132: Chapter 132 Overnight Riches, Even the National Treasury Wept

Of course, the number of red-dot monsters on the map was also ridiculously high.

The Tier 9 natives were all organized into full legions.

With such insane difficulty, even if Elder Long were to personally step in, he would probably have to take a detour.

"Bai Ze, take the yata mirror and wash away all the filth on the map for me!"

Lin Feng issued his divine decree.

Upon receiving the order, Bai Ze immediately bounded off to the eastern sea, retrieving the yata mirror from the underwater sanctuary of the merfolk.

Watching its clan's guardian artifact being taken away, Xiangliu let out a few low, dissatisfied growls.

But this was the absolute order of the Sovereign, so no matter how reluctant Xiangliu was, it had no choice but to obediently let it go.

Subsequently, Bai Ze suspended the divine mirror above its head, transformed into a streak of light, and charged straight into the Tier 9 Ruins.

It was exactly the same as last time.

Any undead or dark creatures hit by the holy, intense light couldn't even let out a scream before instantly turning into dust.

Under the augmentation of the thousand-fold critical strike, even a Tier 9 Dark Lord couldn't last more than three seconds!

Relying on this astonishing harvesting efficiency, element crystals were continuously stuffed into Lin Feng's pocket, one after another.

"Ding! Congratulations to the Host for obtaining: Tier 8 Thunder Source Core!"

"Ding! Congratulations to the Host for obtaining: Tier 8 Dark Source Core!"

"Ding! Congratulations to the Host for obtaining: Tier 8 Earth Source Core!"

"Ding! Congratulations to the Host for obtaining: Tier 9 Wood Source Core!"

...

Top-tier materials were being hoarded crazily by Lin Feng as if they were cheap cabbages.

If Elder Long were to see this scene, he would probably be so envious he'd vomit blood.

Even if you scoured the entire national treasury of the Great Xia Alliance, you would only find a dozen or so Tier 8 items in stock.

As for Tier 9, don't even think about it!

Yet Lin Feng was harvesting them like leeks, batch after batch.

As a large number of natives were purified and their cores were dug out...

the energy level of this Tier 9 plane began to plummet.

Gravity declined sharply. Countless small fragments that had originally orbited the area broke free from their restraints and drifted toward the boundless depths of the void.

Lin Feng was too busy picking up loot to pay any attention to the small fragments flying away outside.

...

Now, only the last area on the entire map remained unexplored.

The final Tier 9 core was hidden in a massive abandoned city in the center of the area.

Lin Feng directed Bai Ze to fly over the city.

Holy light poured down, instantly purifying all the dark creatures in the city.

Just as he was about to secure the final Tier 9 core...

a sudden change occurred!

The ground of the entire city began to shake violently.

Thick, dark red tentacles suddenly burst forth from the ground!

"Ding! High-energy radar warning! Demigod-level creature detected!"

The alarm pierced his eardrums.

"A demigod creature!"

Lin Feng gasped.

This thing looked very familiar; last time, Bai Ze had almost suffered a major loss against these very tentacles.

The thick tentacles climbed wildly along the dilapidated skyscrapers, twisting wantonly in mid-air.

The surface of the tentacles was even covered in dense clusters of eyeballs, constantly oozing disgusting slime.

Just one look was enough to make one's scalp tingle.

"System, immediately identify the specific data for this thing!"

Lin Feng ordered in a deep voice. Last time he had run away too quickly to investigate; today, he had to figure out its background.

"Ding! Data analysis complete..."

[Cthulhu Tentacle (Demigod Tier): A severed limb from the main body of a Great Old One. It possesses terrifying divine power, and the magic eyes on the surface of the tentacles can beguile all living beings; extremely dangerous!]

It was actually a Great Old One!

Lin Feng's heart shook violently.

That meant that the one who destroyed this Main World back then was a supreme True God who worshipped evil deities!

Let's tentatively call it the God of Cthulhu.

Although the opponent reached the demigod realm...

...but with Bai Ze holding the divine artifact and wielding a thousand-fold critical strike, shouldn't it be able to put up a fight?

While calculating, Lin Feng ordered Bai Ze to increase the output of holy light.

The intense light shone on the tentacles, and the Cthulhu Tentacle immediately twisted in pain, even the magic eyes on it closing tightly.

But!

Other than forcing the tentacles back, the holy light hadn't managed to cause any substantial damage!

Not even a thousand-fold critical strike could one-shot it?

Lin Feng was dumbfounded, but the system immediately provided an explanation.

It turned out that Cthulhu did not belong to the traditional dark or undead systems at all.

It was a pure evil deity system!

Although it had some dark attributes, its essence was completely different.

Therefore, the effect of Bai Ze's thousand-fold critical strike on the tentacles was greatly reduced, at most serving only to repel it.

In the few seconds Lin Feng was stunned...

...the Cthulhu Tentacle had already firmly wrapped itself around the Tier 9 core in the central area.

This monster had extremely high intelligence; it knew very well that once the core was taken, this resting territory would completely collapse.

"Tsk..."

Facing such a thorny situation, Lin Feng was very decisive.

He didn't want Bai Ze to go head-to-head with a demigod monster. If it were accidentally one-shot, the cost to resurrect a Tier 8 divine beast would be at least hundreds of billions of drops of divine power.

Greed consumes, and knowing when to quit is the true wisdom.

Lin Feng quickly gave the order for Bai Ze to immediately retreat to the Chaos Territory.

Anyway, these ruins wouldn't grow legs and run away; it wouldn't be too late to come back and take the last Tier 9 crystal when his combat power was enough to crush a demigod.

...

After Bai Ze safely withdrew...

...Lin Feng decisively cut the physical connection.

Bai Ze also returned the yata mirror to the hands of the deep-sea merfolk on its way back.

Probing outside the territory with his divine sense, Lin Feng was surprised to find that the dozen or so Tier 8 fragments that had been floating around were all gone.

He had originally wanted to pick up some Tier 8 materials while he was at it, but now it seemed there was no chance.

Because the Tier 9 continent's energy had declined, its gravity couldn't hold onto the fragments, and they had all drifted into the depths of the void.

As for where to look for them, Lin Feng had no clue.

Since he couldn't find them, he had no choice but to head back home.

Although the Tier 9 continent behind him had suffered a major blow and had been hollowed out of a large number of cores...

...at least it still had one Tier 9 core and one demigod monster supporting it, so it wouldn't collapse or downgrade for a while.

The higher the tier of a divine realm, the more stable it was in the void.

A behemoth like the Main World wouldn't be affected at all even if it didn't move for ten thousand years.

"Time to go home."

Lin Feng checked the time.

He had spent the entire night frantically fighting and looting in the void, and the sky in the Main World was almost brightening.

Having operated at full capacity for the whole night, his mind was indeed somewhat exhausted.

He set the automatic return coordinates.

Lin Feng withdrew his consciousness back to the Main World.

He leaned back on the leather sofa and let out a long, heavy breath.

The sky outside the window was already starting to turn pale.

Sleepiness washed over him, but he had to finish tallying the loot in his territory before he could get a good night's sleep.

"Ding! Taotie has absorbed a massive amount of essence and is ready to initiate a tier-breaking evolution at any time!"

"Ding! The Host still has one unopened Tier 8 advancement gift pack!"

Just as he entered the Chaos Plane, the system notification sound rang out.

Having devoured over a hundred enemy gods, Taotie finally had enough qualifications to breakthrough to Tier 8.

As for the Tier 8 gift pack, he had just ranked up yesterday when he was urgently summoned by the military; he had left in such a hurry that he had forgotten all about opening the blind box.

But it didn't matter when he opened the blind box.

First, he would arrange for the divine beast to upgrade.

"Granted, initiate the advancement immediately!"

Lin Feng manifested a giant face and tossed out a large ball of chaos purple qi.

"Thank you, Sovereign, for your heavenly grace!"

Taotie swallowed the chaos purple qi in one gulp, and the aura of destruction on its body began to rise steadily.

Once it stepped into Tier 8, it would be able to forge its own exclusive divine artifact.

With the augmentation of a divine artifact, the speed of harvesting faith would definitely be able to reach a new level.

Next.

It was time to distribute the element crystals he had returned with.

An entire night of frantic looting.

In addition to the one he had obtained earlier, Lin Feng now had another Tier 9 Wood element crystal in his hand!

Without a doubt, the Tier 9 core must absolutely not be touched; it had to be saved for future use in breaking through to the True God realm.

Besides the Tier 9 one, he had also snatched three Tier 8 crystals.

They were Earth, Dark, and Thunder types respectively.

Plus hundreds of Tier 7 and Tier 6 ordinary cores.

There were two paths before him.

Either use these three Tier 8 cores to continue pouring into the territory to repair the laws of heaven and earth and solidify the plane's strength.

Or feed them directly to the divine beasts, allowing them to forcibly break through their tiers.

You can't have your cake and eat it too; he had to choose one of the two.