191: Chapter 191 Advancement to SSS Rank 6! Becoming a High-Ranking Dominator
In the blink of an eye, three days passed by in a flash.
During these short three days, the West Continent—a forbidden land shrouded in gray mist—experienced violent upheaval!!
To gather the remaining 1,000 points of taboo value, Lin Chuan pushed his Rule Power to the limit, conducting round after round of Cleansing across more than half of the West Continent!
[Successfully devoured an s-rank third tier taboo, gained taboo value reduction +8!]
[Successfully devoured a weird colony, gained taboo value reduction +40!]
[Successfully devoured an ss-class sixth tier taboo, gained taboo value reduction +100!]
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On the panel, lines of crimson prompts flooded Lin Chuan's consciousness like a waterfall.
Finally, after Lin Chuan devoured an S-rank Taboo, a notification appeared on the panel stating that the upgrade requirements had been met!
[Current taboo value (including taboo value reduction) is sufficient! (20000/20000)!]
[Upgrade requirements met!]
[Upgrade immediately?]
"Upgrade!!"
With a thought from Lin Chuan, all the taboo value and taboo value reduction on the panel were instantly cleared.
Immediately after, the sky over the entire Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore plunged into absolute darkness without warning!
Inside the Rebirth Temple, Lin Chuan's evil buddha golden body began a terrifying transformation.
In just a few seconds, Lin Chuan completed the upgrade.
[Upgrade complete!]
[Current Terror Level: SSS-Rank Sixth-Tier (High-Ranked Dominator)!]
[Core rules have been significantly strengthened!]
[Conditions for promotion to sss rank seventh tier: Consume 70,000 taboo value!]
Seeing the panel prompt, Lin Chuan was in an excellent mood.
Although his sequence number hadn't increased this time.
Lin Chuan clearly felt that compared to when he was at SSS Tier Level 5, his Rule Power had increased several times over!
If he added the Three-layer Taboo Domain and the Taboo Domain Field covering the Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore, he could even face an ordinary SSS-Rank Eighth-Tier Taboo head-on!
After the transformation of the evil buddha golden body was complete, Lin Chuan mobilized his rules and projected a wisp of his will back toward the Dongsheng Continent.
Since the Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore had been uprooted and forcibly taken to the West Continent by Lin Chuan.
A terrifying sinkhole spanning hundreds of thousands of miles had appeared in the southern territory of the original Dongsheng Continent.
Now, as endless seawater poured in, it had turned into a pitch-black, deathly silent inland sea.
But on the edge of this turbulent black sea, a Mysterious Ancient City—old, dilapidated, and exuding the vicissitudes of endless ages—stood firmly!
It hadn't fallen into the deep sea along with the tearing of the continent.
In fact, this ancient city was expanding toward the surrounding land and sea at a hair-raising speed!
Above the ancient city, a layer of unyielding lead-gray haze always loomed.
On the city walls, human skin lanterns burning with eerie green corpse fire hung, swaying eerily in the gloomy wind.
Using Zhou Kai and the others as a medium anchor, Lin Chuan's will quietly descended into the ancient city.
At this moment, Zhou Kai was leaning against a broken wall covered in corpse spots, panting heavily.
The dozens of elite Ghost Controllers who had been sucked into the ancient city with them... were all dead!
Only Zhou Kai, Bai Ling, and Xiao Hong were still struggling to survive.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
Zhou Kai clutched his chest and coughed up a large mouthful of black blood mixed with organ fragments.
Half of his body was already highly decomposed—a fatal backlash from overusing the taboo power within him.
"This damn place... there's no end to it..."
Zhou Kai's eyes were bloodshot, filled with deep despair.
"Space is distorted, and time is warped..."
Beside him, Bai Ling's usually cold face was now as pale as paper.
She gripped a notched dagger tightly, her body shaking uncontrollably.
"We've been trapped on this street... for three whole days!"
"We can't get out... no matter which direction we go, we always end up back at the start!"
Xiao Hong leaned in the corner; she was already blind in one eye, and black pus flowed from the socket.
She laughed miserably, her voice as hoarse as a broken bellows.
"It's useless... the rule level of this city is too high; it's not something we can contend with..."
"We're all going to die here... and turn into those wandering monsters..."
Despair tightly enveloped the three of them.
In just a few days, it had turned three Taboo Masters into this state... one could see just how terrifying this ancient city was!!
Through Zhou Kai's perspective, Lin Chuan observed the surroundings indifferently.
The three were located on a street within the city.
The architectural style of the houses on both sides of the street was extremely bizarre.
Some were paper-made mourning halls, some were upside-down brothels, and some doorplates even had distorted characters that didn't belong to any human language.
And behind these tightly closed doors and windows...
Hair-raising sounds of chewing, scratching fingernails, and the shrill, miserable laughter of men, women, young, and old were faintly heard.
Step... step... step...
Just as the three were in despair.
A series of extremely heavy and rhythmic footsteps, accompanied by the sound of metal scraping, slowly approached from the end of the street.
Hearing this sound, Zhou Kai and the others instantly held their breath, not daring to make a sound.
Extreme fear showed in their eyes.
Lin Chuan's gaze followed the sound.
In the gray mist, a squad of "soldiers" wearing ancient armor appeared.
Their armor was long since rusted and stained with black blood and shredded meat from countless ages.
Most chillingly, there were no human bodies inside the armor!
Under the helmets was a void of darkness.
Inside the breastplates, they were stuffed with dense, frantically wriggling white corpse worms!
These monsters, composed of corpse worms and tattered armor, held rusted bronze dagger-axes.
With stiff and rhythmic steps, they wandered and patrolled the streets silently.
"It's the city-patrolling Yin soldiers..."
Zhou Kai screamed inwardly, covering his mouth and nose tightly.
Most of their previous companions had died because they accidentally exposed the scent of the living.
They were instantly pinned to the ground with bronze dagger-axes by these seemingly slow Yin soldiers, then eaten down to white bones by countless corpse worms!
The rules of the city-patrolling Yin soldiers were extremely overbearing; as long as they "saw" you, it was almost a certain death sentence.
The squad of Yin soldiers slowly passed by the broken wall where the three were hiding.
The thick stench of death almost made the three of them faint.
Fortunately, the scent of the corpse spots on the broken wall barely masked their scent of the living.
The Yin soldier squad didn't stop and gradually disappeared into the thick mist at the other end of the street.
Only then did Zhou Kai and the others collapse to the ground in relief, greedily gulping in the turbid air.
However, before they could even catch their breath.
A cold aura, thousands or even tens of thousands of times more terrifying than the city-patrolling Yin soldiers...
descended upon this deathly silent street without warning!