41: Chapter 41 Taking a Gamble

If he encountered an opponent slightly stronger and difficult to defeat quickly, he could at most smoothly unlock the Iron-Bone Turtle's ultimate defense, paired with the Soul-Crying Crow's divine soul interference.

Offense, defense, and control formed a trinity, enough to stabilize the battle situation and handle the vast majority of formidable enemies.

As for the remaining familiars, Lin Ye chose to hide them all to keep his trump cards concealed.

Especially the Rot-Blood Mosquito group; their toxicity was vicious and insidious, eroding flesh and divine souls.

Their lethality was far too venomous, and they also had a virus-spreading effect.

Even after the battle between both sides ended, the toxicity would not stop and might even infect more familiars.

Once released, it would be an endless, irreconcilable situation, extremely prone to heavily injuring or even obliterating opponents.

Aside from the final decisive battle targeting his mortal enemy Ye Feng, he never intended to expose this trump card in ordinary arena matches to avoid prematurely arousing the vigilance of the school's higher-ups and top talents, thereby completely exposing all his combat power.

After taking stock of all his familiar combat power, Lin Ye's gaze flickered slightly as he picked up that A-grade Reproduction Card.

By now, his Divine Kingdom and his familiars could withstand the effects of a Reproduction Card once more.

The time flow in the Divine Kingdom was completely different from reality; the mere twelve days of preparation time in reality corresponded to a full year's growth and reproduction cycle within the Divine Kingdom.

Once the Reproduction Card was activated again, the numbers of the six major familiar groups would usher in a massive surge, piling up a batch of extremely strong hidden combat power for him before the match and becoming his greatest confidence to turn the tables in the arena.

Having finalized all preparation plans in his mind, Lin Ye restrained all his thoughts, quietly waiting for midnight to use the reproduction card and steadily preparing for the School-wide Projection Confrontation Competition two days later.

The night grew deeper, time slowly slipped by, and in the blink of an eye, it stepped into midnight.

The moment the cooldown time refreshed punctually, Lin Ye immediately cast aside distracting thoughts, sat cross-legged, and let his mind sink once more into his sea of consciousness, taking up residence within his own Divine Kingdom.

The entire Divine Kingdom was enveloped by a dense, biting aura of pure baleful spirits.

The killing intent and frigid aura between heaven and earth were far heavier than usual, and the C-grade baleful energy crystals on the ground shone brilliantly, continuously supplying pure energy to the Divine Kingdom.

His original plan was very simple: after the midnight cooldown refreshed, he would directly activate the A-grade Reproduction Card in his hand, relying on the Divine Kingdom's tenfold time flow to spawn a massive amount of familiar combat power within a mere two days of real time, solidifying his own trump cards.

But when his gaze fell upon the patches of the Rot-Blood Mosquito group entrenched around the baleful crystal veins, his movements suddenly paused.

Within his line of sight, densely packed swarms of mosquitoes blotted out the sky and sun.

Just the adult Rot-Blood Mosquitoes alone numbered over fifty thousand, making the group size extremely massive.

However, Lin Ye's brows were tightly furrowed, and it was hard for him to feel satisfied in his heart.

A full fifty-and-some-thousand Rot-Blood Mosquitoes, yet their quality was completely fixed at the C-grade.

This grade was still enough to crush the familiars of ordinary D-grade and C-grade students, but in this competition, formidable enemies stood like a forest—especially his mortal enemy Ye Feng, who wielded multiple A-grade familiars and even possessed rare S-grade familiars.

C-grade Rot-Blood Mosquitoes, when facing top-tier A-grade and S-grade high-tier familiars, would most likely fail even to break through the opponent's defense; the so-called toxin and plague erosion were even more out of the question, making them practically completely ineffective.

A trump card that seemed massive in quantity was utterly vulnerable in front of true top-tier combat power.

One had to know that S-grade and below S-grade were simply two completely different concepts!

S-grade familiars were mostly creatures from the ancient era, whereas those below S-grade could only be creatures existing in the near-ancient or modern eras.

Lin Ye stood tall in the firmament of the Divine Kingdom, his gaze deep and heavy as he fell into a long period of contemplation and hesitation.

He could completely activate the Reproduction Card directly, relying on quantity to pile up combat power and steadily increase the overall scale of his familiars.

But that way, the trump card of the Rot-Blood Mosquitoes would forever only target low-end opponents, unable to become a fatal move to contend with Ye Feng's top-tier familiars.

This time, he wanted to release the plague against Ye Feng's forces during the league match; even if Ye Feng managed to escape unscathed by then, under the spread of the plague, Ye Feng's familiars below S-grade would definitely die down to the very last one.

This competition was perilous in the extreme, and Ye Feng was fully prepared, bound to exhaust all his combat power to crush him.

He had to hold absolute trump cards capable of breaking the deadlock in his hands.

After weighing it again and again, a flash of determination and ruthlessness flickered in the depths of Lin Ye's eyes.

"Bet once!"

Even if it meant losing a massive amount of the group, he would forcefully elevate the quality of the Rot-Blood Mosquitoes!

Immediately, Lin Ye directly mobilized the authority of the Divine Kingdom, activating his exclusive Source-Tracing and Foundation-Consolidating Talent while issuing the most cruel group command.

In an instant, the over fifty thousand Rot-Blood Mosquitoes that had originally been entrenched and resting instantly became restless, their bloodthirsty ferocity completely aroused.

Across the entire airspace of the Divine Kingdom, an extremely tragic performance of cannibalism among kin and survival of the fittest was staged.

The mosquito swarms across the sky fought, gnawed, and devoured one another.

The weak were instantly torn apart and swallowed, while the strong devoured the essence of their kin's bloodlines, continuously purifying their own aptitude.

Meanwhile, Lin Ye's Source-Tracing and Foundation-Consolidating Talent was constantly tempering the bloodline foundation of the surviving mosquitoes at every moment, stripping away impurities and tracing back to top-tier bloodlines.

Ordinary gods viewed every single familiar as their hard-earned foundation, never daring to squander them so crazily or allow the group to slaughter each other and damage their foundation.

Looking across the entire Martial Dao Academy, and even the young generation of the Federation, only Lin Ye dared to act so defiantly against the heavens.

He did not seek to pile up numbers; he only sought the ultimate transformation of quality!

The cruel slaughter lasted for a full three days in the Divine Kingdom.

The massive corpses of the mosquito swarms turned into the purest origin of baleful power, feeding back into the heaven and earth of the Divine Kingdom.

When the slaughter finally came to an end and the mosquito swarms across the sky were completely cleared out, of the originally mighty group of over fifty thousand Rot-Blood Mosquitoes, the number that ultimately survived turned out to be fewer than one hundred and fifty.

Such a nearly devastating loss made one's heart leap in shock.

But the transformation that followed was enough to compensate for all losses!

Not a single one of these surviving one hundred and forty-odd Rot-Blood Mosquitoes was a waste.

All of them completed a grade transition, completely transforming into B-grade Plague Seed Mosquitoes!

Their sizes also surged from tiny little bugs originally to the size of house sparrows, carrying faint black mist as their wings vibrated, and their aura was biting and terrifying.

Not only were their basic biting and blood-toxin erosion abilities enhanced several times over, but they also unlocked a brand-new top-tier ability—Plague Seed Aerosol.

They could spray invisible aerosols containing a highly toxic plague, blending into the air and spreading silently.

Without needing close-quarters combat, they could continuously erode the physical bodies and divine souls of the enemy's familiars, suppressing all physical and divine soul-type martial artists.

What made Lin Ye ecstatic most of all was that the mosquito leader completed a leapfrog evolution, breaking its grade directly through to A-minus grade, having already stepped into the threshold of high-tier familiars with terrifying, peerless combat power.

The current B-grade Plague Seed Mosquitoes, under the blessing of the Divine Kingdom's dense baleful spirit Qi, fully possessed the ability to tear through the defenses of A-grade familiars.

Their plague toxins could even cause continuous corrosion to beings with a constitution below fifty, truly granting them the capital to contend with Ye Feng's top-tier familiars.

The moment their quality was completely finalized, Lin Ye did not delay in the slightest.

He immediately took out the A-grade Divine Kingdom Reproduction Card he had prepared long ago and crushed it to activate it directly!

A brilliant pale-gold light curtain instantly enveloped the entire Divine Kingdom.

A gentle and majestic power of reproduction permeated every inch of land, blessing all familiar living beings and accelerating bloodline reproduction and embryonic gestation.