538: The giant face appears again, can you stop it? (5k)

Several days later.

A figure wearing a dragon-head mask and completely enveloped in a wide black robe suddenly appeared on the bank of the River of Time Reversal.

It was Lin Yang.

Days earlier, he had tested the waters here, scaring the White Fatty Old Man. To prevent the White Fatty Old Man from worrying too much, he honestly returned to seclusion.

After a few days, the White Fatty Old Man had calmed down considerably.

So, Lin Yang put on this mask and a black robe, concealed his aura, and secretly slipped out.

With his current power level, if he deliberately concealed his aura, the White Fatty Old Man would not be able to detect him.

However, people often observed near the River of Time Reversal, so Lin Yang covered himself completely to avoid being recognized.

The dragon-head mask was the one Lin Mu had helped him craft back in Bu Bo Ze.

Years later, it was now put to use again.

"River of Time Reversal, let's see if you can fully satisfy the 'Boundary' this time!"

A faint light flickered in Lin Yang's eyes, filled with anticipation.

Although the Boundary had 'revived' after absorbing the power of the black mist and the strange Stone Statue, Lin Yang could feel that it was still far from being fully charged.

The power of the black mist and the Stone Statue was merely enough to provide the Boundary with the energy for its initial 'revival'.

It still required a large amount of high-level power to charge the Boundary.

This feeling was akin to charging a mobile phone or other electronic device.

The Boundary was previously like an electronic device with a completely depleted battery, fully shut down.

The power of the black mist and the Stone Statue gave the Boundary enough power to turn on.

But it only reached the minimum standard to turn on the Boundary, activating some basic abilities.

After turning on, it still needed continuous charging!

However, the Boundary was, of course, far more advanced and profound than electronic devices and such things.

To fully charge it and make it completely revive was not that simple.

At least, Lin Yang currently had no idea how much power would be needed to fully charge and completely revive the Boundary.

Even the power displayed by the Boundary in its initial revival was incredibly astonishing.

Lin Yang could not even imagine what exaggerated abilities a fully revived Boundary would possess.

Although the Boundary seemed not very interested in the power of the River of Time Reversal and was unwilling to absorb it actively.

But that didn't matter.

If the Boundary wasn't active, he would actively call upon the Boundary's power, send it into the River of Time Reversal, and entice the River of Time Reversal's power to be absorbed by the Boundary.

Anyway, it was absorbable power, so who cared if it was interested or not!

As he mobilized his power, the scene from a few days ago replayed.

The River of Time Reversal reacted, and ripples of power emerged again.

When these power ripples drew near, the Boundary would still absorb them.

Lin Yang immediately felt energized.

He had already consumed a considerable amount of the Boundary's power after using it several times, and he was just worrying about where to replenish it.

Now, the opportunity had arrived!

The River of Time Reversal had existed for countless years and was so mysterious and unique.

The power contained within it would surely allow the Boundary to feast!

Of course, Lin Yang dared not mobilize too much power at once, to avoid any accidents.

At the same time, just as Lin Yang was using the power of the River of Time Reversal to charge the Boundary.

Messages from Autumn Eaves and Lord Zi Yun arrived consecutively.

Lin Yang answered all of them, communicating simultaneously: "Your Excellency Autumn Eaves, Lord Zi Yun, is the pursuit of the Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan Old Ancestors not going smoothly?"

"Uh... Your Excellency Lin Yang, you already know?" Autumn Eaves and the others said in astonishment.

"I don't know your specific actions, but it's been so many days, and you haven't contacted me much, so it's clearly not going too smoothly, right?" Lin Yang smiled.

With the strength of Autumn Eaves and the others, if things were going smoothly, they wouldn't have failed to capture any Old Ancestors of the two clans for over half a month.

This was obvious with a little thought.

"Cough, cough, well, it is indeed as Your Excellency Lin Yang surmised, the operation is indeed not going very smoothly."

Autumn Eaves coughed lightly and began to explain:

"When we went to pursue the Old Ancestors of their two clans that day, they seemed to have already known that we wouldn't let them go, so they all fled extremely quickly."

"The Old Ancestors of the Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan fled together, not giving us a chance to defeat them one by one. They also had some unusual life-saving items in their hands, and after so many days of stalemate, we still haven't been able to capture them."

"Of course, it wasn't entirely without success. In the past few days, we also found opportunities to kill two Old Ancestors of the two clans, but the remaining Old Ancestors directly fled into a relic in the Unknown Space, and we are now helpless."

Autumn Eaves was a little embarrassed.

He had originally thought that capturing or killing the Old Ancestors of the two clans would be an easy task.

But in reality, the situation was far more complicated than they had imagined.

The Old Ancestors of the Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan had some strange items that could hinder their killing.

Now, they had even fled directly into a relic in the Unknown Space, which left them at a loss.

"Oh..."

Lin Yang's eyes flashed upon hearing this, and he said:

"They dared to enter the relic because of that High-Dimensional Universe's Lord-level existence, which allows them to safely exit the relic."

Previously, in that base relic, the Lord-level expert from that High-Dimensional Universe could even allow ordinary members of the Mingye Clan to freely enter and exit the relic.

The Old Ancestors of the two clans would certainly be even less of a problem.

It was just unknown whether the cards these Old Ancestors of the two clans held were leftover from what the High-Dimensional Universe's Lord-level existence had given them before, or newly given recently.

As for Autumn Eaves mentioning the strange life-saving items of the two Old Ancestors, those must also have been bestowed by that High-Dimensional Universe's Lord-level existence.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Yang said: "Your Excellencies, there's no need to waste any more time on this. Please leave a projection to guard that relic, and I'll go take a look after I'm done with my current task."

He wasn't confident he could deal with those Old Ancestors in the relic right now, so there was no rush.

Instead, charging the Boundary was more crucial.

Currently, he also needed to rely on the Boundary's power to deal with Old Ancestor-level experts.

Moreover, going deep into the relic and then getting out, even if the Boundary's power could achieve it, would definitely consume a lot.

At present, charging as much as possible was the most urgent matter.

"Alright then, we'll return to the Ten Thousand Universes first and wait for you at the Human Alliance."

Autumn Eaves and the others didn't say anything more.

"Okay, but remember not to let it slip. Don't say you're waiting for me to return, but rather that you're waiting for me to emerge from seclusion. In my master's eyes, I'm currently in seclusion!"

Lin Yang quickly reminded them again.

"Ah?"

Autumn Eaves and the others were all stunned, then couldn't help but burst into laughter:

"Hahaha, Your Excellency Lin Yang, did you do something you feel guilty about? Are you afraid of being caught by your master?"

Although they didn't know the specific details, they were all shrewd individuals and could infer a lot of information from Lin Yang's simple words.

Such a grown man, and a top-tier expert at that, still had to lie. This clearly meant he had done something 'unmentionable'.

It was like the feeling of secretly doing something wrong and being afraid of being caught by parents.

"..."

Lin Yang fell silent, then directly hung up the communication.

This made Autumn Eaves and the others, who were far away in the Unknown Space, laugh even louder... Ten days passed in a flash.

Lin Yang had been continuously attracting the river's power to charge the Boundary on the bank of the River of Time Reversal.

However, after more than ten days of charging, Lin Yang felt that the effect was minimal.

To put it bluntly, he felt that he hadn't replenished much power for the Boundary.

"Is it because the power I attract each time is too little, or is there some problem with the power within this River of Time Reversal?"

Lin Yang muttered.

The power within the River of Time Reversal definitely surpassed that of an Old Ancestor, there was no doubt about that.

But even though it was also power beyond the Old Ancestor level, both the black mist and the Stone Statue could make the Boundary very excited and charge it considerably.

He had originally estimated that ten days of charging, even if it couldn't match the power of that strange Stone Statue, would at least be more than the power of the black mist absorbed before.

However, the reality was that ten days of charging gave him a feeling of very little effect!

"Let's try mobilizing more power."

Finally, Lin Yang decided to take a risk, mobilize more of the Boundary's power, and attract more of the River of Time Reversal's power, to see if it could improve this slow charging.

But... "Still not working?"

Lin Yang soon discovered that no matter how much of the Boundary's power he mobilized, the amount of power he could absorb from the River of Time Reversal each time remained within a relatively stable small range.

This forced Lin Yang to consider temporarily giving up on continuing to charge the Boundary.

Because, from a time perspective, the cost-effectiveness was too low.

Even decades or a century of charging might not catch up to the power absorbed from a single Stone Statue.

“It definitely isn’t because the River of Time Reversal’s power is inferior to the Stone Statue or the black mist; there must be some other limitation I’m not aware of yet.”

“Perhaps things will change once I enter, but for now, I can’t risk going in.”

Lin Yang sighed, no longer continuing to charge. He glanced at the River of Time Reversal and quietly returned.

Now was not the time to enter the River of Time Reversal.

He stealthily returned to his secluded cultivation place, removed his mask and black robe, and pretended to emerge as if the Tea Banquet members had contacted him to discuss important matters.

“Your Excellency Lin Yang, what are your plans now?”

Although the Tea Banquet members were curious why Lin Yang had “lied,” they didn’t ask further and got straight to business.

“I plan to eliminate all other members of the Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan first!” Lin Yang declared.

Over the past ten-plus days, he had thought a lot. The Old Ancestors of the two clans had escaped into the ruins and couldn't be killed for now, but he could use this opportunity to completely wipe out the other members of the two clans.

This way, even if the Lord of the High-Dimensional Universe still wanted to make a move, he would be greatly inconvenienced without the two clans to do his bidding.

Even if he could find other alien races to work for him again.

But with so many years of effort ruined, not only would it definitely infuriate that guy, but even if he found other races to cooperate with, he would have to start over from scratch.

In any case, this would prevent that High-Dimensional Lord from continuing to plot against humanity for a certain period of time.

Therefore, Lin Yang didn't want to wait any longer.

Killing the other clan members of the two races didn't require him to become an Old Ancestor!

Moreover, the Tea Banquet members were still here, making it a prime opportunity to eradicate the two clans!

When Lin Yang revealed his idea, the Tea Banquet members naturally supported it.

Song Qingfeng didn't say anything either.

Keeping the two clans was ultimately a hidden danger.

He just asked Lin Yang to wait a few more days so he could make proper arrangements to minimize casualties among the Human Alliance warriors.

Lin Yang nodded in agreement.

Tea Banquet then added, “Your Excellency Lin Yang, after eradicating the Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan, I’ll have to trouble you to send me back to the Ten Thousand Realms Universe. Let Lord Zi Yun and the others stay here to help. I'm afraid that old ghost Yuan Chen might cause trouble if my true body is absent for too long.”

Lin Yang immediately responded, “If Your Excellency Tea Banquet is worried, I can send you back now.”

To deal with the ordinary clan members of the two races, honestly, a high-end combat presence like Tea Banquet wasn't really necessary.

However, Tea Banquet shook his head and smiled, “There’s no rush for this moment. Let me help you stabilize the situation here first.”

“Alright then, Lord Zi Yun, how do you all plan to proceed? Are you returning to the Ten Thousand Universes, or…?” Lin Yang then looked at Lord Zi Yun, Kong Shan Yu, and the others.

The group exchanged glances, and Lord Zi Yun spoke on behalf of everyone:

“The few of us will continue to stay here until you break through to Old Ancestor level.”

“On one hand, we can temporarily help you deal with other Old Ancestors. On the other hand, the environment here in the Ten Thousand Universes seems more suitable for cultivation.”

“We haven’t reached the third level yet, and we can still improve further here.”

“As for the resources in the Ten Thousand Realms Universe, let’s give them all to Old Man Tea for now. We all hope he can become the first ultimate Old Ancestor of our Ten Thousand Realms Universe in so many eras!”

Lin Yang nodded slightly: “That works too.”

Tea Banquet returning to the Ten Thousand Realms Universe could enjoy exclusive resources for accumulation and also guard against Old Ancestor Yuan Chen.

Autumn Eaves being there wouldn't affect anything and could help Tea Banquet handle some troublesome matters.

Lord Zi Yun and the other four staying behind could also deter the Old Ancestors of the Neutral Faction before he became an Old Ancestor.

This arrangement was quite suitable.

Soon, a few days passed in a flash.

Song Qingfeng came to tell Lin Yang that everything was arranged and they could proceed.

“Finally, it’s time to settle accounts with the two clans!”

A cold glint flashed in Lin Yang’s eyes.

“Your Excellency Lin Yang, let’s do it the same way. We’ll help you capture their Spirit Realm experts, and you eliminate their ordinary clan members first!”

The Tea Banquet members also rose, exchanged a few words, and then dispersed to act.

The Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan here in the Ten Thousand Universes had far more members than those in the Ten Thousand Realms Universe.

So, while Lin Yang was eliminating the ordinary clan members of the two races, the Tea Banquet members captured those guys who tried to escape in the chaos, saving Lin Yang the time of chasing them down afterward.

The group had already cooperated once when they were in the Ten Thousand Realms Universe, so this time their coordination was also quite seamless.

Lin Yang remained ruthless, and with the coordinated firepower of the Human Alliance, he rapidly harvested the lives of the Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan members on the battlefield.

This cleansing lasted for a full month.

There were simply too many members of the two clans!

So many that even if Lin Yang just stood there killing, he would get tired, let alone them resisting desperately.

There were even some methods suspected to be bestowed by that High-Dimensional Universe Lord.

Therefore, it was far more troublesome than when they eradicated the two clans in the Ten Thousand Realms Universe.

And while eradicating the two clans, they also had to guard against the High-Dimensional Universe Lord secretly interfering.

It took a full month for Lin Yang and the warriors of the Human Alliance to initially wipe out the two clans.

This, once again, shocked all the races in the entire Ten Thousand Universes.

The Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan could be said to be among the largest groups besides humans.

In terms of strength, they were top-tier.

But today, both clans were simultaneously annihilated.

This kind of shock was even more awe-inspiring.

It had been a very, very long time since a major race had been annihilated in the Ten Thousand Universes.

Even the demise of some smaller races was mostly due to the race being too small and weak, naturally eliminated, rather than being artificially wiped out.

So much so that people had already forgotten that “extermination of a race” was even a thing.

But now, the demise of the Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan once again terrified all other races in the Ten Thousand Universes, and they became even more reverent towards humanity.

Although Lin Yang gained a large amount of national treasure value, he did not completely finish the “Nether Night Dirge” and “Lingyou's Final Melody” quests.

Because some Old Ancestors of the two clans and a very few individual guys had escaped into the ruins using some mysterious methods and had not yet been eliminated.

“This is really troublesome.”

Lin Yang murmured, then stepped out and entered the entrance of the ruins where the two clans had fled in the Unknown Space.

Tea Banquet and the others were already waiting there.

“Your Excellency Lin Yang, this is the ruin. First, familiarize yourself with the path, then send Old Man Tea back to the Ten Thousand Realms Universe, and then return to break through to Old Ancestor. We will guard here.”

Lord Zi Yun said.

Lin Yang nodded and then called upon the power of the “Realm” to try and scout the situation.

He wanted to see if he could use the power of the “Realm” to bring the Tea Banquet members in and out of the ruins.

If he could, he would take a few people into the ruins and kill all the Mingye Clan and Lingyou Clan members inside.

If not, he would first send Tea Banquet back to the Ten Thousand Realms Universe and then figure out another way.

However, just as he made a move, a terrifying power fluctuation suddenly descended in the dark space.

Then, a giant face materialized, staring coldly at Lin Yang.

“This is…”

The Tea Banquet members were all startled.

The aura of this giant human face made them feel terrified.

Lin Yang’s eyes narrowed as he looked at the giant human face and snorted coldly:

“It’s you again, the so-called ‘Lord’!”

Yes, that’s right.

This giant human face was precisely the giant face of that High-Dimensional Universe Lord who had appeared once before in the ruins!

“What? This is the High-Dimensional Universe Lord?”

The Tea Banquet members were once again greatly shocked upon hearing this!

They stared at the terrifying giant human face, their inner emotions disturbed for a long time.

The giant face, however, said to Lin Yang in a deep voice:

“Human boy, you are truly too arrogant in your actions, attempting to annihilate my subordinates.”

“Heh heh, is this the first time you’ve heard of it, ‘Lord’?”

Lin Yang still sneered:

“What, how do you plan to stop me this time?”

As he spoke, Lin Yang, under the giant face’s gloomy gaze, quipped:

“Or rather, can you even stop me?”