Chapter 831: Die, Rakshasa Mother!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The Life Palace lingering in mid-air looked like an ordinary house. It had a red roof and white walls that seemed completely new.
The wooden door of the house was automatically activated right with the arrival of the Life Palace and humanoid monsters then strode out of the door. The most surprising fact was that all the monsters looked like 15-year-old teenagers.
There were thousands of monsters like this and the one with the weakest combat strength was on immortal-level rank-9. The one with the strongest combat strength was on crimson gold-rank, placing next to the Rakshasa Mother.
However, there was only a small number of imperial-level; there were three of them. There were two crimson gold-ranks and a black gold-rank. The rest of the immortal-level rank-9s had just completed their double mutation.
They must be the Rakshasa Mother's adopted children. Oddly, their bodies did not exude the aura of a living creature.
"Kill all of them!"
The humanoid monsters immediately pounced towards Lin Huang and the three monsters after receiving the instruction from the Rakshasa Mother.
"Charcoal!"
Lin Huang was not afraid of being outnumbered by his opponents. With Charcoal's dragon flames, as long as their combat strength was weak enough, it was just a waste of effort regardless of the number of opponents.
As an advanced dragonkin that had completed its third mutation, its dragon flames would rip off the skin of the triple mutated monsters of the same rank, let alone those that were weaker in combat strength.
Charcoal was now on black gold-rank. When he encountered the double mutated immortal-level rank-9s, they would turn into ashes in less than a minute if they were tainted by its dragon flames. There would be no exception.
Upon receiving the instruction, dragon flames then gushed out of Charcoal's mouth. The ocean of black flames instantly engulfed the thousands of monsters summoned by the Rakshasa Mother.
The two teenagers on crimson gold-rank managed to break through the dragon flames and fought the two Regal Sword Killers.
Lin Huang smirked as he looked at the Rakshasa Mother. "It seems like your troops made of your children are going to die soon."
"Don't count your eggs before they hatch!" The Rakshasa Mother did not look nervous at all.
At that moment, Lin Huang heard Charcoal whisper, "They have a tremendously terrifying recovery ability. Their recovery rate is on par with the speed that my dragon flames can harm them."
Lin Huang's vision penetrated through the dragon flames with his ocular skill and he could see how the humanoid monsters looked.
Charcoal's dragon flames had destroyed their bodies at a speed visible to the naked eye. At the same time, their body recovered rapidly as well. It looked like the effect of Divine Regeneration.
"I guess it's not Divine Regeneration or any regeneration type skill. That'd consume an extremely large portion of Life Power. Their Life Power is in its active state and still at its peak condition. There are no signs of their Life Power weakening." Lin Huang felt that it was suspicious. "Moreover, Divine Regeneration is an extremely rare secret skill. It's impossible for thousands of monsters to possess such a secret skill."
"It seems like you've found out." The Rakshasa Mother noticed Lin Huang's facial expression as she smirked. "My children are immortal. Regardless of the way you use to harm them, they'll be able to recover on their own in an instant."
"This is the effect of your Life Palace." Lin Huang soon understood after listening to the Rakshasa Mother.
"You made the right guess!" The Rakshasa Mother clapped its hands and laughed. "The power of my Life Palace is called 'mother's love'. As long as my children are cultivated by my Life Palace, they'll be protected by their mother's love. No matter what injury it is, they'll instantly be nurtured by their mother's love. Therefore, my children will never be killed. Are you feeling disappointed now? Your Life Power will eventually be drained. I'm still going to be the winner!"
"I have to admit that the ability of your Life Palace is immensely strong and you've got a sound plan. However, you didn't realize that you're the weakest link in your entire plan. As long as you die, all the little monsters that have been assimilated by your Life Palace will immediately perish." Lin Huang grasped the key point.
"Then, let's see if your dragonkin is capable of killing me before its Life Power is depleted. How long can the spitting of its dragon flames last? Is it three minutes or five?" The Rakshasa Mother grinned evilly. "The only thing that I need to do is to wait until the exhaustion of its Life Power. My children will be able to get rid of its dragon flames then."
"Trust me. You'll never be able to wait until its Life Power is depleted."
Lin Huang did not bother to explain any further as he encountered another opponent that mistakenly estimated the timing of the dragon flames.
With his black gold-rank combat sword in hand, he brandished his sword with his fastest skill, Thunder Sting.
His legendary-level sword skill, Star Dome, was used as an outline and the pseudo-mythical-level Almighty Surgical Knife was the core of the skill. There were also hundreds of human and monster sword skills being integrated as the basis of the skill. His Level-5 sword realm would play a leading role. The modified Thunder Sting could never be compared to an ordinary epic-level sword skill.
Thunder Sting maximized the speed of the sword attack. Each attack was unleashed at lightning-fast speed. The attack struck just as he brandished his sword.
The same thing happened to the yellow gold-rank Rakshasa Mother as well. It was unable to capture the entire process when Lin Huang advanced. It could see that him brandishing his sword. In the next moment, it appeared right in front of it and his black gold-rank combat sword then struck it.
It attempted to block the attack with its claws.
In mid-air, ten black claws hindered the attack from the black sword that looked like a crescent moon.
Right at this moment, tens of daggers shot out of Lin Huang's sleeve, streaking across the sky. The daggers then made their way through the Rakshasa Mother's arms and crushed its vital parts.
The Rakshasa Mother's pupils dilated. The attack was out of its expectations.
It stomped hard and immediately retreated as its body made several turns in the air and managed to avoid most of the attacks. Still, a few of the daggers managed to penetrate through its body.
Lin Huang did not give it any chance to rest. Before it could balance itself, his Thunder Sting was unleashed again.
It appeared right in front of the Rakshasa Mother in a flash.
The Rakshasa Mother felt a strong sense of doom as it was struck by the attack. It retreated again and the wounds on its body did not have time to heal.
Lin Huang flourished his sword which sliced at the Rakshasa Mother like tarsal bone maggots.
The Rakshasa Mother extended its claws and collided with his sword. A loud clang was heard and the aftershock of the collision spread throughout an area that was tens of kilometers away.
Lin Huang took a step in the air and chased after it.
Both of them then pursued each other and the battle lasted for about ten minutes.
The Rakshasa Mother was severely injured. However, Charcoal's Life Power had not been drained yet and its children had no way to get rid of the dragon flames.
Lin Huang did not expect the Rakshasa Mother to withstand the attack for so long.
It was just trying to dodge Lin Huang's attack, not initiating any attack at all because it wanted to drag the battle on.
However, it never knew that with the condition that Lin Huang and Charcoal could both share their Life Power, it would be impossible to drain Charcoal's Life Power. Its Life Power would never be emptied despite spitting dragon flames for three days and three nights.
The Rakshasa Mother that was severely injured withstood the attack for ten minutes and it seemed to have reached its limit.
"How could it be? Why can't it use up its Life Power?"
"There's something that I forgot to tell you." Lin Huang grinned as the Rakshasa Mother mumbled. "Charcoal is rather special as its Life Power can never be drained. It can continue spitting dragon flames for three days and three nights. That's why I told you that you won't have the chance to wait until its Life Power is depleted."
The Rakshasa Mother was stunned. Although it did not completely believe what Lin Huang said, from the aura released by Charcoal, it could tell that Charcoal's Life Power had never become weak.
As the saying went, one false step might ruin you forever. The Rakshasa Mother had risked its own life because of a misjudgment.
Thousands of immortal-level rank-9s and a black gold-rank were drowned in the dragon flames and they had no way of escaping. The two crimson gold-ranks were fighting the two monster pets and could hardly escape from them as well.
They were unable to fight Lin Huang even if they were to fight face to face. The situation had worsened as the Rakshasa Mother was now severely wounded and had to fight Lin Huang on its own.
After checking its own condition, the Rakshasa Mother pondered to itself. It decided to continue defending itself from Lin Huang's attack while waiting for its children to escape from the dragon flames. Still, it did not believe that Charcoal's Life Power was inexhaustible.
Its heart sank as time passed.
11 minutes, 12 minutes…
As it reached the 16th minute, it could not hold it any longer.
His Thunder Sting that was akin to a black electric glow streaked across the sky, piercing through the Rakshasa Mother's neck.
Immediately, blood began to drip out of its wound and soon, its head fell off. Blood then gushed out of its neck like a fountain, splashing all over the sky.
After the Rakshasa Mother's death, the red house lingering in mid-air broke into pieces.
The body of the two crimson gold-rank monsters that fought the two Regal Sword Killers began to collapse. Besides that, the thousands of monsters that were shrouded in the dragon flames began to collapse.
After a couple of moments, everything turned into ashes.
Aside from the dead body of the woman with a broken head, there were only traces of blood splatter that remained…
Chapter 832: War Overlord
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Soon, three days had passed.
In the past three days, Lin Huang along with Charcoal and the two pseudo-mythical-level monsters had been busy hunting for monsters.
They managed to kill 30 imperial-level monsters in three days, slaughtering almost all the yellow gold-rank monsters in the second layer of the Abyss Brink.
Many of the imperial-level monsters went back to the third layer of the Abyss Brink when they knew this. They were afraid that they would be involved in the slaughter.
Despite Lin Huang killing all the yellow gold-rank monsters, they were completely different in terms of their strength and weaknesses.
The first Rakshasa Mother killed was not considered weak in terms of its overall ability. Among the 30 yellow gold-rank monsters, it was moderately competent. Its Life Palace was indeed strong but had been restricted by Charcoal. However, its ability was considered the worst among the rest of the yellow gold-ranks.
Lin Huang managed to kill most of the 30 yellow gold-rank monsters within an hour. It even took him less than half an hour for some of them. However, as for those that were extraordinarily strong, Lin Huang spent more than three hours destroying them.
One of the most difficult monsters to handle was a humanoid monster called the War Overlord.
It was a mechanical monster with an appearance that looked like a black metallic egg about one meter in diameter.
Although it looked ordinary, its overall ability was immensely powerful to the point that Lin Huang used up all his trump cards. Under the condition where he was not allowed to use any cards, Lin Huang had no choice but to kill it with a God Crasher.
It was also the monster that took Lin Huang the longest time to kill at exactly 6.5 hours.
During the fight, Lin Huang was overwhelmed by a few of the skills possessed by the War Overlord.
One of them was the grandmaster-level Mechanical Building. This skill enabled the use of a variety of materials to build a mechanical weapon with the best function and quality in an instant.
Another skill was known as the grandmaster-level Mechanical Recovery. The skill was capable of recovering all the weapons destroyed in an instant, transforming back into its raw materials so that they could be reused for a mechanical building.
There was also the Dimensional Shift which was somewhat similar to Kylie's teleportation. However, it was not a space warp. It was short-distance teleportation, creating an effect similar to the space warp although it was unable to create an energy wave in the space.
Another one was the ability of its Life Palace, the Intellectual Territory. All the mechanical weapons within this territory possessed an intelligence that could be compared to humans. They would automatically strike an attack and defend against their enemy, judging the right timing during a battle like an army.
Lin Huang felt that he was fighting a fort that could move.
Most of the time he seemed to be playing kites as he had to attack from afar.
There had been many times when Lin Huang was very close to his opponent, but it managed to flee with its teleportation and distance itself from Lin Huang. Nobody could approach it.
Fortunately, Lin Huang's Dark Mirror had the ability to defend and reflect. Moreover, his Life Power was supported by his Divine Fire and would not be exhausted. Eventually, he still had to use his God Crasher and kill his opponent when it was unaware of him.
He was lucky though as the War Overlord with the strongest overall ability was the only monster card through which Lin Huang obtained a complete set among the 30 king-level monsters.
"Monster Card: Unnamed
"Rarity: Legendary
"Monster Name: War Overlord
"Type of Monster: Mechanical type
"Combat Level: Immortal-level rank-9 (Yellow gold-rank)
"Life Palace: Mechanical Territory
"Major: Mechanics
"Major Skills: Mechanical Building (Grandmaster-level), Mechanical Recovery (Grandmaster-level)…
"Minor Skills: Dimensional Shift, Gunmaster, Defensive Fort…
"Summon Authority: Activated
"Card Remarks: Intensive training is recommended!"
As soon as he got the monster card, Lin Huang began to consider whether he should become a gun master.
The War Overlord's performance had simply been amazing.
The monster card was a surprise to Lin Huang as he had obtained a lot of card rewards in the past three days.
He performed a cross-ranking kill to kill a yellow gold-rank with a combat strength of immortal-level rank-1 to rank-3. He was rewarded 40 card draws each time.
There were 30 cross-ranking kills in three consecutive days. He had used 30 Double Reward Cards and was rewarded with a total of 2,400 card draws.
He had never reaped such huge rewards before this as the rewards he got covered three ranks.
Aside from that, he obtained a small reward whereby 39 of Kylie's Nephilic Judges had completed their triple mutation, evolving into six-winged Nephilic Angels.
The reward Lin Huang got during his trip to the Abyss Brink was far beyond his expectations.
It was in the early hours of the fourth day after killing the last yellow gold-rank monster.
It was meaningless for him to stay there any longer. After telling Bai and the rest, he then recalled all the monster cards and headed towards the exit of the Abyss Brink.
As he returned to the deserted city, he checked into a hotel. Lin Huang then immediately tapped open his communication page to check his messages.
He had been waiting for the news of the God Figurine when he was at the Abyss Brink. However, no news came from the black market or Yi Zheng's side.
The same thing happened now. There were three missed calls from Yao Lan. There were also two unread messages from her as well.
Lin Huang frowned and read the two messages.
The first message was sent to him three days ago. He had informed her about the crack and she sent him a message half a day later.
"I've seen the crack and it's there for real. I've sent the videos and photos as well as a report to my superior. Someone will deal with this matter."
The second message was sent to him two days ago.
"The Adventurer's Paradise and the Union Government have sent four demigods to seal the crack. At the same time, the Union Government will send investigators to each layer of the Abyss Brink to investigate whether other cracks actually exist."
"Fortunately, the crack was discovered in time as it's been formed for less than a year. The Union Government is going to reward you and you can probably choose a demigod relic. However, I've not been able to reach you in the last few days. Let me know what you want and I'll pass the message on to the person-in-charge. Please reply me as soon as possible."
Lin Huang's eyes brightened after reading the second message. "I wonder if I can get a God Figurine. It'd be amazing if I can exchange for one."
As he thought of this, he immediately replied Yao Lan with a short message. "The reward I want is pretty simple. I want a God Figurine."
"What's a God Figurine?" Yao Lan replied within seconds.
"Please keep it a secret. Just inform the Union Government that this is what I want. I guess they'd know what I'm looking for."
Yao Lan then replied with an eye-rolling emoji instantly.
Lin Huang grinned as he closed the communication page.
"If the Union Government agrees to reward me with a God Figurine, that'd be great. I can then level up to mid-level immortal-level. The combat strength of Bai and the rest will also be upgraded to black gold imperial-level. My overall abilities will have a substantial increase. If they don't agree to do so, I can make another reasonable request…"
Chapter 833: Non-Elemental Life Palace
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Now that it was the end of September, the weather in the deserted city had turned cold.
Early in the morning, the sun was high in the sky. It felt warm as the sun shone down.
It was the second day since Lin Huang had come back from the Abyss Brink. He had been really tired in the past few days and he woke up at about 8 a.m. today.
After washing up, Lin Huang immediately changed his clothes, sitting on the sofa in the living room without having his breakfast.
He suddenly had three additional monster cards in hand: Killer, the Evil Dominator, and the War Overlord that had not been named.
Due to the fact that his summoning authority had previously been limited, Lin Huang was unable to extract the skills of the two pseudo-mythical-level monsters. He could now extract the skill together with the War Overlord's skill that he had just obtained.
Lin Huang showered early in the morning in anticipation that the skill would be randomly extracted for the first time. He began to extract the skills before having his breakfast with the hopes that he could pick a good one.
He somewhat had to believe in spirituality as it might probably work.
He closed his eyes, calming himself down. Then, he slowly opened his eyes.
"Xiao Hei, extract all three skills at once."
"Skill extraction activated… Randomly choosing a skill… Random selection has completed!
"Congratulations, you've obtained a skill – Mechanical Recovery (War Overlord)
"Congratulations, you've obtained a skill – Sword Realm (Killer)
"Congratulations, you've obtained a skill – Super Clone (the Evil Dominator)
"Mechanical Recovery… It seems like I can only extract Mechanical Building as the second skill. Without Mechanical Building, this skill can only be used to recover equipment to become raw materials," Lin Huang thought to himself when he saw the skill extracted from the War Overlord.
"I guess Sword Realm can integrate with my territorial skill." Lin Huang then looked at the last skill. "Super Clone. Although it's just a minor non-combat skill, it isn't weak. Seemingly, it's possible to easily integrate it with Super Disguise. However, nobody knows what the new Skill Card that will be produced is after combining them…"
The three randomly selected skills were not what Lin Huang wanted. However, they were not weak.
Taking out three Skill Extraction Cards, Lin Huang specified the skill to be extracted for the second time without hesitation.
"Xiao Hei, I want to extract Mechanical Building from the War Overlord,Killer's Sword from Killer 1 , and the Evil Dominator's Evil Blood Substitute."
"Congratulations, you've obtained a skill – Mechanical Building (War Overlord)
"Congratulations, you've obtained a skill – Killer (Killer)
"Congratulations, you've obtained a skill – Evil Blood Substitute (Evil Dominator)"
Mechanical Building was being selected as it paired perfectly with Mechanical Recovery. Having had great interest in gunfighting, Lin Huang was actually quite interested in the War Overlord's set of skills.
He thought to himself, "After obtaining the two core skills from the War Overlord, I can now figure out how they can be played… Eh, no. I mean figure out a brand new battle mode."
As for Killer, it was the Regal Sword Killer's strongest sword skill where it was on pseudo-mythical-level. Choosing this skill was like learning a pseudo-mythical-level sword skill from scratch without wasting any time.
The Evil Blood Substitute was rather different from the Golden Cicada secret skill. Without killing anybody, a clone could be created with a mere drop of blood. Its advantage was that it was extremely easy to be used. However, its weakness was that the clone could only exist for 24 hours. As for the Golden Cicada secret skill, the created clone could exist forever as long as it was not murdered and could be summoned at any time.
"Xiao Hei, activate Skill Combination Card."
"Skill Combination Card activated.
"Choose from the below two combinations.
"Combine Territorial Skills: Sword Realm, Exclusive Territory
"Combine Minor Skills: Super Clone, Super Disguise
"Are you sure you want to combine them?"
"Please do." Lin Huang nodded.
"Skill Combination Card has been consumed. Monster Skills Sword Realm and Exclusive Territory have been consumed. Producing new Skill Card…
"Congratulations, you've obtained a new card: Life Palace (Non-elemental)."
"Life Palace (Non-elemental): Creates a Life Palace whereby its ability can be defined by the user. Upon confirming the ability, Life Palace will be created.
"Remarks: It doesn't affect the formation of the imperial-level Life Palace."
…
"Skill Combination Card has been consumed. Monster Skills Super Clone and Super Disguise have been consumed. Producing new Skill Card…
"Congratulations, you've obtained a new Minor Skill Card: Perfect Disguise
"Perfect Disguise: It is a flawless disguise whereby it is able to deceive those below god-level.
"Remarks: Demigods who possess unique detection ability can probably see through it."
…
"How did I just produce a non-elemental Life Palace?!" It was an unexpected surprise to Lin Huang as he used to think that there would not be a substantial change by combining the two territorial skills.
Obtaining a non-elemental Life Palace could probably be Li Huang's greatest reward in the extraction of skills.
After completely forgetting that he had to christen the War Overlord, Lin Huang immediately recalled the three monster cards and tapped his personal data open. He then checked it.
"Host: Lin Huang
"Gender: Male
"Age: 18
"Combat Strength: Immortal-Level Rank-3
"Inheritance: Demigod's brain, One Page Sword Scripture, Sorcerer Goddess, Moon Engulf, Telekinesis
"Secret Skills: Superhuman Strength, Seraphic Speed, Substitute, Engulf Power, Golden Cicada, demon hand
"Life Palace: Unnamed Life Palace (Non-elemental)
"Sword Dao (Level-5): Possesses Sword Heart, Sword Spirit
"Sword Skills: Almighty Surgical Knife, Killer, Star Dome, Royal Sword, Wildfire, Thunder Sting, Great Sword Scripture, Hundred Flowing Blades, Mountain Blade…
"Gunfighting Technique: Thunderstorm, Sandstorm, Torrent…
"Movement Skills: Thunder Steps, Cloud Steps, Spectral Snowsteps, Imperial Flight…
"Minor: The Twisted Fate Scripture, Seamless, Fatal Tactic, Undefeatable Warrior, Heaven's Wrath, Omniscient Nature…
"Monster Skills: Telekinesis (Pseudo), Divine Regeneration (Pseudo), Holy Power, Elemental Immunity, Leech Pods, Absolute Control, Purification Light, Revival, Warrior Body, Vampire Particles, Immense Strength, Absolute Defense, Lightning Control, Dark Mirror, Doll secret skill, Punishment, Witchcraft, Knight, Integration, Mechanical Building, Mechanical Recovery, Evil Blood Substitute, Perfect Disguise.
"Summon Authority: Activated (Pseudo Mythical-Level)
"Available Number of Summons: 15
"Remarks: Finally managed to be on the same level as primary school kids."
The Life Palace alone was separated from the Monster Skills and did not occupy any of his Monster Skill slots. Exclusive Territory had disappeared from the secret skill as well.
Killer's Sword did not occupy any Monster Skills slots either. It was dragged to the sword skill slot instead.
Super Clone that had been combined with Super Disguise had also disappeared and it was replaced by the new skill, Perfect Disguise.
The remaining three monster skills had occupied three Monster Skill Slots.
"What ability should I choose for the non-elemental Life Palace?" Lin Huang took a look at his exclusive card, stroking his chin and falling into deep thought.
Chapter 834: Monster Paradise
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Lin Huang summoned the two intelligent monsters, Bloody and Ghastly to discuss the construction of the Life Palace.
According to what Lin Huang and Bloody had read and by referring to all the Life Palaces owned by the imperial-level that the three of them had encountered, it took them the entire afternoon to come up with three solutions.
The first one was most people's popular choice which was to upgrade themselves as a whole and build a Life Palace that could strengthen them in a fight.
With such an elemental Life Palace, Lin Huang would become stronger regardless of the weapon he used. Be it a sword, Life Power, gun, or even mechanical skills, they could be boosted.
The second one would suit Lin Huang best which was to simply build a Sword Dao Life Palace.
Such an elemental Life Palace could further improve Lin Huang's Sword Dao and upgrade Lin Huang's abilities directly. Such an upgrade would, of course, be much stronger than the one that improved one's ability in a fight. Furthermore, it could probably derive other abilities in his Sword Dao.
The third idea was a result of the Rakshasa Mother's Life Palace which was to structure a Life Palace that gathered all the monster cards.
The Life Palace he attempted to build was the one that possessed unlimited revival ability. After all the monster cards were inserted into the Life Palace and connected to it, the spirit would return to the Life Palace on their own each time after death. They would then be revived with Life Power and could be summoned again to engage in the next fight. As long as there was sufficient Life Power, they could be revived endlessly.
Lin Huang named the Life Palace Monster Paradise.
Bloody had something to comment about this.
"It's a great idea. However, the ability of such a Life Palace is way too complicated. Also, the building process of the Life Palace is out of your control. It might turn out not to be the effect that you desire. I personally do think that the first two ideas are rather safe. At least, its final product won't deviate much from the targeted one."
"As for me, if there are a total of 100 marks available, the first idea would've failed. The second one would get a score of 70 whereas the last idea would get 99 marks." Ghastly fully supported the third idea instead.
"I'm more inclined to the third one." After falling into deep thought, Lin Huang then decided, "If it turns out not to be the effect I desire, I'll just take it as I've never obtained a Life Palace Card before anyway."
Lin Huang then took out his Life Palace Card. "Activate Life Palace Card."
"Life Palace Card (Non-elemental) activated.
"Please name your Life Palace.
"Monster Paradise.
"Please briefly describe the ability of the Life Palace that you would like to set up in one sentence. Do not exceed 20 words."
"I want my Monster Cards to have unlimited revival abilities with my Life Power." Lin Huang intentionally restricted it to his Life Power as he was afraid that during the construction of Life Palace, other types of energy would be used to revive his Monster Cards by default. They could be spiritual energy, spiritual strength, or even one's life. All this were possibilities As for Lin Huang who possessed the Divine Fire, what he had in excess was Life Power.
"The idea is verified. Beginning construction…"
The Life Palace Card transformed into a golden stream and trickled into Lin Huang's chest.
After a short while, Lin Huang noticed that a golden palace had quickly formed in his body in less than an hour.
As soon as the luxurious golden palace was formed, all the Monster Cards in Lin Huang's body transformed into beams of lights and were inserted into it. Soon, the lights became real objects with monstrous physiques.
In the Life Palace, a dimension that looked exactly the same as Lin Huang's surroundings had been created.
The hotel room looked exactly the same and there were buildings of different heights outside it. Even the shape of the clouds looked exactly the same… The entire dimension was exactly the carbon copy of Lin Huang's physical world.
However, aside from Bai and the rest of the Monster Cards as well as some plants, there were no other creatures.
Lin Huang soon discovered that there was a border in the dimension of the Life Palace. If he were the center point, the area that was three kilometers away from him was separated by an invisible, hemispherical isolation layer. Bai and the rest could look at the scenery that was three kilometers away from them. However, they were unable to leave the radius. Their movements were restricted by the isolation layer.
"Perhaps this is the active range of the territory of my Life Palace." Lin Huang was not surprised by it. "As I grow stronger, the range will probably increase."
"The construction of Life Palace 'Monster Paradise' has been completed!
"Life Palace: Monster Paradise.
"Life Palace Ability: If the monster dies within the active range of the territory of the Life Palace, its spirit will return to the Life Palace and its body will be restructured with Life Power, completing the revival process."
"Territory of Life Palace: Taking the host's body as the center point, it will be within a three-kilometer radius (expandable).
"Ability Restriction: Each monster can only be revived three times at the most within 24 hours. The spirit will immediately collapse if it exceeds three times and it will be unable to return to its Life Palace (can be trained).
"Ability to Derive: None (activated for imperial-level)"
The card information was soon revealed after the construction of the Life Palace.
"In fact, it's unable to have unlimited revivals.Three revivals in 24 hours are pretty decent though. The number of times can be increased later on." Lin Huang was quite satisfied with the construction of the Life Palace.
He then immersed his body in his consciousness while observing the situation in the Life Palace.
Bai and the rest had separated, exploring the completely new world. Although the radius in which they could move was not large, there were quite a number of houses available. It would be good for them to familiarize themselves with the environment.
Just as Lin Huang was checking on his Life Palace, his Emperor's Heart Ring suddenly vibrated. Lin Huang immediately regained his consciousness.
Seeing that the caller of the video call was Yao Lan, Lin Huang knew that it was regarding the rewards dished out by the Union Government.
Answering the call, Yao Lan had donned an office lady look with black-framed glasses on her nose bridge.
"What is a God Figurine?" As soon as the video call was answered, Yao Lan immediately demanded.
"Good afternoon," Lin Huang greeted with a smile, completely ignoring her question.
"Stop interrupting me. I'm asking you what a God Figurine is."
"It's just a statue that's used for decoration," Lin Huang answered as he raised his brows.
"You lie! If you're not telling the truth, I'm not going to give it to you." Yao Lan intimidated him with a smile.
"You didn't manage to get it, did you?" Lin Huang said confidently.
"What makes you think so?"
"It's simply because right until now, you didn't take anything out." Lin Huang remained calm. "If you've already gotten the God Figurine, you'd have taken it out in the first place when I answered your call. You'd show off before asking me what it actually is."
"Alright, it's true that I didn't manage to get it. The Union Government has rejected your request. They said that the reward that you requested has exceeded what they can give and asked if you can request for something else," Yao Lan had no choice but to admit. Still, she did not give up and asked, "What is a God Figurine? I can't seem to find anything about it online. Apparently, the information has been blocked by the Emperor's Heart."
"It's just a unique god item. You don't need to ask anything about it anymore. For those below demigod-level, it's similar to an ordinary decorative item but its hardness is slightly stronger," Lin Huang briefly explained and changed the topic as he did not want to get into trouble. "Since I can request for something else, I'll do so. I want to be granted the highest reading authority in the central library in Division 3!"
Chapter 835: The Fallen God Land
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
There were a total of 183 monsters being recorded in the True Spirit Encyclopedia. Each of them was born to be a True God. Some of them were of a higher level whereby they had immense strength to destroy everything in their adult phase.
The most surprising fact was that with the visualization skill, Lin Huang only had to stare at the image of the monster for ten seconds. The image of the monster would then be created in his mind. He could visualize the growth experienced by the monster and each of its battles could clearly be seen. He was like an onlooker, watching the entire life of the monster.
However, the progress of the visualization was extremely slow.
The first monster he visualized was the sun tree. It took him exactly three days to visualize the germination of the sun tree seed. A sprout that was shorter than the little finger then grew.
"According to my current process, I guess I'll need to visualize for another ten years to be able to see the formation of the sun tree…" Lin Huang was speechless. The visualization skill was not as simple as he thought but he did not expect it to be so difficult.
"The visualization speed is related to your spiritual strength and your comprehension ability. Your comprehension ability usually won't change much. However, your spiritual strength will grow as your combat strength becomes stronger. The stronger your spiritual strength, the faster the visualization speed will be. Therefore, you definitely don't need to wait for ten years. I guess two to three years should be enough for you," the stone tablet explained. "If you happen to have a chance of epiphany, it'll probably be created in less than two years."
Two to three years were short to the stone tablet. It gave Lin Huang the True Spirit Encyclopedia for his long-term development instead of accomplishing it within one stroke.
However, two to three years were very long to Lin Huang. After all, it had been two years since he traveled to this word from Earth.
However, Lin Huang was suddenly enlightened after listening to the stone tablet.
"Epiphany can speed up the process!"
Exchanging ten card draws for an Epiphany Card, Lin Huang crushed the card without a moment of hesitation. Again, he began to visualize.
With the effect of the Epiphany Card, Lin Huang felt that his brain seemed to have detached from his body and his mind had never been so clear before.
He seemed to own the whole world and the entire growing process of the sun tree could be observed. It seemed like someone had fast-forwarded the growing process of the sun tree as well. Time passed very quickly in this dimension.
In just the blink of an eye, the sun tree that was about one meter tall grew. The Life Soul in Lin Huang's first God Figurine had completely turned into a tree with a height of one meter as well. It looked exactly the same as the tree visualized and it was surrounded by the aura of an imperial-level.
Right at that moment, the effect of the Epiphany Card disappeared. Lin Huang then snapped out of his visualization.
Before he could check on his body condition, Bloody's voice was heard.
"You've been visualizing for nine days. The reading authority that you asked Yao Lan to apply for has been approved. However, the first level of authority is only opened to you for three days and you have complete access to the second level of reading authority. She said that this is what the Union Government can do at the most. If you're not going to accept it, you can ask for other rewards."
"Also, Chan Dou from Division 1 has called you twice. He's left a message, asking you to contact him immediately once you're free. He didn't tell what has actually happened."
Lin Huang did not know that the epiphany would have taken so much of his time.
After replying Yao Lan's message regarding the reward, he immediately called Chan Dou's number.
As soon as the video call was answered, Chan Dou appeared, still looking the same. He was in his elegant white shirt, holding a green beverage in his hand.
"Lin Xie, how long has it been since you showered? You need to shave."
"I've been really busy these days. I immediately called you back as soon as I received your message. What happened?" Lin Huang then noticed that he did appear rather sloppy.
"I heard that you're looking for a God Figurine?" Chan Dou took a sip of his drink and asked.
"How did you know that?" Lin Huang was stunned.
"I have my way. I even know that you've bought the God Figurine sold at the Wanbao Auction," Chan Dou laughed as he said.
Lin Huang frowned when he heard that. The information of the VIP members at the Wanbao Auction was supposed to be kept private.
"Don't worry. Everyone has their secrets. I'm not interested in knowing the reason why you're looking for a God Figurine." Chan Dou knew what Lin Huang was worrying about. "I'm calling to tell you that I know there's a place where you can probably find one."
"Where?" Lin Huang immediately asked.
"Fallen God Land," Chan Dou uttered.
"Are you referring to the war ruins where many of the True Gods died?" Lin Huang had heard of the ruins before. It was the second largest ruins in Division 3. "Isn't it only opened to imperial-level?"
"A new crack has appeared at the Abyss Brink in Division 3 recently. Those from Division 1 and Division 2 have been investigating this issue and the crack has been discovered as well. Although we managed to seal it in time, it shows that the condition at the Abyss Brink has deteriorated. We predict that the crack will become uncontrollable within five years. However, it seems like it can't even last for three years.
"The Union Government from different divisions have been discussing this. However, they've not come up with a solution yet. There are a few things that have been confirmed. One of them is to train more transcendents, increasing the number of imperial-levels. Therefore, many of the sites and ruins that are only opened to imperial-level will be opened to immortal-levels and holy fire-levels too. The number of people allowed has been increased as well.
"Also, the Union Government and other organizations fully support the development of the Genius Union. Aside from some of the extremely dangerous areas, we have access to almost all of the ruins and sites. Only the members from the Genius Union are given the privilege to access the sites.
"The Fallen God Land in Division 3 will be activated once in 100 years. It's now about a month away from the next opening. It's going to be the first 7-star ruins opened to immortal-levels and holy fire-levels."
The 5-star ruins could be threatening to demigod-levels and the 6-star ruins could be dangerous to Virtual Gods as well. As for the 7-star ruins, they were the sites and ruins with the highest danger level and could even be threatening to True Gods.
"However, the Fallen God Land has been activated many times. It's been explored by many imperial-levels in the past." Lin Huang was not really interested in it as the 7-star ruins were too dangerous. Moreover, the ruins had been explored by many people and the rewards were very limited. The probability of obtaining the God Figurine would be too low.
"You're wrong. The area of the Fallen God Land is extremely big. The war ruins keep on drifting in the dimension and they merge with other war pieces as they drift. The area will be expanded each time during the activation of the Fallen God Land."
"Furthermore, the ruins are only opened for three months. In addition to the limited number of imperial-levels available and Division 3 not allowing people from other regions to enter, not even a fifth of the area has been explored. The area of the Fallen God Land will become larger this time and probably only a seventh or an eighth of the area has been explored," Chan Dou explained and Lin Huang began to feel excited.
"So, are you asking me to go into the ruins?"
"Yes, you're right. The Heaven Alliance was given 10 quotas and I'm going to give one to you." Chan Dou placed the beverage that he was holding down and said, "One thing good about it is that your combat strength is only on holy fire-level. The imperial-level won't fight you. The immortal-levels from other organizations won't fight you as well. In addition to you being capable of fighting the high immortal-levels, as long as you keep a low profile when you enter the ruins, most of the enemies that you'll encounter will be on holy fire-level. Therefore, you have a higher survival rate compared to the others."
Obviously, he could not sense Lin Huang's aura from the video call. Chan Dou thought that Lin Huang's combat strength was still on holy fire-level since it had just been a few months since they last met on the Stairway Tree.
Lin Huang did not bother to explain that his combat strength had been upgraded to immortal-level rank-3. He asked another question that he was rather interested in instead, "Who's the most powerful person among the immortal-levels that enter the ruins?"
"Why are you asking about this?" Chan Dou found it strange.
"I have to run away if I happen to bump into them." Lin Huang sounded reasonable.
Chan Dou was stunned. Soon, he said, "The Holy Sons from a few of the organizations are going and they're very powerful. Although they're the Holy Sons that have obtained a lower ranking, they're all supreme geniuses. They're on at least black gold-rank. The strongest one has to be the Seventh Prince. His abilities are capable of fighting a crimson gold-rank."
"The one who's capable of fighting a crimson gold-rank is only ranked seventh?!" Lin Huang was bewildered. Chan Dou and the rest who were capable of fighting crimson gold-ranks had been the Five Princes in the old days.
However, since Chan Dou sounded calm, Lin Huang began to feel that his capability of killing a crimson gold-rank was merely what Chan Dou showed the others. His true abilities could be much stronger.
"The dynasty is strong. Even among the underworlds in Division 1, their abilities are ranked the top 3. They're doing pretty well in Division 2 and Division 3. Especially in Division 3, they're undoubtedly strong. The First Prince is one of the Five Princes – Royal Infinity.
"Aside from the Holy Sons like the Seventh Prince, there are also the EA.2 members from the Union Government, the Hunter King from the Hunter Association, and the Adventure King from the Adventurer's Paradise… Their abilities can be compared to the Holy Sons from the underworld.
"Other than that, try to avoid the imperial-levels as well. Under normal circumstances, an imperial-level won't bother to fight a holy fire-level. Many of them are from the underworld and some of them might have psychological problems, so they might probably fight you."
"And also the demigods…" Lin Huang forced a smile.
"You don't need to worry about them. The demigods aren't going to enter the ruins since it's less likely they'll get an upgrade. Therefore, they gave the opportunity to the rest. Those that enter the Fallen God Land with the highest combat strength will be on purple gold-rank."
"Can you please tell me who are the nine of them that will enter the ruins?" Lin Huang asked again.
"It hasn't been confirmed yet. I've just come up with the list, but not everyone is willing to take the risk." Chan Dou had nothing to hide. "I can now confirm that Tan Lang is going. His abilities are on par with the Seventh Prince. The rest that I've chosen are those with strong survival abilities and are on immortal-level rank-9."
Among the three deputy chiefs of the Heaven Alliance, Tan Lang was one of them and he had the strongest abilities in the Heaven Alliance.
"Is Tan Lang going to be the leader? How are we going to divide the rewards then?" Lin Huang asked realistically.
"It doesn't have to be in teams. Everyone will go by themselves. As for the rewards, they belong to the person who manages to get it. The Heaven Alliance isn't going to divide the rewards. However, if there's anything you want to sell, please first consider selling it internally in the Heaven Alliance."
"Alright, I agree to join." Lin Huang then accepted the invitation to join.
"The Fallen God Land will be activated on the first of November and the gathering point is at the Magical Sky City. You may arrange your time and don't delay."
"I got it."
Chapter 836: Pre-Battle Preparation
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"It'll open on 1 November and last for three months, which means it'll be 1 February when I get out. Will I miss the New Year then?" Lin Huang checked the calendar immediately.
Next to him, Bloody spoke directly, "The New Year falls on 8 February. You'll still have time to head back to Division 7."
"Alright, great." Lin Huang was relieved, but he checked the calendar anyway as he was still a little worried. He wanted to make sure that what Bloody said was accurate. After all, he had promised Lin Xin he would go home for the New Year. The girl would definitely be hopping mad if he were to miss it.
"Is it already 28 September today?" Lin Huang also noticed the date shown on his Emperor's Heart Ring.
"I've already told you that you were in an epiphany for full nine days and your body began to smell." Bloody moved a little further away while looking disgusted.
Lin Huang pulled his shirt and sniffed it. "I really do."
He stood up from the couch and stretched his body while his bones cracked loud and clear. He then walked toward the bathroom.
After taking a shower and eating, Lin Huang returned to his room again after getting the hotel staff to clean it.
In reality, the hotel staff had been wanting to go in to clean it for the past couple of days, but they had been sent away by Bloody who had disguised as Lin Huang.
The reason why Lin Huang was not chased out of the hotel was that Bloody had been extending his stay for him.
After returning to the hotel room, Lin Huang sat with his legs crossed on the couch again after informing Bloody. He then crushed another Epiphany Card and entered the second round of the epiphany mode.
It was only a month before the opening of the Fallen God Land. He had to consolidate the combat souls as soon as possible.
For the next 20 days or so, Lin Huang spent nine days consolidating the Ninetails Lynx's combat soul and ten days consolidating the Destructive Divine Mammoth's combat soul.
At that moment, the three combat souls were formed preliminarily. All of their combat strength was on imperial-level black gold-rank.
If not for the 30 imperial-level yellow gold-rank monsters that were killed and allowing Bai and the rest stay for another three days in the Abyss Brink, the amount of spiritual energy Lin Huang accumulated might only be enough to consolidate three immortal-level rank-9 combat souls.
That was one of the God Figurine's advantages. As the God Figurine's spiritual energy storage was on par with a True God, a powerful combat soul could be consolidated as long as there was sufficient spiritual energy.
Normal immortal-level powerhouses, on the other hand, were limited to the Life Fire and Life Wheel power in their bodies. They could only consolidate combat souls that had the same combat strength as the powerhouse himself. For instance, a powerhouse with immortal-level rank-3 combat strength could only consolidate a combat soul of immortal-level rank-3 at the most. It was impossible for them to even consolidate a combat soul that was a rank higher.
After the three combat souls' consolidation, it was half a month before the opening of the Fallen God Land.
Lin Huang took a shower and changed after he was done visualizing. He packed his stuff as well.
He checked out of the hotel room on his Emperor's Heart Ring directly and stepped into the Dimensional Portal without hesitation. He arrived in No. 3A1 foothold, the Magical Sky City.
After checking into a hotel in the Magical Sky City, Lin Huang frequented the black market, the auctions and the chamber of commerce for the next few days. He purchased all sorts of metallic and non-metallic materials in bulk as well as ancient and supreme relic pieces.
For the next few days, Lin Huang put his hotel room into soundproof mode as he summoned the War Overlord to make a variety of mechanical weapons with his insane mechanical crafting skills.
He initially gave the War Overlord a cool nickname which was Metal Egg. However, due to strong objections, it was changed to Warlord.
Lin Huang did not stay idle during the days when Warlord was making mechanical weapons. He redeemed two sets of ancient relic-level telekinetic flying daggers from the Stairway Mall and began practicing Seamless.
When he was on gold flame-level, his telekinetic cultivation arrived at a bottleneck. Due to the restriction of combat strength and low spiritual force, he could no longer divide more telekinetic threads.
Now that his combat strength had experienced a three-rank leap and his spiritual force had a boost, he could divide the telekinetic threads further.
Days passed and the amount of Lin Huang's telekinetic threads did not stop growing. He had been focusing on his cultivation to the point that he did not even have time to read the news.
It was more and more crowded in the Magical Sky City these few days.
Almost every transcendent knew of this place since the Fallen God Land was the second biggest ruins in Division 7.
Although it was a grade-7 ruin that was full of danger, everyone was flocking there as they figured that this round of searching could get them something advantageous that would allow them to sky-rocket.
However, to maintain the stability of the ruins, the search was only limited to 8,000 people.
Moreover, among these 8,000 people, almost everyone in Division 3 participated apart from more than 300 imperial-level powerhouses and some other powerhouses from Division 1 and Division 2. In other words, almost all the outstanding powerhouses of Division 3 were participating.
Among the 8,000 people, at least half of them were members of the Genius Union while more than 80% of them were high immortal-levels.
Although only 8,000 people were allowed into the ruins, there were more than 8,000 transcendents in the Magical Sky City.
Almost all of the hotels in the central area of the entire Magical Sky City were fully booked. It was as crowded as the New Year.
Not only were thee transcendent powerhouses from Division 3 talking about this, but even the cultivators below transcendent level also heard of this and began all sorts of discussions on forums.
Some of them posted invitations that they had screen-shot somewhere else, and the post went viral from people commenting.
Lin Huang only received the official invitation from Chan Dou on 29 October.
The invitation was exquisite. It was a card that was only the size of a palm and it was bright red. There were two big, black words stamped on top of it. The handwriting was beautiful, clearly the hand of a famous calligrapher.
Personal information was not shown on the invitation but was hidden inside. One could only see the invitee's personal information by scanning it.
Lin Huang was almost done with the division of his telekinetic threads when he received the invitation. The initial 10,000 telekinetic threads increased to more than 18,000 threads. However, his cultivation on Seamless came to yet another bottleneck.
Although his spiritual force was a few folds more powerful than the time when he was on gold flame-level, it was harder to divide telekinetic threads as the cultivation of his Seamless skill went on. Looking at the current process, Lin Huang speculated he could only divide 30,000 telekinetic threads when he was on immortal-level rank-9.
Until 29 October evening, Lin Huang had finally ended his cultivation in the Seamless skill.
Meanwhile, Warlord had exhausted all of the materials. Most of his previous mechanical weapon materials came from monster bones and some human relics, which were disintegrated from machinery recycling. The materials Lin Huang purchased were not only given a boost in his mechanical weapon power, but the number of mechanical weapons was also at least threefolds more now.
Warlord's current overall ability might be more powerful than Bai's.
"I can finally rest well for the next two days to adjust my body." Ever since he had promised Chan Dou, Lin Huang had been worried that he might not have enough time. No matter whether it was the previous epiphany or the cultivation of Seamless during this period of time, he had cut his eating and sleeping time down drastically. On average, he might not even eat, drink a glass of water, or shower in a week. He would only take a nap for one or two hours when he was exhausted, but that only happened every four to five days.
The truth had proven that such management of time allowed him to reach his goal and he completed all of the basic preparation he needed before the battle. He could finally feel relieved and the exhaustion kicked in quickly.
Chapter 837: Seventh Prince
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Lin Huang slept from past eight in the evening on the 29th until eight in the morning on the 31st.
He had slept a whole day, so he felt refreshed when he woke up.
After taking a shower and having his breakfast, Lin Huang headed to the biggest supermarket nearby and spent almost the entire morning there. He bought a variety of food and drinks in bulk before heading back to the hotel.
He just recalled he would have to spend three months in the ruins this trip when he woke up in the morning. If he did not bring anything with him, he might have to eat grilled meat for three months continuously.
While grilled meat was delicious, he would definitely be sick if he had to eat it for three meals a day for three months.
Drinks were mandatory. It would be huge trouble if there was no clean water source in the ruins. Although transcendents would not die from not drinking water for a long time, it would still affect his body condition as well as affecting him from performing his abilities well.
After the trip to the supermarket, Lin Huang began to think what he might have missed out on. After all, he had been sleep-deprived before this and was not 100% there. He might miss out on something, just like how he had almost forgotten to prepare food and water.
After some thorough thinking, he relaxed upon confirming that he did not miss anything.
After lunch, Lin Huang read some news and looked at a few social media sites.
He smiled when he read the hot discussion on the Fallen God Land.
He even saw a fake Heaven Alliance invitation being posted. It was the same red design but the words were golden in color and written in cursive. It was even prettier than the one Lin Huang had received. There were up to a million comments on the post, consisting mostly of compliments.
There were also people who were asking what the Heaven Alliance was. Soon someone found out that the Heaven Alliance was the most powerful organization in the Genius Union while the chief was Chan Dou of the Five Princes. The comment section was then flooded with praises and fawning upon the person who had posted the fake invitation.
Lin Huang was not sure to cry or to laugh reading those comments.
As every organization had a different invitation design, there were many exquisite ones posted on the web, and Lin Huang could not identity their authenticity.
He also saw people he followed posting similar things.
Yi Yeyu posted an invitation screenshot that she had gotten from somewhere. The caption was: "Should I go or not?"
The first comment came from Yi Zheng. "You're thinking too much, Sister."
Li Lang used the same screenshot Yi Yeyu had but he posted a couple minutes later than she did with the caption: "Selling this invitation. The bid starts at 100 million Life Crystals and each increment has to be at least 10 million. The highest bidder wins."
Yi Yeyu was the first one who commented. "Aren't you shameless to be stealing my screenshot!?"
The second comment came from Yi Zheng. "Shameless! How dare you steal my sister's screenshot!?"
Lin Huang smiled and took a screenshot of his invitation, then sent it to his friends.
The caption was: "Three months. Please leave a message if you need me."
The first comment came from Li Lang.
"Great job, Brother. Your invitation looks exactly the same as the real one! And it's from the Heaven Alliance! But it'll look even more authentic if the words are in gold."
He had browsed through the web and found out what kind of organization the Heaven Alliance was.
The second comment came from Yi Zheng. It was clear he knew Lin Huang's invitation was authentic.
'You shouldn't have accepted the invitation. The Fallen God Land's too dangerous.'
Lin Huang smiled as he replied. 'I'll just take a stroll in there. It's good to learn something.'
The third comment came from Leng Yuexin and was just a simple "Be careful."
The fourth comment came from Yi Yeyu. "You're going to the grade-7 forbidden land! Are you crazy?!"
Li Lang commented again subsequently. "The heck!? Your invitation's real! I must kiss your ass now!"
After chatting with a couple of friends, Lin Huang then turned off the chat.
For the rest of the afternoon, he drank tea while sunbathing on the balcony. He completely indulged in relaxation and laziness.
He watched the evening news after dinner and went to bed early.
Early the next morning, Lin Huang checked out of his room right after his breakfast and walked towards the Union Government office building like he was taking a stroll.
The hotel he stayed at was less than 300 meters across the Union Government office building, so it only took him a couple of minutes to walk there.
A female staff welcomed him after he scanned his identity and registered himself at the entrance of the office building. She got Lin Huang to show his invitation. After the scanning went through, she led him to a room entrance.
It was a small meeting room with only 300 seats as he looked. There were already some ten people sitting in the room.
Lin Huang took a glance at those people. All of them had a combat strength of immortal-level rank-9 with no exception. Since he knew no one there, he occupied a vacant seat in the first row.
The people were pretty curious about Lin Huang too. He did not hide his combat strength after all. Everyone was clear that he was on immortal-level rank-3.
Most of them only took a glance at him and that was it while a minority of them began to discuss among themselves softy.
"Even an immortal-level rank-3's invited. He must be from some insignificant organization that has no high immortal-level powerhouse."
"He might've come in from the back door by using his connection."
Although those people were discussing softly, Lin Huang heard them loud and clear, but he did not bother to take it to heart.
More people came in continuously awhile after he took his seat. Basically, all of them had a combat strength of immortal-level rank-9.
Finally, a short, young man appeared at the entrance after ten minutes. His combat strength was only on immortal-level rank-6.
He glanced through the room at the entrance, appearing a little fearful upon realizing that everyone in the room were immortal-level rank-9 powerhouses. However, very soon, he saw Lin Huang who was in the first row. He was slightly relieved and walked towards Lin Huang quickly, sitting next to him.
"Hi, my name's Tong Lin."
"Hi, I'm Lin Xie." Lin Huang nodded while smiling.
"Oh my god. I thought I'm the only one who isn't immortal-level rank-9." Tong Lin felt like he had just met someone similar to him seeing that Lin Huang had a lower combat strength than him.
Lin Huang smiled and said nothing. He knew 80% of the participants were high immortal-levels this time and only 80% of them were on immortal-level rank-9. That being said, participants with a combat strength of immortal-level rank-9 only consisted 64% of all the participants. The reason why everyone in the room was on immortal-level rank-9 was that it was still early, so there were less than 40 of them.
Just as expected, more people on immortal-level rank-7 and rank-8 came into the room after Tong Lin. When there were almost 100 of them in the room, a few silhouettes wearing golden vests appeared at the entrance out of nowhere. The entire room became silent as soon as they appeared.
Everyone recognized them. They were from Dynasty. The leading person was a young man who looked like he was in his early 20s. He had slicked back hair and instead of a vest, he was wearing a black suit with a golden trench coat on top.
"The Seventh Prince from Dynasty…" Tong Lin who was sitting next to Lin Huang said softly.
Lin Huang could not help but frown when he heard that. He remembered clearly that Chan Dou said this Seventh Prince should be the most powerful immortal-level in the participant list this time.
The Seventh Prince took a glance around the room and merely paused when he saw Lin Huang, then looked away. It was probably not because he realized how powerful Lin Huang was, but a little surprised that even a person with an immortal-level rank-3 combat strength would be invited.
He lingered at the entrance for less than a second and led the few people behind him towards the last row of the room.
The people who were sitting in the last row took the initiative to give up their seats immediately.
Ever since the people from Dynasty came, more and more people came. The room was almost full after five to six minutes.
At that moment, a male staff in a uniform walked in.
He explained after bringing out a Dimensional Portal, "Behind this Dimensional Portal is the entrance to the Fallen God Land. There'll be staff attending to all of you when all of you are transferred, and they'll assist you in the Fallen God Land."
"Now let's begin from the first row. Please queue to enter the Dimensional Portal."
"Why aren't you starting from the last row!?" At that moment, one of the Dynasty members wearing golden vests and sitting in the last row shouted.
The man in the uniform lifted his head and took a glance at him. He then looked at the Seventh Prince sitting next to the golden-vested man who was waiting for an impressive show to begin before he spoke, "Because the first row is closer to the Dimensional Portal. If you were to calculate the distance between the first row to the last row and everyone's walking speed on average, getting the first row into the Dimensional Portal first would take one minute and 40 seconds faster than getting the last row to queue first."
The people from Dynasty did not seem to expect the person to give such a serious explanation which rendered them speechless.
Lin Huang smiled but said nothing.
"Alright, we'll start from the first row. Stop wasting time."
Lin Huang and the rest then walked into the Dimensional Portal one after another.
After all 300 of them entered the Dimensional Portal, the man in uniform then closed the Dimensional Portal.
A lady's voice came into the meeting room all of a sudden.
"One minute and 40 seconds faster? You're so good at making things up." A tall lady in heels walked in while smiling.
"Haha, you heard that!" The man in uniform smiled as he said.
"It's not every day that they can come to the Union Government headquarters. The people from Dynasty are always looking for ways to stir things up so that they can brag to their acquaintances when they go back. They'd make noise if I insisted on letting people in the first row go first. Although I'd definitely oppress them, it'd only delay the time. If I do what they want me to, which is to let them go first, they'd tell everyone that the Union Government's afraid of Dynasty. So, why not just come up with a lie which solved the problem like a piece of cake?"
Chapter 838: Two Familiar People
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Lin Huang only snapped back to his senses after staring at the black, gigantic crack that seemed like a Virtual Eye for a while.
Almost everyone who was transported together with Lin Huang had the same shocked expression on their faces.
Lin Huang looked around and very soon saw a bunch of people on his left. There were about 300 of them, and they should be the team that had been transported before them.
There was a bunch of men in military uniform under the crack in the sky.
The leader, a hulking, tall man who wore a white cloak, walked towards Lin Huang and the rest. He did not hide the powerful aura on him at all.
'This person's definitely a demigod!' Lin Huang could clearly sense that the aura on this man was much more powerful than those imperial-level yellow gold-rank monsters that he had killed. It was the distinction between a candlelight and a sun; it was so powerful that it made one tremble.
"Please project your invitation. We need to verify your invitation once again." As soon as he spoke, he moved his finger slightly while the 20 men in military uniform began to verify the invitation.
After a couple of minutes of verification, the leader of the army spoke again after confirming that everything was alright.
"The ruins will officially open at nine. Before that, all of you can take a rest at formation No. 2.
"Don't run around or create trouble. If any of you do that, you'll delay the opening time of the ruins. You'll be executed even if the delay is only by a mere second!" The leader glanced at everyone coldly when he uttered the last sentence. A terrifying intention to kill swept across the 300 people including Lin Huang in the blink of an eye. It gave them chills and goosebumps. He did not seem like he was joking at all.
Nobody objected, even the Seventh Prince only glared at the man for a second while scowling. He then followed everyone and walked to the space in formation No. 2.
"Oh my god! It's Bai Qi, the God of Slaughter from the army," Tong Lin who was next to Lin Huang mumbled softly.
"Bai Qi?" Lin Huang was familiar with the name. However, it was clear that this person just happened to share the same name with the historical person on earth.
"Do you mean the fella wearing a cloak just now?"
"Haven't you heard of Bai Qi? The God of Slaughter from the Union Government Military, the No. 1 in Division 3's army! I heard that his ability ranks top five among the demigods in Division 3!"
Ever since Lin Huang arrived in Division 3, he did not follow such news and it was his first time hearing about Bai Qi.
"How did he get the nickname 'God of Slaughter'? Did he kill many monsters?"
"Not monsters, human," Tong Lin said through voice transmission, "He was put in a special force in the military and was responsible for wiping out underground organizations. There are at least tens of thousands of underground organization members who died by his hand within the past century."
"Otherwise, why is the Seventh Prince so quiet like a coward now and even followed the team here? If he really stirred things up, Bai Qi would surely kill him. Among the underground organizations, Bai Qi has killed at least over 20 Holy Sons, including the First Holy Son. Even the Dynasty would have to accept it if Bai Qi killed the Second and Third Prince, and they wouldn't take revenge, let alone if he annihilated the Seventh Prince. The price to pay for killing Bai Qi's too high. It might even cause the demigod in one's organization to be killed. There's already been two cases like that."
Bai Qi's ability alone caused powerful underground organizations to fear him, which proved how terrifying his ability was.
That was the direction Lin Huang had been working towards.
"Lin Xie, you're not a local from Division 3, am I right? Even the local transcendents on holy fire-level would've heard of Bai Qi." Tong Lin was very sure of that.
"Indeed, I'm not. I came from another Safety Zone," Lin Huang confirmed.
"I saw that your invitation came from the Heaven Alliance just now. Don't tell me that you come from the Heaven Alliance's headquarters in Division 1?!" Tong Lin's eyes lit up. "I thought you're a member from the Heaven Alliance's branch in Division 3."
"I didn't come from the headquarters but another division."
"It must be Division 2's branch then!" Tong Lin thought of Division 2 immediately.
Lin Huang smiled without saying anything since he was lazy to explain.
"Then, you must be powerful, aren't you?" Tong Lin asked immediately.
"There are indeed many powerhouses in the Heaven Alliance. I'm just a normal member who just joined not long again," Lin Huang said humbly. He did not have the habit of boasting about himself before others. His skin was not that thick.
"The more humble you are, the more I think you're hiding who you really are." Tong Lin had disbelief written all over his face. "I think it's impossible that the Heaven Alliance would send someone incompetent here to die. They would definitely send powerhouses here to make the quota worth it and to obtain some resources. Also, I think you must've been specially transferred from Division 2…"
Lin Huang smiled and said nothing again. He really did not bother to explain anything to him.
More people were being sent through the Dimensional Portal as the both of them chatted.
Those people verified their identities again and were arranged to group at formations No. 3 and No. 4.
After eight o'clock, the frequency of people being sent in through the Dimensional Portal became higher and higher. Soon, there was a batch every two to three minutes.
Lin Huang saw someone familiar among the crowd — Huangfu Lin from the Sweep Alliance. Judging from her aura, she had elevated to immortal-level rank-8.
However, Huangfu Lin did not notice Lin Huang's presence. Perhaps, she did not imagine that he would have managed to score himself a place there. After all, Lin Huang's combat strength was only blue flame-level when they last saw each other three months ago.
After Huangfu Lin's batch, Lin Huang saw another Heaven Alliance member, Shen Tao.
The last time when they had entered the tribe's floating land, it was the immortal-level rank-9 Shen Tao who had led the Heaven Alliance team. Although his combat strength remained on immortal-level rank-9, it was clear that his aura was much stronger than it had been a couple of months ago. He was almost on the verge of breaking through to imperial-level.
Lin Huang guessed that his goal of coming to the Fallen God Land this time must be to break through to imperial-level black gold-rank.
However, Shen Tao's aura was not considered the top among those people.
Lin Huang sensed at least 20 people on immortal-level rank-9 who had more powerful auras than Shen Tao did. Judging by aura alone, the Seventh Prince was considered the best of the best among the group of more than 20 people.
However, what Lin Huang cared about were those imperial-level powerhouses who were mixed in the teams.
Almost every one of them had a much more powerful aura than the Seventh Prince. They were like firewood that burned in the night which nobody could ignore.
Naturally, the strength of one's aura could not be used to determine one's ability. Lin Huang was a great example himself. His aura strength was only on immortal-level rank-3. Without those tens of holy fire-levels, his aura was the weakest among the crowd. However, if his overall ability was taken into account and the comparison even included imperial-level powerhouses, he would easily rank in the top 100.
When it was close to 8.50 a.m., all 8,000 of them were assembled.
Many of the armies were secretly relieved. They were worried that there would be a delay and were scared that Bai Qi would be mad.
Bai Qi had an obsession disorder when it came to time. Almost every military in Division 3 knew about that. He had even snapped at the current Division 3 Union Government chairman at a meeting for being late for three minutes.
"Alright, you can relax since everyone is here. We'll open the ruins officially at nine sharp!" Bai Qi looked at the time and his rather serious expression finally eased.
Chapter 839: Nephilic Judge Army
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
It was 9 a.m. sharp on 1 November.
Bai Qi flew slowly to the crack in the sky and produced a golden key in his right palm. He flicked it softly, the key turning into a golden stream that flowed into the black crack in the air.
Subsequently, he began to perform a set of complicated seals at a rapid speed.
The black crack gradually turned golden until eventually, there was a golden glow that shot out of it. It was like sunshine that shone through clouds onto the ground.
"All of you, stand where the golden glow is shining!" As Bai Qi ordered them, the people from each formation hurried to the area where the golden glow was shining.
Lin Huang walked over there, following his team. As soon as he entered the glowing region, he felt his body seeming to lose gravity and he began to float. He was drifting rapidly towards the source of the glow.
In less than ten seconds, Lin Huang and the rest got into the golden crack in the air following the stream and vanished completely.
…
After passing through the golden crack, Lin Huang could feel his body descending slowly.
As his feet touched the ground, his sight that was covered by the golden glow finally recovered gradually.
Lin Huang looked everywhere. Apart from himself, there was nobody else in his field of vision. It was clear that the entrance would send the person to different locations of the ruins randomly.
The sky above his head was gray and he could not see the sun. It was a little similar to the hazy weather back on Earth, just that the light was even dimmer here. It felt like dusk when the sun was setting.
There were cracks as well as potholes all over the ground. They were war scars everywhere.
Lin Huang did not see any plants at all. All he saw were bones that were covered with some soil and a couple of broken swords and sabers.
After a slight observation and not finding anything odd, Lin Huang then focused a small part of his consciousness into his Life Palace.
He was surprised to find that the space in his Life Palace had completely simulated the environment of the ruins.
After a moment of shock, Lin Huang recalled his main objective and summoned Bloody and Lancelot.
He did not lose his sensing ability since his territory had been converted into his Life Palace. However, his territory had become his Life Palace's subsidiary skill, which was now on par with Lancelot's, so the coverage of his Territory skill depended on his combat strength now.
Now that Lancelot's combat strength had reached immortal-level rank-9, the radius of his Territory skill had expanded to nine kilometers. The coverage far surpassed Lin Huang's which was merely three kilometers.
Summoning Lancelot could undoubtedly expand the coverage to sense danger.
After all, Bloody's Leech Pods could only sense sight and sound. They could not sense anything intangible.
Meanwhile, summoning Bloody was something that Lin Huang had to do whenever he went somewhere new.
In reality, Lin Huang knew that Bloody's Leech Pods had powerful functions and applications. However, they were best used in investigating logistics.
Bloody was fond of collecting information itself whereby it would browse through different information on the Heart Network whenever it had nothing to do. To Bloody, investigating a new place was collecting information as well which it enjoyed.
Planning logistics was the basics of battle strategy. Compared to fighting, Bloody preferred being a military adviser as well as feeling in control of the whole situation.
Bloody received the preliminary investigation report in less than ten minutes while Lin Huang stayed where he was.
"There's an immortal-level rank-6 Spirit Skeleton at our one o'clock, 252 kilometers from us. Judging from its aura, it should a triple mutated monster. It's suitable for Kylie to lead her Nephilic Judges to hunt it down."
Out of 368 Kylie's Nephilic Judges, only 39 of them had evolved into triple mutated Nephilic Angels. All of the local monsters in this ruins were either spirit or undying types, which were the targets for Nephilic Judges to evolve.
"Bloody, look around for triple mutated immortal-level rank-9 Sword Dao monsters for me please," Lancelot gulped the dried vegetable in his mouth down instantly and said to Bloody.
"Don't worry. I always have that in mind," Bloody said while smiling and nodding.
Lancelot then put another dried vegetable into his mouth and chewed on it slowly.
"Do your best in these three months. You'll be rewarded with three months worth of junk food if you perform well!" Lin Huang patted Lancelot's shoulder.
Two blue rays shot out of Lancelot's blue eyes when he heard that. He said to Lin Huang immediately, "I would like dried carrots, please!"
Lin Huang nodded while smiling and he thought to himself, 'Am I feeding a rabbit now?'
Lin Huang only summoned Kylie and Thunder after setting his coordinates on the Dimensional Portal. They then sat on Thunder's back and headed toward the destination Bloody had told them about.
Soon, Lin Huang saw the Spirit Skeleton that was almost three meters tall with red flames burning in its eyes.
The monster noticed Lin Huang and the rest at an instant. However, it turned around in an attempt to run away when it sensed Lancelot, Kylie and Thunder's powerful aura. As usual, Bloody curled itself around Lin Huang's arm and hid its aura just like Lin Huang did.
As Kylie waved her hand, at least 300 Nephilic Judges made their glorious entry.
Although the Nephilic Angels did not participate in the confrontation, the Spirit Skeleton was drowned by the overwhelming amount of Nephilic Judges. It was killed in the blink of an eye while its bones were scattered all over the place.
"Wow, a human wave attack is kind of scary," Lin Huang could not help but exclaim out loud after witnessing that.
"Two o'clock, 128 kilometers."
Thunder deviated immediately. They arrived at their second destination in less than a minute as Thunder flapped its wings.
The Nephilic Judges were just as fast as Thunder as they caught up with it subsequently.
The target was another triple mutated spirit monster in the form of a beast skeleton. Its eyes were the same with the skeleton earlier whereby they burned with red flames as well. However, it had a more powerful combat strength at immortal-level rank-8.
The Nephilic Judges charged at it all together again. The spirit monster only managed to hold on to its dear life for less than five seconds before it turned into a pile of broken bones.
At that moment, one of the Nephilic Judges experienced a blaring, white glow shooting out of its body, and soon it turned into a white cocoon.
"Is the evolution of a Nephilic Judge into a triple mutated Nephilic Angel this simple?" Lin Huang thought it was a little odd as he witnessed that.
He had spent quite some effort to elevate Lancelot and the rest to perform their triple mutation.
"It should've something to do with the mini world in my body." It was clear that Kylie shared a similar thought. "I've been having a subtle feeling recently that I might elevate to quadruple mutated mythical-level directly if all of them elevated to triple mutation."
Lin Huang was elated to hear that but he realized something immediately. As soon as Kylie elevated to mythical-level, she would surpass his own limit and he would not be able to summon her any longer. By then, the army of over 300 triple mutated Nephilic Angels would be sealed altogether and he would not be able to use them in battles.
"I can clearly sense that the mini world in my body has been urging me to make this happen as soon as possible in order to elevate to mythical-level," Kylie could not help but reveal the secret that she had been hiding all this time. "Actually, I've been having this feeling ever since the first Nephilic Judge evolved to a Nephilic Angel. The feeling's getting more and more intense following the increasing number of Nephilic Judges evolving into Nephilic Angels."
"Don't overthink so much. Just go ahead on your elevation. My summoning limit should open when I break through to imperial-level." Lin Huang did not plan to stop Kylie's evolution, especially when she was currently in such a situation.
Lin Huang knew if he was not mistaken, the summoning authority of mythical-level Monster Cards should expand when he elevated to imperial-level. Even if Kylie elevated to mythical-level now, she would only be sealed temporarily.
Chapter 840: Kylie's Battle Formations
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The ruins was huge. Bloody spent two full days spreading up to a million Leech Pods to complete the preliminary search.
"This ruins is insanely huge! It's almost ten times bigger than the surface area of Earth that you mentioned." The reason why Bloody would say that was that Lin Huang would always compare this world's footholds with the size of the countries on Earth. Bloody had asked about Earth before and found out its surface area was 510 million square kilometers.
"No wonder Chan Dou said he has explored less than a fifth of the place. This is simply too big." Lin Huang projected the explored regions that Chan Dou had sent him while Bloody began to draft the complete map on the existing map.
Bloody only managed to come up with the first draft of the map half an hour later.
"What's with the area marked with question marks?" Lin Huang could not help but ask, noticing that Bloody had drawn question marks on a couple of spots on the map.
"There are some areas where the Leech Pods failed to enter. There seems to be a thin layer of transparent film around them. There are also some of them with odd occurrences. For instance, the Leech Pods lost their signal as soon as they entered one of these areas. I'm not sure if they were attacked or something else caused that. There are also areas covered in fog, thunderstorms, special magnetic fields…"
"Then, how about those marked with a skull?"
"Those are areas where the Leech Pods basically found demigod-level powerhouses."
"The imperial-levels' ranks are marked by colors. Black for black gold-rank, red for crimson gold-rank, yellow for yellow gold-rank, silver-white for white gold-rank, and purple for purple gold-rank. Since the base color is white, we could only use silver-white color for white gold-rank."
"So, where are we now?" Lin Huang asked again.
"We're here!" Bloody extended a tentacle and marked a red dot on the map.
The red dot was located on the southeast of the map.
"This map's just a simple first draft. I'll put in the detailed information into your Emperor's Heart Ring tonight and make a virtual map of this ruins. By then, the positioning system would've come up with the calculation following the location on the virtual map and note the virtual positioning. It's like playing a single-player game whereby no network signal is required."
Lin Huang had no idea that Bloody could do that.
"Bloody, did you find any target that suits my requirement?" Finally, Lancelot, who was standing aside, could not hold it in any longer and asked again. He did not interrupt Bloody since it had been investigating the ruins the past two days.
"I've found a total of 31 triple mutated immortal-level rank-9 Sword Dao monsters that suit your requirement, but they're quite far from where we are now. I'll complete the map tonight and plan the route again. If everything goes as planned, you should be able to get your sword servants to kill the first target tomorrow before noon," Bloody laid out the preliminary plan.
Since entering the ruins, Lin Huang had not let Bai and the rest out. The reason being, Bloody had yet to complete the logistics planning while they had no clue about the distribution of monsters or where the other human powerhouses were transported to. Letting Bai and the rest out like that would risk their lives for intruding dangerous monsters' territories or even be killed by human powerhouses.
This was a grade-7 ruins after all. There were too many powerful monsters in there. Moreover, among the people who had entered this time, a third of them were the outstanding ones in the entire Division 3, excluding demigods.
In the past two days, along with Thunder and Lancelot, Lin Huang had been trailing Kylie to watch her Nephilic Judge army battle.
Within the short two days, there were eleven of them in the Nephilic Judge army that had elevated to triple mutated Nephilic Angels. It increased the number of Nephilic Angels to 50.
In reality, the Nephilic Judge army had killed more than 100 undying and spirit monsters throughout the two days which far surpassed the amount of Nephilic Judges that had elevated.
However, Lin Huang witnessed how terrifying the Nephilic Judge army's ability was.
In actual fact, among the Nephilic Judges, most of their combat strength were only immortal-level rank-6 and rank-7. However, when they created a battle formation, they could fight straight on even if they encountered an imperial-level black gold-rank monster. Whenever they encountered immortal-level monsters, even if those were triple mutated, they would not be able to withstand the Nephilic Judge army for more than 20 minutes.
That was the result even without the 50 Nephilic Angels and Kylie joining the battle.
"Your battle formations are really powerful. They almost unleashed the full advantage of these Nephilic Judges' speed." Lin Huang recognized the amazing result too.
"I'll improve the battle formations slightly. Then, I should be able to use it on my Parasitic Puppets." Bloody began to consider the practicality of Kylie's battle formations.
"I'll share them with you. This isn't consider a core inheritance, so it can be shared." As soon as Kylie said that, she pointed her finger between Lin Huang's brows while laying another finger on Bloody's head.
A while later, the complete inherited information was sent into both of their heads directly.
"36 sets! That many?" Lin Huang was a little surprised. He had only seen the Nephilic Judges using two sets of battle formations, so he expected Kylie to have only two sets of battle formations in the inheritance.
"Although there are a total of 36 sets, you'll need to practice the battle formations. They're only familiarized with eight sets of battle formations at the moment. The first 18 sets are still manageable, but the last 18 sets are very complicated. Also, I don't have enough Nephilic Judges." Kylie was not entirely satisfied with the current progress.
Bloody got some ideas after studying them for merely a couple of minutes.
"Among the 36 sets, the first 18 sets aren't complete battle formations. They were put together from three different complete battle formations for simple application. They were disassembled intentionally for one to learn them easily. The second half are real complete battle formations. However, they are still just the foundation. They can be developed into more complicated and powerful battle formations."
"I've understood their application mechanism roughly. I'll spend some time developing them, so I should be able to fortify the battle formations for you. I can also tweak them a little and make a puppet battle formation. The impact should be impressive." Bloody had created up to a thousand Parasitic Puppets in the Abyss Brink.
Most of them were triple mutated immortal-level rank-9 monsters that Bai and the rest had killed but which brains were still well maintained. Their brains had been parasitized by Leech Pods when they were still active.
A small amount of them were triple mutated immortal-level rank-9 monsters which Bai and the rest had killed along the way. They were then parasitized by Leech Pods directly. Naturally, it was more taxing for Bloody to cast parasites on living things. There were two failed cases as proof of that.
Apart from that, there were 32 imperial-level black gold-rank puppets. They were flying puppetry monsters which were brought back in time for Bloody to cast parasites on when their brains were still active. After all, Leech Pods could not cast parasites on monsters which rank was higher. Hence, Bloody had to do that itself.
Unfortunately, the 30 imperial-level yellow gold-rank monsters Lin Huang killed surpassed Bloody's parasitic ability. They were then left in Lin Huang's storage space. However, since their brains had lost activity, they could no longer be parasitized. They could only be summoned into spirits with a Witchcraft Rune. However, that could only be done when Bloody reached imperial-level black gold-rank. Otherwise, there would be a high possibility that the summoned spirit would lose control and might even backfire.
After obtaining Kylie's battle formations, Bloody was more confident in its puppet army now. It even had the confidence to fight imperial-level yellow gold-rank powerhouses with its puppet army after they successfully practiced the battle formations.