gave a straightforward, public answer, “Due to some specials reasons, you don’t need materials to elevate from rank-5 to rank-6.”
When all the imperial monsters heard Lin Huang’s reply, their expressions were full of surprise and delight.
This was fantastic news for all of them. After all, they had already exhausted their efforts collecting elevation materials for just rank-5 alone. The difficulty in gathering materials for rank-6 would only increase.
At that moment, Kylie—who was with the Nephilic Judge Tribe far away—spoke up as well.
“What’s the surprise when we elevate to ninth-rank?”
Kylie had already elevated to rank-6. Moreover, her combat strength had advanced to eighth-rank heavenly god-level. She was only a step away from ninth-rank. Naturally, what she cared more about now was the reward for elevating to ninth-rank.
Lin Huang did not answer her question. Instead, he asked through voice transmission, “Would it be convenient for you to leave the Nephilic Judge Tribe’s star zone?”
“I have ways of not being found out.” Kylie nodded.
“That’s perfect. Let me know as soon as you elevate.” Lin Huang said this because it was impossible for him to keep tabs on the changes in his Monster Cards at all times. “As for the surprise, you’ll find out then. I definitely won’t disappoint all of you.”
Lin Huang still kept things a secret in the end.
He glanced over Kylie’s card—her combat strength was eighth-rank now. He knew that she would probably break through to ninth-rank in less than a month.
Grimace spoke as soon as the two of them had finished conversing.
“Are you on the Ricky Star now, Master?”
“I am,” Lin Huang responded immediately.
When he went to the Ricky Star with Steel Fist and Epic Player earlier, he had secretly used the Gate of All Realms to program the coordinates. After making sure everyone from the Sword Alliance was settled, as well as Lin Xin and the rest, he had teleported here at once.
“Then we’ll sort out a few matters at hand and come by later. We’re not far too far from you,” Grimace said at once.
“Where are you guys?” Lin Huang asked, slightly puzzled.
“We’re in the Kash Star Zone.”
The Kash Star Zone was also in the core zone of the God Territory. Just like the Coyne Star Zone, it was one of the richest star zones in the God Territory.
Grimace had said they were not too far away. In actual fact, there were three star zones in between. Taking into account the distance of the void as well, they were over five million lightyears away.
However, this was certainly not considered very far in the vast God Territory.
Although he was curious why Grimace and his group had gone to the Kash Star Zone, Lin Huang did not delve further into the matter.
“Alright, just come over later then,” Lin Huang agreed quickly.
The other imperial monsters listened enviously. They already knew that Grimace and his group had elevated to rank-4.5 Pseudo-supreme God-level. It was completely in accord with the elevation conditions that Lin Huang had mentioned.
After informing the imperial monsters about the matters pertaining to their elevation, Lin Huang glanced at the hotel room he was in.
There would be barriers in such a high-end hotel. Moreover, they would have been put in place by heavenly god-level powerhouses. It could easily block the probing of most Heavenly Gods. However, it was still not sufficient for Lin Huang.
He set up several barriers himself and isolated the entire room from the outside world.
He then sat down again with his legs crossed to look through the spoils he had obtained from killing the group of Raiders.
The only whole corpses he had obtained were those of Black Mountain, Spy, and Babble. As for the three people he had killed using Mirror’s reflection, their corpses had been blown into bits. Not only were the defense Dao Weapons on the three incomplete bodies damaged, but there was only one storage ring that remained intact.
“If I had known this was going to happen, I wouldn’t have shown off with Mirror,” Lin Huang sighed helplessly. He felt he had lost far more than twenty million.
He felt grateful that Black Mountain and the other two’s storage rings had been preserved in perfect condition.
“I’ll give these bodies to the Queen Mothers to use as materials. They should be able to nurture rank-6 Bug Emperors or Queen Mothers… However, the prerequisite is that I need to advance the Queen Mothers to rank-6 first, then directly elevate them to lord-level.”
After staring at the bodies for a moment, Lin Huang very soon came up with a way of dealing with them.
He withdrew his Divine Telekinesis from the storage ring and sank his mind into his inner world.
When he killed the group of Raiders, he had simultaneously obtained their Goldfingers as well. Those were the most valuable of all his loot.
Earlier, he did not have time to check them through in detail. Now that he was free, he could finally take some time to look at them.
The first one was Black Mountain’s Goldfinger.
It was a tiny golden man the size of a human palm.
“A Goldfinger that strengthens one’s physical body?!”
Lin Huang used Divine Telekinesis to scan the Goldfinger and found out what its functions were.
This Goldfinger could plunder the physical energy and Divine Power of all living things that the host killed, as well as inherit their combat cultivation inheritance, rules related to combat cultivation, sequence powers, and Dao seals.
Lin Huang raised his brows after checking it through. As far as he was concerned, this Goldfinger was not very powerful, but it could remedy his shortcomings at this stage.
His biggest shortcoming at the moment was that his physical body was not strong enough. His God’s soul was already at the strength of a peak upper-rank Lord, but his physical body was merely at the standard of a lower-rank Lord.
Once he refined this Goldfinger, he could inherit Black Mountain’s physical body right away, and the strength of his own body would directly advance to peak middle-rank lord-level.
After this, Lin Huang looked at the second Goldfinger.
It was a piece of “meat” shaped like a brain.
Lin Huang scanned it with Divine Telekinesis and soon found out the Goldfinger’s function.
“This isn’t bad at all, a God’s soul-type Goldfinger…”
Without a doubt, this had to be Babble’s Goldfinger.
The main function of this Goldfinger was to plunder their opponents’ God’s soul and strengthen the host’s God’s soul. It could also read their opponents’ God’s soul’s memory and replicate inheritances…
It was certainly a very useful Goldfinger.
After putting the second Goldfinger away, Lin Huang looked at the third Goldfinger.
It was a gold metal piece the size of a little finger and similar in shape to the chip inside an electrical device.
Lin Huang scanned it with Divine Telekinesis and obtained a rough idea of what the Goldfinger’s function was.
This was Spy’s Goldfinger.
Although its functions were quite outstanding, he did not intend to keep it. Instead, he planned to give it to Yang Ling.
After all, Spy had plundered Yang Ling’s Goldfinger back in the day, and Yang Ling had been pursued by Spy for hundreds and thousands of years all this while. Giving him the Goldfinger would help him gain closure.
Moreover, the usage and utilization of this Goldfinger was extremely complicated. Lin Huang did not plan to waste time and effort on it. As far as he was concerned, Yang Ling was perhaps the only person who could best exploit the Goldfinger’s functions.
The remaining three Goldfingers held no attraction for Lin Huang.
Their functions could basically be replaced by Xiao Hei and the other Goldfingers. Moreover, their effects were nothing like those of Xiao Hei and the rest.
In the living room of the hotel, Yang Ling’s digitized body gradually materialized.
Lin Huang tossed him a set of god sequence relics for defense right away. Yang Ling caught them and acknowledged ownership of them by putting them on.
“To be honest, when Hong Zhuang found me, I thought all along that you couldn’t really be dead.” Lin Huang watched Yang Ling fashion a set of illusory casual attire with the defense relics, before stating calmly, “Until Spy fought me and I saw him digitizing his physical body while telling me that he had extracted that skill from your memory, only then did I believe you were truly dead.”
Yang Ling sat on the armchair to Lin Huang’s left and took a sip of the tea on the coffee table. Only then did he slowly explain, “To prevent him from damaging my digitized body right away, I divided my consciousness into nine parts. Apart from the core, the remaining eight layers actually had information hidden within them that he wanted. One of them was the technique of digitizing the physical body—he was dying to get his hands on it. I intentionally placed the digitization of the physical body in the first layer to create the illusion that the deeper the layer, the more valuable the information.
“In the end, over the past half a year or so, he was only able to decode three layers of passwords. That was much slower than I expected.
“Initially, I thought I’d set up nine layers of passwords to buy myself as much time as possible. Although I harbored a very faint wish that Hong Zhuang might grow and avenge me, I didn’t hold out much hope. I knew very well it was only a matter of time before I was well and truly dead. My purpose in transferring the Goldfinger’s remaining power to her was so that she could grow quickly, and have the ability to protect herself in the great world.
“I asked Hong Zhuang to look for you only because I was thinking of her safety. I never expected you to avenge me. After all, apart from you and me, she doesn’t know anyone else in the great world. Furthermore, you’re the only person I trust.
“What I didn’t expect was that you’d grow so fast, and to this extent!” Yang Ling subjected Lin Huang to a long, in-depth scrutiny. He was quite astounded at Lin Huang’s cultivation speed.
“Definitely a little faster than most normal people,” Lin Huang replied humbly with a faint smile.
Yang Ling could not even find the words to poke fun at this statement.
“Alright, let’s just skip all the sentimental stuff.” Seeing that Yang Ling wanted to say more, Lin Huang interrupted him, “We’ve known each other for so many years. You took good care of me in the past and helped me a lot. You can consider me killing Spy as returning the favor.”
After he finished speaking, Lin Huang took out a gold metal piece that was the size of a little finger. He flicked it toward Yang Ling with one finger.
“I’m giving back your Goldfinger.”
“What…” Yang Ling’s expression was somewhat torn.
Since Spy’s Goldfinger was Lin Huang’s loot, technically, Yang Ling ought not to take it. However, this Goldfinger had devoured his own Goldfinger before—there were even remnants of a familiar aura. He was rather unwilling to relinquish it.
When Lin Huang saw the expression on Yang Ling’s face, he knew what was going through his mind and spoke up again.
“Stop dilly-dallying. This Goldfinger belongs to you by right; I can’t use something so complicated. It will only be able to display its full abilities when it’s with you. Anyway, I have quite a number of Goldfingers now, so it doesn’t matter if I lose one or gain one.
“If you really feel guilty about it, then don’t charge me when I go to you to unseal Goldfingers and check information.”
Yang Ling was finally relieved upon hearing that. “Alright, just treat it as if I borrowed it. In the future, when I get hold of other Goldfingers, I’ll give them to you in exchange.”
“Not a problem.” After some consideration, Lin Huang did not decline. This was because if he rejected Yang Ling’s proposal, Yang Ling might not accept the gift.
“Since you’re just borrowing it, why don’t you choose one or two more?” As Lin Huang spoke, he took out the three Goldfingers that did not interest him.
Yang Ling was stunned when he saw this. Immediately he asked in astonishment, “How many Raiders did you kill?!”
He had only awakened after Lin Huang killed Spy, so he had seen him kill Black Mountain and Babble later on as well. However, he had no idea what had happened in the earlier stages of battle.
“Including Spy, I killed six of them,” Lin Huang’s tone was utterly calm as if he were talking about something insignificant.
“There are two Goldfingers that will be fairly helpful to me, so I retained them for myself. The remaining three aren’t very useful as far as I’m concerned. See if you can make use of them. If you can, take them with you. You can return them to me later on in the future.”
Lin Huang was being so generous mainly because travelers were the only ones who could use Goldfingers. Even if he kept the extra Goldfingers, he would not use them. At most, he could only use them as materials for refining. Of all the people he was close to, aside from Lin Xin, Yang Ling was the only one who could use a Goldfinger.
Yang Ling was rendered speechless at Lin Huang’s casual tone as if he were merely selling cabbages at the market. However, he scanned the Goldfingers with Divine Telekinesis anyway and checked them out in detail.
Regardless of whether it was one, two, or three items, he would still be borrowing them. Since he was already indebted to Lin Huang, a few more debts would not matter.
If he really were to encounter Goldfingers that were suitable for him and could boost his abilities or remedy his shortcomings, he would be able to grow more powerful much more rapidly if he obtained them now.
At this point, he decided not to stand on ceremony any longer.
He picked one of them after thoroughly checking them all with Divine Telekinesis.
“I’ll take this God’s soul-type Goldfinger. The strength of my God’s soul has a significant impact on my abilities.”
“Sure.” Lin Huang tossed Yang Ling the Goldfinger that he had chosen and put away the remaining two.
He had already thought of what to do with the remaining Goldfingers.
“What do you intend to do after this?” Lin Huang asked as he watched Yang Ling putting away the two Goldfingers.
“I don’t have any plans…” Yang Ling thought for a moment, then lifted his head to look at Lin Huang. “I might as well follow you now.
“Spy is dead, and I don’t have any goals at present. If you’re willing, Hong Zhuang and I will stay on and “work” for you. I can forgo a salary, but I do need to have time off.”
“Of course,” Lin Huang agreed immediately, “If you stay on with me, it’ll be more convenient if I need to get hold of you.
“There’s no need for you to work for me, though. You can just be an honorary professor. Both of you aren’t my subordinates, and you won’t be bound to me. You’ll have absolute freedom as well. You can leave any time you want.”
“Alright, it’s settled then.”
The two of them were in accord!
As far as Lin Huang was concerned, Yang Ling was an assistant who was hard to come by. For unsealing storage rings, forging identities, and some tasks involving the retrieval of secret information, Yang Ling was undoubtedly the best candidate.
He needed Yang Ling.
Meanwhile, for Yang Ling, his purpose in staying on was actually mainly to repay Lin Huang for what he had done. Not only had Lin Huang saved his life, but he had also killed Spy for him and even gave him Spy’s Goldfinger. These three things were, without a doubt, significant favors.
Now that he had been avenged, he genuinely did not have a clear goal any longer. Since it did not matter to him where he went, he would just stay on for the time being to help Lin Huang. After he had repaid the favors or when he finally had a clear goal, it still would not be too late for him to leave.
Therefore, the two of them came to an agreement very quickly.
After agreeing to work together with Yang Ling, Lin Huang sent him back to the God Territory within him.
Unlike before when he had casually put Yang Ling back into the God Territory, this time, Lin Huang sent Yang Ling directly to the planet where Lin Xin and Hong Zhuang were. He even sent him directly to the courtyard entrance where Hong Zhuang was.
When Yang Ling opened the door and emerged before Hong Zhuang, she was utterly stunned.
She stared in Yang Ling’s direction and stood in a daze for a good while before she rubbed her eyes. She thought she was seeing an illusion.
When she opened her eyes again, Yang Ling had already come over to stand right before her.
Hong Zhuang could not control the tears from welling up in her eyes. “I thought you were truly dead this time…”
“I definitely almost died.” Yang Ling pulled Hong Zhuang into his arms, smiling.
Hong Zhuang hugged Yang Ling tightly as if she were afraid that he would disappear again. Her tears kept flowing as if a dam had broken.
The two of them did not say anything else. They remained where they were, holding onto each other, and stayed thus for a long time.
When Hong Zhuang finally stopped crying, she wiped away her tears and finally let go of Yang Ling.
He reached out and brushed away the tear stains on her face. “It must have been hard on you all this while.”
“I’m alright.” Hong Zhuang shook her head then asked curiously, “How did you manage to escape?”
“I didn’t escape at all,” Yang Ling explained with a smile, “Lin Huang killed Spy…”
Yang Ling very quickly related the events that had unfolded later.
Lin Huang had no idea what was going on in his inner world. After sending Yang Ling into the God Territory within him, he began busying himself with his own affairs.
“The Goldfingers I have now are Xiao Hei, the Soul-controlling Tablet, the Eternity Fire (Qi Muxiong), Yin Yin (Great Heaven), the Gate of All Realms (Mr. Gate), the Tiny Golden Man (Black Mountain), and the Brain of the Soul (Babble), as well as these two extra ones…” In truth, strictly speaking, Yang Ling was the only traveler that Lin Huang knew very well.
Although Lin Xin had a Goldfinger, the Emperor’s Heart, Lin Huang had not spoken with her at all regarding the matter of travelers—he had kept this from her all along.
However, he felt that it was probably time they talked about it now.
Lin Huang greeted Lin Xin with his consciousness via voice transmission, then teleported her out of his God Territory.
Lin Xin was delighted to finally meet her brother face to face again after not seeing him for such a long time.
“Come sit down, silly girl.” Lin Huang poured Lin Xin a cup of tea as he spoke.
He was thinking of how to bring the matter up.
Lin Xin sat down obediently. Noticing the tense expression on Lin Huang’s face, her initial happiness was now marred by a touch of anxiety.
“Big Brother, has something happened?”
Lin Huang fell silent for a moment, then looked straight at her and said, “Emperor’s Heart, please come out.”
“What…” Lin Xin was shocked when she heard this. She had never expected Lin Huang to find out her secret—that she had a Goldfinger. Not only that, he knew its name.
Just as Lin Xin was somewhat at a loss, a three-dimensional projection shone from the communication ring on her finger.
It was a lady who looked almost exactly like Lin Xin. Only two things were different—her hair was purple, and her eyes were golden.
Lin Huang was slightly taken aback when he saw what the Emperor’s Heart projected. He knew that this was how Lin Xin had looked in her past life.
Since the Emperor’s Heart had appeared in this form, it clearly had not told Lin Xin about her past life.
“Is anything the matter?” The Emperor’s Heart looked at Lin Huang in a rather unfriendly manner.
Before it had acknowledged Lin Xin as its owner, it had come to an agreement with Lin Huang. It would keep his identity as a traveler secret, and Lin Huang would keep the Emperor’s Heart’s past a secret from Lin Xin.
However, now that Lin Huang had suddenly summoned it like this, it suspected that Lin Huang might be intending to break their agreement.
“Both of you know each other?” Lin Xin’s face was full of confusion.
Initially, she thought that her possession of this Goldfinger—the Emperor’s Heart—was a secret from her brother. She had never expected that her brother seemed to know her Goldfinger.
“I’ve seen it a few times before you claimed ownership of it,” Lin Huang explained immediately. He still did not wish the Emperor’s Heart to expose his identity as a traveler.
After all, his soul had traveled into another body, so theoretically, he was not Lin Xin’s brother.
He was not sure how Lin Xin would react if she found out about that.
“We’ve only met two or three times, so we’re not well-acquainted.” Emperor’s Heart nodded in agreement with Lin Huang.
It turned its head to look at Lin Huang after it finished speaking. “So tell me—what’s going on, that you insist on summoning me out?”
Lin Huang sorted out what he wished to say first before stating, “You know that I have a Goldfinger—in fact, I have more than one.
“More specifically, I’ve obtained two more of late that I won’t be able to use. I think Xiao Xin can take a look and see if she might be able to make use of them.” Lin Huang took out the Goldfingers that he did not need as he spoke.
Surprise flashed through the Emperor’s Heart’s eyes, but it did not say anything.
It could more or less guess how he had managed to obtain the two Goldfingers.
“You can have more than one Goldfinger?” Lin Xin was stunned to hear that.
“Yes, you can. It’s just that it’s something rather rare, so it’s difficult for an ordinary person to possess even one.” Lin Huang nodded.
Lin Xin turned her head to look at the Emperor’s Heart after she heard this. It seemed to matter to her how the Emperor’s Heart felt.
The Emperor’s Heart, however, was not bothered at all and nodded. “Yes, take a look at them. If they’re suitable, you can take them. After all, every Goldfinger has somewhat different functions. Some of the functions might just be the ones you need.”
Only then did Lin Xin nod and direct her Divine Telekinesis toward the two Goldfingers on Lin Huang’s palm one after the other.
A moment later, she raised her head and looked at Lin Huang. “Both of them seem like alright to me.”
Although the Emperor’s Heart’s functions were powerful, they emphasized more on various aspects of online networks. The immediate boost to Lin Xin’s combat abilities was insignificant.
Of the two Goldfingers on Lin Huang’s palm, one had energy storage and conversion abilities, which was equivalent to a weaker version of the Eternity Fire. The other one contained the ability to create mechanical devices. They were completely useless to Lin Huang.
However, Lin Huang seemed to be very interested in both Goldfingers.
She had even begun to conceptualize designing firearms and weaponry with this ability to create mechanical devices.
“Take both of them then.” Lin Huang tossed both Goldfingers to Lin Xin.
Lin Xin did not stand on ceremony this time and caught both of the Goldfingers. “Thank you, Big Brother.”
Lin Huang chatted for a little bit with Lin Xin after having settled the matter of the two extra Goldfingers. He then transported her back to the God Territory within him.
Right after he had sent her back, a voice came from within him all of a sudden.
“Lin Huang, I’ve thought it through…”
Lin Huang instantly identified that this was the Soul-controlling Tablet’s voice. He said in some astonishment, “What have you thought through?”
“All this while I’ve been obsessed with becoming the host’s only Goldfinger. However, it’s only now that I’ve realized it’s not very likely that true powerhouses among travelers would own merely one single Goldfinger.”
Back in the day, the Soul-controlling Tablet had requested that Lin Huang replace Xiao Hei before it would follow him because a traveler could only have one primary Goldfinger. This primary agreement was completely fair, whereby the primary Goldfinger was bound to the host for good or ill. As for the Goldfingers that made agreements with the host later, theirs would be more of a master-slave relationship.
Back then, Lin Huang had been unwilling to replace Xiao Hei. The Soul-controlling Tablet did not force the issue either. Instead, it had left a clone in Lin Huang’s body, letting Lin Huang find it a new host.
However, over the last few years, Lin Huang had hardly met any trustworthy travelers. Therefore, he had not been able to find the Soul-controlling Tablet a suitable host all this time.
The Soul-controlling Tablet had not been in a rush either. Since it was a Goldfinger, its lifespan was much longer than most living beings.
Now, however, it saw the ease with which Lin Huang obtained multiple Goldfingers—so many, in fact, that he could give them away as he wished. At last, it was beginning to realize that it was not so rare and unique after all.
“Do you want to make me your host?” Lin Huang immediately understood what the Soul-controlling Tablet meant.
“That’s right.” The Soul-controlling Tablet fell silent for a while before continuing, “But currently my primary form is still in damaged condition…”
“If you truly acknowledge me as your master, of course I’ll help to restore you fully,” Lin Huang promised readily.
“Then it’s a done deal.” The Soul-controlling Tablet was finally able to be at ease after hearing confirmation from Lin Huang. In reality, it had been worried that Lin Huang might reject its request. After all, it had rejected Lin Huang initially.
Lin Huang had not expected that giving the Goldfingers away would make the Soul-controlling Tablet feel threatened, causing it to be willing to acknowledge a master.
In a flash, he returned to the God Territory within him and appeared right away in front of the cliff where he had found the Soul-controlling Tablet.
He approached the cliff wall and passed through it, emerging in the void that the Soul-controlling Tablet had created.
After a glance at the huge stone tablet, which was more massive than all the stars, Lin Huang’s figure appeared on top of it in a flash, standing on it.
“Have you thought it through thoroughly?” Lin Huang asked, looking down.
“I have!” The Soul-controlling Tablet did not hesitate any longer.
The next instant, a black stone tablet as big as a human palm sank into the giant stone tablet beneath Lin Huang’s feet. This was the clone the Soul-controlling Tablet had previously left behind in Lin Huang’s body.
A moment later, the giant stone tablet began to shrink rapidly.
In the time it took for a breath, the huge stone tablet shrank from the massive size of a star to the size of a palm.
It transformed into a stone tablet full of cracks and penetrated through Lin Huang’s brow.
After dinner that evening, Lin Huang went strolling around the night market.
The Ricky Star had an abundance of nightlife. Even the night market was on a much bigger scale than any Lin Huang had been to on other planets.
This night market was the size of an Earth city—at least a few times bigger even than Wulin Town in the gravel world where he used to live.
There were thirty to forty intersecting streets, both big and small. The longest street stretched fully ten meters or more and was densely packed with hundreds upon thousands of stalls.
There were even more people than that strolling through the streets, however. Although their shoulders did not touch, the crowd could be considered an endless stream of moving figures.
As the sky darkened gradually, warm lights began to light up one by one above the night market, a decorative touch that made the place seem even lovelier.
As the lights came on, more people began showing up at the night market.
Lin Huang relaxed and strolled around aimlessly. Along the way, he saw countless weird and wonderful snacks, as well as many local crafts. For a while, he was dazzled by the sheer amount of things to look at.
He also rapidly discovered that the night market on the Ricky Star must have been inspired by humans. Aside from the larger scale, the types of items for sale were generally the same.
There were all sorts of snacks, drinks, tidbits, crafts, little trinkets, and children’s toys…
After strolling around for almost an hour, Lin Huang suddenly sensed the auras of Grimace and his group.
Only then did he return to his hotel room in a flash.
A moment later, the three imperial monsters found him by following their contract sense.
As soon as Grimace, Lancelot, and Charcoal appeared in front of Lin Huang, they were subjected to a Divine Telekinesis scan.
“All three of you have improved quite a lot.” Lin Huang nodded in satisfaction after the scan.
The three of them were already at eighth-rank heavenly god-level now; they were almost as fast as Kylie in terms of advancement speed.
Furthermore, the three of them had successfully elevated to Pseudo-supreme God-level rank 4.5.
At this level of rank and combat strength, as long as they did not encounter half-step lord-level or lord-level powerhouses, they would be practically invincible in the God Territory when the three of them joined forces.
Grimace gave a faint smirk when he heard Lin Huang’s compliment. Lancelot was expressionless; Charcoal was the only one who was so happy that his tail began undulating.
“We worked really hard the past few months!” Charcoal immediately wanted to show off. “Grimace took us…”
However, Grimace, who was standing to one side, coughed lightly once. Charcoal glanced at him and swallowed the rest of his words with an effort.
“What did Grimace take you all to do?” Lin Huang raised his brows. He had a vague sense that it was probably something illegal. Otherwise, Grimace would not have purposely interrupted Charcoal.
“Well…” Charcoal failed to respond for a while.
At this point, Grimace finally spoke up from where he was standing off to the side, “I just took them along to collect a few treasures, then exchanged those for money.”
Lin Huang eyed Grimace. He knew that this fellow was certainly lying. If that were really the case, there would have been no need for him to stop Charcoal at all.
At that moment, Lancelot spoke up as well from beside them, “Can you truly elevate us directly to rank-6 this time?”
This fellow was obviously helping to change the subject.
“When did the three of you get so close?” Lin Huang teased, looking at Lancelot and Charcoal.
Both of them looked in other directions immediately. They did not dare meet Lin Huang’s gaze.
“I don’t care how you obtained your resources, but there’s a bottom line you can’t cross.” Lin Huang glanced over the three of them, “You’re not allowed to do things that will do harm or commit atrocities.”
Lin Huang did not extrapolate on the subject after he finished speaking.
He opened the door to his God Territory with a wave of his hand, then gestured at the three of them. “Come with me.”
Lin Huang appeared directly in front of the Great Heaven Palace together with the three imperial monsters.
If one wanted to talk about the safest available place, it would undoubtedly be the Great Heaven Palace.
Therefore, Lin Huang chose to elevate his imperial monsters here.
When Charcoal saw the two guardian beasts at the door, he involuntarily shrank back slightly.
The two three-legged Golden Crows were Combat Souls of archaic descent. Not only were they supreme god-level rank-5, but their combat strength was also peak heavenly god-level.
Charcoal, whose main cultivation path was the fire element, could clearly feel the sense of oppression emanating from the two guardian beasts. He could also sense even more that he was no match for both of them.
However, what he did not know was whether even King Kong and Peerless Overlord would be able to hold the advantage if these two three-legged Golden Crows were to join forces.
Naturally, Lancelot and Grimace also sensed how powerful the two guardian beasts were, but they could not sense it as clearly as Charcoal could.
Both of them could not help warily eyeing the two sculpture-like three-legged Golden Crows.
The two three-legged Golden Crows observed the three of them for a while as well, only withdrawing their gaze when they saw Lin Huang bringing the group over to the steps.
The three imperial monsters followed Lin Huang and arrived at the Great Heaven Palace’s entrance only after going up the steps.
The three became nervous again upon seeing the two palace doors.
The eyes of the two relief-carved Archaic Fire Dragons on the doors slowly began moving round and round, then fixed their gaze on Charcoal and the other two imperial monsters.
The two Archaic Fire Dragons merely gave Lancelot and Grimace a glance, then turned their eyes upon Charcoal to check out this member of their tribe.
They were not scrutinizing Charcoal.
As pure blood Dragon Tribe members, naturally, the two were more curious about this junior who possessed the same bloodline.
Charcoal felt an immense pressure bearing down on him at that moment.
He could clearly sense how powerful the bloodlines of the two Dragon Tribe members were.
He merely gave the relief carvings a glance, then lowered his head and did not dare to look at them again.
Only after Lin Huang pushed open the Great Heaven Palace’s doors and the two Archaic Fire Dragons closed their eyes once more did Charcoal feel that the pressure had lifted. Hurriedly, he caught up with Lin Huang and slipped into the palace.
Grimace and Lancelot also released a sigh of relief almost simultaneously.
Although they had not been singled out by the Archaic Fire Dragons, the pressure from the Dragons’ aura was still tangible.
Lin Huang led the three imperial monsters deep into the palace. He only stopped when he arrived at the dais where the throne was.
“Sit down first, all three of you, and settle your state of mind.”
The three of them sat down immediately with their legs crossed when they heard this and began to regulate their breathing with their eyes closed.
In all honesty, their auras had been affected by their emotions since meeting up with Lin Huang and had been continuously fluctuating. When they saw the three-legged Golden Crows and the Archaic Fire Dragons, especially, it was hard to calm their auras under such immense pressure.
Lin Huang had sensed this, which was why he had asked the three of them to regulate their breathing to calm themselves.
After a moment, sensing that their emotions had gradually stabilized and their auras were no longer fluctuating, Lin Huang contacted Xiao Hei and requested for consolidation of all the rank-5 and rank-6 Advance Cards.
“You don’t have to open your eyes. Just feel the sensation of being elevated, that’s good enough.”
As soon as Lin Huang finished speaking, he targeted the three intended card users and crushed the cards in his hands.
The six cards turned into golden points of light that entered the bodies of the three imperial monsters, respectively.
The golden points of light had barely been in their bodies for a few seconds before cocoons rapidly began forming over their figures at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Days passed in the Great Heaven Palace.
Soon, the days turned into months.
Given that time had been accelerated ten thousand times, less than twenty minutes had passed in the outside world.
Lin Huang returned from the God Territory within him to the Ricky Star. He poured himself a drink that the hotel had prepared and slowly walked to the hotel balcony.
He sat on a deckchair, sipping his drink. As he looked up at the starry sky, his thoughts were already drifting.
He had almost finished his drink when he felt a sudden premonition.
Lancelot and the other two had awakened one after the other in the Great Heaven Palace.
Lin Huang put down his drink. He returned to the God Territory within him in a flash and appeared in the Great Heaven Palace.
He saw all three imperial monsters, now out of their cocoons, and their auras were quite different from before. They were also countless times stronger.
The three of them were checking through their own transformations in delight.
Meanwhile, their cards had popped up in front of Lin Huang.
“Monster Card: Charcoal”
“Rarity: Pure Spirit”
“Monster Name: Black Flame Dragon Forefather”
“Type of Monster: Archaic Dragon (Pure Blood)”
“Nickname: Flame Forefather”
“Combat Strength: Ninth-Rank Heavenly God”
“Major: True Dragon Dao”
“Major Skills: Power of the Dragon Forefather, Archaic Dragon Flame, Ancient Dragon Breath, Ancient Secret Draconian, Dragon Forefather Kingdom…”
“Minor Skills: Elemental Immunity, Physical Reflection, Cell Immortality, Immortal Dragon Soul…”
“Summon Authority: Activated”
“Card Remarks: Please spare no efforts in cultivating this!”
…
“Monster Card: Grimace”
“Rarity: Pure Spirit”
“Monster Name: Mysterious Lord”
“Type of Monster: Absolute Mystery”
“Nickname: The King of Secret Techniques”
“Combat Strength: Ninth-Rank Heavenly God”
“Major: Control”
“Major Skills: Mask Control, Puppet Domination, God of Deceit, King of Divine Illusion…”
“Minor Skills: Supreme Intelligence, Divine Telekinesis, Mysterious Trap, Mysterious Mirror…”
“Summon Authority: Activated”
“Card Remarks: Please spare no efforts in cultivating this!”
…
“Monster Card: Lancelot”
“Rarity: Pure Spirit”
“Monster Name: Ruthless Sword Master”
“Type of Monster: Holy Blood”
“Nickname: Killer”
“Combat Strength: Ninth-Rank Heavenly God”
“Major: Sword Dao”
“Major Skills: Supreme Sword Master, Darkest Sword Spirit, Sword Dao Holy Method, Sword Kingdom…”
“Minor Skills: Sword Steps, Dark Mirror…”
“Summon Authority: Activated”
“Card Remarks: Please spare no efforts in cultivating this!”
The three cards clearly showed that the three of them were Pure Spirit rank-6 now.
Not only that, their combat strength had advanced as well. They had been directly elevated to ninth-rank heavenly god-level.
Lin Huang made a thorough check through the other information changes on the cards.
Their skill panels were already densely packed.
For main cultivation path skills alone, there were already over one hundred of them listed on the main skill branch. As for supporting skills, altogether they came to almost a thousand.
Their secondary cultivation path skills were even more numerous—there were over one hundred and fifty core skills on the main skill branch and two to three thousand supporting skills.
Lin Huang only discovered after checking through the skill descriptions that the main skill branch was comprised of the main skills derived from the god sequence chains that Lancelot and the others had fully mastered.
In other words, the three of them had mastered over two hundred god sequence chains.
One must know that someone as powerful as Great Heaven—who had dominated the great world for an entire era—had only mastered forty-two god sequence chains at ninth-rank heavenly god-level back in the day. Even Buried Heaven, who had recently elevated to become a Lord, had only manifested twenty-seven god sequence chains during his unification.
The number of god sequence chains the three imperial monsters had mastered at present was almost tenfold the number that Buried Heaven had mastered.
One could well imagine that if their abilities were placed within the great world, the three of them would be able to subdue all enemies who were under lord-level.
Lin Huang was rather shocked as he stared at the three cards.
He was not shocked by the number of god sequence chains they had mastered but by the effect of the Advance Cards.
Previously, he had not paid too much attention to the connection between Rule Bending Powers and sequence powers in the main branch of the imperial monsters’ skill trees.
Only now was he finally able to see the connection clearly.
It turned out that the Advance Cards could simultaneously bestow terrifying inheritances upon the imperial monsters during their elevation, including Rule Bending Powers and god sequence chains.
That was also why Lancelot and the others did not need to spend time consolidating god sequence chains. Their god sequence chains had skyrocketed to over two hundred in number from just the initial twenty or so god sequence chains that they had mastered.
After ascertaining this, Lin Huang was even slightly envious of this group of imperial monsters.
‘What a great thing—to be able to immediately become so powerful without needing to cultivate!’
Naturally, Lin Huang could only think such a thing in secret; it would not be very nice to verbalize it.
It would hurt Lancelot and the other two’s self-esteem if he said it out loud.
“How are you feeling?” Lin Huang asked, smiling faintly.
“I feel invincible!” Charcoal’s eyes lit up. He looked like he was eager to find someone to spar with.
“That’s merely an illusion caused by your abilities skyrocketing.” Lin Huang poured cold water on this notion at once.
Charcoal’s moment of enthusiasm was immediately doused.
“I’m so much more powerful now. I probably can battle a half-step Lord if I encounter one,” Lancelot thought about it and gave his opinion.
Lin Huang shook his head still after hearing what Lancelot said.
“All of you still haven’t grasped the disparity between Heavenly Gods and Lords. A Heavenly God’s Godly Right can only be used within his own God Territory. However, a Lord’s Godly Right has been integrated with a Dao seal, so it can be used outside the God Territory and still have a boosting effect.
“Right now, you’ve mastered over two hundred and fifty god sequence chains. In the God Territory, with the addition of the Godly Right, that would be an effect of an eighty-onefold boost. In other words, the actual effect would be equivalent to over twenty thousand chains. This number certainly surpasses that of all half-step Lords and most lower-rank Lords. However, you’d only have two hundred and fifty or so chains outside the God Territory.
“Although those Lords and half-step Lords haven’t inherently mastered as many god sequence chains as you have, they can use their Godly Right outside their God Territory. With the Godly Right’s boosting effect, they’ll far exceed your abilities.”
“Which means all we’ve got to do during battles is to drag the opponent into our God Territory, then we’ll be invincible.” Grimace gave an eerie grin from where he was standing off to the side.
“You could look at it that way.” Lin Huang glanced at Grimace and added, “But don’t underestimate any enemy. Those half-step Lords and Lords certainly aren’t going to let you drag them into your God Territory so easily.”
Lin Huang chatted with the three of them for a little, and the subject soon expanded to include talking about the gift for elevating to ninth-rank heavenly god-level.
“Boss, all of us have elevated to ninth-rank heavenly god-level now. What’s this gift that you said would definitely delight us?!” Charcoal asked, his face full of anticipation.
Although Lancelot and Grimace said nothing, their ears had obviously perked up, worried that they might miss out on something.
Lin Huang glanced at the three of them and thought they looked rather comical.
He decided not to keep it a secret any longer and directly told them what it was.
“The gift… is to directly elevate you to become Lords!”
The three of them were stunned when they heard this. They thought they had misheard or that Lin Huang was just joking with them.
“Boss, please don’t joke about such a thing.” Charcoal gave two forced laughs and stared at Lin Huang in a shifty manner. He did not believe Lin Huang but still harbored some faint hopes.
“Who says I’m joking?” Lin Huang raised his brows.
“You aren’t joking?!” Charcoal bellowed at the top of his voice. He was so thrilled he almost overturned the roof.
“Can you really do that?” Grimace also found this hard to believe.
“Isn’t this kind of elevation considered to be forcing things to happen before we’re ready?” Lancelot asked. He was the calmest of the three.
After all, it had not even been a day since the three of them had elevated to ninth-rank heavenly god-level. He felt that elevating his current abilities again would be proceeding too quickly.
“Don’t worry, there won’t be any side effect.” The certainty of Lin Huang’s tone set the three imperial monsters at ease.
At least up until now, Lin Huang had never yet disappointed his imperial monsters.
“You can go into closed-door cultivation with your minds at ease. When you finish, you’ll be my right-hand men.” When Lin Huang finished speaking, three Lord Elevation Cards had already appeared in his hands.
He crushed the cards an instant later.
The three cards turned into three streams of light and penetrated through the brows of the three imperial monsters…
After returning once again from the God Territory within him to the Ricky Star, Lin Huang poured himself another drink.
This time, he did not go to the balcony. Instead, he sat on the sofa in the living room and began pondering, his gaze not focused on anything in particular.
He had previously questioned Xiao Hei about directly elevating his imperial monsters’ ranks and combat strength. Xiao Hei’s response was that there would not be any side effects.
Only after persistent questioning had Xiao Hei finally explained why there would be no side effects.
All the cards that Xiao Hei created were derived from Lin Huang’s energy.
The difference between creating Monster Cards and Item or Function Cards was that Monster Cards possessed a cognizance of self. This consciousness could not be created out of nothing, so Xiao Hei had to divide out consciousness seeds to be implanted into the cards.
However, after the consciousness seeds had entered into the bodies of various Monster Cards, they would grow into all kinds of individual characters after absorbing the essence of memories and inheritances.
Essentially, all of the Monster Cards that Xiao Hei created through capturing Origin Energy were its clones.
To be exact, whether it was Bai, Lancelot, Kylie, or Charcoal… All of them were projections of Xiao Hei on the material plane with different concrete, individual characters.
Therefore, Bai and the others could elevate without having to follow regular elevation and advancement rules. They could inherit myriads of god sequence chains and Rule Bending Powers without incurring a burden.
As long as there was sufficient Origin Energy and Xiao Hei had sufficient authorization, they could even be elevated to terrifying entities higher than Lords, and there still be no side effects.
Lin Huang was soon pulled out of his reverie by energy waves within the Great Heaven Palace.
Thanks to the time flow being accelerated ten thousand times, Lancelot and the other two had completed their elevation to Lords one by one after less than five minutes had passed in the outside world.
1
Recalled to his senses, Lin Huang returned to the Great Heaven Palace in a flash.
Only after sensing that the auras of all three imperial monsters were undoubtedly lord-level did Lin Huang finally set his mind at ease.
He checked their card information again.
All three had successfully consolidated Dao seals. Although they had only consolidated level-1 Dao seals, there were over twenty thousand Dao tattoos on their Dao seals.
This was comparable to many lower-rank Lords who had compounded level-10 Dao seals.
It also meant that ability-wise currently, all three were almost invincible among lower-rank Lords.
If they were to encounter a lower-rank Lord with a level-10 Dao seal, even if the three of them could not defeat the Lord, they had the ability to go head-to-head with them.
However, to prevent the three of them from becoming arrogant, Lin Huang concealed the truth from them.
“Your current abilities are at lower-rank lord-level now. That’s already considered fairly powerful. However, in the great world, there are Lords with seven or eight Dao seals, so don’t think that you’re invincible now.”
Charcoal nodded immediately after hearing that. Beside him, Lancelot said nothing, while Grimace, on the other hand, seemed excited to try out his new abilities.
After the three of them had elevated to lord-level, the inheritances within them had been unsealed even further. They were also aware of the divisions within lord-level cultivation. They knew that they had only consolidated one Dao seal, so their abilities were definitely nothing compared to Lords with more Dao seals.
However, what they did not know was that the Dao seals they had consolidated were much more powerful than the Dao seals consolidated by others.
“Don’t stir up trouble after all of you return to the God Territory.” Lin Huang’s gaze lingered on Grimace intentionally when he said this. “You can gather more high-level resources during this period. You’re going to need a huge amount of resources to support your cultivation when we go to the universe in the future.”
After giving them a few reminders, Lin Huang led the three of them out of the Great Heaven Palace.
This time, the three imperial monsters could sense very clearly that the Archaic Fire Dragons on the doors and the three-legged Golden Crows at the bottom of the steps were no longer threats to them.
Charcoal’s expression was proud as he walked past the several guardian beasts. He even raised his tail high like a male peacock who had defeated a rival in love.
Lin Huang eyed Charcoal’s childish behavior, but he did not stop him.
Instead, he waited for Charcoal to finish showing off before bringing all three of them back to the Ricky Star.
After returning to the Ricky Star, Lin Huang gave them reminders again. He also specifically sent Lancelot a voice transmission, asking him to keep tabs on Grimace and prevent him from stirring up trouble. Only then did he let them leave.
Lin Huang frowned slightly, looking in the direction where they had vanished. He had no idea why, but he kept having a nagging feeling that Grimace would cause trouble.
After sending the three of them off, Lin Huang thought for a moment, then asked the Gate of All Realms to open the passage to the virtual realm.
Before setting up the virtual realm cabin so he could cultivate later, he first had to clear the Voids nearby.
He stepped through the passage with his virtual body and entered the virtual realm.
As soon as he teleported through, he sensed intense battle fluctuations being transmitted over.
He lifted his head to look and was immediately rather stunned.
Battling it out were Black Mountain and Spy whom he had killed previously, while Babble and the other three lower-rank Lords stood on the sidelines, trembling.
‘Why have they showed up on the Ricky Star?’ Lin Huang felt rather puzzled. ‘Could it be because their corpses are with me?
“But why would they suddenly fight among themselves?” Lin Huang was even more confused by this.
However, his sense of confusion had not lasted for very long before he discovered he was being targeted.
Sensing Lin Huang’s aura, the battle between Black Mountain and Spy stopped abruptly. Both of them looked right at him.
Lin Huang did not know why but he could clearly sense the ill intent emanating from these few Voids. It was not just Black Mountain and Spy—even Babble and the rest who were watching the battle nearby had obvious murderous intent in their eyes when they looked at him.
Right as Lin Huang sensed the Voids’ malicious intent, Black Mountain and Spy attacked almost simultaneously. This time, their target was Lin Huang.
Lin Huang gave a cold snort and shook his sleeves. Countless blood-red electric arcs shot out in a burst.
There were millions of electric arcs.
Each of them was guided by the Sword seal and imbued with over fifty thousand levels of sequence power.
Black Mountain and Spy made a lightning retreat when they saw that.
However, Babble and the other three lower-rank Lords nearby failed to dodge in time. They were impaled by so many blood-red electric arcs that they were practically turned into sieves, and died on the spot.
Spy digitized his body in an instant and avoided Lin Huang’s attack this round.
Black Mountain, however, evaded the attack and used his overwhelming defense techniques to defend himself.
‘As expected, it’s still rather difficult to kill a middle-rank Lord instantly.’ Lin Huang was also very much aware of his own abilities.
The next second, he did not hold back any longer and summoned his ten Combat Souls right away.
Although the God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls had the physical form of a God’s Figurine, in essence, they were Combat Souls and part of Lin Huang’s body. Naturally, he could bring them into the virtual realm.
As soon as the God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls were summoned forth, Lin Huang could sense even more clearly that Black Mountain and Spy’s killing intent grew increasingly intense.
‘I thought Voids don’t possess their memories from the material realm?’ Lin Huang did not really understand. However, he suddenly realized why Black Mountain and Spy were fighting.
In the virtual realm, both of them had no memory of each other. Now that they were in the same space, it was only natural that they would fight for territory.
As soon as the ten God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls joined the battle alongside Lin Huang’s millions of God Dao Weapons, Black Mountain was immediately subdued with no trouble at all.
After Black Mountain had been disposed of, Spy was soon captured and sealed by Shackle Serpent. He was killed on the spot.
Within less than two minutes, Lin Huang had managed to obtain six portions of Origin Energy.
Among them were two that were middle-rank Lord in strength.
The rewards he obtained this round were handsome indeed.
After killing Black Mountain and the others who had turned into Voids, Lin Huang spread his Divine Telekinesis to scan through the several nearby star zones.
Unexpectedly during the scan, he discovered another Void.
He did not know if Black Mountain and the other Voids had not managed to discover it when they were fighting earlier or if they had noticed its presence but chosen to ignore it.
When Lin Huang appeared in a flash, the lower-rank lord-level Void was still trembling.
Its ability could not be considered particularly powerful. Lin Huang estimated that it had only consolidated four or five seals.
Its eyes brightened when it saw Lin Huang, and it stopped trembling.
Clearly, what it feared was the battle fluctuations from earlier. However, it was not in awe of Lin Huang, whose ability it was unable to probe.
Sensing the other’s intent to kill, Lin Huang did not wait for it to attack but made his move first to gain the advantage. A red gleam shot out of his sleeve and immediately pierced through the Void’s head.
A moment later, he obtained yet another portion of Origin Energy.
Lin Huang spread his Divine Telekinesis again in the Void’s location. After discovering that there were no more Voids in the surrounding star zones, he returned to where the Ricky Star was.
The Coyne Star Zone in the virtual realm had been almost completely destroyed by the massive battle between Black Mountain and Spy.
The Ricky Star had long since been turned into a mass of cosmic dust.
Lin Huang glanced around him and very soon picked a planet that had not been destroyed.
It was a neutron star with an extraordinary gravitational force. In the material realm, it was highly improbable that there would be any living beings on it. It was one of the most uninhabitable stars in the universe.
Lin Huang appeared on the surface of the planet in a flash, then crushed a Virtual Realm Cabin Card.
He summoned the Gate of All Realms and returned to the great world only after making sure that the virtual realm cabin had fully consolidated.
After returning to the material realm, Lin Huang was still in the same initial location he had been at when on the neutron star. He pushed open the door and entered the virtual realm cabin. He removed his storage ring from his finger and placed it on the floor of the room. Then he turned around, opened the door, and left.
Lin Huang summoned the Gate of All Realms again after leaving the virtual realm cabin and entered the virtual realm once more.
As soon as he entered the virtual realm, he pushed open the door immediately and entered the virtual realm cabin.
He picked up the storage ring on the floor.
He had decided to cultivate in the virtual realm cabin this time because he had a new conjecture about the next step in his cultivation, and he was quite eager to verify it.
When he crossed the threshold of ninth-rank heavenly god-level, the Godly Right in his body seemed to have reached satiety and had stopped absorbing any half-step lord-level god sequence chains.
This had also led to the number of god sequence chains his Godly Right could contain reaching its upper limit of fifty-one thousand two hundred chains. Although the total number of god sequence chains in the God Territory within him had surpassed one hundred and eighty thousand chains, due to the limits imposed by the Godly Right, he could only compound fifty-one thousand two hundred god sequence chains outside his God Territory.
Lin Huang had been considering whether or not to elevate to lord-level in this condition; in fact, he had been thinking about the matter for days.
However, for the past few days, he had a vague sense that his Godly Right ought not to be completely satiated yet.
Sitting in the virtual realm cabin with his legs crossed, Lin Huang took out a Lord’s body.
This body belonged to a lower-rank Lord in Black Mountain’s group. It was one of the three lower-rank Lords whom Lin Huang had killed with Mirror.
To be honest, Lin Huang could not tell exactly which one among the three it was.
After taking out the body, Lin Huang pressed his hand against its abdomen and soon retrieved its God Territory.
Before giving this Lord’s body to the Queen Mothers to use as material, he decided to make full use of it first.
Looking at the illusory crystal in his hand that was smaller than half his palm, he hesitated no more and pushed it between his brows with a smack.
The next second, the illusory crystal sank into Lin Huang’s brow and disappeared.
He followed suit with his consciousness and sank into his inner world immediately.
As soon as he entered the God Territory within him, he felt the entire God Territory shaking as if the whole universe were quaking.
A moment later, Lin Huang saw a piercingly bright light unfolding in the far-off starry sky.
After a long time, the white light that had illuminated everything as bright as day finally began to dim.
At the same time, Lin Huang sensed that the God Territory within his body had expanded again.
“It was successful?!” Lin Huang was over the moon. He checked his Godly Right immediately.
As he had expected, the limit for god sequence chains in his Godly Right had finally been triggered. It increased to 51,201 chains, then 51,202 chains, 51,203 chains…
The entire process was slow and steady.
Lin Huang finally completed refining the Lord’s God Territory after goodness knows how long.
The number of god sequence chains that the God Territory in his body could contain had skyrocketed to over two hundred and thirty thousand chains. (The number of god sequence chains in an ordinary Lord’s Kingdom within them far exceeded the number he could invoke using his Dao seal.)
Furthermore, the limit for god sequence chains that the Godly Right in his body could contain had doubled instantaneously. It had skyrocketed to one hundred and two thousand four hundred chains.
However, he could clearly sense that he had not reached his limit yet.
He realized that his previous conjecture was completely accurate. Lin Huang took out the second Lord’s God’s corpse without hesitation and extracted its God Territory from its body.
He then began a new round of refining.
He did not know how long this round of refining took either.
However, the total number of god sequence chains in the God Territory within him had skyrocketed to over two hundred and seventy thousand.
The limit for god sequence chains that his Godly Right could contain had also increased. It had skyrocketed to one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred chains.
Lin Huang subsequently refined the God Territories from the remaining two lower-rank Lords’ bodies one after the other.
The unknown lower-rank Lord boosted the total number of god sequence chains within Lin Huang’s body to over sixty thousand chains.
As for the lower-rank Lord with the codename Babble, her God Territory was considerably more powerful. It added another one hundred and twenty thousand god sequence chains to the existing ones within Lin Huang’s body.
At this point, the god sequence chains within Lin Huang’s body had reached over four hundred and sixty thousand in total.
However, Babble’s God Territory did not boost Lin Huang’s Godly Right; it remained at fifty-one thousand two hundred chains.
Refining the two lower-rank Lords’ God Territories had also resulted in the number of god sequence chains that Lin Huang’s Godly Right could contain increasing to two hundred and fifty-six thousand chains. Compared to previously, this was a fivefold increase.
Looking at the remaining two middle-rank Lords’ bodies, Lin Huang did not hesitate any further and extracted their God Territories.
However, he was unable to refine the God Territories after they entered his body.
Instead, they occupied a corner of the God Territory in Lin Huang’s body and went into hiding.
He tried twice, and the result was still the same.
Lin Huang guessed that the middle-rank Lords’ rankings were probably too high, which caused the refining to fail.
Feeling helpless, he had no choice but to give up.
However, he did not come out of closed-door cultivation just yet. Instead, he retrieved the remaining five hundred and twenty-three half-step Lords’ God Territories from his storage ring. He absorbed all of them into the God Territory within him and began a new round of refining.
After a mere moment, Lin Huang smiled wryly and shook his head.
‘As I expected, half-step Lords’ God Territories can’t boost the Godly Right’s containment limit any longer.’
However, Lin Huang did not stop refining this time, as the god sequence chains inside his God Territory were still increasing.
This new round of refining made Lin Huang lose the concept of time entirely.
He was focused heart and soul on the refining process and completely forgot about the passing of time until he had refined all the half-step Lords’ God Territories.
Although there were no changes to his Godly Right at all, this round of refinement boosted the total number of god sequence chains in his God Territory to over six hundred and thirty thousand chains.
When Lin Huang opened his eyes again, he gave a very long exhale.
“It seems I’ll need to use a large number of resources to trade for lower-rank Lords’ God Territories next!”
After returning to the great world from the virtual realm, Lin Huang immediately contacted Steel Fist and Epic Player from the Club.
He was not sure if there were Lords’ Kingdoms in other people’s possession, but he knew that his two colleagues from the Club who had just been in a battle with him definitely would have some.
The reason was that the two of them had just killed three Raiders together.
Moreover, the two of them had been Lords for many years, so they might also have killed other lord-level powerhouses in the past.
Within ten minutes, Lin Huang had come to an agreement with both of them.
He would trade three Lords’ bodies for three Lords’ Kingdoms.
It was a pity the two of them did not have more Lords’ Kingdoms. They had long since refined the Kingdoms of the Lords that they killed in the past.
Epic Player even stated frankly that if Lin Huang had not managed to contact them in time, both of them might have decided to refine the Kingdoms.
For lord-level powerhouses, refining other Lords’ Kingdoms did not have any boosting effects on their abilities. At most, this would just further strengthen the foundations of their own Kingdom and expand their Kingdom’s size slightly.
The reason was that the number of god sequence chains their Dao seals could control was limited. Moreover, under normal circumstances, the number of god sequence chains in their Kingdoms would already have exceeded the limit their Dao seals could manage. Even if they refined more god sequence chains, they could not convert them into abilities.
However, having three Lords’ Kingdoms was certainly better than having none at all.
After sealing the deal, Lin Huang turned off the communication page and took out his Royal Token.
He then opened the trading page.
After keying in the keywords ‘lower-rank Lord’s Kingdom’, he instantly saw information on hundreds of sellers who had this item up for bids.
He quickly clicked on them one by one.
Lin Huang felt rather frustrated after spending over half an hour reading all the information.
Most of these people were trading for rare and unusual items. There were even some Lin Huang had never heard of before.
Clearly, there were many things in the universe that the great world did not possess.
After thinking about it, he decided not to trade Black Mountain and Spy’s God’s corpse for now.
Although he knew he could definitely trade middle-rank Lords’ God’s corpses for many lower-rank Lords’ Kingdoms, he made up his mind that he would only decide after unlocking Black Mountain and the others’ storage rings.
He had only passed the four storage rings to Yang Ling recently. In Yang Ling’s current condition, he would probably not need very long to unlock them.
If there was nothing valuable in their unlocked storage rings, Lin Huang would have no option but to trade the two corpses for Lords’ Kingdoms. If there were many valuable items that could be used in exchange for a sufficient number of Lords’ Kingdoms, naturally, he was more willing to keep the God’s corpses as materials for the Queen Mothers.
At this point, Lin Huang could not help sending his consciousness into the God Territory within him. He communicated to Yang Ling through voice transmission, “Please remember to notify me as soon as you’re done unlocking those few storage rings.”
“I’ll be done with them latest by tomorrow afternoon,” Yang Ling replied immediately.
Lin Huang’s spirits instantly lifted when he heard that.
As for Death Sickle, his other channel, Lin Huang had initially not planned on contacting them. After all, prior to Buried Heaven, no Lords had emerged from Death Sickle before. The possibility of them having Lords’ bodies and Kingdoms was low.
However, after thinking about it, Lin Huang still sent Buried Heaven a message anyway to ask about the matter.
On the off-chance that they did indeed possess such items, he did not want to miss out.
However, as Lin Huang had expected, Buried Heaven’s answer was no, and he replied instantaneously.
After turning off the communication page, Lin Huang sat on the sofa in the hotel room. He browsed through Death Sickle’s forum while sending part of his consciousness into the God Territory within him. He observed the Dao seals with their various colors, all of them like eternal stars.
There were currently thirty-one Dao seal stars like that in his body.
He had obtained them from refining the Kingdoms of Zhan Zhuo, Babble, and the rest.
However, he could not refine these thirty-one Dao seals, nor could he use them.
Unlike the Sword seal, they were consolidated within Lin Huang’s body from Dao seal fragments.
These were Dao seals that had originally been whole. Although their initial Will Imprint had been erased, they were still in a self-sealed, unactivated state.
Lin Huang had tried using many ways in the virtual realm but failed to communicate with them still.
He conjectured that he might only be able to refine these Dao seals and use them for himself after he had elevated to become a Lord.
Lin Huang turned his gaze from the Dao seals and looked at the Dao seal fragments that dotted the void like stars.
He had obtained these from refining the half-step Lords’ God Territories.
For the time being, he had not figured out how he ought to deal with these thousands of Dao seal fragments.
After a moment of consideration, he decided not to think about it for now.
He sent his consciousness deep into his God Territory, where two giant spheres hovered in the void.
They were like two giant eggs floating in the sea.
These two spheres were the Kingdoms of the two middle-rank Lords, Black Mountain, and Spy.
Even though they were in a self-sealed state, their size was still comparable to a star zone.
They existed in a form like this within Lin Huang’s God Territory and had not become a part of it because Lin Huang could not refine them. He had no option but to leave them as they were for the time being.
Anyway, since their wills had been erased, the two God Territories were now in an ownerless state. They would cause no harm hovering in the air like that.
After withdrawing his consciousness from his inner world and feeling rather helpless, Lin Huang slowly began thinking of other ways to strengthen his ability.
Time passed; the night proved uneventful.
Public security on the Ricky Star was so well-maintained it was uncanny. After all, this was the territory of Precious Treasure Pavilion, the grade-7 organization. Even though there were no Lords guarding the place, there were still half-step Lords.
Furthermore, there were a great many organizations here as well, with multitudes of heavenly god-level powerhouses coming and going daily.
Naturally, there were not very many people who would dare to cause trouble here.
Lin Huang, too, enjoyed the peace and quiet.
The next morning, not long after Lin Huang had finished breakfast, a visitor came calling.
It was Epic Player from the Club.
He was still in casual attire, but his originally blue hair was now dyed a shade of manure-like yellow. Furthermore, it had been cut into an asymmetric style with one side short and the other long. The fringe on the long side curved down from his forehead, not only covering his entire right eye but also extending all the way to his lips.
Lin Huang could not even bring himself to compliment the aesthetics of Epic Player’s hairstyle.
He merely glanced at it and hurriedly averted his gaze from Epic Player’s head.
“Steel Fist said something came up at the last minute and asked me to help her handle the exchange.”
Lin Huang nodded, “I’ve just received her message.”
He did not tell Epic Player that Steel Fist’s message had been, “I won’t be coming with Epic Player this round. His hair annoys me every time I see it. He even discussed hairstyling tips with me for ages—it took me forever to get rid of him…”
“What do you think of my new hairstyle?” Epic Player suddenly pointed to his head and asked.
“It’s pretty nice. It suits you.” What else could Lin Huang say?
“I think it’s pretty nice too. Can you believe that girl Steel Fist actually said it’s hideous?!” Epic Player said in puzzlement, “She also told me that even if I shaved my head, I’d look better than I do now. I’m not One Punch Man, I won’t become more powerful if I shave my head…
“I really don’t understand women’s sense of aesthetics…”
Lin Huang secretly added to himself mentally, ‘I don’t understand your sense of aesthetics either.’
After seeing Epic Player off, Lin Huang eagerly entered the virtual realm again and refined the three Kingdoms he had just obtained.
After this round of refining, the number of god sequence chains his Godly Right could contain went up to one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred chains. The total number had increased to four hundred and nine thousand six hundred chains.
As for the total number of god sequence chains in the God Territory within him, they had increased significantly from over six hundred and thirty thousand chains to seven hundred and eighty thousand chains.
Lin Huang’s abilities also received another round of boosting.
After returning from the virtual realm to the great world, he patiently waited for Yang Ling to unlock the storage rings.
To kill time, for lunch that afternoon, he specifically picked a restaurant with excellent reviews and which required queuing up for entry. The queuing alone took up one and a half hours.
Lin Huang returned to his hotel room after lunch. Just as he was about to take a nap, he suddenly sensed familiar auras approaching.
The instant Lin Huang sensed this, someone knocked on the hotel room door the next second.
When he opened the door, he saw it was Bai and Teng Ran.
What surprised him was that Bai and Teng Ran had already elevated to ninth-rank heavenly god-level. They had even surpassed the speed of Kylie’s combat strength elevation.
“The speed of your combat strength elevation…”
“We entered the Abyss,” Teng Ran said, his expression rather helpless. He even specifically glanced at Bai, who was standing beside him, before he made his reply.
“…” Lin Huang was utterly bereft of speech. “Both of you really have some nerve.”
One must know that even Lin Huang would not go into the Abyss as he pleased despite his current level of ability.
“We were only hunting in the middle layer, and if we sensed any unusual fluctuations in the Abyss, we retreated immediately,” Bai explained calmly as if it were something not worth mentioning.
Naturally, Lin Huang was aware of Bai’s anxiety. Bai had been trying his best to catch up with Lin Huang in the hopes that he could be Lin Huang’s right-hand man. However, the gap between their abilities had kept increasing to the point where the imperial monsters could no longer battle Lin Huang’s enemies.
However, Lin Huang also knew it was sheer luck that Bai and Teng Ran had managed to come back safely.
Based on the timeframe that Bai and Teng Ran had elevated to supreme god-level rank-5, they must have entered the Abyss earlier than Lin Huang. Their exit from the Abyss ought to have been around the same time as Buried Heaven and his group.
During that period, the Abyss just so happened to be in a state of hibernation.
“The fact that both of you survived at all is pure luck alone.” Lin Huang’s tone contained a hint of reproach. “The Abyss happened to be in a period of hibernation.
“The God Territory’s earlier expedition to the Abyss probably awakened many Abyssal powerhouses. When the two of you get out of closed-door cultivation this time, don’t go to the Abyss again. Monster Paradise’s revival function has limitations. If the two of you are killed by Lords, you’ll really die.”
“No wonder the number of monsters in the Abyss suddenly started increasing…” Teng Ran muttered quietly.
From beside Teng Ran, Bai remained silent. It was not clear if he had taken Lin Huang’s words to heart or not.
“Alright, come with me.” Lin Huang summoned up the door to the God Territory with a mere gesture after he finished speaking. He led both the imperial monsters into the Great Heaven Territory.
When they arrived in front of the Great Heaven Palace, Teng Ran looked left and right, scrutinizing his surroundings.
Bai, on the other hand, remained silent. He merely glanced at the three-legged Golden Crows, then turned his gaze away.
After pushing open the door and entering the Great Heaven Palace, Teng Ran could not help questioning Lin Huang when he noticed that there was no one inside.
“Master, hasn’t Lancelot’s team come yet?”
This was a subject that obviously mattered to Bai as well.
“They’ve completed their elevation and already left some time ago.”
When he said this, Lin Huang deliberately stole a glance at Bai to see his reaction. As expected, Bai’s change of expression indicated that he was definitely affected by the news. However, this was only visible on his face for a brief moment before he erased all traces of it from his expression.
“So soon?!” Teng Ran’s expression was full of confusion which he did not bother to conceal at all.
“The Great Heaven Palace has the power to accelerate time. Time flow in here can be sped up to ten thousand times faster than the outside world,” Lin Huang explained patiently, “According to the time flow in the outside world, the two of them used approximately twenty minutes or less to elevate from rank-4 to rank-6.”
“How about their combat strength? It shouldn’t be higher than both of ours, right?” Teng Ran persisted.
“Before they elevated, it was definitely lower than yours,” Lin Huang said with a smile.
The penchant for men making comparisons with each other was vividly on display at the moment.
Teng Ran’s lips curled slightly. “They’ve elevated to ninth-rank now after their advancement?”
“The three of them have already broken through to lord-level now,” Lin Huang told them the truth straight away.
Teng Ran’s expression froze abruptly.
As for Bai, a mixture of emotions including shock and astonishment flickered over his face.
Although Bai tried his best to hide his expression, Lin Huang still caught that look very clearly.
Lin Huang observed the interesting expressions on his imperial monsters’ faces, then smiled and said, “Don’t worry. Both of you will be able to elevate to become Lords later on too.”
“You mean… the surprise…?” Bai immediately recalled something after hearing what Lin Huang said.
“You’ll find out in a while.” Lin Huang preserved the secret for now.
Since it was a surprise, naturally, he did not wish to reveal it in advance.
After asking the two of them to sit with their legs crossed and regulate their breathing to its ideal state, Lin Huang crushed two Advance Cards, which entered into Bai and Teng Ran’s bodies, respectively.
The Advance Cards he used at present were slightly different from the ones he had used on Kylie previously.
When he elevated Kylie, he had used five grade-5 Advance Cards. Actually, Xiao Hei had set restrictions on the cards to limit the imperial monsters’ abilities and to make Lin Huang work harder to obtain cards.
In reality, the functions of five Advance Cards could entirely be integrated into a single card.
Once the authorization limits were lifted, naturally, he no longer needed to use five cards.
It was also after the restrictions were removed that Lin Huang had discovered how much he had been exploited.
After he observed the two cards turning into stars and entering Bai and Teng Ran’s bodies, and their forms rapidly becoming swaddled in cocoons, Lin Huang activated the time flow acceleration in the Great Heaven Palace to ten thousand times once more. He then departed from the palace and returned to the Ricky Star.
This time, he only waited for about ten minutes at most. He had only sat on the sofa for a little while, watching the news, before he sensed tremors coming from Great Heaven Palace. He then returned to the Great Heaven Palace again.
After seeing that Bai and Teng Ran had broken out of the cocoons and their auras were vastly different now, Lin Huang did not bother checking through their card information. Straight away, he told the two of them, “Now you can receive your surprise.”
When he finished speaking, the two Lord Elevation Cards in his hand had already turned into two streams of light that entered Bai and Teng Ran’s bodies, respectively.
Lin Huang only began looking through Bai and Teng Ran’s cards after he returned to the Ricky Star from the Great Heaven Palace.
“Monster Card: Bai”
“Rarity: Pure Spirit”
“Monster Name: Blood Demon Monarch”
“Type of Monster: Vampire King”
“Nickname: Vampire King”
“Combat Strength: Ninth-Rank Heavenly God”
“Major: Blood Bond”
“Major Skills: Supreme God Blood Factor, Blood Galaxy, Blood Demon Forbidden Code, Blood Demon Nation…”
“Minor Skills: Particle Immortality…”
“Summon Authority: Activated”
“Card Remarks: Please spare no efforts in cultivating this!”
…
“Monster Card: Teng Ran”
“Rarity: Pure Spirit”
“Monster Name: Archaic Teng Snake”
“Type of Monster: Archaic Mutated Serpent”
“Nickname: Snake Forefather”
“Combat Strength: Ninth-Rank Heavenly God”
“Major: Spear Dao, Wind Elemental Truth, Water Elemental Truth”
“Major Skills: God-Slaying Spear, God-Crashing Storm, Galactic Frost…”
“Minor Skills: Illusory World, Fright…”
“Summon Authority: Activated”
“Card Remarks: Please spare no efforts in cultivating this!”
…
Before Lin Huang had the time to look through the cards thoroughly, more tremors came from the Great Heaven Palace.
Bai and Teng Ran had elevated to become Lords!