147: Glory Points

Rumble—!

This time, it was an earth-shattering explosion!

The entire Tier 3 Main Nest was like a lit powder keg, completely torn apart and blown open from the inside by double the destructive energy!

Countless fragments of flesh, bone shards, and energy crystals shot outward like a rainstorm!

The violent energy shockwave swept across the entire nest cluster area, knocking the surrounding Tier 2 Sub-Nests askew and covering their surfaces with cracks!

Amidst the explosion's dust and turbulent energy, Lin Yuan's figure was firmly protected by his Origin Dharma Body, standing unmoved.

As the dust settled slightly, all that remained was a massive, bottomless charred crater, along with the smoking ruins of the nest scattered around it.

That massive Tier 3 Main Nest, along with its core, had been completely erased!

[Destroyed Tier 3 Beast Nest x1, Glory Points +100!]

The bracelet's notification was clear and cold.

A chain reaction followed. Having lost the energy supply and command of the Main Nest, the surrounding Tier 2 Sub-Nests, which were already damaged, were like buildings that had lost their Foundation; the flesh on their surfaces rapidly withered, necrotized, and disintegrated.

Within a few breaths, they turned into piles of putrid, foul-smelling sludge.

[Destroyed Tier 2 Beast Nest x7, Glory Points +70!]

The [Glory Points] column on Lin Yuan's wrist instantly jumped from 0 to 170!

Meanwhile, on the massive intelligence screen at the base center, the [Nest Destruction Rate] column, originally at [0%], flickered extremely slightly to become [0.0000017%].

Although insignificant, it was a Breakthrough from zero to something!

Lin Yuan stood at the edge of the crater formed by the explosion, his chaos heavenly evolution robe fluttering slightly in the residual energy, remaining spotless.

He glanced at the newly added Glory Points on his bracelet and felt the Chaos Qi in this area, which had thinned significantly due to the destruction of the Main Nest, but felt no great ripples in his heart.

This was just the beginning. A single Tier 3 nest was only 100 Glory Points; the efficiency... was too low.

His gaze seemed to pierce through the obstruction of the ruins, casting towards the deeper areas where the energy fluctuations were more massive and obscure.

That was where high-tier targets worthy of him using more Origin Dharma Body Spells existed.

Just as Lin Yuan was preparing to set off deeper, his powerful perception caught intense energy fluctuations coming from afar.

Above a collapsed starport ruin dozens of miles away, destructive energy raged like a storm.

A massive axe of destruction spanning the sky slammed fiercely into a flesh nest one size larger than the one Lin Yuan had just destroyed!

That nest was clearly a Tier 4 nest, with astonishing defensive power, and a thick energy shield rose from its surface.

Boom—!!!

A deafening explosion rang out; the axe of destruction collided violently with the shield, erupting with blinding light.

The shield fluctuated violently, covered in cracks, but did not completely shatter!

The nest let out an angry screech, and several thick energy tentacles lashed out fiercely toward the source of the attack.

On the other side, in a ruin shrouded by nether mist, Cang Jiuyou of the Cangqiong Imperial Dynasty was entangled with dozens of Tier 5 beasts, "Shadow Hunters," with combat power reaching 3 million. The power of the nether turned into chains and vortexes; the battle appeared quite intense and would be difficult to end in a short time.

He was still a considerable distance away from a Tier 4 nest emitting a cold aura.

Further away, the sound of swords pierced the air, and deathly Sword Qi crisscrossed.

Sword Without Dust of the Heavenly Sword Sanctuary was wielding his Sword Qi, slowly clearing out the beast horde around a Tier 4 nest.

He also did not use his Origin Dharma Body Spells, clearly wanting to save the usage count for killing even more powerful beasts.

Lin Yuan withdrew his perception, understanding in his heart.

These top Prodigies were indeed far stronger than ordinary Trial Participants, but when facing high-tier nests and their guards, if they did not use their Origin Dharma Body Spells, they still needed to fight bitterly, and their efficiency was far inferior to his own.

The speed at which they obtained Glory Points was completely not on the same level as his.

On the intelligence screen, on the Merit Board and Glory Board, the numbers for [merit points] and [Glory Points] behind Lin Yuan's name stood out like a crane in a flock of chickens, leaving all other names far behind.

"The real battle is in the depths."

Lin Yuan no longer paid attention to others; his Origin Dharma Body unfolded once more, turning into a gray stream of light, shooting toward the darker, more dangerous core area of the Thousand Absolute Star City ruins.

That was the battlefield for obtaining a large amount of Glory Points.

Leaving the destroyed nest cluster area, Lin Yuan's speed in penetrating deeper into the ruins increased.

His Origin Dharma Body was like a giant ship breaking through waves, plowing a path through the surging yet non-threatening low-tier beast hordes.

The merit points on his bracelet grew steadily and continuously, but Lin Yuan's gaze remained locked on the depths of the ruins, toward those directions that emitted even more powerful and chaotic energy fluctuations, like dark lighthouses.

The closer to the core area, the worse the environment became.

The concentration of Chaos Qi permeating the air increased sharply, even forming visible, light-distorting energy turbulence.

The fleshy fungal mat on the ground became thick like a carpet; stepping on it felt like sinking into a swamp of flesh, with dark green corrosive bubbles constantly emerging and bursting from beneath, emitting nauseating acid mist.

Huge, twisted, mutated plants reached out from the ruins like the tentacles of demons, waving unconsciously.

In some areas, space displayed unstable ripples, clearly space scars left behind by the great war in the past or the erosion of beast power.

Lin Yuan's Primordial Dao Body had purple Qi circulating, isolating the eroding filth and Chaos energy from the outside.

His Eternal Evolution Body provided a continuous stream of vitality, resisting the continuous erosion of the environment.

He was like the only pure land walking in the filthy Hell.

After penetrating about three hundred miles deep, a terrifying aura that was scorching, violent, and seemed to want to smelt and recast everything, rushed toward him like an invisible furnace!

Turning past a canyon pass completely blocked by the bones of giant beasts, the scene before him made even Lin Yuan slightly narrow his eyes.

This was an extremely vast area, which seemed to be the former industrial zone of the Star City.

But at this moment, it had turned into a terrifying purgatory constructed of flesh, lava, and twisted metal!

In the center of the area stood an unimaginably huge nest!

It was over a thousand meters tall, shaped like an inverted, constantly pulsating giant furnace!

The entire nest was composed of dark red flesh, flowing with lava-like scorching fluid, and its surface was embedded with countless huge, pale bone spurs that resembled boiler rivets.

Thick "energy pipes" pulsing with dark red light wrapped around the nest's surface like blood vessels, extending all the way down into the "lava pool" below—that was a swamp of flesh made of scalding, bubbling dark red viscous liquid, emitting a terrifying high temperature.

Every pulse of the "furnace" was accompanied by a deafening "Thump! Thump!" sound, like a giant hammer striking the earth!

Accompanying the pulse, the huge "furnace mouth" at the top of the furnace would erupt with a dark red pillar of fire that shot into the sky, mixed with scorching flesh fragments and sulfur steam!

Within the fire pillar, one could vaguely see the newly formed figures of beasts emitting high temperatures and fierce auras—Tier 4 King Beasts, Lava Hounds, with combat power reaching 900,000, and Tier 5 Lord Beasts, Lava Colossus, with combat power reaching 9,900,000!