Chapter 279 - 279: About to Breakthrough! (4 more updates)

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“Kill! Take down these worms!”

Chai Defu roared, this time he was the first to take action, joining forces with a few Martial Artists from Sand Russia.

The others also took action, but these venomous snakes were not easy to deal with. Each one was Quasi-S-level, like the water pythons in the Five Connected Pools. Moreover, the extreme venom they carried made people have to be careful to avoid it, unable to fully attack.

rlWvo screams echoed continuously, as one from the African Union and one from the European Union perished.

Lin Zhen’s team also faced enormous pressure, as menacing snake mouths attacked from all directions. Those who had never witnessed this scene could not imagine the horror.

Qin Huashang seemed to be unable to hold on any longer, and Lin Zhen’s flying sword support was not as powerful as before. After all, he had to face many venomous snakes attacking him as well.

Suddenly, a black and red python lunged at Qin Huashang’s head, attempting to swallow her whole. Captain Wu Hai, who was next to Zhang Zhen, could not help in time, so he surprisingly kicked Zhang Zhen over!

Zhang Zhen had never dreamt that Wu Hai would attack him. Unable to dodge, he was bitten by the python. Half of his body struggled outside, but the python descended, and the snake pile rolled. In an instant, Zhang Zhen disappeared.

At the moment Zhang Zhen disappeared, Lin Zhen’s sword flew like lightning and accurately cut down the finger with Zhang Zhen’s space ring!

After losing a few more people, the team finally made it out of the white-boned venomous snake area.

Wu Hai and Qin Huashang stood side by side, staring intently at Lin Zhen.

“I didn’t expect your mental control to be so strong that you could snatch Zhang Zhen’s ring at that time. I really underestimated you,” Wu Hai said coldly.

“Heh, I didn’t expect Captain Wu to be so decisive in playing the hero to save the beauty. I underestimated you as well.”

Wu Hai’s face grew colder, and his gaze towards Lin Zhen seemed unfriendly.

Qin Huashang’s face also turned pale. She could feel that when the python attacked just now, Lin Zhen seemed to deliberately not support her. What was going on? Wasn’t this person supposed to be infatuated with her? “Who are you really? You’ve hidden your strength!” Wu Hai asked.

“You can think whoever I am.”

“You’re Lin Zhen!” As if Qin Huashang had thought of something, she said softly.

Lin Zhen only smiled and didn’t speak, while Wu Hai angrily said, “You hid so well that we didn’t see it.”

“If you saw through me too early, could I still be standing here alive? I’m afraid you two would have told Li Yao long ago,” Lin Zhen sneered.

“How did you find out?” Wu Hai asked.

“It’s actually very simple. I heard you talking on the walkie-talkie and also heard you two doing that strange thing in the tent at night. Don’t ask me why I could hear it. My ears are just more sensitive than others. Also, you women, how could you use that kind of method to test me? Didn’t you know that Lin Zhen’s girlfriend is the Divine Sect’s Saintess Su Mingyue? How could you have the confidence to approach me? People are sometimes really strange creatures.” Lin Zhen looked at Qin Huashang, not holding back any mockery.

“You have a lot of nerve. still being so arrogant while being pursped Inv the

Star Realm experts. Wu Hai, send the message, tell Li Yao that Lin Zhen is here!” Qin Huashang was ashamed and angry.

Wu Hai took out his walkie-talkie to call while pointing at Lin Zhen, “Lin Zhen, don’t be arrogant. I originally thought that you had also contributed to the country, so I hesitated whether to tell Li Yao about you. But I didn’t expect you to play tricks on me, so I don’t need to hesitate anymore. Li Yao is in the first layer, and he can come to deal with you very soon. I’m calling now; if you have the guts, do something to me now and see if the people from Sand Russia will let you go. Your cover is blown!”

Wu Hails voice was a bit low because at this moment, he wasn’t sure if he should reveal Lin Zhen’s information right away. After all, Lin Zhen was known as the number one person under the Star Realm. If he really went mad, even if the people from Sand Russia and other countries hated Lin Zhen to the bone, they might not be able to stop Lin Zhen from killing him.

However, Lin Zhen couldn’t kill that many people either, so he most likely wouldn’t take action on the spot. In Wu Hai’s view, Lin Zhen should turn and flee. That would also be considered completing his mission.

But Lin Zhen only sneered disdainfully, not bothering with Li Yao at all. Even though he couldn’t take action now, he was confident that even if Li Yao came he wouldn’t be able to do anything to him. He was also looking forward to meeting Li Yao.

At this moment, after counting the number of people left, the Chinese team had only three remaining, while the European Union, African Union, and two other countries only had two people left in each team. The situation was the worst for India; only Captain Bogba was left alive, with the other four dead, including a Mind Master.

Twenty-five people came in, and now only thirteen were left. Half of them had been lost even before encountering the Rage Dragon Beast. Chai Defu looked around, “It’s almost time, friends. The cave of the Rage Dragon Beast is right ahead. It’s said that there are holy artifacts inside. Let’s put in some effort together. Everyone will be rewarded if we get the holy artifacts. Now we need someone to go in first to explore the situation and determine the number of Rage Dragon Beasts so that we can plan our tactics.”

Ahead was a huge dark cave entrance. Even the snoring of the Rage Dragon Beasts inside could be heard, indicating that there was more than one.

Every Rage Dragon Beast was at least an S-level, and the stronger, adult ones were even close to SS-level. They were considered Quasi-SS Class, making them the most formidable beings in the first layer of the Ancient God City.

Almost no one was willing to go in first when faced with the cave right in front of them.

At this time, Lin Zhen volunteered, “Let me go in. As a Spiritual Mind Master, I should be more convenient to move around than others.”

“Alright, you go first,” Chai Defu immediately agreed.

Wu Hai and Qin Huashang opened their mouths to say something but felt it was inappropriate. However, Lin Zhen didn’t care about their opinions and simply stepped into the cave of the Rage Dragon Beast.

Not even five seconds after entering, a scream from Lin Zhen suddenly came from inside, followed by silence.

“Damn it! He’s so useless, he didn’t even bring back any information!” Chai Defu swore, then turned to the European Union’s Mind Master, “You go, make sure to bring back some information.”

The European Union Mind Master nervously entered, and then emerged in disarray after about ten minutes, “There are about ten Rage Dragon Beasts inside, three adult males, and one especially large one. There seem to be quite a few nice things near the big Rage Dragon Beast, but I didn’t dare to go over.”

“Useless! You should have lured out one or two of them so we could hunt them down little by little. Now go back in and lure one out,” Chai Defu ordered.

The European Union Mind Master re-entered the cave of the Rage Dragon Beast, while the remaining people prepared to ambush at the entrance, clearing the Rage Dragon Beasts little by little.

Not long after the battle started, Li Yao, who was already on the verge of losing his mind trying to find Lin Zhen, finally arrived.

A gust of wind swept by, and Li Yao walked through the air, causing some small exploration teams to dodge out of his way.

“Damn! A Star Realm Expert, everyone get out of the way!”

“This speed is too fast, heading straight for the second layer, you don’t need to worry, Star Realm Experts definitely won’t mix around on the first layer, as long as we don’t provoke them, they won’t care about the likes of us ants.” “But it seems like he’s really worked up, is he going after someone?”

“Just mind your own business, whoever he’s going after is just out of luck, there’s no way anyone below the Star Realm can compete against a Star Realm Expert, even Lin Zhen is no exception, let alone us.”

Li Yao’s beard and hair fluttered in the wind, and he had finally received news about Lin Zhen. Moreover, it was about him being in the lair of the Rage Dragon Beast – this time, he would see where this kid would escape to!

At this moment, Lin Zhen was inside the cave, his body was wrapped in a metal sphere shaped like a sea urchin formed by the liquid metal around him.

A small Rage Dragon Beast tentatively touched it and was immediately pricked, yelping and running away, no longer daring to touch this hedgehog-like object.

Lin Zhen didn’t care about what was going on outside, he took out Zhang

Zhen’s Space Ring and removed the Wind Element Crystal from within,

“S-level Wind Element Crystal, just what I urgently need, I didn’t manage to get you initially, but now you’re back.”

At the moment, Lin Zhen’s Spatial Folding technique was just a bit short of completion. He needed to increase his power just a bit and the quickest way to do that was to absorb the crystal.

After mixing the prepared medicine with the wind crystal, Lin Zhen immediately began to absorb it.

S-tier crystals could be absorbed by Quasi-Star Realms, as soon as Lin Zhen began to absorb it, he immediately felt the powerful energy enter his dantian, containing a trace of the Wind Element.

His internal Dark Star began to revolve, guiding these energies into the Dark Star.

A pale green Wind Element slowly appeared on the surface of the Dark Star.

At first, it was a gentle breeze, but the wind gradually grew stronger, turning into a strong gale.

As the energy continued to pour in, a hurricane began to blow on the surface of the Dark Star, the Wind Element surged, streaks of lightning flickered, and the Dark Star gradually looked more like a real planet.

The gale turned into a tornado, and the tornado formed a whirlwind, followed by a hurricane that swept across the entire planet!

The Dark Star’s absorption speed was extremely fast. After ten minutes, Lin Zhen had completely absorbed the wind-element crystal.

“As expected, it’s an S-level Element Crystal, the energy contained within is truly powerful, my realm is almost reaching the late stage of a Seventh-level War God.’

“Now, I can try out the Spatial Folding technique.”

Lin Zhen felt that his current state was better than ever before. His mental power once again dived into the Nested Life Dark Nether Stone.

A sliver of mental power was injected into the Dark Star, and a familiar process began to repeat itself.

“Swoosh!”

Mental power was injected into a space then withdrawn, followed by the mental power within the Dark Star pouring in!

Success!

In a thousandth of a second, Lin Zhen’s thoughts caused the original space in his dantian and the Dark Star Space power to clash. Light and space power completed billions of times of folding and merging in an instant, setting up a secondary space right beside Lin Zhen.

Lin Zhen’s liquid metal armor retracted, and his body vanished on the spot, as if it had never appeared there in the first place.

At this moment, another strange change occurred within Lin Zhen’s dantian.

The first space where Lin Zhen had injected his mental power was directly integrated into his dantian. Meanwhile, the space where the mental power on the Dark Star was injected quietly fused onto the Dark Star.

As soon as this space merged with the Dark Star, it seemed as if the Dark Star had gained life. Lin Zhen could feel the fire, lightning, light, cold, hurricane, golden energy and dark energy within the Dark Star become active. Although it was still within his dantian, it was as if it had turned into another world!

A nearly real world!

“This… what is this…? Is this a sign of a planet about to be born? Are those energy bodies going to gather and form a star core?”

As Lin Zhen was puzzled, the Dark Star suddenly started to rotate. An immense life force and power appeared, like a tidal wave gushing in reverse from the Dark Star’s interior, filling Lin Zhen’s dantian in an instant!

Under the impact of this powerful force, Lin Zhen’s dantian’s boundary began to expand wildly!

“This is…. a breakthrough!” Lin Zhen’s eyes narrowed, and he was barely able to suppress his dantian!